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Category Archives: Presidential Politics

Over the top; Jumping the shark

Saturday, August 2, 2008

John McCain’s latest ad compares Obama to the Messiah, or, I suppose, claims that Obama has been doing so. Am I missing something? The negative line at the end seems like an afterthought. In any event, since when does the Messiah have to prove he’s ready to lead? He’s the Messiah, after all. This whole […]

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Half right

Monday, July 21, 2008

Obama, against all odds, appears to be winning (at least for the moment) the debate about Iraq. This is mainly because al-Maliki is no fool, and like the rest of the world, he is not interested in another four years of George Bush, brought to you by an increasingly befuddled McCain. But we here have […]

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McCain whines foul

Monday, July 21, 2008

The McCain campaign is all a-twitter because the New York Times has rejected an op-ed piece he submitted (does anyone believe he actually wrote it?) as a response to Barack Obama’s recent op-ed. There may be a bit of payback on the part of the Times (which was iced out of the great medical records […]

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Kudos to the Day

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Of the three major newspapers in the country (Washington Post, NY Times, and LA Times) only the Los Angeles paper gave front page coverage to the fact that Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki supports Obama’s pullout plan. (The US government apparently pressured the Iraqis to step away from full throated support, but the disclaimer is not […]

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More on the New Yorker

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

It has been interesting to see who has been closing ranks around the New Yorker. Jon Stewart, yes. Steven Colbert, not quite. Tom Tomorrow couldn’t quite see that his own brand of satire takes clearer aim at its intended target than did the New Yorker. Rubin Bolling, on the other hand, seemed to see the […]

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Dodd for VP? Sadly, I’m against it

Friday, July 11, 2008

Jason Rosenbaum at the Seminal reports that our own Chris Dodd is under consideration for the VP slot. I don’t know if the interest is real, or if Obama is just engaging in feel good politics. Sadly, I must protest against this choice. Nothing would make me happier than to see Chris Dodd a hearbeat […]

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Fuzzy math, squared

Monday, July 7, 2008

John McCain has released his economic plan. Among other things, he promises to balance the budget by winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and using the savings to pay down the deficit. No doubt the media will have tremendous difficulty seeing this fantasy for what it is. According to the McCain campaign: “The McCain […]

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That’s a bit more like it

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

This makes me somewhat hopeful that the pessimism I expressed about the Obama campaign’s initial response to the Clark brouhaha was somewhat uncalled for, as a commenter who shall remain nameless (but she knows who she is and she can do the dishes herself tomorrow) asserted. According to a Diary on Open Left, the Obama […]

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Full Disclosure at the Day

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

I missed this when it first came across my desk in an email from a frequent correspondent. I’ve changed the date references and tidied up the links. The Day has an OpEd on the 29th, McCain Is The Clear Choice For Change. It identifies the author as” Benjamin Davol, a political independent, is a freelance […]

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Here we go again

Monday, June 30, 2008

In the palmy days before Hillary dropped out, those of us who had accepted the reality that Obama had won the nomination figured that, with Hillary gone, Obama could concentrate on winning the general election. Who could have guessed that he would immediately start concentrating on losing. First he turned on his supporters, most famously […]

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