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.” That was the word bandied about when it was announced. John McCain’s selection of Palin was “risky.” This would seem to indicate that Obama has better judgment, right?
But that’s not the way it’s been playing so far. 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 →
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 →
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?:
Or is it this one?
[See also this. Since this particular tempest is about economics, I’ll not weigh in myself.]
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 →
Fergus Shanahan of The Sun asks, “Why, oh why, oh why can’t WE have a Sarah Palin?”
And the Australians want one too.
Campaign ad received in an email from a friend. Stick with it till the end.
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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
