Obama: the man who wasn’t there
As I was going up the stair I saw a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish, he’d stay away. The above ditty, “Antagonish,” is a children’s poem written at the turn of the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Obama
Obama vs. McCain: profiles in courage
Peter Wehner presents an absolutely devastating critique of Obama’s most visible foreign policy record, his position on Iraq. It’s also the record of which Obama is most proud. But if one closely follows his shifting statements, it’s hard to conclude … Continue reading →
Presidents, that ringing telephone, and military service
By now the consensus is that Hillary’s red phone ad probably helped her comeback on Super Tuesday Two. The ad was controversial but traditional, in the mold of a famous ad Walter Mondale used against Gary Hart in 1984, and … Continue reading →
Michele Obama: portrait in audacity
Candidates’ spouses (we can’t just say “wives” anymore, can we?) are less important than the candidates themselves. But they still have an effect on elections. Most spouses still try to go the old route of staying bland enough to cause … Continue reading →
Where’s the change?
“Where’s the beef?” was not only a famous ad slogan of the early 80’s, it figured in the Democratic campaign for President in 1984: [Gary] Hart had moved his candidacy from dark horse to the lead over [Walter] Mondale based … Continue reading →
Having an epiphany about Obama
Somehow I’d missed the following extraordinary statement (HT: Obama Messiah) made by Obama in a speech he gave at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, shortly before the primary in that state: My job this morning is to be so persuasive…that … Continue reading →
A cult is born: they believe in him
I found this video through a link at Pajamas Media, where it was dubbed “the creepiest Obama tribute video ever.” If that’s hyperbole and there’s a creepier one, I hope I never see it. This one is bad enough. It … Continue reading →
Obama: hope is not enough (nor is talk)
Now that he seems poised to become the Democratic Presidential nominee, Obama is taking a bit of heat from McCain, his likely opponent, especially about Obama’s touchy-feely (that is, predominantly talky) foreign policy. It’s a different sort of heat than … Continue reading →
I’m borrowing this valentine…
from Dr. Sanity: You think it’s just a cartoon? Life imitates art. On my walk today I passed a house festooned with red paper hearts, about fifty of them, randomly placed. And then above the window, a big banner that … Continue reading →
Obama’s the one
It appears that Obama is starting to pull away from Clinton. I’ve made no secret of my preference for Hillary over Obama: I think she’d mount less of a challenge to McCain, but if elected I also think she would … Continue reading →
Obama: too young at heart
It’s no accident that Obama does well with young voters. There’s something about his rhetoric that especially appeals to the idealism of youth. As Betsy Newmark points out, the young are often “too ignorant of history to realize that change … Continue reading →
The art of politics
Gerard Vanderleun has called our attention to a campaign poster of Obama, created by graphic artist Shepard Fairey in his characteristic retro-Soviet style: It’s really got it all, hasn’t it? The iconic angle of the fearless idealized leader as seen … Continue reading →