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 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 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 Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Elections, Media matters
Would it surprise any of you to learn that the media’s coverage of the President horse race accords more coverage, and more favorable coverage, to the Democratic candidates? It didn’t surprise me, but it’s still useful to see it in black and white:
Campaign coverage of the 2008 presidential election has been both biased and [...]
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