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{UPDATE} It occurred to me after posting this that the JibJab video below is actually a good example of what satire is supposed to look like (in marked contrast to, say, the infamous New Yorker cover page). If you look at the images associated with each major person (Bush, McCain, Clinton, Obama) you’ll see that they reflect what each person’s opponents actually do say about | Read More »
Today’s edition comes from the LA Times’ blog Top of the Ticket, via Wake Up America (H/T: Instapundit) It’s all tied up with Obama’s recent decision to memory hole his opposition to the surge, once it turned out to have actually worked. Alas for the junior Senator from Illinois, we live in The Age of Scrutiny, and nothing ever goes away. How ironic that it’s | Read More »
Via Protein Wisdom, we see this: CHICAGO (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that the New Yorker magazine’s satirical cover depicting him and his wife as flag-burning, fist-bumping radicals doesn’t bother him but that it was an insult to Muslim Americans. “You know, there are wonderful Muslim Americans all across the country who are doing wonderful things,” the presidential candidate told CNN’s Larry King. | Read More »
Nice enough, if you have the patience to have someone urinate on your leg and call it rain for an extended length of time – I gave up at about the point where Obama started in on how no political progress has been made in Iraq – but a little presumptuous of the junior Senator from Illinois, don’t you think? After all… wait, let me | Read More »
He’s of the opinion that “this is first-hand evidence that Obama’s money crunch is real and is being impacted by his moving to the center on FISA and Iraq.” Perish the thought of me disagreeing with Patrick – he’s better at this than I am – but I must note that we were seeing his fund-raising numbers go down prior to FISA. Until they reveal | Read More »
In some ways, some of the comments to the article below (via Instapundit are the best part: Rules on tools could handcuff DNC protesters Items to thwart police, like chains, would be barred The prospect of protesters linking themselves with devices that bolt cutters can’t sever or throwing buckets of feces on police has Denver considering putting a new law on the books before the | Read More »
The op-ed is quite choice, really – and hard to know where to cut. Cover charges If Obama’s campaign is upset by a magazine satire, what will it do when the real attacks begin? July 15, 2008 Let’s be frank. People sophisticated enough to read, say, newspaper editorials are smart enough to know that the New Yorker’s cover art this week — portraying Barack Obama | Read More »
Pejman, as is his wont, has collected a couple of the more trenchant objections to Obama’s fairly silly op-ed. Feel free to check them out; it’ll save me time, because I really want to bring up the following two observations: First off, “Senator Obama” – not that I would suggest that somebody wrote this for you, although in the end you might – did you | Read More »
Oh, that’s a possibility, Mark: fear is one of the most powerful tools that progressives have, after all. But I’m starting to suspect that the Plouffe video is a tacit admission from the Obama campaign that they didn’t sweep past the GOP in June… and that they’re just a little bit nervous about July. As they should be, honestly. Unless they’ve already gathered up $22,429,435.49 | Read More »
Found here: believe it or not, I am trying my best to be as agnostic as possible about Obama’s fund-raising woes. I just never expected that my good intentions would be apparently subject to subversion by the Obama campaign itself.
Which means, of course, it viciously quotes Democrats. Directly, even: As Ed Morrissey noted, this was good timing, given Bush’s decision to lift the offshore drilling ban. The Simpsons addition was a nice touch, too.
Via Hot Air Headlines, the head of state of the “world’s biggest polluter” says hi: Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling WASHINGTON — President Bush will lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling, although new oil exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf will remain off limits until Congress also takes action. The president will make a Rose Garden statement on Monday, | Read More »
The New York Times passed a grim milestone last Friday: it was the year anniversary of one of their most embarrassing editorials ever (Via Gateway Pundit). The Road Home It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit. {snip} When Congress returns this week, extricating American troops from the war should | Read More »
The discussion about what, exactly, we can expect from Senator Obama’s fund-raising today took some more interesting twists. See Hot Air, The Next Right, and myself for background: the short version is that Obama’s speed in declaring his fund-raising numbers seems inversely linked to how badly he did any given month, and he’s already a little late for doing it for June. Now we have | Read More »
To walk you through this: today there was a Wall Street Journal article discussing yesterday’s fundraising announcement by the McCain campaign. Said article noted in passing (via Political Punch): Meanwhile, June fund-raising for Sen. Obama appears to be falling below the expectations of some supporters. The campaign hasn’t released its June numbers, but people close to the fund-raising operation say the total will likely be | Read More »
Let’s say that you’re a news/media organization, and you have yourself a problem. There’s this guy running for President. You loved that the guy was running for President. You got totally into fact that the guy was running, to the point where you pretty much gushed and cooed and did all sorts of really, really embarrassing things on your front page in support of the | Read More »
It’s like this entire election season was created to make me laugh like a loon on a regular basis. Obama seeks info on Dodd in vice president search By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 57 minutes ago WASHINGTON – Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd as part of its search for a possible vice presidential candidate. The former White | Read More »
Via AoSHQ, via Ed Morrissey, watch this video from the gaffe I mentioned earlier. Remember, this is for a event *specifically *designed for Unity: Contra Ed, I’ll call the MSNBC coverage a wash: fawning introduction, yes, but they were also kind of mean in their commentary while watching the clip in question. Not that I blame them for not resisting temptation: that was such a | Read More »
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