Fergus Shanahan of The Sun asks, “Why, oh why, oh why can’t WE have a Sarah Palin?”
And the Australians want one too.
Message to Obama from a vet
Campaign ad received in an email from a friend. Stick with it till the end.
If this is true, Obama’s in bigger trouble than we thought
An eyewitness report from Dr. Sanity:
Palin was surprisingly charismatic. I mean you got that impression watching on TV, but in person you can see that her impact is at least doubled.
RIP Breno Mello
Breno Mello, the spectacularly handsome, charming, brooding star of the original “Black Orpheus,” has died in Brazil.
Mello is one of the main attractions of this unusual film, a favorite in my youth for its music, vibrance, and sad tale based on Greek myth but set in the hills of the unbelievably lovely Rio. Continue reading →
Why Ayers matters
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 the Obama-Ayers connection.
Why does it matter? Isn’t this just a meaningless game of “gotcha” guilt by association, and a rather tenuous association at that? Can Obama really be blamed for the doings of everyone who’s ever crossed his path?
The official Obama campaign statement about Ayers and the candidate focuses on the charges about Ayers’ terrorist background, the Woods hole connection, and the fact that Ayers is considered a respected scholar on education. It is entirely mum—as Obama has mostly been so far—about their work together on the Annenberg Challenge.
Several people have pointed out that Obama’s 1995-1999 tenure as chair of the Annenberg Challenge has been his most important executive position to date, President of the Harvard Law Review being the other. As for the management of his campaign—the example of executive experience Obama cited the other day—when last I checked, Axelrod held that august and lofty position.
So, why would Obama fail to offer his Annenberg background as an example of his executive chops? Continue reading →
Obama campaign: fighting women with women
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 →
The green lawn: somebody’s ass is grass
For those of you who are eager to know why, oh why, oh why on earth John McCain stood in front of a sickly electric-green background for a few terrible minutes last night, the mystery may be solved. Sort of.
Some poor lowly on the staff is going to be in a heap of trouble, methinks.
And now for something completely different
Sick of the election? Had enough? Sick of the blogosphere’s obsession with it?
Neo-neocon to the rescue, with something else to make you sick—a jello-mold recipe for the ages: strawberry pretzel jello.
Yes, I repeat:
STRAWBERRY PRETZEL JELL-O Continue reading →
Thursday night thoughts
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 acknowledged that the surge was a success. He did, but far too late to have done any good, after he fought against it and then denied it for so long.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Palin’s husband is very hunky. And Alaska is even more photogenic than the Palin family, which is saying a lot. Continue reading →
And about those coming debates…
Implicit in the repetitive and inane “but someone else wrote her speech for her!” observations about Palin’s performance last night is the idea that once she departs from a prepared text she’ll be a bumbler. After all, we’ve got the example of that great orator Barack Obama himself, hemming and hawing and making myriad errors when he has to think on his feet.
What’s more, Palin will be facing that silver-haired and supposedly silver-tongued debater Joseph Biden.
But so far, underestimating Palin hasn’t seemed to help the Democrats much. Continue reading →
Obama and Palin: Astaire and Rogers, after the divorce?
Last Sunday I called Palin an “Obama for the Right.” At the time, I was referring to her similar lack of national-level political experience, as well as the accusations that she’d been nominated for her femaleness and he for his blackness.
But now that I’ve heard her address the crowd at the convention, I see that, like Obama, she has a tremendous gift for delivering a speech. As I’ve written here, I’m not one for admiring political oratory. Except for Churchill, it pretty much leaves me cold. But I can recognize a good (no, not Churchillian) speaker when I see one. Both Obama and Palin fit that bill.
Their styles, however, are diametrically opposed. Continue reading →
More Palin, more of the time
I’ve noticed that Sarah Palin brings out certain words and phrases in people reacting to her.
Within a few days of her nomination, the word electrifying” kept appearing in articles about her effect on the Republican Party.
After her speech last night, I kept hearing she was “a natural.” And this not just from commentators on the Right, but even those on the liberal side.
One of the favorite memes of detractors last night—or subtle, would-be detractors—was that “someone wrote her speech for her.” Continue reading →