In all the verbiage about McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin versus Obama’s rejection of Hillary, one especially important point is what it says about the judgment of both candidates. On the face of it, Obama’s choice of Biden seemed “safe.” … 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 →Lindsay Graham did well to remind us of how wrong Obama was on the surge, how close some of the Congressional votes were, and how right John McCain was. But Graham is incorrect when he says that Obama has never … Continue reading →
Watching the Palin feeding frenzy, it occurs to me that we now have new rules for female candidates. These rules apply almost exclusively to candidates on the Right, of course; those on the Left (unless their name happens to be … Continue reading →
I think Palin’s nomination has caused much of the Left to flip its collective wig, or what’s left of it (puns intended). The rumors about Palin’s baby—that it really was conceived by her 16-year-old daughter and that Palin faked her … Continue reading →
The blogs and airwaves are alive with Democrats looking down on Sarah Palin. She’s inexperienced. She’s just a pretty face. She was chosen merely for her gender and her “Movie of the Week” life story. Sound familiar? Just change the … Continue reading →
It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. The Democrats and the Obama campaign are accusing Sarah Palin of being too inexperienced to be Vice-President. This would be an excellent plan of attack—after all, she is relatively inexperienced for … Continue reading →
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 →