The Sorrows of Old Mac, Grim Realities Edition
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »"'tis our fast intent / To shake all cares and business from our age, / Conferring them on younger strengths, while we / Unburden'd crawl toward death." -- King Lear Hillary Clinton made me angry. As for John McCain, ...
Could he be Jewish as Well?
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »That might explain this: Lieberman is viewed far more unfavorably than the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to a new poll. Only 37 percent of Jews view the Connecticut Independent in a favorable light compared to 48 percent who have a ...
The Vexation of Charles Krauthammer
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Obama, Politics, ressentiment | No Comments »Krauthammer is not talking about his own fascination with Obama here: It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly And that he doesn't grasp that irony really sums up the sad lack of awareness represented by columns like these. Why does the Washington Post run ...
Obamacans Unite!
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Obama, Politics | No Comments »You have nothing to lose but your souls: I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, ...
JibJab — It’s Time for Some Campaignin’
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today!SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "JibJab — It’s Time for Some Campaignin’", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/obama/jibjab-its-time-for-some-campaignin/" });
New Yorker Cover Outrage Syndrome
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Obama, Politics | No Comments »The New Yorker cover: There's one thing to be outraged about -- and it's the level of mass hysteria and stupidity evidenced in the general outrage, in the demand that something be so taboo as not even to bear indirect ...
The New Yorker Cover, Revisited
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »It's a Rorschach test for the comically illiterate. If you didn't immediately get that this cover is skewering the political pliant and paranoid, then you may be among them. Right-wing or left, it's a double-edged sword. Meanwhile, why don't you ...
Oh, Jesse
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »Update: Ok, I get it. This one's equivalent to Nader's Obama's-not-talking-black outburst. Obama isn't willing to show the balls it takes to be a Jesse Jackson type firebrand who defines himself as the black candidate focused on black problems. I don't know exactly ...
Access Hollywood Interview with Obama Family
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Obama’s Patriotism Speech
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »Independence, Missouri -- an inspiring counterpoint to a depressing two weeks: On a spring morning in April of 1775, a simple band of colonists – farmers and merchants, blacksmiths and printers, men and boys – left their homes and families in ...
When “Experience” is Conformity, and “Toughness” Insecurity
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »When I talk to friends who are worried about an Obama candidacy and possible administration, I hear the following: Americans will not elect a black man Obama is inexperienced and soft The optimism of Obama and his supporters seems dangerously naive Obama is simply ...
The Viability of Obama, Part II — The Meaning of Toughness
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | 2 Comments »A year ago I wrote a post called The Viability of Obama, in response to to friends who thought that the United States was not ready to elect a black president (and long before Obama was thought of as anything ...
We Hard Working, White, Statistical Falsehoods (Obama’s Demographic Problem: The Elderly, not Whites)
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »Clinton: I, but not Barack Obama, have the support of working, hard-working Americans, White Americans Some ... call you swing voters, I call you Americans (Where "hard-working" means uneducated enough to have voted for Bush twice). The common interpretation among pundits is that it ...
Obama Trades Nomination for Malt Liquor and Fried Chicken
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »I have the sense that Clinton thinks she can take the nomination from Obama the way Manhattan was taken from the Indians. He is a black man after all. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtal0bsnJTQ]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Trades Nomination for Malt Liquor and Fried Chicken", url: ...
Toughen Up?
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | 2 Comments »James Wolcott and NYCweboy tell the Hillary haters to "toughen up"--politics is a rough game. The corollary here is that Clinton and Obama aren't really different; they "both" played rough. It's all the same. Nonsense. Calling for decency and intellectual honesty ...
Obama and the Art of Political Self-Defense
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »Dick Morris has a new bit about the need for Obama to attack Hillary via surrogates. I don't entirely agree, although I made a similar call in this post. Here's the difference: if the Obama campaign were to bring up Norman ...
The Deaning of Obama (Almost)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama, Of Interest | 2 Comments »What's happening to Obama in the press, incidentally, is remarkably similar to what happened to Howard Dean (with the exception that Obama is less vulnerable to negative coverage). Dean, like Obama, initially received positive press--not directly, but as a by-product ...
How they’re Preparing us for NObama (is it time for a third-party threat?)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Clinton, Obama | No Comments »The tenor of current political discussion suggests that the masters our preparing us for the possibility of undoing Obama's win: The superdelegate freeze (why not decide this now and spare us the pain?); claims by Gov Rendell and others that party ...
Bill! It’s for you!
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | No Comments »As much as I loathe Dick Morris, this is a really succinct dose of reality and it ends with a great suggestion: The next time Hillary uses the recycled red phone ad, counter with one of your own. When the ...
Obama Campaign Strategy Suggestions (it’s time to take off the gloves)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Clinton, Obama | 3 Comments »The Obama campaign has avoided negativity and gratuitous attacks. That's a matter of integrity, and it's nice that someone has finally proved that it works. On the other hand, it's time to put Hillary out of her misery. It's important that ...
