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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Some dare call it inappropriate, part 2
In “Some dare call it inappropriate,” John Hinderaker drew attention to Amir Tahiri’s New York Post column reporting how Barack Obama has tried privately to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. John also noted the Obama campaign’s response to Taheri’s column. Taheri promptly shredded the Obama campaign’s response in a column that also merits attention. Pete Hegseth comments at NRO: Taheri’s »
The Landscape, Six Weeks Out
In some ways the 2008 Presidential campaign has been surprising, yet the landscape we see, with six weeks to go in the race, is familiar–perhaps surprisingly so. The race is tight. As Paul notes below, Obama has recovered somewhat from McCain’s convention/Palin bounce. An obvious question is whether the tide has now stabilized, or whether it will continue to run Obama’s way for another few percentage points. My guess is »
The Washington Post — never more than a story away from covering for Barack Obama
Michael Shear and Anne Kornblut have been leading the Washington Post’s charge against John McCain recently. But let’s not forget about Matthew Mosk, who rarely misses an opportunity to attack the Republican ticket or to cheerlead for Obama. Today he contributed a piece called “McCain Campaign Brags About Endorsement by Wealthy Socialite.” The individual in question was a Hillary Clinton supporter and a member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform »
What McCain should do next, Part Two
Yesterday, I observed that John McCain is slipping some in the polls. Today, there is more evidence of slippage, and Obama now leads in the RCP average. I attributed McCain’s slide (if that’s not too strong a word) to a natural correction to his surprisingly large bounce, and to Obama’s attack ad. But Abe Greenwald at Contentions argues that McCain squandered his bump through dumbed-down negative ads that made him »
David Freddoso speaks over Obama’s objection
David Freddoso’s The Case Against Barack Obama makes an important contribution to the public record. When Chicago’s Milt Rosenberg scheduled Freddoso for an appearance on his WGN radio show earlier this week to talk about the book, the Obama campaign called out its old playbook, previously employed against Stanley Kurtz, smearing Freddoso and inundating the show with callers regurgitating the campaign’s talking points. Matthew Vadum tells the story in this »
The Rosenberg File: An Update
Last week in the New York Times Sam Roberts reported the admission of Rosenberg co-conspirator Morton Sobell that he and Julius Robsenberg were indeed Soviet spies. Toward the end of the article Roberts mentions the capitulation of long-time Rosenberg defender Walter Schneir on this point. While Roberts mentions Schneir’s capitulation, he fails to mention the vindication of Rosenberg case historian Ronald Radosh. (Roberts acknowledges Radosh as a historian of the »
William Katz: “One of our own made it”
William Katz is our occasional contributor and proprietor of Urgent Agenda. This morning he writes on Sarah Palin: I have no idea who’ll win the presidential election. It is very close, and a single incident or misstep can change the result. Clearly, the convention bounces have faded. Obama seems to be regaining a part of his pre-convention standing, thanks to some folks on Wall Street who give the term “classless »
The Washington Post — never more than a headline away from a Democratic talking point
Today, the Washington Post’s news section ran the following headlines relating to the presidential campaign: “McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition” “McCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal Financing” “McCain BlackBerry Easily Connects With Gore Internet” “Palin Exaggerates Alaska’s Energy Role” The Post has no headlines or stories about Obama. It probably recognizes that, as John noted today, Obama is a spent force in any positive sense, and »
The Most Hateful Ad Ever?
Barack Obama’s thuggish campaign has exceeded itself with a Spanish-language ad that is dishonest at several levels. ABC’s Jake Tapper blows the whistle: Sen. Barack Obama has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that seeks to paint Sen. John McCain as anti-immigrant, even tying the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh. As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s ad features a narrator saying: “They want us »
Can Obama Get Back On Message?
John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin threw Barack Obama off his stride to the extent that it sometimes seems that he thinks he is running against Palin for Vice President. The conventional wisdom is that Obama needs to get back on message. Perhaps. I wonder, though, what message he is supposed to get back to? Obama won the Democratic nomination with two themes: 1) I represent change, and 2) I’m »
The Dems’ No Energy Bill
Yesterday the Democrats rammed their sham energy bill through the House of Representatives without allowing votes on any Republican proposals. The resulting bill would be a disaster, should it become law. A few basic points: First, while the Democrats have postured their legislation as a “comprehensive” energy solution that includes more drilling, the truth is the opposite. In fact, the bill extends the current ban on offshore drilling, which otherwise »
McCain as the real reformer in this race — the case he needs to make
Barack Obama seems to be making small strides against John McCain. The Gallup tracking poll has Obama ahead 47-45, his first “lead” (I add quotation marks because this is surely within the margin of error) since September 5. The Rasmussen tracking poll still has McCain “up,” 48-47, but this is “down” from the three point advantage McCain enjoyed a few days ago. If Obama is gaining, it’s not difficult to »
The Insanity Continues
Liberals have hacked into Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo email account, stolen the contents thereof, and are gleefully posting emails, photographs of the Palins’ children, and so forth on cesspool liberal web sites. Michelle Malkin reports that the liberals have: …used Bristol Palin’s illegally obtained private cell phone number from her mom’s private account, recorded her voicemail message, and posted it on their website. They have reprinted her husband Todd’s private »
AIG Bailout: Pro or Con?
Like nearly all conservatives, I’m not happy with government bailouts in principle, but I’m afraid that the deal the Fed made to lend AIG $85 billion in exchange for an 80% stake in the company was necessary and prudent. The ripple effects of an AIG bankruptcy would have been enormous. This morning, I heard Larry Kudlow endorse the AIG bailout on the radio. John McCain seems to favor it as »
Dems’ Generic Edge Eroding
The political pendulum continues to swing the Republicans’ way; as we’ve noted before, the gap between self-identified Democrats and Republicans is narrowing. Consistent with that trend, the generic Congressional preference is also getting tighter, as Scott Rasmussen reports: The Democrats’ lead in the Generic Congressional Ballot has fallen slightly for the fourth week in a row. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, if given the choice, 44% »
The hole in David Brooks’s column
David Brooks devoted his New York Times column yesterday to judging Sarah Palin’s qualification to be vice president. My friend Steve Hayward, to whose Weekly Standard article Brooks’s column in part responds, comments here. Brooks finds Governor Palin wanting in terms of experience and the prudence that experience might foster. The kind of experience in government that Brooks describes is certainly needed in senior administration officials, high cabinet officers and »
How low can you go for Al Franken?
Army National Guard Major Stuart Anderson was killed in Iraq in January 2006 when the Black Hawk helicopter in which he was traveling crashed. At the time of his son’s death Major Anderson’s father (Claremont Anderson) was quoted as saying: “I’m so proud of all of them [those who have been killed in Iraq]. But it’s the price we pay for freedom.†Mr. Anderson has apparently had a change of »
