Bookworm on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Karl Rove has written a tidy little summary of Obama’s dizzying changes on Iraq:*
Throughout 2006 and early 2007, Mr. Obama pledged to remove all U.S. troops, even voting to immediately cut off funds for the troops while they were in combat. Then, in July 2007, he started talking about leaving a residual U.S. force, in [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Europe, Media matters
In an amusing article that compiles examples of American and European media hysteria about Obama’s world tour (think Madonna and the Beatles, only bigger), Denis Boyles makes an interesting point about the European fixation with an Obama (read: black) Presidency:
Anyway, the gist: Europeans really really want Obama to be the next U.S. president, just as [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
It’s no longer a phrase heard much anymore, but the Progressives used to title themselves “the reality based community.” They understood the real world, unlike the cruel, self-centered, self-serving conservatives surrounding them. Of course, that being the case, Obama must be the reality based candidate. However, Cheat-Seeking Missiles, riffing off a Washington [...]
Bookworm on Jul 18 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Everybody’s talking about it and no wonder. “It,” in this case, is today’s Charles Krauthammer article dissecting Obama’s staggering self-involvement and recognizably clinical narcissism. The article is a tour de force insofar as it highlights the worst of Obama’s egotism. I’ll help out just a little here by providing a list of the clinical signs [...]
Bookworm on Jul 18 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Silly Stuff
More jokes added at 11:00 a.m. P.S.T., at items 15 in the list.
Okay, folks, it’s time for what will be, I hope a change — a change from the fear of telling Obama jokes. Consider this post a respository for any jokes you make up or that come your way regarding Obama. Clean jokes only. [...]
Bookworm on Jul 17 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Here’s a good video showing Obama’s constantly revolving position on Iraq (h/t Hot Air):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHEIi4XKRmM
And, given the way Obama’s head is flipping left and right as he keeps doing a 180 on his Iraq position, I couldn’t help thinking of poor little Linda Blair’s head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qG5V2iBvFs
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Bookworm on Jul 17 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Dick Morris offers a nice, pithy rundown of Obama’s biggest flip-flops (which Morris believes may have contributed to the stall in Obama’s soar):
• After vowing to eschew private fundraising and take public financing, he has now refused public money.
• Once he threatened to filibuster a bill to protect telephone companies from liability for their cooperation [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I doubt he caused this situation, but Obama, during his political tenure in Chicago and later in the Illinois Senate, manifestly didn’t fix it.
Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
The New Yorker magazine highlighted the fact that there are no Obama jokes. For one thing, the candidate himself is too thin skinned to tolerate any humorous remarks about him. For another thing, because of a combination of Obama worship and the fear of being called a racist, the usual suspects (mostly late night talk [...]
Bookworm on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Obama campaign is clearly a masterful example of the illusionist’s art. As you may recall, he managed to get the press to tout one of his rallies as one of the largest political rallies ever, although it subsequently emerged that it was mostly a big rock band event. He’s also barred women in Islamic veils [...]
Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
All of us know that political speeches to special interest organizations — and this includes all political speeches, from both Left and Right — tend to rely on a certain amount of hyperbole to reach the chosen audience. Tom Elia, however, caught Obama piling on the hyperbole exceptionally high, to the point where he completely [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
For those of you who think Obama flip flops, your worries are over. Hendrik Hertzberg, who writes the political op-eds at The New Yorker, explains that you’re just blind to the gossamer nuances of Obama-speak, nuances that place him squarely in the ring with all prior politicians (emphasis mine):
Winning a Presidential election doesn’t require being [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I know that you’ve already read about, and probably seen, the New Yorker’s latest cover, the “parody” of “right wing” views about Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama. I think Charles Johnson has the best summation of the New Yorker’s thinking (along with a reproduction of the cover):
The cover is obviously a moonbat parody of what [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Media matters
The story is amazing and the source — the normally anti-American Spiegel (a German magazine) — is equally amazing. According to this story, things in Baghdad are going really well, and the citizens have a renewed sense of well-being and purpose:
There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in Baghdad these days, with consumption flourishing [...]
Bookworm on Jul 01 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, Government, Medicine
I heard on Dennis Prager today a call from a British man who pointed out that, in the 10 years of Tony Blair’s socialism, every major institution in Britain declined. And the more the government meddled, the greater the decline. Today’s British papers offer yet another example: The dental portion of the National Health Service [...]
Bookworm on Jul 01 2008 | Filed under: America, Barack Obama
I have two wonderful things for you to read on the subject of patriotism. The first is from Zabrina, at Thought You’d Never Ask, in which she dispenses some words of wisdom to a child about to head off to college. The second is from Jonah Goldberg, who explains why conservative Americans often don’t recognize [...]
Bookworm on Jul 01 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain
I was pondering whether to post about Wesley Clark’s latest inanity, to the effect that McCain’s experience as a POW does not prove his leadership abilities. A conversation I had today with a beloved liberal (that would be my dear, dear mother) made me decide to do so. A lot of people have gotten embroiled [...]
Bookworm on Jun 30 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
“Mensch” is a fairly unique Yiddish word, in that, in this single word, Jews have managed to encompass vast discourses on our fundamental humanity — or lack therefore.
For those who know German, “mench” is a prosaic word that simply means person. For Jews, however, the notion of what it means to be a person soon [...]
Bookworm on Jun 28 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
If you haven’t already heard it, please listen to Dennis Prager’s June 26th interview with Dick Morris about Morris’ new book Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies … Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About It. You can find [...]
Bookworm on Jun 27 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I don’t need to tell you that Obama’s lies are catching up with him. What I wanted to point out is that others are catching up to the unique nature of Obama’s lies, something I blogged about here and here. My example is Ed Morrissey, who says neatly in one paragraph what it took me [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
From 1987 through 2003, I listened to NPR with religious fervor. It was my church. Everything I knew, I knew from NPR. In 2003, I discovered the internet and began following up on stories I heard on NPR. I learned for the first time that NPR had not only an anti-Israel bias — one that [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Gun control, Judges, Judicial activism, Strict constructionism
Just in time for July 4th, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Second Amendment says what it means and means what it says.
I personally am not now, nor have I ever been, a gun owner. I keep meaning to go the local firing range and take lessons (operating on the principle that, since I’m surprisingly [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
While I was sleeping, Obama and Co. threw another long-time associate under the bus. What I’m waiting for is the moment when these former friends and acolytes pull a McClellan and turn on him. It won’t be soon. Since they’re true believers, they’ll keep their mouths shut until their man is safely [...]
Bookworm on Jun 21 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
I’ve reminded you to be proud of your new age racism — a racism firmly based, not on Obama’s skin color, but on his political views, scary associates, corruption and incompetence. It’s becoming more and more clear that we all need to hang onto the fact that our Year 2008 racism problem is grounded in [...]
Bookworm on Jun 20 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
The very Junior Senator from Illinois, the one who lies, cheats and, as we now see, steals, thinks well of himself, very, very well. His most recent act of self-aggrandizement (did I mention that he’s a narcissist?) is to appropriate the Presidential Seal for his own. As you can see if you go here, Obama [...]
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