John McCain has announced the stunning choice of Sarah Palin for Vice President. It’s stunning not only because she’s gorgeous. It’s stunning because it shows that John McCain isn’t quite as predictable and stuck in an old-white-guy rut as the … Continue reading →
I’ve said before that I’m not an auditory learner. Although dialogue is fine, and I never had a problem listening intently to clients, the prepared speech has always been an enormous bore to me. This was a big problem when … 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 →I don’t usually watch much of the convention action, since I’m not a big one for speeches and infomercials. But I decided to tune in for the Hillary moment tonight. Here are my impressions, not all of them especially deep:
Continue reading →It’s ironic that the surge’s success has made the issue of the Iraq War less central rather than more in this campaign. “Ironic,” because the passage of time has made it clearer that, no matter what one thinks of the … Continue reading →
A fairly large percentage of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are mighty angry at the Obama campaign. To see what I mean, just go to a blog such as Talk Left and read the comments there, especially the ones written after 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 →
…shouldn’t throw stones. But sometimes they do, and this is what they get in response: The Obama campaign must think they had a winner, casting McCain’s remark that he didn’t know how many houses he owns as evidence he doesn’t … Continue reading →
Joe Lieberman is poised to be this year’s Zell Miller. I loved Zell’s fiery speech at the 2004 Republican convention. Lieberman is considerably less colorful (as are most people). But I’m looking forward to his address anyway. However, I’m going … Continue reading →
Do you? I don’t. Care, that is. Lest you misunderstand, I will say that I think what Edwards did was wrong and I condemn it. But, as with the infidelities of myriad other politicians, I can’t get very worked up … Continue reading →
Peggy Noonan writes in today’s WSJ: Two weeks ago a journalist, a moderate liberal, spoke to me of what he called Mr. Obama’s arrogance. I said I didn’t think it was arrogance but high self-regard. He said there’s no difference. … Continue reading →
It seems that Barack Obama neglected to drive a stake into Hillary’s heart on the way to his triumphal world tour. Does it matter? Can Hillary manage to wrest away the superdelegates so vital to Obama’s nomination? Those who consider … Continue reading →