Archives for the 'pols' Category
Fact Check
Published on 27 Sep 2008 at 2:15 pm.
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Washington Post’s live fact check finds Obama out-and-out wrong on several counts but has to parse and pick apart assiduously to find McCain at fault. Whatever. A telling exercise. Where it gets bizarre is in the grand finale, where the fact checkers tack on this astonishing McCain bash:
John McCain kicked the evening off with a wild exaggeration by describing the [...]
Post-Debate Polling: It’s McCain!
Published on 27 Sep 2008 at 10:20 am.
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CBS: Initial polling says undecideds like Obama. However,
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Post-Debate Blah-Blah-Blah-age
Published on 27 Sep 2008 at 9:48 am.
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We’ll kick off with The New Republic, which apparently thinks Obama stunk the place up, given its “They both lost” take. TNR and I agree on one point.
The whole debate was weirdly imitative. You brag about your soldier’s bracelet, I’ll brag about my soldier’s bracelet! Obama was more afflicted with this imitation disorder — he called [...]
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“Sen. McCain Is Right”
Published on 27 Sep 2008 at 12:42 am.
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You heard him say it in the debate. Now watch the McCain campaign vid. That was fast. Apparently great minds think alike. Too bad McCain’s already got a running mate. Reasonable people could disagree about whether even she’d agree with him that much. By the way, here’s the pageant vid. I’m pretty sure this makes her [...]
Debate
Published on 26 Sep 2008 at 9:30 pm.
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Jim Lehrer? Gimme a break. Wasn’t Olbermann available? Liveblogging, with a liveblogger roundup and some instant punditry:
Freefall!
Published on 26 Sep 2008 at 8:41 pm.
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Help me out here. How did this become McCain campaign “sliding,” “imploding,” and other hyperventilated claims of allegedly stunt-prompting disaster in recent days. Gallup, three-day average shows 3-point gain for Obama.
Debate Back On
Published on 26 Sep 2008 at 12:10 pm.
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Filed under McCain, money, pols.
McCain camp statement via Hot Air, with a quick news/navel-gazing roundup:
Priorities
Published on 26 Sep 2008 at 10:20 am.
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Gateway on media fascination with witchcraft, and a marked disinterest in voodoo foreign policy.
As Corny As Ohio In September
Published on 26 Sep 2008 at 10:02 am.
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Toledo Free Press:
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Politics Risen Above
Published on 26 Sep 2008 at 9:00 am.
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Filed under money, pols.
Bailout deal collapses as what some people hoped would be a rubber-stamp session turns out to be a negotiation, and quickly devolves into a shouting match. Dems, who reluctantly agreed to participate in non-partisan session when they thought it meant everyone would agree with them, outraged. McCain-bashing reports are silent on what Obama did to help [...]
Tentative Deal
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 4:51 pm.
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It’s your $700 billion, you can cry if you want to. See above for who’s going to be wearing it. Roundup:
Slander
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 3:21 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, military, pols.
John Murtha to get sued again for accusing exonerated Marines of killing “in cold blood” in Haditha. Gateway with the news and the links. Good luck, LCpl. Justin Sharratt, getting it to stick on a member of Congress. There’s the law for us, then there’s the law for them.
Inside the OODA Loop
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 2:12 pm.
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Filed under McCain, Obama, money, pols.
Again. McCain cites “old Navy pilot” instincts in campaign suspension. It was “all hands on deck.” UK Telegraph:
About That Debate
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 12:39 pm.
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Karl Rove at WSJ with equal opportunity debate advice:
New$$$, View$$$
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 12:00 pm.
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Chinese regulators tell their banks to stop interbank lending to US banks. As previously noted, my economic/high finance comprehension is in the paleolithic, but I don’t like the sound of that. Or this. FDIC may need $150 billion bailout as local bank failures mount. Bailout news, comment roundup follows, some of it even optimistic:
New Pak Pres = Horndog
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 10:56 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, pols, sex, sexism.
In the subtle, indirect language of diplomats and heads of state, Zardari remarks are the foreign policy equivalent of voulez-vous l’humma humma:
Tabloid Smear
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 9:39 am.
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Alicublog accuses me of turning anti-tabloidist, or at least tabloid rejectionist for mocking the National Enquirer’s Palin Affair splash. Wrong.
NYT Crossword
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 8:55 am.
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Shamelessly Obamist. Politico.
It Was A Dark And Stormy Night …
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 8:46 am.
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I know the Bulwer-Lytton deadline is eight months out, but here’s an early nomination. The breathless indignation is … simply breathtaking. The overwriting … deeply, ponderously overwrought. Shaun Mullen, house bleeding heart handwringer kneejerk conspiracy theorizing Kumayahist** at the Moderate Voice, with The Staggering Cyncism of John McCain, whose campaign apparently was imploding before his cynicism went into full lurch:
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Dire Circumstances
Published on 24 Sep 2008 at 9:20 pm.
