“One Little Hour”

I love listening to NPR interviews with politicians, a one-stop shop for evasion, pandering, and euphemism. (more…)

Barack and Michelle Obama ought to be commended for choosing the best school possible for their two young girls, Malia and Natasha. Only a couple of days after Barack won the presidential election the Obamas announced that their children would attend Sidwell Friends School, a prestigious, Quaker-run institution that has a long pedigree of educating first sons and daughters. The school is of course private and the tuition prohibitive. But since the Obama’s get free government provided housing, a meal allowance, and a generous stipend they can well afford the best. After all, don’t all children, the future of America, deserve the best? (more…)

The Congressional hearings concerning the Big Three bailout exemplified political gamesmanship at its finest. (more…)

With Ohio falling into the Democratic column, Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.

But this is the beginning of a Republican come back in 2010. Lest you think me foolish… (more…)

A friend recently posted the following note outlining Senator Obama’s stance on the issues. (more…)

The Obama campaign has taken off its gloves. Tired of being lambasted by shallow Republican attack ads comparing Barack to vapid celebrities and misconstruing his words about feminine comestic products, Obama representatives have started series of ads portraying McCain as hopelessly out of touch. (more…)

In my last post I noted that one of Sarah Palin’s weaknesses as a vice presidential candidate was her lack of experience. Sure enough, Democratic operatives and journalists have made Palin + inexperience = risky choice the dominant storyline. Republicans are also worried that McCain has handicapped his strongest line of attack against Obama. (more…)

Today John McCain surprised the pundit panoply by announcing Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Odds on favorite for the Vice Presidential nod was Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty along with a bevy of failed contenders from the Republican primary. McCain’s choice of Palin was such a surprise that the NPR correspondents covering the topic today were audibly astounded, sputtering their surprise that the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (population: 8,471) would even be considered; I think they hoped that John McCain was just joshin’ around and would let the country in on his little joke after a couple hours. Sorry, but McCain only jokes around about his age and bombing Iran. (more…)

Listen to a Barack Obama stump speech in Philadelphia or a Hillary Clinton townhall meeting in North Carolina and you will hear both candidates decry the growth in income equality over the past two decades. They would have you believe that the rich have become richer while the lower and middle classes have seen their incomes stagnate. It is of course implied that the wealthy are enriching themselves at the expense of the peons beneath them. So Robin Obama and Maid Clinton will rob from the evil rich to give to the deserving poor. (more…)

The Grand Old Party should lose this year. The first Tuesday in November should be the greatest Republican rout in recent history. America is in a recession, in the middle of an unpopular war, and the incumbent Republican President, who has the highest disapproval ratings on record, is at the end of his second term.

Yet national polling shows Republican John McCain in a dead heat, and at times with a slight lead, over either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Incroiable! (more…)