Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Dennis Dale
Last summer, as Barack Obama directed the subtle intimidation of fawning European crowds (millions of charisma-intoxicated Germans can’t be wrong!) at those Americans still retaining the quaint notion presidential elections are domestic affairs not subject to global opinion, at least one of his acolytes in the media here in the formal remnant of the United [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy, Politics, War, World
Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Kelley Vlahos
There was a point in the McCain campaign this fall that, if your olfactory nerves were still in gear after two years of BS and gasbaggery, reeked of desperation and perhaps, even doom, for the Senator from Arizona and his Pitbull with Lipstick. It is when he enlisted “Joe the Plumber” as a tour surrogate [...]
Filed under: Culture, Election, Politics, War
Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Dennis Dale
How they acquired my email in the first place isn’t hard to imagine; sign an online petition against the war in Iraq, or any of the Bush administration’s associated constitutional transgressions, and voila,you’re one more iota in a vast database of email addresses that is the centerpiece of Barack Obama’s vaunted Internet armada. You think [...]
Filed under: Culture, Election, Politics, media
Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Freddy Gray
Like a massively less successful version of the Clintons, Alan Keyes just never goes away. The perennial electoral failure–who got 35, 000 votes in this month’s contest, with the help of the Christian Falangist Party–and his America’s Independence Party are now suing President-elect Obama to prove his U.S. citizenship before January 20th. “I and [...]
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Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Patrick J. Buchanan
Why did John McCain lose?
Let’s start with those “headwinds” into which he was flying.
The president of the United States, the leader of his party, was at Nixon-Carter levels of approval, 25 percent, going into Election Day.
Sixty-two percent of the nation thought the economy was the No. 1 issue, and 93 percent thought the economy was [...]
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Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Kelley Vlahos
Was Michelle Obama’s choice of frock Tuesday night a statement?
You bet it was. Here is a woman who spent the last six months having to explain to an audience of gasbags like Rush Limbaugh how she really is “proud of my country” as though such an existential disclosure was prerequisite to avoiding the ducking stool
Whether [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Foreign policy, Politics
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Leon Hadar
Sean suggested that “history’s actors” have failed in “creating their own reality.” But after watching CNN beaming a “hologram” on live TV last night, I’m wondering whether the Republicans could create their own reality by transforming a “President McCain” into a human hologram that will be innaugurated next year and serve as president for the [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Barack Obama is our president-elect. He ran an efficient campaign, with incredible fundraising efforts, tight organization, and an astounding get-out-the-vote operation. It is impossible on this night to absorb or to even outline the historical significance of electing a black president. As others have pointed out, legal discrimination against blacks occurred within living memory for [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Daniel Koffler
Bill Kristol, always one to double-down on a mistake rather than concede an inch, now says that Sarah Palin is the next FDR. The resurrection of Franklin Roosevelt is, no doubt, indicative of the sort of conservative revival Robert Stacy McCain had in mind when he announced the creation of the “Sarah Party” a week [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Daniel Koffler
No one could have predicted…
In a move that is sure to put to rest the notion that there are no second acts in American life, former Bear Stearns chief risk officer Michael Alix has landed a job in the office of the Federal Reserve charged with assessing the safety and soundness of domestic banking institutions.
We [...]
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