Watcher’s winners

Showing myself to be in synch with my fellow council members, my first place votes in each category — council member and non-council member — won.  So, without further throat-clearing, I present the first and second place winners in each category.

On the council side, a much deserved first place went to Right Wing Nuthouse for The Total Witlessness of Obama Apologists, in which Rick Moran issued a scathing denunciation of those who twist themselves into pretzel-like contortions trying to defend both Obama’s original defense of Wright and his swift U-turn decision to sacrifice Wright.  It makes for amusing reading, although one can’t help being irritated by the idiocy on display by Obama defenders.

Second place honors went to Wolf Howling for Outfoxed by Obama & the Twelve Unasked Questions.  In that post, WH gives Obama fairly high marks for his appearance on Fox.  I don’t, because I always find Obama’s lawyerly prevarications irritating, and I thought they were on high display.  Where I agree about 200% with WH is when he (she?) sets out 12 questions that someone — anyone? — should be asking Obama in the face of the latter’s insistence that he’s fit to be President of the United States.

On the non-council side, the winner by an overwhelming margin was Bruce Bawer’s An Anatomy of Surrender, published at City Journal.  In it, Bawer walks us through the way in which Europe, having learned well the Salman Rushdie lesson, is busy chipping away at its own already limited free speech rights in order to accommodate the increasingly shrill demands from the Islamists pouring across its borders.  It’s even more depressing to read than Rick Moran’s article, but should still top the reading list of every informed American.  Second place went to the Small Wars Journal’s Political Maneuver in Counterinsurgency which describes, well, political maneuvers in counter insurgencies.

Congratulations to all of the winners.