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Posted at 6:25pm on Apr. 30, 2008 Bomb Throwers and Their Friends

By absentee

On the list of people I'd compare Barack Obama to, you won't find Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts. You might find him on Barack's list of people he'd like to be compared to, but that's not my list. The fact that Obama gave constitutional law classes in his (non-professorial) capacity as "Senior Lecturer" at the University of Chicago doesn't rise to the level of expertise and professionalism necessary for the comparison.

There is, however, some value in comparing how the left and the media dealt with Roberts during his confirmation hearings, and how they deal with Senator Obama now.

When George Stephanopoulos challenged Barack Obama about Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, the wounded outcry from the left was stupefying. ABC had fired the first salvo in the destruction of Western Democracy, and the press as we know it was officially dead. A viral video obituary of Stephanopoulos made the rounds. New York magazine asked "Do Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos Hate America?"

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Posted at 12:58pm on Dec. 18, 2007 Trust the Man, Trust the Plan

Mistrust the man, recommend every article against him

By Neil Stevens

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama

Of all the issues, and all the debate, and all the faction wrangling this party has seen this year, I find it appropriate that the evaluation of each candidate is still boiling down to the same single issue. It was a core issue of our party in the 1990s, and for a while I thought it was gone. But it's back, and this year it's the decider.

Republicans are looking at each candidate's statements of positions, but ultimately are deciding whether to trust those statements based on their evaluations of the candidate's character, and I'm glad of it.

Character counts as much as ever.

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