Mark it down. President Obama’s “make or break” speech, as the media is portraying it, will be widely viewed as a success among the chattering class. It will be groundbreaking, visionary, full of clarity, and a “game changer,” as CNN has already labeled it. But sit tight, that’s just for a while. Patrick Rufini had it right on Twitter last night. Tmrw’s speech will be | Read More »
Actually, the first half of this article from Peggy Noonan is not all that bad. But Ms. Noonan goes astray somewhere in between blaming Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for everything from all the ills of the Republican Party to the Kennedy assassination. This is the part I cannot abide: “Here’s why all this matters. The world is a dangerous place. It has never been more | Read More »
Last May, in the heat of the Democratic primary and coming off of a disastrous showing in the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama reversed course and publicly denounced his controversial pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after refusing to do so the month before. In his now famous Philadelphia speech on race relations, Obama said he could no more disown Wright than he could disown the black community. | Read More »
Imagine that the President of the United States is sending personal representatives to the homes of private citizens and asking them to sign a “pledge of support” for his Administration’s policies. Imagine that those representatives are asking citizens for their names and e-mail addresses so that the “post-election” organization set up by the president can follow up with them; perhaps taking the addresses of those | Read More »
I had the surprising opportunity to appear on the Randi Rhodes Radio Show today with guest host Nancy Skinner. Ms. Skinner wished to speak with me about an article I wrote at AOL’s Political Machine. In the piece, I expressed my dismay at President Barack Obama’s labeling of the three Republican Senators who supported his economic stimulus plan as “patriotic.” Listen and see who got | Read More »
It is perhaps ironic that the left wing has settled on the characterization of President George W. Bush as a megalomaniac, obsessed with power and willing to trample on anyone or anything to achieve his evil aims. Ironic because it is President Bush’s refusal to even forcefully counter his critics, let alone trample on their right to criticize him, that has allowed the left to | Read More »
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