I wrote about the ongoing battle in the OH-15 race between Steve Stivers and Mary-Jo Kilroy on the front page, but I wanted to add some potentially more contentious comments here. One reason this race is this close is because a conservative Christian ran as an independent and there was a libertarian candidate on the ballot as well. Both canidates took between four and five | Read More »
First the good news:: The final vote tallies from Madison County were released this morning, and they continue to build the small lead that Republican congressional candidate Steve Stivers has over his Democratic rival, Mary Jo Kilroy. With provisional and late-absentee ballots added to the total, Stivers picked up 373 votes from Madison County and Kilroy gained 258. That enlarges Stivers’ overall lead by 115 | Read More »
My reaction to the last two debates is to pose the question above. Do facts matter? It seems not. It seems to me that what matters is the persona and personality of the candidates. Obama is cool and collected. He calmly answers the questions. He seems comfortable in his own skin. No matter what is said he keeps pounding his Bush caused this and McCain | Read More »
I think we can definitively put the “he was just some guy in my neighborhood explanation” behind us. Noted racist right wing organization CNN has a report on the relationship between Obama and William Ayers and they found “the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said.” Here is the video: For the details | Read More »
I encourage everyone who is able to participate the in the Live Blog on the front page. In case of technical problems, or an overwhelming number of comments, I wanted to make you aware that I will also be live blogging the debates at Obama’s Con. The limits of the system make it hard to always approve comments in a timely manner and the chat | Read More »
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 »
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 »
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
![[RS]](/t/img/logo-footer.jpg){kind=logo}