How’s that executive experience going, Obama?

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Obama recently compared his own executive experience favorably to Palin’s. He’s run a big campaign, he said, and she was mayor of a small town.

This conveniently leaves out a few details—that he has a campaign manager, and that her most recent job description was actually governor. But let’s just take him at his word for a moment and see how that campaign of his is actually going right now. Continue reading →

Did you know that John McCain’s running mate is actually George Bush?

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And here we were thinking it was actually a trash-talking, spectacle-wearing, pregnancy-concealing, former beauty queen/sportcaster pistol-packin mama named Sarah Palin.

But no; it’s really George Bush [see link’s last paragraph for the revelation].

To be more precise, John McCain’s running mate is actually George Bush hidden in a Trojan Moose [see title of above link].

Perhaps this one?:

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Or is it this one?

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It’s the class war, stupid

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Cries that the Democrats have engaged in sexism towards Palin are not misplaced. Palin is also hated for her social conservatism—even by feminists, who acknowledge she’s a woman, but a woman from the wrong side of the issues.

But perhaps even more important to many liberals is that she’s a woman from the wrong side of the tracks. Or at least, that’s the way she’s been perceived. Continue reading →

RIP Breno Mello

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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

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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 →