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Is President Obama a Socialist?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIt is one of the most frequent refrains among critics of our new president. Scrawled in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and followed by a forest of exclamation points, the McCarthy-esque charge populating comment sections of blogs across the internets reads: Barack Obama is a Socialist!!!!!!!Well, the main stream media (such as it its) has not shied away from this debate either. Witness two recent examples. From the National Review, for whom "progressive" is itself a dirty word, comes a cover sure to send shivers down the backs of laissez-fare, Ayn Rand-reading capitalists everywhere. And in today's ...
When Conservatives Go Bad: Bashing Limbaugh to Sell Books
By Dave - Politics DailyWe've seen this before. A neo-conservative luminary says something critical about conservatism, is showered by adulation by the liberal press, finds that he likes it and tries to springboard the criticism to launch a bigger career. In David Frum's case, this was started with his criticism of Sarah Palin, but Copious Dissent has his number and reports the sad trajectory from there.Personally, I wish I could generate an audience simply by people hating my guts. But, that is David Frum's entire shtick. He writes a book about how Conservatives "can win again" by abandoning Conservatism, and it is ...
Buckley Quits National Review
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHere's a follow-up on my earlier piece about Christopher Buckley--the son of conservative thinker William F. Buckley, Jr.--who last week endorsed Barack Obama for president of the United States. Apparently, that move didn't sit too well with fellow some conservatives, especially those who work for William F.'s old magazine, The National Review. So, Christopher announced today that he was leaving the publication, effective immediately. Here's part of his reasoning:"While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative ...
McCain Under Fire
By David Knowles - Politics DailyNearly every poll conducted in the wake of our nation's financial meltdown has been bad news for John McCain. His numbers began to drop early last week, when news of the $700 billion bailout started to sink in. Clearly, McCain's week-old pronouncement that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," wasn't meshing with the facts. If, as McCain's financial adviser, Phil Gramm insists, this recession is all in our heads, then why do the taxpayers need to pay nearly a trillion dollars in therapy bills? When McCain's pollsters let their man know of the ominous trend, the Arizona Senator did what ...
The Evil of Two Lessers
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWith every passing election, Americans reaffirm a basic truth about the inherent nature of those who seek higher office: politicians lie to get elected. In fact, it is something of a bedrock assumption that to rise in the ranks of the politically powerful, one must, by definition, be untrustworthy. Hence the dictum: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Indeed, the race for president might be viewed as a competition to see who can tell the more convincing lies about his or her opponent. This might come as crushing news to idealistic followers of Barack Obama or John McCain (and, ...
Wright Reactions
By David Knowles - Politics DailyReverend Jeremiah Wright surprised just about everybody this week by launching a counter-attack of speaking engagements and interviews designed to give his side of the out-of-context remarks recycled in numerous YouTube clips. The image-rehabilitation tour started rather quietly on Friday during a taped sit-down with PBS's Bill Moyers. From there, however, the tenor of the discussion began to get more animated. Sunday night saw Wright speaking to an NAACP dinner in Detroit, during which he found time to mock the accents of both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. On Monday, Wright addressed a ...
National Review: It's Mitt
By Eric Schulzke - Politics DailyThe editors of National Review have endorsed Mitt Romney.They make a plausible case for Mitt being the most (a) electable (b) conservative, balancing those two values. They acknowledge that McCain is a fine man, but note that he has run an anemic campaign, voted against the Bush tax cuts, supported the amnesty bill, etc.. They say much the same of Thompson, noting that he has never run anything, not even his own campaign.They assert that Huckabee and Giuliani would both fracture the conservative coalition: ...
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