Sweetness & Light has the details: short version is that the “Office of the President-Elect”… Ye gods and little fishes. …was originally talking about how we were going to have mandatory service requirements for teenagers and college students and so forth. Apparently, somebody pointed out the minor detail that throwing kids in jail or fining their parents because they didn’t want to work in a | Read More »
When I read [Thursday] morning that President-elect Obama was contemplating picking Robert Kennedy Jr for EPA head, I was pleased. I was very pleased. After all, it’s so rare that you encounter such a case of sheer political idiocy so soon after an election. I mean, really: Kennedy the eco-freak? Kennedy the Air America guy? Kennedy the 2004-election-was-stolen conspiracy loon (and wouldn’t that have been | Read More »
A little story, but still amusing. Via Glenn Reynolds: Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages Indianapolis – Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning. Police were called to the Obama campaign office on North Meridian Street downtown to control | Read More »
It’s largely unnecessary, but I appreciate it anyway. Today’s amusing little not-ready-for-prime-time comes to us via Ben Smith of Politico, who got forwarded to him – by a reporter who went to reporter school, and everything! – some helpful suggestions by the Obama campaign: Reporters traveling overseas with Sen. Barack Obama were thrown a bit of curve last week when the campaign emailed a “dress | Read More »
Patterico is breaking out his Sesame Street impersonations. Me, I’m more network: You know something? This is clearly an issue that the Democrats need to work out for themselves; and blessed if I know why me, John McCain, or the GOP need to be involved in this any further. So all you Democrats go get the original audiotape, play it until your ears bleed, and | Read More »
Here’s the quote – yes, of course it’s Barack Obama and his apparent Natsec Ignorance Field. You had to ask? Throughout our history, America’s confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world. | Read More »
(Via Hot Air Headlines) The above being the title of a New York Times piece by Clyde Haberman that suggests that hey, maybe some of the folks from the Other Side are getting a little tired, too of their largely self-imposed gag order. You know, they even get it in Dubuque. Better delete the word “even.” Some might find it patronizing. You don’t want to | Read More »
And let me note in passing that there was a thoroughly mixed-up set of reporting on this by our national media (admittedly, not entirely their fault). In fact, I’m only three-quarters convinced that I have everything reasonably straight now; but this should go up. Here’s what went down. The Obama campaign reports (via Constant Reader CrabCakes) $52 million raised for June; the DNC reports 22.4 | 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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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