Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Feminism, Hillary Clinton
Christopher Hitchens has written a post-mortem on the alleged sexism characterizing Hillary Clinton’s abortive race to the top. Aside from scathingly examining both Hillary’s and the media’s myriad failings, he has this wonderful point to make about the double-edged sword her gender became in the race:
Going as far as it dared on the point, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Media matters
Remember a year and a half ago when the MSM, directly and indirectly, assured us that Hillary’s candidacy was inevitable?
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton
I’ve been hearing a lot about trophy wives lately, since I recently learned that, in one of the very affluent communities near me, the nouveau riche, desperate as always to assert their status on the social hierarchy, have begun wife swapping. Apparently it just wasn’t good enough any more to boast about your car and [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Obama has a pattern when a person or institution proves problematic: First, loyally, he tries to defend the troublemaker. Second, when his poll numbers show that the defense is futile, he ruthlessly jettisons the troublemaker, whether it’s Samantha Power, Jeremiah Wright or Trinity Church. But what about this troublemaker (assuming, for the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, Health, Hillary Clinton, Medicine
There’s talk of Obama giving Hillary the green light to socialize American medicine if she’ll walk away from the primaries. Melanie Phillips gives us a good example of why the renewed specter of socialized medicine should worry us:
To the Labour Party, the National Health Service is the talismanic proof of its own moral superiority.
Time and [...]
Bookworm on May 09 2008 | Filed under: Burma, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Islam, Israel
There is a belief that the “mutually assured destruction” deterrence that worked during the Cold War will work in Iran. Hillary certainly believes it, which is why she promised that, if Iran hits Israel with a nuclear bomb during her presidency, she will hit Iran with a nuclear bomb. She believes that threat [...]
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 05 2008 | Filed under: Gun control, Hillary Clinton
I don’t drink. I don’t like the stuff, and have never forced myself to learn to enjoy it. However, I often find myself in a situation that requires me to buy wine, whether for a potluck or because it’s the perfect hostess gift. Over the years, I’ve developed a surprisingly effective technique, since I’m often [...]
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 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 21 2008 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Military
Our local public radio station was replaying the most recent Hillbama debate, and so I listened to a piece of it that had slipped under my radar the first time. It’s actually quite funny, despite the scary implications of what Hillary is saying she’ll do regarding Iraq if she’s elected President. Here’s what [...]
Bookworm on Apr 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Media matters
In the old days — pre-internet — politicians were able to get away with a lot of lies. This wasn’t because they lied better than they do now. It was because it was more difficult to suss out the truth and, even if one was successful in doing so, it was very challenging, if the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Media matters
The MSM is going after McCain, but the fact is that, the more they dribble out details about the man, the more I admire what I learn. Regardless of his sometimes flawed political instincts (that campaign financing thing, again), he is a very good human being, and an honorable one too. We know the same [...]
Bookworm on Apr 02 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics
At American Thinker, James Edmund Pennington definitively explodes the myth that Obama is a “post-racial” candidate. In other words, Geraldine Ferraro had it absolutely right when she said, without any of Pennington’s careful analysis, that Obama ascended as quickly as he did solely because of his race. And as Pennington points out, that [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Here’s one of John McCain’s most recent ads, one that claims its sole purpose is to honor his old high school teacher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inNBl6UV1TY
Over at Hot Air, they damn it with very faint praise indeed:
Not a terrible ad but also not the best use of money by a guy who’s staring down the barrel of a huge [...]
Bookworm on Mar 19 2008 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton
No comment:
Hillary Clinton’s boasts that she gained major foreign policy experience as First Lady have been undermined after 11,046 pages of her White House schedules provided scant evidence to back up her claims.
The documents were made public by the US national archives after pressure from her rival Barack Obama and freedom-of-information groups.
Many details were redacted [...]
Bookworm on Feb 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics
What do you do when the person who matches you in the external identity calculus — say, she’s a woman and you’re a woman — proves not to be the women’s champion you hoped? Even worse, what do you do when the person who is the champion you hoped, doesn’t match you in external [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
I was still an oldlib, not a neocon, when the Clintons finished their White House tenure. I was also uninterested in politics so, like the vast majority of Americans, considered myself informed because I glanced at the headlines. I therefore managed to ignore complete the details and import of Bill Clinton’s sua sponte [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton
When Hillary cried the first time, it apparently humanized her for some. When she cried the second time, she began to look a little weak and self-centered. And now that she’s cried the third time (this time, wisely, for someone other than herself) it seems to me she’s feeding into the worst old-fashioned stereotypes of [...]
Bookworm on Feb 07 2008 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton, John McCain
I do wonder if my ability to accept McCain is fairly easy because I’m a pragmatist, a neocon or a simplistic thinker. The first is the argument I make: McCain’s not perfect, but he’s better than the Democratic candidates. The second argument is that, because I’m a neophyte conservative, I’m more easily [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
I’ve noted before, based on instinct that, when it comes to substance, nothing distinguishes Obama and Clinton from each other, in that they’re each extremely liberal. That, I said, is why they’ve had to fall back so frantically on their racial and sexual identities. It’s not just the “identity politics” chickens coming home [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Presidential elections
Compared to Romney, I don’t like McCain. Compared to Obama or Hillary, I adore McCain and would happily vote for him — heck, if I were voting in Chicago (home turf for both Obama and Hillary), I’d vote for him twice, and have my ancestors vote for him too. You dance with them [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani
I caught a minute of Mike Gallagher today, and he was talking about the fact that Republicans are more critical of Republican candidates than Democrats are critical of Democratic candidates. It occurred to me that, at least in this election cycle, that may be because there are real, substantive differences between the Republican candidates. [...]
|
