Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
In two preceding post, I’ve talked about the studied incrementalism of Obama’s lies (here and here). Obama is now taking a page out of the Hillary play book on lying and simply denying, outright, easily ascertainable truths.
UPDATE: And yet another blatant Obama lie — although this one may be because Obama, who claims an [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Danny Lemieux sent me a link to what must be one of the clearest statements ever written about the media fetish regarding Democratic candidates generally, and Obama specifically. The author is Gerard Baker, writing in the London Times. After describing media love affairs with presidential candidates from Kennedy on up, Baker gets to [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
In a delightful post about how the parties choose their Presidential nominees, Patrick (the Paragraph Farmer) gives a perfect description of Barack Obama and why he may not be the savior people hope:
Barack Obama has the top of the Democratic ticket all but sewn up, in spite of having spent more time campaigning for president [...]
Bookworm on May 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
I purposely didn’t read the news stories headlined “McCain’s wife sells off” something, something, something Sudan. I knew what I’d find there, once I got passed that smear headline implying that McCain & Co. are profiting off of people’s misery in Africa. The actual facts would show that Mrs. McCain is a wealthy woman who [...]
Bookworm on May 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Charles Johnson, at LGF, working off the top of his head, put together a list of Obama’s troublesome associations:
* Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years.
* Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada.
* Unrepentant Weather Underground [...]
Bookworm on May 13 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
If I had to pick one article to recommend for today’s reading, it would have to be Dennis Prager’s explanation about why voting Democrat would truly put the country on the wrong track. I would go slightly further and say that we have to guard against the same outcome — a Democratic victory — [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
…how’s Obama going to talk to Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-Il and all those other bad guys he’s said he’ll speak with unreservedly?
As for the afraid of John McCain, that comes from this:
John McCain’s campaign is strongly considering presenting Barack Obama with a proposal for a completely new kind of presidential debates — a series of [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Israel
In an interview for Atlantic Monthly, Obama got hit with two direct questions about Israel, both requiring a yes or no answer. Obama couldn’t do that. Instead, he blathered on and on and on, leaving discerning viewers to parse his bloviating and conclude that, perhaps, he thinks that maybe Israel was a good [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hezbollah
Not that they were ever really on, but when it comes to Obama, my gloves are off. I’ve concluded that the man is not just a liar and an ideologue, he’s stupid. With regard to the situation in Lebanon (where Hezbollah is using terror to topple the power of the democratically elected government), [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Barack Obama, Feminism, Iraq, Islam, Muslim violence
The British press was rocked for a few minutes a couple of weeks ago by the story of an Iraqi girl whose father murdered her quite brutally because she’d fallen in love with a British soldier. (There was no hint, by the way, that she’d done anything about the love; it was an infatuation [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
To my mind, senior Republican leaders are digging the grave, preparatory to burying themselves:
Senior Republicans expressed grave fears on Sunday about the prospects of Senator John McCain, their candidate, against Senator Barack Obama in November’s general election.
The “senior Republicans” to which the article refers are Fred Barnes and Newt Gringrich. I’m not pleased.
While irrational exuberance [...]
Bookworm on May 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Jews, Republicans, Uncategorized
When I was growing up, my best friend had the most wonderful grandparents. They were an incredibly flamboyant Polish couple who escaped the Holocaust because the woman was so charming she was able to talk the Nazis into letting them leave (with the help of some diamonds as bribes). He was pretty charming [...]
Bookworm on May 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
In response to an earlier post I did about Obama’s habit of lying about easily verifiable events, beliefs and associations in his past, echeccone made the statement, one we’ve often heard, that “every politician lies.” There’s a kind of sweeping truth to that statement, but its very broadness hides the fact that not all [...]
Bookworm on May 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
Despite stories of his explosive temper, there is absolutely no doubt that McCain has been playing it nice so far in this election season. It’s easy to do right now, of course, with Obama and Hillary acting as his surrogates against each other. They sling the mud so he doesn’t have to. [...]
Bookworm on May 07 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
With Obama as the almost-certain Democratic candidacy, the conservative punditry is very depressed. John Podhoretz summarizes it best, although he is by no means a lone voice:
It is important for conservatives and Republicans, who have comforted themselves with the thought that Obama cannot possibly win because no one as far to the Left as [...]
Bookworm on May 05 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Maureen Dowd is perplexed: How can Barack Obama, who grew up with a poor, single mother, keep appearing to be the black John Kerry, an effete Ivy Leaguer, out of touch with the ordinary voter? In her mind, it’s all the problem of a low class black kid have overlearned his lesson when he was [...]
Bookworm on May 04 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Barack Obama, Israel, Military, Palestinians
We received in yesterday’s mail a warning (a very nice warning) that my 5th grader is struggling with geometry. As a former geometry struggler myself, I’m all sympathy. We did not get mad at her. What is infuriating, though, is her absolutely unwillingness to learn geometry. After 1.5 years in public [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Economics
In keeping with my prior post, about the callous illogical shown in one of the Times’ most recent articles, I’d like to highlight Obama’s insistence on a “windfall profits tax” — another “bright” idea showing a rather typical Democratic refusal to recognize cause and effect, not to mention a willful refusal to acknowledge historic evidence:
You [...]
Bookworm on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Leftist morality, Media matters
At Paragraph Farmer, Patrick has taken apart a liberal newspaper’s endorsement for Barack Obama, exposing just a few of the logical fallacies and factual errors it contains. Patrick’s post actually makes for very scary reading, because this is not just one little editorial board but is, instead, thinking representative of a large part of the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton
The most un-rev Jeremiah Wright elaborated today on his various statements during an appearance at the National Press Club. What he had to say was most enlightening since, when he wasn’t prevaricating or deflecting a point with self-deprecating humor, he sounded pretty ugly. Here are a few things that caught my attention:
MODERATOR: [...]
Bookworm on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Marin is about as liberal a community as one can possibly find. That means that the analyst for the local political newspaper is a liberal too. Right now, he’s a very depressed liberal, since he’s absolutely certain that the Democrats are imploding, leading to the inevitability of a McCain victory:
Arizona Sen. McCain will be victorious [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Media matters
You all know Aesop’s class tale of the race between the tortoise and the hare: At the starting gate, the hare picks up so much speed that it soon vanishes completely, while the tortoise plods on behind. Within sight of the finish line, however, when the hare looks backwards and realizes that the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Yesterday, I write a long post opining that the attacks against Obama because his friends would automatically trigger in liberals an urge to analogize the situation to the 1950s anti-Communist hearings, which would, of course, raise the “guilt by association” mantra. I also explained why, in Obama’s case, guilt by association is an appropriate [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
On the liberal side of the American political world, one of the lingering horrors of the McCarthy era is “guilt by association.” Certainly that was the lesson I, a young liberal, took away from teachings about that era. As I learned it, it wasn’t that the HUAC hearings were aimed at discovering genuine [...]
Bookworm on Apr 19 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe
A political kerfuffle is never over until Mark Steyn has weighed in. He’s now got a full column on Obama’s “bitterness” remarks and, of course, mixed in with the wonderful word play is a perfect analysis about America’s Guns and God “bitterness,” when compared to Europe’s no-guns, no-God “Eutopia.”
In my book “America Alone,” I note [...]
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