Allow me a point of personal privilege for a bleg. I am looking for some bloggers to help me provide content for Obama’s Con. Circumstances have made it so that I will not be able to commit the time and energy necessary to post regular content at the blog as I have in the past. But I think the site’s mission is important and I | Read More »
Michael Gerson gets to the heart of Obama’s problem. Obama’s metioric rise was based on the idea that he was different; that he could bring true “change.” This has become problematic as the only thing truly different about Obama is his image and personality. As I have been arguing, his politics are numbingly conventional leftist agitprop and big government liberalism. Gerson outlines how this has | Read More »
The folks at Stop Him Now have created this humorous daily news program staring Champ Kinkade. The one from yesterday is worth sharing, at least IMHO:
The candidate with the vaunted rhetorical skills is a little awkward without his safety net: It appears Barack Obama’s teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail. The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn’t use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events. But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both | Read More »
Obamaphiles seem to be going crazy shouting that John McCain has declared the American economy fundamentaly strong. They see this as further proof that Obama is part of the “reality-based community” whereas McCain lives in his own made up world. But this is just more hyperventilating from the left who would be happy with a devastating depression if only it would help Obama win. But | Read More »
Obama on whether Columbia University should have an ROTC program on campus: “I recognize that there are students here who have differences in terms of military policy,” he said. “But the notion that young people—here at Columbia or anywhere in any university—aren’t offered the choice, the option of participating in military service, I think is a mistake.” But Jim Geraghty points out that once again | Read More »
The debate surrounding the Bridge to Nowhere should serve as a teachable moment as they say: STATEMENT OF SENATOR BARACK OBAMA SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON FEDERAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, GOVERNMENT INFORMATION, AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY JULY 18, 2006 I’m still relatively new to Washington. But even during my short time in the Senate, I’ve been surprised and shocked by the examples of government waste, fraud, and abuse that | Read More »
This community organizer debate seems to have “legs” as the journalists like to say. Some on the left seem to think it is a winning argument and so are still pushing Obama as community organizer as superior to Sarah Palin as governor of Alaska. This despite the fact that Obama himself clearly viewed it as less than a rousing success. In fact, he famously couldn’t | Read More »
Yesterday I noted how Obama tried to sick the Justice Department on his opponents and now he is trying to silence the media as well: And tonight, the campaign launched a more specific campaign: an effort to disrupt the appearance by a writer for National Review, Stanley Kurtz, on a Chicago radio program. Kurtz has been writing about Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, and has | Read More »
Like last night I am using Cover It Live to blog a speech. This time it is Hillary Clinton. I am hoping she will be more interesting than Michelle Obama was last night. If you want an interactive place to hang out and chat while I blog, click over to the live blog.
I am going to be trying it out Cover It Live’s new fangled technology to live blog Michelle Obama’s Speech tonight. You can check it out here.
Then (August 2007): “All of our top military commanders recognize that there is no military solution in Iraq.” Now (August 2008): “Let’s be clear, our troops have completed every mission they’ve been given. They have created the space for political reconciliation.” (h/t): VDH
It seems Ohio’s economy is bad enough that even Democrats have to draw the line. The Obama supporting union SEIU has been pushing a ballot initiative which would require every business with 25 or more employees to offer seven sick days to full-time employees. Realizing that the last thing a struggling economy needs is more mandates, and the last thing he needs is to be | Read More »
Since how many houses John McCain has seems to be the issue du jour, David Freddoso takes some time to discuss Obama’s house and his pal Tony Rezko. The house: Barack Obama has admitted it was “boneheaded” to get involved in a land deal with Tony Rezko, his friend and fund-raiser. But the media’s focus on that deal has distracted from the bigger question: Why | Read More »
One of the more puzzling developments in Obama’s career is how he has been able to position himself as a reform style politician – as an outsider who can come in and clean up the mess politicians have made. This simply doesn’t match reality. And yet the media seems uninterested in exploring and explaining Obama’s past. At the start of his career you could make | Read More »
When asked by Rick Warren what his most difficult (I think Warren used the phrase “gut wrenching”) decision was Obama cited his opposition to the war in Iraq. This is not surprising because Obama clings to this decision, and the speech that went with it, with alarming desperation. He attempts to use it at every opportunity as proof that he has the judgment to be | Read More »
What you have to understand about Obama’s, and the Democratic Party’s, push to appear moderate on abortion is that it is part and parcel of a bait and switch by the religious left. What they want you to focus on are “social justice” issues rather than the “culture war” hot button issues like abortion, marriage, gay rights, etc. There is a two part problem to | Read More »
ABC News: The Democratic Party is planning a convention designed to soften the edges on the party’s support for abortion rights, with a revamped platform and a speaking lineup that reinforces efforts to broaden Democrats’ appeal on the hot-button issue. Oh sure, if by softening you mean being even more pro-abortion than ever. [Obama supports a policy] (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2NmMGNkMTdkZWJkZWRkMjRkNjY5NjllNzZlYjkyNmY=)that can arguably be called infanticide and the | Read More »
Obama’s abortion extremism and deception is coming to light. Yuval Levin explains: Six years ago, Congress passed the “Born-Alive Infants Protection Act,” making it illegal to kill a child who is fully born during an attempted abortion. The bill passed without a single opposing vote in either house, and was signed into law by President Bush on August 5, 2002. When he was a state | Read More »
Believe it or not, I am frequently the one arguing in favor of compromise and coalition building in order to get things done. But a modicum of party discipline and common sense has to be involved or strategic compromise becomes surrender. It seems a few GOP Senators can’t see the difference. Kimberley A. Strassel brings us the ugly truth: Politics has its puzzling moments. John | Read More »
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