Another post-mortem and Obama’s first look at the national diaper

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  December 22nd at 02:46 PM  | 

Republicans are now evidently in their second month of moping, gnashing, and wringing about what went wrong with their Presidential ticket in November. Why – tell me! – WHY did McCain-Palin lose that race to Obama-Biden? McCain pollster Bill McInturff tells us. Well, he tells USA Today’s Paul Bedard, who, in turns, tells us: Topping McInturff’s list: Obama was the first black presidential nominee and | Read More »

Obama’s Hopechangehope might be indefinable

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  July 29th at 11:40 AM  | 

Barack Obama is presenting a problem for the older American left. As strieff earlier pointed out, liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has little nice to say about Barack Obama’s losing battle with vacuity [Obama the Unknown]: “Just tell me one thing Barack Obama has done that you admire,” I asked a prominent Democrat. He paused and then said that he admired Obama’s speech to | Read More »