December 12, 2009

We should all think more like Michelle Obama

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December 9, 2009

Great Expectations

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July 26, 2008

Obama the Prideful

When Hillary Clinton was beating the stuffing out of Obama beginning in March, she was paying off the notion that Obama is elitist, via the infamous bitter and clingy remark. Though Hillary eventually succumbed to Obama, elitism remains the cand...

July 17, 2008

Campaigning for versus serving in office

Obama apparently isn't much of a cyclist.  But he is a runner.  In fact, Obama is a world-class runner. Jim Geraghty at National Review's Campaign Spot blog put together an impressive list, chronicling the amount of time Obama has spent cam...

June 1, 2008

The Obama Way of Ending Divisiveness

When Barack Obama says he wants to end the divisiveness in politics, I believe him.  When Obama says he wants to bring about unity, I believe him.  When Obama says he wants to work for a new politics free from bitter partisanship, I believe...

April 8, 2008

The more things change

As General Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill today, Powerline gives us this snippet from Hillary's appearance this morning on CBS' Early Show with anchor Harry Smith:SMITH: David Petraeus is going to come before this committee this morning. He's goi...

April 5, 2008

The only way to save the Democratic Party

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is a quagmire. It is a civil war. It is fratricidal. It is an act of hara-kiri. It is a murder-suicide. No matter which of its two remaining candidates secures the nomination, there appears to be no...

February 20, 2008

Is Barack fighting against Michelle's cynicism? (updated)

Obama has been very clear that he is fighting against cynicism in his Presidential campaign.  A year ago at the DNC Winter Meeting, Obama said that in the upcoming campaign cynicism would be as big a rival Republicans.He reworked that same theme...

February 14, 2008

Democrats pushing a losing position

Why are the Democrats continuing to argue that the U.S. is ready to adopt their Iraq strategy?  Back in November, looking at the number of Iraqi refugees who were returning to a much pacified homeland, I argued:To the extent that the war in Iraq...

January 21, 2008

Dem politics as blood sport

The race to become the next Democratic nominee for President of the United States is getting heated, drawing figurative blood.  But if we step back and take a look, where does the race currently stand?As a backdrop for the state of the race toda...

January 19, 2008

Senator Reid can recycle his talking points

  The war in Iraq is out as the cudgel with which the Democrats would bludgeon the Republicans in the elections in November.  The Democrats are now shifting their focus to the economy.However, though the issue has changed, I don't believe t...

November 21, 2007

The Iraq issue in 2008

It was just this past spring that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was proclaiming: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) told reporters yesterday. "Senator Schumer ...

August 21, 2007

Obama on Cuba

Barack Obama has made recently a series of foreign policy gaffes.  Undeterred by harsh criticism and stalling if not flagging poll numbers, Obama weighs in on the Cuban trade embargo.MIAMI - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is leap...

August 13, 2007

Charity starts at home

In his national comedy tour disguised as a presidential campaign, John Edwards has added a new joke to his act.John Edwards, July 26:"They want to shut me up"Tom Maguire asked the natural follow up question:But who is "they"? Not ...

May 21, 2007

Obama's corny cynicism

In the blog entry "More Obama hypocrisy" Thomas Lifson wroteLeasing a "flex fuel" vehicle - which I take to mean something that burns ethanol and makes food more expensive for the poor - strikes me as rather similar to buying carb...

May 15, 2007

Another day, another Obama

In a town hall meeting with the AFL-CIO in New Jersey, Obama seemingly goes against the typical liberal Wal-Mart hating...Obama said Wal-Mart's business model for managing its inventory efficiently is something "we should admire," ...before...

May 11, 2007

Obama-fueled cynicism

The other day Barack Obama, gave a major policy speech before the Detroit Economic Club, making the case against "the age of oil":At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the country that faced down the tyranny of fascism and communism is n...

April 27, 2007

Charitable to Obama

I have previously written a post about Obama and cynicism.  In that blog post, I was left feeling more cynical about Obama after looking at his actions, even though Obama stated forcefully that cynicism is the greatest enemy we face.A recent art...

April 19, 2007

The two Americas of John Edwards

John Edwards likes to speak about "two Americas." But is he really speaking about the vast, troubling and widening gap between the well-groomed and poorly-groomed?  We learned  Tuesday  of some of the habits surroun...

April 18, 2007

Obama and cynicism

Senator Barrack Obama raised some eyebrows several weeks back when he worked a terrorist angle into a familiar campaign stump speech at a reception at an AIPAC policy conference:  "The biggest enemy I think we have in this whole process ......

March 15, 2007

Plame's outing was a slow bleed

As noted in our article today, the outing of Plame was not a "code red" issued from the White House or the Office of the Vice President.  Instead, Plame's outing was a "slow bleed" operation, removing any ...