Tag: 2008 Election
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McCain Swings for the Fences with October Surprise
The five-run homer gambit (the Palin selection) didn’t work. But now McCain may have hit on a winning strategy: exposing how Barack “Lefty” Obama’s rank hypocrisy may endanger the integrity of our National Pastime: Standing just miles north of Philadelphia, whose Phillies will represent the National League starting Wednesday against the American League champion Tampa […]
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Postscript
I finally read the WSJ “Liberal Supermajority” editorial that Pete told me about. It was OK. Because it covered so many issues, it couldn’t really do much in the way of persuasion on any given issue — each section seems to start out assuming that the reader already understands and agrees with the editorial board’s […]
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My BFF "Pete Robinson" (Unwittingly) Helps Me Shill For My Consulting Business
As I write these opening words, it’s a little after 2 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, October 17. I mention this by way of setting up a whiny rant about how hard it is for a new blogger to get noticed. There’s an editorial [free link] titled “A Liberal Supermajority” in today’s WSJ [today’s!! I’m […]
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Joe the Plumber Becomes Collateral Damage
Obama talks with Joe Wurzelbacher, who should not have had any reason to fear that his life was about to change.(Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP) The snap judgment about Wednesday night’s Presidential debate, according to headlines all over the Internets, was that “the big winner of the debate was Joe the Plumber.” The line […]
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Stick a Fork in Mac, He’s Toast
Something not quite right metaphorically in that headline, but I’m too tired to figure it out. To win, Obama needed to refrain from burning an American flag onstage, and he more than met that challenge. He looked more Presidential than McCain. I’m trying as hard as I can to find reasons to stay on the […]
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A Surprise: Hitchens Endorses Obama
Christopher Hitchens, by far the biggest Iraq War hawk on the nominal Left, has endorsed Obama for President. I have to say I was stunned to see it. Three weeks ago, Hitch’s Slate column was headlined: “Is Obama Another Dukakis? Why is Obama So Vapid, Hesitant and Gutless?” Does Hitchens now plan to wear a […]
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The Allure of Going Nuclear in the Late Innings
Losing the Presidential race has to be even worse than losing the World Series. If you lose the World Series, you at least get to put up a banner proclaiming that you were the League Champion for the year. Your hometown throws you a consolation rally, and you start talking about the future (“hey, we’re […]
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In Defense of "Wall Street Greed"
The titans of Wall Street gathered this morning at the NYSE to discuss the ongoing crisis. The writeup of the gathering in the WSJ Deal Journal blog is well worth reading, once you get past the inexplicable opening links to poetry and “Error 404”. (Blogging famously involves publishing without an editor, and here we see […]
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McCain’s Town Hall "Advantage"
Before the debate, we heard a lot about how good McCain is in a town hall format. There wasn’t much evidence of that last night. Time’s Swampland does a good job of explaining why: In the classic McCain town hall, differences of opinion are expressed, and McCain works to build a conversation, so that everyone […]
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Notes on the Palin-Palin Debate
Here are some observations on last night’s debate that resonate with me. Time’s report card on Palin (both candidates got an overall “B”): By the standards of those Americans conditioned by the late night comics to think of Palin as an inarticulate idiot, incapable of putting coherent sentences together or understanding basic policy questions, she […]