Monthly Archives: October 2012
October 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Barack Obama made a fool of himself in the final presidential debate when he exposed his ignorance of naval strategy, not to mention bayonets–military policy in general, actually. Michael Ramirez sums it up beautifully: I wish we could have one more debate, this one between cartoonists: Ramirez would demolish anyone the liberals could come up with. No, wait–let’s add a second debate, too, this one between comedians. We get Dennis
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October 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
We have written several times about the presidential race–such as it is–in Minnesota. Neither party has done much of anything here, yet the polls are surprisingly close. Our consensus has been that, tantalizing though the thought may be, it is not realistic to think that Minnesota could be in play. So I was surprised to receive an email from Maya Angelou, a little while ago, urging me to be sure
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October 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Donald Trump made his big announcement this morning, in the form of a YouTube video. It turns out he doesn’t have anything at all on President Obama; nothing, that is, except a proposition: he offers to make a donation of $5 million to a charity of Obama’s choice if Obama will release his college and passport records, including applications: It’s pretty funny, but it won’t lead to anything. What is
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October 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
This new American Crossroads ad stars Clint Eastwood, and picks up on the key themes of Eastwood’s RNC appearance: Obama has failed; when someone doesn’t do the job you have to hold him accountable; America can’t survive four more years of Obama. It is simple and highly effective. Let’s hope it goes on the airwaves in every contested state: I will be especially happy if we see it here in
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October 24, 2012 — Scott Johnson
On Monday night Barack Obama asserted in the debate that the sequester (the budget device compelling “devastating” defense cuts, according to Defense Secretary Panetta) “will not happen.” Following the debate, White House and campaign officials
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October 24, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Throughout this political season, political junkies have wondered whether the Obama-Romney race more closely resembles the Carter-Reagan contest of 1980 or the Bush-Kerry race of 2004. The former featured an unsuccessful, unpopular president and a challenger about whom the public was, for some time, highly skeptical. The latter pitted a president about whom the public was highly skeptical against a challenger who was rather unpopular. My instinct told me that
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October 24, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Yesterday, I expressed the hope that the 2016 presidential and vice presidential debates will serve up better female moderators than Martha Raddatz and Candy Crowley. One reader-friend asked if I could suggest such a moderator. I can: Gwen Ifill. Here is what I wrote about Ifill after she presided over the vice presidential debate in 2004: Tonight’s vice presidential debate featured two superb performances. Unfortunately for John Edwards, they were
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October 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Last night, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan appeared at the Red Rocks amphitheater outside of Denver before a packed house. The Romney campaign sent out these photos of the event this morning: This one is from Hugh Hewitt’s site: The Denver Post, no Republican outlet, acknowledged how extraordinary the event was: “GOP nominees pack Red Rocks Amphitheater to capacity.” A confident Mitt Romney, two weeks out from Election Day, spoke
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October 24, 2012 — Steven Hayward
I was on the road all day yesterday down to LA and back (more about that errand in due course), so I missed the debate after party here. One benefit of a long morning car trip on the left coast is getting to listen to Rush Limbaugh the old fashioned way on the car radio, and Limbaugh was making many of the same observations about the debate as Scott, Paul,
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October 24, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I rounded up some pertinent commentary providing factual background belying Barack Obama’s patronizing gibe at Mitt Romney in Monday night’s foreign policy debate: I think Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our
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October 24, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this week the Government Accountability Institute published yet another report featuring Obama’s dubious donations. The GAI has posted a PDF of the report here. Courtesy of readers Hunter Schultz, Sean Mahan, Charlie King, Jim Bell, Jim Arneson and Dave Wollstadt — thanks to you all — I’m posting the report’s chart from page 3 below. Analyze this: GAI president Peter Schweizer describes the report as “a big picture look
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October 23, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Richard Mourdock, a Republican, is locked in a tight Senate race in Indiana with Democrat Joe Donnelly to replace Richard Lugar, whom Mourdock defeated during the primary season. Although Mourdock hasn’t been able to pull away, he appears to be leading by about 5 points. In his debate tonight against Donnelly, however, Mourdock may have opened the door for Donnelly in basically the same way that Todd Akin did for
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October 23, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Bob Woodward, who wrote a book about the sequestration, blows the whistle on President Obama’s claim during last night’s debate that the idea of using deep, automatic, across-the-board domestic and defense spending cuts to force Congress to address the nation’s burgeoning federal deficit originated in Congress, not in the White House. “What the president said is not correct,” Woodward told Politico. In his book, The Price of Politics, Woodward reported
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October 23, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Sure they can. Hey, there are two weeks to go until the election! The party of slavery, Jim Crow and corruption is just getting warmed up. Gloria Allred has not yet been heard from, which I guess is another way of saying that the fat lady has not yet sung. And on YouTube, the Democrats’ unofficial brigades have launched the anti-Mormon smears that we have long been expecting. It isn’t
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October 23, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Wormwood and ashes; that’s what it must be for Barack Obama to run for re-election under false pretenses. Barack Obama, friend of fracking! Apologize for America? No way! Where’s my lapel flag pin? Israel? I’m her greatest supporter! Obama has come a long way from the days when he “palled around,” as Sarah Palin put it, with Rashid Khalidi, delivering a tribute so explosive that it must never see the
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October 23, 2012 — Scott Johnson
I thought one statement by Barack Obama was the highlight of last night’s debate. Seeking to land a knockout blow against Mitt Romney’s advocacy of preserving our military spending in the face of the planned sequester, Obama asserted in his patented style: I think Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than
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October 23, 2012 — John Hinderaker
After the opening moments of last night’s debate, Benghazi went virtually unmentioned. But that doesn’t mean that the Obama administration’s most disastrous security failure will soon be forgotten. The Young Cons, Riddle and Rufful, made this excellent, brief video that exposes the administration’s dishonesty–assuming, as Obama says, that he knew by the next day that the murder of four Americans was a terrorist attack and not, in Mark Steyn’s immortal
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