When the MSM spilled the beans on Obama’s VP pick last night, I was thinking that, not only will the PUMAs absolutely hate this, but many young and “progressive” Obama supporters will as well. I’m not just talking about the choice of Biden, but the way the whole text-message thing played out. Continue reading →
Obama’s pick: why, it’s the Democratic McCain!
My title is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of course. But it did occur to me, watching clips of Joe Biden late last night, that Obama’s new running mate is the closest thing to John McCain that Obama could have found in the Democratic Party. Continue reading →
“Waiting for Barack”
You’ve got to hand it to him—Obama certainly knows how to milk the drama of the VP wait.
And speaking of drama, I think you’ll agree that Beckett was remarkably prescient. Note especially the reference to Bush.
ESTRAGON:
(despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You’re sure it was here?
VLADIMIR:
What? Continue reading →
Obama and the tax code: from each according to his ability, to each according to “fairness”
Some of Obama’s slightly-less-publicized statements are the ones that concern me most.
Case in point: in this WSJ column by William McGurn, the author points out that for Obama, taxes are not just about collecting revenue. What are they for? Fairness.
Obama was being quizzed on his proposal to raise the capital gains tax. Continue reading →
Candidates who live in ill-gotten houses…
…shouldn’t throw stones.
But sometimes they do, and this is what they get in response:
The Obama campaign must think they had a winner, casting McCain’s remark that he didn’t know how many houses he owns as evidence he doesn’t understand working Americans. Continue reading →
Presidential snacks: Obama’s shopping spree
Wow. I didn’t know you could buy babies at the Farmer’s Market (see paragraph two).
Obama’s purchase of biscuits, zucchini bread, pound cake, bread, tomatoes and peaches makes him a health-food nut compared to earlier Presidents.
We all are familiar with chow hound Bill Clinton. But do you recall the partician Bush Senior’s difficult-to-believe (and to stomach) predilection for pork rinds? Reagan liked jelly beans, and Nixon’s comfort food was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup. Yuk.
Whatever happened to really silly pop songs?
They were called “novelty songs,” although I didn’t know it at the time. They occupied a special niche that doesn’t seem to exist anymore in this far less innocent age: a nonsensical bubble-gum type of music/lyrics, meant mostly to amuse in the lightest of ways. They were silly even back when they first came out, in the 50s and early 60s of my youth.
Here are the ones I remember best (and believe me, they’re memorable—good for an earworm or two, or perhaps three or four): Continue reading →
Meet Obama’s female doppleganger, Baldilocks
Blogger Baldilocks has a fascinating story on her own. But it’s even more fascinating these days because it runs roughly parallel for a while to that of none other than Senator Obama, although it then veers off rather dramatically from his.
Please take a look at this LA Times interview with Baldilocks, aka Juliette Ochieng. Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite: Continue reading →
Beach volleyball: unfair, I say!
I hereby object to the obvious pulchritudinous inequities of the Olympian sport of beach volleyball.
To wit: why is it that the women’s torsos are relatively unclad while the men’s are coyly covered in tank tops? Continue reading →
Orwell on unhinged intellectuals
As Norman Podhoretz points out in his essay “If Orwell Were Alive Today” (written in 1983), the highly regarded political writer George Orwell was often misguided in his specific predictions about the future. He also was wedded to socialism his entire life, once he converted to it at the age of thirty, although his life didn’t last that much longer (he died at forty-six).
Orwell was, however, such a keen observer of the political side of humankind and especially the danger of totalitarianism, that many other “isms” (including Podhoretz’s own neoconservatism) believe that, had Orwell lived long enough, he surely would have come round to their point of view. Continue reading →
Vice-Presidential picks
Joe Lieberman is poised to be this year’s Zell Miller.
I loved Zell’s fiery speech at the 2004 Republican convention. Lieberman is considerably less colorful (as are most people). But I’m looking forward to his address anyway. However, I’m going to go out on a limb right now to say that LIeberman won’t be McCain’s VP choice, although I haven’t a clue who it will be. Continue reading →
Those who don’t know this story…
…need to read it.
You might also want to send a link to your friends who support Obama and see what they have to say about it.