I have long lamented the decline of the teaching of history and of critical thinking. One can be a highly intelligent intellectual today and know almost nothing about either. This is where it’s led us. A Democratic nominee this ignorant, … Continue reading →
Others have observed that the Carly Simon song “You’re So Vain” is an excellent description of Obama’s reaction to Bush’s Knesset speech. But they haven’t gone far enough with the lyrics. I have attempted to fill that need:
Continue reading →…and completely in the tank for the glass–jawed Obama. According to the outraged Times, Bush’s “shameful” and “damaging” “slash-and-burn politics” were demonstrated by his mentioning in front of the Knesset that appeasement of terrorists is a bad thing, although some … Continue reading →
It has now become a low blow to strike any blow at Obama. It has now become officially an “attack” to campaign at all against him—or even to suggest opposition to something he may have done or may have said, … Continue reading →
In a piece by Cinque Henderson (an African-American supporter of Hillary Clinton) appearing in TNR, we find the following bit of insider information, which so far as I know has not been pointed out before:
Continue reading →Hillary won big yesterday in West Virginia. Really, really big. And it couldn’t matter less. Once again, the press is filled with pleas for her to go. Now. Clean out her desk and her locker and turn in her keys, … Continue reading →
Hillary is like a burr on the body politic of the Democrats and the MSM—they can’t shake her off, try though they may. Yesterday’s primary results—an expectedly large margin of victory for Obama in North Carolina and a surprisingly small … Continue reading →
Michelle Obama has been doing quite a bit of campaigning herself, and it’s clear from her speeches that she shares one thing with Hillary Clinton: the belief that a vast right-wing conspiracy is sabotaging her husband. Ms. Obama doesn’t utter … Continue reading →
Here’s one response to the Obama/Wright brouhaha that lets you know why Obama may have been so reluctant to throw Wright under the bus. It seems that Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell (who is an African-American woman, a fact I … Continue reading →
Obama did what he had to do yesterday. He spoke out more forcibly than ever before against Jeremiah Wright’s road show, saying: [Wright’s comments] offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. And they should be denounced, and that’s what I’m … Continue reading →
Bob Herbert’s column today happens to be one of the best and most succinct summaries of Obama’s current woes and the character flaws that underlie them. And when a liberal anti-Iraq War (“How long do we want this madness to … Continue reading →
Here’s Obama’s most recent attempt to prove his proletarian bona fides: I was raised in a setting with grandparents who grew up in small towns in Kansas, and the dinner table would have been very familiar to anyone here in … Continue reading →