Month: October 2008

More than one person has asked me why the polls are so out of whack with what they see as their reality. So what is that reality? I think a few anecdotes are in order. First from commenter Daddy at Just One Minute. Arriving in Indy about midnight I asked the 2 female bus drivers…

Sarah Palin commented on the New York Times story I discussed yesterday, and here’s what she said: “Turns out one of Barack’s earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, launched a campaign of…

One of Andrew Sullivan’s ever-at-the-ready readers is upset by the fact that Sarah Palin winked, and compares her unfavorably to other women: I just want to ask: can anyone, anyone, imagine Condoleeza Rice or Margaret Thatcher or even Hillary Clinton for God’s sake, winking at the nation and/or being coquettish in any national format? Yeah.…

It seems like the Obamas paid a lot of money for law degrees and yet they no longer have licenses. That is kind of strange. Let us start with Barack and see if we can trace the demise of his law career. Obama relinquished his Illinois law license in early 2007. Why would Obama give…

Let us see if we can follow how the descent into hell all began for Obama. Let us start with Community organizer Saul Alinsky and his friend the Devil and as in all evil, work backwards from there. Alinsky’s paragon of radicalism was Satan, to whom he dedicated the first edition of “Rules”: “Lest we…

Considering the number of posts I have written about Barack Obama’s friendship and collaboration with unrepentant former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, I guess I should acknowledge — however grudgingly — that the New York Times has (on a Saturday, as Glenn noted) finally reported that the connections between these men are deeper than previously…

Could Obama’s real father be Frank Marshall Davis? That would explain why his grandparents encouraged him to spend so much time with Frank. It would also explain why Andrew Sullivan is so interested in the Palin family genealogy chart. It is all part of an orchestrated distraction from the real questions in this campaign. It…

A number of people have noted that Obama was looking off to the left a lot in the first debate with McCain. One of them is A. J. Strata and he has a theory. We seem to go round and round again these days on whether candidates have ear pieces (and these days they can…

Yesterday I revealed that because both of the two major candidates are disqualified from being president, the election is a nullity, because no matter who “wins,” the result will be the final triumph of Bush fascism: What has Bush always wanted more than anything else? Why, the cancellation of elections and the permanent implementation of…

I get jokes emailed to me regularly, and while I’m not averse to redneck jokes, I have a slight, er, language problem with this one. Here’s the text (which is identical to what I received): A Tennessee couple, both bonified rednecks, had 9 children. They went to the doctor to see about getting the husband…

“They deserve to lose.” So says Thomas Sowell about the unexplained Republican failure (so far) to present the facts. His piece is titled “Do facts matter?” and he’s talking about these facts: Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years– including the present year–…

If you are interested in developing wind power on a large scale, tens to hundreds of megawatts, you have a problem. A logistics problem. In what has to be one of the biggest ironies surrounding alternative energy, many of the objections to wind energy focus on its effect on nature. Yet while the critics fret…

I would ask also, then, that the media tries a little bit harder also. And that this is a two-way street, that there is fairness, just objectivity and fairness and truth. That’s all Americans ask for. — Sarah Palin Huh? I’m so cynical that I was stunned for a moment by that. I almost forgot…

Thanks to Eric I have this bit of news about the housing crisis. Of all the characteristics of a successful politician, none is more essential than bare-faced cheek. Never has this been more evident than in the past fortnight, as senior Democrat members of the US legislature have sought to lay all the blame for…

A man named Paul Andrew Mitchell (who happens also to be a “Private Attorney General”) has intervened in Berg v. Obama. While the latter lawsuit had only sought to declare Barack Obama ineligible to serve as president, the latest complaint maintains that John McCain is not a citizen either. Therefore Private Attorney General Mitchell seeks…

Funny that I’d just write a post complaining about politics, with another light-hearted reference to Coco and the Sarah Palin/pit bull comparison. To me, it was an attempt to be funny. But to others, this is a deadly serious matter, and the pit bull reference shows how truly awful Republicans are, to the core. To…

What do you do if you hate politics but that’s all there is right now? I realize that politics isn’t all there is, but it’s just tough to ignore at election time. Everything is partisan. I can’t open the front door without seeing Barack Obama signs on the lawns of neighbors (who no doubt wonder…

My Congressman Don Manzullo had this to say: “Everything we’re doing to reach out to members is predicated on the fact that failure is not an option,” said Blunt spokeswoman Antonia Ferrier. But not all of those efforts were fruitful. Blunt’s visit to the meeting of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) was met with criticism…