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Obama’s no-humor zone: what does it say about him?
Obama’s angry reaction to the New Yorker cover has highlighted a fact that has been obvious for some time: the man has no sense of humor.
Oh, I know, every now and then he tries a little quip. But his heart’s not in it. Continue reading →
Works for me: the WaPo says Obama is irritational and ahistorical
I’ve pointed out before that the WaPo editors seem to have gotten a clue lately about the self-serving awfulness of some of Obama’s recent moves, especially on Iraq.
Well, they’re at it again, with an editorial that hits Obama quite hard despite its calm tone—and they even sneak in a slight defense of Bush’s relative flexibility (gasp!) when compared to Obama’s rigidity on the subject. Continue reading →
Dispatch from Kosovo
Michael Totten certainly gets around. This time he reports from Kosovo. Edifying, as always.
Voices of distinction: Seeger, Lennon, Simone, Thompson
I was listening to the radio the other day and heard an ad for a Pete Seeger concert.
Pete Seeger? He’s still alive? And singing? I thought he must be a thousand years old now, because he already seemed old when I was young. Continue reading →
Reading the Obama tea leaves at the New Republic
In a TNR article with the extraordinary title “Contra Expectations: Obama isn’t Jimmy Carter—he’s Ronald Reagan,” Eli Lake demonstrates exactly what Obama meant when he wrote in his book The Audacity of Hope:
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.
I’d change Obama’s statement in one way Continue reading →
Slim Pickens for energy alternatives?
You’ve probably heard the radio ads. T. Boone Pickens, the man with the thickest Oklahoma/Texas accent any side of the Pecos, has a plan to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Pickens’ plan relies heavily on wind turbine power and natural gas. Pickens himself has sunk a lot of money into wind power lately, so he stands to gain an awful lot if his plan is implemented.
This doesn’t mean he’s wrong, or that the plan is a poor one. Continue reading →
Barack fumes about the cover….
…and the blogosphere squawks, but it’s the article inside that really skewers him.
What cover, what article? Why, the New Yorker, that totally liberal rag, appears to have broken ranks and turned on Obama. Continue reading →
Tony Snow tribute: on “losing the fight” against cancer
Susan Estrich has written a lovely tribute to Tony Snow.
Yes, Susan Estrich, she of the grating voice (with an abrasive timbre almost identical to that of Carol Channing) and the liberal viewpoint. But that didn’t stop her from liking and admiring Snow, with whom she was friends. Apparently, if you knew him, it was hard not to be his friend.
I especially like the following observation of hers. Continue reading →
Obama’s withdrawal proposal a withdrawal from reality
At the end of January of 2007, shortly after Bush proposed the surge, Barack Obama countered with a Senate bill featuring a plan for withdrawal from Iraq by March 31, 2008, which would have been fourteen months later.
Fortunately for Iraq, the bill didn’t pass. Instead the surge came to pass.
But at the time of Obama’s proposed bill all that was in the future, and it must have seemed to Obama that it was his move, not Bush’s, that was bold and forward-looking. Continue reading →
Beware the giant artichoke
I’ve written about the wondrous cantaloupes we’re having this season, but last night I got burned by some artichokes. Continue reading →
RIP Tony Snow
Tony Snow has succumbed to colon cancer at 53. His philosophy was to make the most of his remaining time after his diagnosis, and from the looks of it he did.
I enjoyed Snow’s tenure as press secretary, especially after the lackluster and obviously uncomfortable McClellan. He will be missed.