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Bush’s prime-time address to the nation calls for urgent but measured action. Stabilize, protect your jobs, mortgages and credit and leave the regulatory redesign for later. Invites the presidential candidates in for talks with congressional candidates, financial leaders Thursday. Unorthodox, maybe unprecedented, but these are not normal times. Both are senators with a currently enhanced authority as party [...]
McPresidential, O Not
Published on 24 Sep 2008 at 8:46 pm.
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Filed under McCain, Obama, money, pols.
I haven’t had a chance to see the big McCain speech but some lefty pals who did were visibly impressed. Almost ashen. He looked and sounded presidential, was displaying leadership. Apparently the country’s economic woes are such that we can forego Friday night’s bickerfest for the moment. Normally I’d say the last thing we need is more pols [...]
So Complicated …
Published on 24 Sep 2008 at 8:09 am.
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… only a caveman could get it. Average American cavedweller even more confused about Wall Street clam woes than Ugh. Bloomberg:
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Americans oppose government rescues of ailing financial companies by a decisive margin, and blame Wall Street and President George W. Bush for the credit crisis.
Dem Mandate
Published on 23 Sep 2008 at 11:15 pm.
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Expires quietly with offshore drilling ban, as the Party of Surrender admits defeat. Again. via Yahoo.
Ticket Punched
Published on 23 Sep 2008 at 9:36 pm.
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Palin meets with Karzai, Uribe and Kissinger in New York. Punches a foreign policy ticket ahead of her big debate with Old Hairplugs. Everyone’s favorite Obamist press agency makes it all about inexperience. Fair enough.
Perfect Storm
Published on 23 Sep 2008 at 1:05 pm.
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Dennis Prager at RCP warns of liberal rage vs. America if Obama loses. It’s the racism thing. Liberal rage is a pretty impotent thing and not terribly worrisome. Look at how well that worked in the abandonment of Iraq, the exercise of the big mandate in Congress. Aside from a handful of so-called anarchists who [...]
A’Jad In The Great Satan
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 10:32 pm.
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Filed under Iran, Israel, pols.
U.S. aggression behind Wall Street woes, says Ahmadinejad, in NYC for the big General Assembly opener. Oh yeah, and Israel’s doomed. LA Times.
Teheran Times reports on Rabbis for Ahmadinejad, poo-poos the 3000-odd mullah-bashers down the street. Meanwhile, Ha’aretz has the speech Palin was going to deliver at the big anti-Iran protest before she was disinvited. There’s a [...]
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Even In Massachusetts …
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 8:13 pm.
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… they were able to figure out this is wrong. Umass-Amherst officials quash a campus chaplain’s offer of two college credits to any student who would campaign for Obama in New Hampshire this fall. via Breitbart.
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Sleazy Lies
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 9:19 am.
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And the sleazy liars who tell them. Rusty at Jawa thinks he’s got one. It’s a snake in the astroturf in the form of an Obama-linked Palin smearing YouTube enthusiast.
More from Riehl who adds a hope, change, slash and burn note. Ace: No defamation without representation! Patterico, The Coverup Begins! Hotair, Corporate sockpuppetry for Obama? [...]
Loonie Left Fringe Extinct
Published on 21 Sep 2008 at 1:29 pm.
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Filed under America, Britain, Oz, pols.
UK Telegraph reports hopefully, noting that Britain’s surrender enthusiasts are choking on surge success. “Top 100 Left Wingers: Success is More Stable Than Failure.” h/t Tim Blair, who reports the loonie left is alive and well in the Antipodes … hey, can we sentence ours to transportation? The delusional left is alive and well in these 13 other former British [...]
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Shade-Tree Rocket Science
Published on 21 Sep 2008 at 10:49 am.
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Filed under ancient mysteries, money, pols.
The workings of the economy make brain surgery look as simple as rocket science. I’m not particularly happy about becoming a partner in the insurance business and underwriting other people’s bad investments. I don’t like bailouts. I didn’t like the big airline bailout after 9/11, I didn’t like the big immigrant … excuse me, I mean illegal [...]
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It’s Obama!
Published on 20 Sep 2008 at 10:58 pm.
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Strangest thing. A pointy-headed post-doc at Harvard studies the so-called Wilder Effect … when black candidates significantly poll better than they perform at the polls, due to lying poll subjects, named for Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder’s experience in 1989. Harvard post-doc studies all elections of blacks and women for gubernatorial or senate office since then. Determines [...]
Pols Want Review
Published on 20 Sep 2008 at 2:27 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, courage, military, pols.
California pols want Bush to review the denial of a Medal of Honor for USMC Rafael Peralta. San Diego Union-Trib. Fair enough, review. Put the evidence out there. Just keep the politics out of it, and the pols at arm’s length.
Previously, MOH Denied.
Narrative Suggested
Published on 20 Sep 2008 at 9:51 am.
