Hillary praises McCain while slamming Obama:
I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.
More at Los Angeles Times “Top of the Ticket” […]
hill and johnny in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
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that man behind the curtain
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Like many others, I have been waiting for a “man behind the curtain” moment to descend on Barack Obama. It may have come in a literal sense.
Dana Milbank reports in The Washington Post that when Obama was pressed by reporters on NAFTAgate and Rezkogate at a news conference in San Antonio Monday (the day before the Texas […]
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obama-rama mania overload
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Although I have already seen enough of Mr. Obama to know I don’t like or trust him, we will be seeing much, much more of him, at least best until November, unless something unlikely happens in Texas and Ohio next week.
Matthew Archbold, over at Creative Minority Report, has a very funny post which highlights the […]
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the hollow man’s filling
February 26th, 2008 · No Comments
I frankly do not believe that Obama is presidential material. However, my doubts about his character are more troubling than my (substantial) doubts about his ability to lead.
And while I know that his wife, Michelle, is not running for office, I find her public pronouncements troubling as well.
“Spengler,” a Columbia Anthropologist from Australia who has long lived […]
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luck be a lady and throw michelle a line
February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
This is puzzling. I mean, really puzzling.
Michelle Obama, Harvard lawyer, wife of Barack Obama, Harvard lawyer, tells us:
I have to say that my life now is not really that much different from many of yours. I wake up every morning wondering how on earth I am going to pull off that next minor miracle to […]
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it takes a villa
February 21st, 2008 · No Comments
At National Review Online, Senior Hoover Institute fellow Victor Davis Hanson tells us about the “Ivy League Populists” slugging it out for the Democratic nomination.
Sample:
In these gloom-and-doom narratives by the well-off, we less fortunate Americans are doing almost everything right, but still are not living as well as we deserve to be. The common culprit […]
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nobody could be prouder of his hometown
February 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Andrew Romano, blogging at Newsweek, tells us:
“Obama Won One New York County. Why It Matters.”
To spare you the suspense if you lack the energy or will to follow the link, it was, indeed, Tompkins County, whose seat (you should pardon the expression) is nobody’s hometown, Ithaca.
To be even a few millimeters right of center in […]
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