[NOTE: I wrote this post a couple of days ago but had kept it as a draft. Now that McCain has stunned me by picking Palin as his VP choice—I didn’t see that coming—I will publish it just as I wrote it.]
Now that Obama has anointed Biden as his VP pick, it’s time to speculate whom it might be for McCain.
I don’t know. How’s that for candor? But I understand why so many people wish it would be Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Here are my reasons, not in order of importance. 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 I was growing up. 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 →
Bill Ayers has been getting a lot of press lately for his connection to Obama and his status as “unrepentant terrorist” from the 60s.
But forget about that for a while, and take a good look instead at the “rehabilitated” Ayers—the “respectable” and “mainstream” professor of education rather than the terrorist. It appears that the Ayers brand of education is the attaining of the same Leftist revolutionary ends by more peaceful and more subtle means.
Read the whole thing. Remember it was written in 2006, without any anti-Obama tie-in.
Obama is protesting an ad that targets his association with domestic 60s terrorist Bill Ayres. Here’s the ad:
Obama is asking his supporters to threaten to boycott stations running the ad. Continue reading →
Instapundit links to this Washington Post article entitled “Many Clinton Supporters Say Speech Didn’t Heal Divisions.”
I beg to differ. Continue reading →
Maureen Dowd’s latest on the Democratic Convention has two especially odd and ignorant moments, even for her. 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 wisdom of the war’s genesis, those who counseled that the surge was a failure even before it began (and that includes both nominee Obama and most of the Democratic Party leadership) were wrong. If we had followed their leadership, Iraq would have been an even worse failure—and tragedy—than Vietnam was decades ago.
Fortunately, they did not prevail this time. But how is it that this party and these leaders can ask us to trust their judgment and elect them to make decisions about military matters in the future? Continue reading →
…is that affords an opportunity for the opposition to make ads like this one in the general:
Everybody knows that, in a primary, candidates say nasty things about rivals in their own party. What’s to stop the other party’s nominee from using those clips to their own advantage once the primaries are over?
Absolutely nothing.
As usual, Michael Totten is well worth reading. Here’s his take on the Georgian situation.
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 Biden pick. Despite the bloggers’ (and Hillary’s) calls for unity, these ladies are hopping mad. Continue reading →