Obama will be appearing on Saturday Night Live tomorrow. This makes a certain amount of sense, since lately his campaign seems to be headed into previously uncharted Emily Litella “never mind” waters. When I heard about this ad I immediately … Continue reading →
An election is a snapshot, a single poll taken on a particular day. Opinions, on the other hand, are in flux. Part of Obama’s good luck so far has been his timing.
Continue reading →Obama recently compared his own executive experience favorably to Palin’s. He’s run a big campaign, he said, and she was mayor of a small town. This conveniently leaves out a few details—that he has a campaign manager, and that her … Continue reading →
It is troubling that the MSM has abdicated its investigatory task by being surprisingly uninterested in shining light into some of the more suspicious regions of Barack Obama’s past. And of all those dark corners, the very darkest may be … Continue reading →
I wonder why they didn’t see it coming. It’s not as though Palin’s name hadn’t been mentioned as a possible VP candidate.
Continue reading →…doesn’t strike me as the smartest move on the part of the Obama campaign. First of all, that’s more executive experience than Obama has ever had. Second of all, it’s been superceded by the fact that she also has some … Continue reading →
If you wanted to condense the Democrats’ campaign into a simple sentence, this would be it: “Vote for me because I’m not George Bush, and he is.” And, as campaign slogans go, it’s not half bad.
Continue reading →Obama is protesting an ad that targets his association with domestic 60s terrorist Bill Ayres. Here’s the ad: Obama is asking his supporters to threaten to boycott stations running the ad.
Continue reading →When the MSM spilled the beans on Obama’s VP pick last night, I was thinking that, not only will the PUMAs absolutely hate this, but many young and “progressive” Obama supporters will as well. I’m not just talking about the … Continue reading →
My title is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of course. But it did occur to me, watching clips of Joe Biden late last night, that Obama’s new running mate is the closest thing to John McCain that Obama could have found in the … Continue reading →
You’ve got to hand it to him—Obama certainly knows how to milk the drama of the VP wait. And speaking of drama, I think you’ll agree that Beckett was remarkably prescient. Note especially the reference to Bush. ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah! … Continue reading →
Some of Obama’s slightly-less-publicized statements are the ones that concern me most. Case in point: in this WSJ column by William McGurn, the author points out that for Obama, taxes are not just about collecting revenue. What are they for? … Continue reading →