Iganatius on Obama: Transformational?
David Ignatius at the Washington Post is one of those center-left columnists who I view as something as a bellwether for reasonableness. From my perspective he's not always right on, but he is rarely radically wrong. And when I do agree with him, I'm pretty sure a mainstream consensus is forming. He's also extremely well sourced, especially on the Middle East.So I sat up and took notice today when I saw that he had a take on one of Obama's central claims, his ability to transcend politics and heal the country. How, some people have asked, could a man whose albeit brief record in the US Senate ...
Who's Ready at 3AM? Neither!
This is truly bizarre. Susan Rice, a "senior foreign policy adviser" for the Obama camp, counters Hillary's 3AM phone call ad by asserting that neither of the Democratic candidates is ready for that 3AM phone call. Sometimes truth is found in unlikely places. The evidence that Rice is right, oddly enough, may lie in Obama's having selected as a foreign policy adviser someone who lacks a mental filter to this degree. As Groucho Marx once said, "I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member." ...
Pay No Attention To ...
... that man slipping behind the curtain. If you were Barack Obama, you might be rushed too. You've got places to go and people to meet ... and vacuous phrases to repeat. It takes a lot of energy and focus to deliver lines like "yes we can" and "we are the people we were waiting for." So when the press corps suddenly wakes up and starts asking you about tangled NAFTA stories and Tony Rezko, you're outta there. Note to Dems: This guy is far more vulnerable than some of you suspect. ...
Gloria Steinem: Fatuous, Even at 3AM
"I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don't think so." The italics was not in the original print but almost certainly were in the voice.Which candidate was this spoken of? Mike Huckabee for governing an obscure state? Hillary Clinton for living in the White House for eight years? Or Barack Obama for ... graduating from Harvard Law School.If you guessed, John McCain for being a war hero, you are correct sir. The speaker was Gloria Steinem, and her preferred candidate was Hillary Clinton. So, what exactly does Clinton have to offer in the experience category? ...
William F. Buckley, RIP
One of my heroes died today. When I was ten, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would say "a syndicated columnist." This blog is, I guess, a dabbling in a fantasy first spurred by Buckley. When I was a kid, I religiously read Buckley's magazine, National Review. I met the man once, at a PBS fund raiser in Sacramento, where I had him sign a ragged copy of God and Man at Yale. One of the most memorable moments of my youth was in 1978 when, at the age of 12, I watched two of my heroes -- Buckley and Reagan -- debate the Panama Canal Treaties, with Buckley defending them. At the ...
Organ Harvesting Doc On Trial
Where is the line between humanitarian and inhuman? A surgeon in California is on trial for administering a deadly drug to a fatally ill handicapped man in order to get him to die more quickly so that they could harvest his organs while they were still useful. His lawyer thinks he did nothing wrong: The doctor's lawyer, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, said that Roozrokh, 34, who moved to Wisconsin from Iran when he was a toddler and excelled as a collegiate swimmer, did "nothing that adversely affected the quality or length" of Navarro's life. The man is not innocent. He admits having administered a ...
They Liked the Kitty
The Times is "standing by" its story about the rumor about the supposition that John McCain might have crossed the "appearance of impropriety" line in the eyes of some of his aides eight years ago. Seriously. But then, how could we disprove -- and they disown -- a story that didn't assert anything. It had no facts.I'm listening to NPR this afternoon, and I learn that the NY Times is "sticking by it's story." And I'm thinking, what story? I read that story this morning over my breakfast and just laughed. And listening the Times' editor trying to explain what the story was about on NPR this ...
Geldof Gives Bush Props On Africa
Echoing earlier comments from Bono, Sir Bob Geldof [remind me please, how he became a knight?] is in Africa with President Bush today and is a little put out at the media for ignoring Bush's efforts in Africa.Mr. Geldof praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement.Mr. Bush, said Mr. Geldof, "has done more than any other president so far.""This is the triumph of American policy really," he said. "It was probably unexpected of the man. It was expected of the nation, but not of the man, but ...
Record Low Temps 'Embarrassing' Al Gore
The town is called Embarrass, MN, and it's appropriately named, because it just hit a record 40 below yesterday, and if the global warming hystericists had any shame, they'd be embarrassed.Actually the headlines point to International Falls, MN, which hit the same temp but also has the added brand advantage of being officially the "nation's icebox." The 40 below eclipses the previous record there, of -37 set in 1967. During the day, the temperature warmed up to 18 degrees -- below zero. This has been a very cold winter everywhere. For the first time in years, we've had snow on the ground ...
McCain as Yosemite Sam?
The lack of enthusiasm in the base for the Presumptuous Presumptive continues, though now more increasingly in a tone of wry bemusement than militant outrage. This morning, Mark Steyn -- the right's parodist laureate -- notes that Charles Krauthammer calls McCain the "apostate sheriff." Steyn runs with the image on a dusty Western high noon, but then concludes he can't help but see a gun totin Yosemite Sam instead. The image matches so well, I thought a Sunday Morning cartoon was in order. If McCain is the Sam in this skit, the question is, who's playing the wascally wabbit? ...
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