Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Charles Krauthammer wrote a nice article tracking Obama’s swift rise and (probably inevitable) decline. In the section dealing with Obama’s peak moments, Krauthammer compares him to Reagan — and explains why the two men and the public’s reaction to those two men are completely different. If you substitute Palin’s name
Continue readingMike Devx was right, and I was too generous. Obama was not phrasing things infelicitously or making Freudian slips when he made the lipstick/pig speech. He has now admitted that he intended to refer to Palin when he used the phrase “lipstick,” something he denied right up until he got
Continue readingAs you know, I’m willing to assume that Obama, rather than intentionally calling Palin or McCain a pig, used an infelicitous expression, which may or may not have had any subliminal resonance for him (although it clearly did for his audience). Listening to the speech, I find much more upsetting
Continue readingFull marks to Sandra Tsing Loh for honestly expressing her disapproval of the fact that both of her candidates (that would be Obama and Biden) abandoned the public school system when it came to their own children. And she explains why their abandonment is more than merely symbolic: Let us
Continue reading1st woman: Oh, my God. I’m so upset. I made the most horrible Freudian slip. 2nd woman: What happened? 1st woman: I was having lunch with my mother. I meant to say, “Please pass the toast,” and instead I said, “You horrible woman. You’ve ruined my life.” *** “You can
Continue readingThe race got shaken up a bit when Palin implied that community organizing, which is one of Obama’s big resume items “proving” his executive abilities, might be a little bit too amorphous a job to justifying entrusting the entire nation to his care. That was amusing, but things became less
Continue readingWow! Unless I’m very confused, beneath all the O-babble here, Obama is conceding that low taxes benefit the economy: Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an
Continue readingI finally got the chance last night to watch John McCain’s speech and I thought it was excellent. It was, in fact, exactly what I anticipated: pragmatic, straightforward, low on, and rich with a sense of love for America. Certain subjects fired him up, especially national security, about which he
Continue readingAnother long, hot day, this one augmented by a nasty little migraine that’s so far rebuffed treatment. Blogging has therefore been minimal and what blogging I’ve done has been for other sites to which I owe commitments. Nevertheless, what I blog there, I can reprint here, right? Here’s the start
Continue readingThanks to Sarah Palin, a lot of people in America, rather than speaking in reverent tones about the Emperor’s past service to the nation as a community organizer, have finally started to point their fingers and laugh at the silly figure he cuts as he touts that amorphous term —
Continue readingThe good thing about living in a liberal community is that you get to hear how ordinary people — not the pundit class and the media — think. I blogged yesterday about one elderly woman’s absolute trust in the MSM. If they say it, it must be true, all actual
Continue readingAs nice a summary as any I’ve seen of the practical effects of the proposed Obama tax plans: But here’s the thing: It’s not that Mr. Obama hasn’t been specific enough in his governing plans. To the contrary, he has been very specific about his tax policy, health-care and energy
Continue readingIf you haven’t yet read this, at Just Say No Deal, you must. (Hat tip: Lots of people and blog sites, which is why you may already have read it.)
Continue readingFrom the San Francisco Chronicle (with the emphasis all theirs): Worth noting: Democrats had good reason to be nervous going into the Denver convention – and the problem looked to be bigger than just the bruised feelings between the Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton camps. Recent polls of California
Continue readingTo me, the first good thing about the Palin nomination is that it highlights Obama’s inexperience. You can just hear him going around the house muttering, “I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I?”
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