Bookworm on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: John McCain, Media matters, Presidential elections
The Times may have refused to publish McCain’s Iraq editorial (afraid, no doubt, that publishing it would cast a shadow on Obama’s purported wisdom), but I have no such fear. Here’s, courtesy of the Drudge Report, is the op-ed McCain wrote — and it’s an op-ed that any reasonable, non-partisan newspaper would have freely printed:
In [...]
Bookworm on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: John McCain, Presidential elections
See important update below.
I have been trying without success for a couple of weeks now to volunteer my writing and editing services to the local “John McCain for President” chapter. No one is getting back to me — and I’ve been told by someone with ties to the local “McCain for President” chapter that this [...]
Bookworm on Jun 20 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Presidential elections
As they do every election year about this time, the polls strongly favor the Democrats, which is very disheartening. Right around now I find it especially worrisome, because I think that Obama, emboldened by media adulation, is being more and more forthright about his political agenda, and it’s one that ordinarily would should have the [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
One of the first things you learn as litigation defense counsel is that you will lose if you let the plaintiff control the case’s message. It’s easy to let this happen, because the plaintiff comes out of the gate like gangbusters, and the defendant finds himself, logically, in a defensive, purely reactive posture. [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
Conservatives believe that it is dangerous to tumble into bed with someone instantly. They’re appalled by the raunchy hook-up culture amongst our young people, one that says it’s okay to have sex on the first date, as long as you try to line up reasonable precautions to limit some of the damaging fall-out (such [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections
At Slate, John Dickerson has as good an analysis as any I’ve seen about the way in which the Democrats, riven by identity politics and personal animosity, are working hard to throw away their advantage in this election year.
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Bookworm on Feb 27 2008 | Filed under: Presidential elections
As you know, I find the thought of an Obama Presidency frightening. I therefore found heartening a poll that, despite having a methodology that favored Democrats, still showed that McCain would beat both Obama and Clinton if the Presidential election were held today. Much can change between now and November but this does show that, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 14 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections
Whether we forget or remember the past, sometimes we seem doomed to repeat it. Certainly with all the candidates, the analogies to historic times flow freely. The two big analogies, of course, are World War II and the Vietnam War, depending on whether voters view Islamists or fellow Americans as the enemy.
There are [...]
Bookworm on Feb 07 2008 | Filed under: Presidential elections
I’ve frequently heaped scorn on Obama’s oratorical abilities. His speeches remind me of the political speeches in old Hollywood movies. In those days, the movies were careful not to take sides in any obvious way, so they’d have political characters make speeches using orotund phrases that contained high sounding platitudes, but that actually said nothing [...]
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 09 2008 | Filed under: Presidential elections
I am not a touchy-feely person. I managed to grow up in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1960s and 1970s without ever feeling the need to join into the narcissistic self-validation that Cyra McFadden so perfectly captured in her 70s classic The Serial, a novel that followed a number of self-involved, self-actualizers in [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Presidential elections
Well, tidings from New Hampshire, at least on the Democratic side, are surprising. (I don’t think anyone is really surprised by the fact that McCain prevailed, as the polls showed he would.) Everyone thought that Dems and Independents were flocking to the polls to crown Obama, but it looks as if many were [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Presidential elections
Democrats are euphoric and Republicans are panicking: Obama is inevitable. But not so fast, mes amis, says William Katz, looking back in time. In the rough and tumble world of American politics, nothing is inevitable and voters are never predictable. Since Mr. Katz’s hyperlinks are not working, let me quote for [...]
Bookworm on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Presidential elections
Phibian sent me over to a fun ABC News/USA Today site where it asks you to answer multiple choice questions about your beliefs on some national and international issues, and then ranks your answers against candidate positions to pick your perfect candidate. I came out precisely as you’d expect me to if you read my [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Presidential elections
I don’t like Obama, whom I consider an empty shirt, utterly devoid of experience and elevated to his lofty position only because of his skin color, something that I consider that worst kind of racial identity politics. (I just checked and it turns out that, at this particular minute, Silky Pony, the radical rich [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Presidential elections
It seems like forever, but it was only three and a half years ago that John Kerry was the Democratic front runner, with the MSM lining up for his anticipated coronation. And then something strange happened: the Vietnam vets started speaking up, challenging the mythology Kerry had created — and the press had [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Presidential elections, Religion
I went to law school in the Bible Belt, so many of my fellow students were devout Christians. Thomas, however, out-Christianed everyone. His parents were missionaries, and he’d been raised with a level of faith no one else at the school could equal. He was one of the nicest people you could [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
Three paragraphs of perfect political analysis from Mark Steyn:
If I could just sneak out in the middle of the night and saw off Rudy Giuliani’s strong right arm and John McCain’s ramrod back and Mitt Romney’s fabulous hair and stitch them all together in Baron von Frankenstein’s laboratory with the help of some neck bolts, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 19 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Presidential elections
Here’s a wonderful video from Hot Air exposing the fact that many of the “undecided” voters who got to question the candidates at the most recent Democratic debate were activists or operatives of some kind. Indeed, one of them may even have been known to a Democratic candidate before the debate began:
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It’s a very funny [...]
Bookworm on Nov 19 2007 | Filed under: Presidential elections, Rudy Giuliani
Danny Lemieux alerted me to a Jerusalem Post article that uses the Civil War as a prism through which to examine the upcoming elections. Max Singer, who wrote the article, points out that Lincoln was losing big time in the lead-up to the 1864 elections (with daily death tolls sometimes equal to or exceeding [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Elections, Hillary Clinton, Presidential elections
John Hawkins has written a really scathing indictment of Hillary Clinton attacking, not her political positions, but the fact that she is doing nothing more than ride on Bill’s coattails, having no independent experience of her own that would justify making her President of the most powerful nation in the world during a time of [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Democrats, Presidential elections
I complained yesterday about tightly constrained, programmed Presidential candidates. I can stop complaining now. We’re about to have a candidate who says anything that comes into her head, no matter how stupid. FogCity Journal, citing “reliable sources,” says that Cynthia McKinney is planning on throwing her hat into the ring as Green [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Political correctness, Presidential elections
One of the things candidates cannot afford to be seen as is vicious. Nevertheless, especially in unstable, dangerous times, we want our candidates to be strong. Writing at Red State, Erick believes that the Republican candidates would do well to show a little strength in dealing with Chris Matthews, who is currently slated [...]
Bookworm on Oct 02 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the way to run for President if you’re a Democrat is to make pie in the sky promises, clearly premised on the assumption that, amongst registered voters, there’s a sucker born every minute. And if you can get the sucker vote, you win. Otherwise, how can one account [...]
Bookworm on Sep 06 2007 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Presidential elections
William Katz, a man of many careers, including a long stint on The Tonight Show during the Carson years, was also a comedy writer. He’s been feeding bits and pieces of his memoirs to the guys at Power Line, intermixing old memories with new facts, especially political facts. In a post published today, [...]
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