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 »
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
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 »
As part of my effort to provide interesting and unique content at Obama’s ConI thought it would be worthwhile to interview writers, bloggers, journalists, and others who are covering the 2008 race. I figured it was an useful way to get the informed opinions of the people who cover the race every day. To kick this off today I spoke with Jennifer Rubin. Click on | Read More »
Check out this New Republic post on Even Bayh as a potential VP for Obama and note the incredible lack of irony: But ideology isn’t the only reason some of us are wary of Bayh. Another is his history of accomplishment–or relative lack thereof. I’ve been reading clips and calling around Captiol Hill lately, looking into Bayh’s record. And I’d be hard-pressed to name an | Read More »
{UPDATE: with Kevin’s kind permission, below is the video of the speech in question. Remember: this is the candidate who’s supposed to be taking us away from the politics of negativity. Unless you disagree with his math, of course: then you’re just being proudly ignorant. But he still wants your vote! – Moe Lane} Obama in Ohio: Let me make a point—let me make a | Read More »
Senator Barack Obama today once again attacked oil companies, Exxon in particular, as greedy nefarious corporations who seek to bribe officials and prevent American energy independence. Well, I have a question. If making “windfall” profits is greedy and a threat to our economy and way of life, why hasn’t the Senator spoken out against Google? Confused? Allow the Wall Street Journal to expain: If Senator | Read More »
I think a proper response to Obama’s big energy speech in Lansing today should include this poster:
I hope Redstate readers will once again indulge my self-promotion, but I wanted to make them aware of a new blog: I know you are probably thinking that the last thing the world needs is another political blog. But it is my hope that the focus of this particular blog will be helpful (not to mention interesting). Here is how I laid it out in | Read More »
In a way that is so typical of Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee’s much hyped speech in Berlin today sounded grand and important, but contained nothing but platitudes and leftist, and multicultural, rah-rah. What it really came down to, after a long history lesson on the Berlin Airlift, was Obama the messiah giving the world a giant pep talk. Can we solve all the world’s | Read More »
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