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AP-Yahoo poll: Dem bigots will croak Obama run. Weird study that appears to apply vague, generalized racial stereotypes to attitudes toward a particular candidate, “suggests” a critical percentage of Dems will veer off over race. Subtext for future reference: McCain-Palin, choice of bigots. One problem pollsters failed to correct for: Their own prejudice. via Yahoo:
Clinton Endorses Palin
Published on 19 Sep 2008 at 9:17 am.
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OK, not exactly, but effectively. The day’s Palin roundup starts with Bill liking Sarah, via NewsCorp:
Prosecute Him!
Published on 18 Sep 2008 at 11:14 pm.
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Filed under Bush, moronocy, pols.
Vermont wackjob … I’m sorry, I mean Progressive Party candidate for Attorney General Charlotte Dennett announces her plan to prosecute George Bush for murder if elected. She’s reading from Vincent Bugliosi’s playbook, in fact had the former Manson prosecutor/fellow wackjob with her when she announced. I’ll let some other progressive wackjobs explain what a great idea it is:
Neighborhood Brawls Encouraged
Published on 18 Sep 2008 at 9:55 am.
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Uniter, for divisiveness after he was against it, wants his adherents to become more obnoxious. via SF Chron:
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Now Accepting Applications
Published on 18 Sep 2008 at 9:18 am.
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It’s the Drowned and Starved Polar Bear Club! Overly Dramatist Eve Ensler with a great idea at Huffington Post:
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Palin in 2016
Published on 18 Sep 2008 at 12:22 am.
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It’s more bad news for Palin bashers. MIT actuary says look for a healthy McCain to live through his first term. Another says he’s good for two terms. Boston Herald:
Lefties for McCain-Palin
Published on 17 Sep 2008 at 11:08 pm.
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Filed under Internet, moronocy, pols.
Private Palin emails hacked and published. Roundup starts with lefty high fives and ends with lefty rage at lefty stupidity.
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JFKlueless in ‘08
Published on 17 Sep 2008 at 8:47 am.
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Kennedy wannabe still running against George Bush. Sounds so … 2004. Somebody better tell him pointing out that he lost his party’s sure thing four years ago might not be the best 2008 campaign line.* Boston Globe:
Room Contents
Published on 17 Sep 2008 at 1:10 am.
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Michael Grunwald at Time: “Race is the elephant in the room.” I dunno. Looking at this pile of an article, I’d say the room is full of warmed-over primary bullshit:
Voting “D” in Massachusetts
Published on 16 Sep 2008 at 5:05 pm.
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It’s been a long time since I did that, but today’s primary was special. Voting Democratic when John Kerry has a primary challenger for the first tim ein 24 years was the responsible thing to do. And it was fun …
… while it lasted. Win some, lose some. Unless you’re a 24-year incumbent JFK wannabe in Massachusetts, [...]
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Obamathink
Published on 16 Sep 2008 at 9:13 am.
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It’s not all just panic and desperation … some of it is also delusional. Latest Obamathought roundup:
Sleazy Liars And Their Sleazy Lies
Published on 15 Sep 2008 at 11:28 pm.
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Lots of squawk about McCain “lies,” “sleaziest,” dishonorable,” etc. It’s the new desperation bid. Althouse documents the indignation, notes that it doesn’t exactly seem to be reality-based, and suggests voters, who are actually watching TV themselves, will get that. My question is, at what point does Obama have to defend himself for being a sleazy liar with [...]
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For War After He Was Against It
Published on 15 Sep 2008 at 12:38 pm.
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Amir Taheri at NY Post: Obama tried to stall withdrawal deal, recognizes legitimacy of U.S. occupation.
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The Beer Factor
Published on 15 Sep 2008 at 11:06 am.
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It’s another reason why McCain-Palin is polling higher, uh, soaring … why the electorate is besotted with … never mind, crack this cold one and knock it back yourself. BBQ at Castle Argghhh!!!
The “beer factor” is that certain something that tells the electorate that, yeah, actually, they could feel comfortable to a sit down, drink a [...]
Elites vs. Natural Aristocracy
Published on 15 Sep 2008 at 9:08 am.
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Steven Hayward at the Weekly Standard with a serious look at the fundamental issue raised by the Palin veep nomination and subsequent slams.
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Dairygate
Published on 15 Sep 2008 at 8:37 am.
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Good thing Obama never got this kind of treatment. Hill might be the nominee. New Palin scandal emerges. Something rotten in the dairy? Bigger question, anyone have a good tally on how many scandals have emerged in the last three weeks, total column inches devoted to them, compared to the last four years of Obamadoration? No, let’s [...]
Trouble in Obamadise
Published on 14 Sep 2008 at 11:09 pm.
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Moonrise lights bleak landscape. Stripes moving right, star shines elsewhere. Politico: Independents swing toward McCain-Palin.
Gone A-Rovin’
Published on 14 Sep 2008 at 10:48 pm.
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New lefty darling. CNN, Obama, Rove fans:
