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• 11.07.08
  The 2008 election is just getting started
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  "Office of the President-Elect." Barak Obama seems to be in a big hurry to have the pomp and glory of his new job. Does that mean he takes responsibility for the way the stock market tanked this week? It's the biggest post-election drop ever on a percentage basis, bigger even than the loss in value when Franklin Roosevelt was elected. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. In the subsequent decades the leftmediaestablishment spun the 1930s as "Happy Days are Here Again" to impressionable young people like myself whom they hoped wouldn't know any ...
  
  
• 11.05.08
  Unexpected embarrassment
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  I didn't think the day after the election would reveal this: There really ARE a lot of people out there who think of the election of Barak Obama in terms of race. There are conservatives who ought to be concentrating on Obama's fascist proposals; instead they think of him as a black man. And there are liberals who think their vote was somehow an expiation of white guilt. These are nice people, the ones who probably won't take part in the pogroms. They are people I link to in my blogs. ...
  
  
• 11.04.08
  Election news
  Bash the Messenger, electoral politics (0)

  It's now almost 11pm on election day. In an effort to prove that we don't need the traditional radio and TV news, I haven't listened to a stitch of either all day. I got home from my Russian class a half hour ago, and didn't turn on the radio the entire way there or back. (It's a drive of about 1.25 hours each way.) I figure that when there are any results, some blogger will let me know. So I'm keeping half an eye on my RSS feeds. If I thought the ...
  
  
• 11.01.08
  Where have all the haters gone?
  Hate, electoral politics (0)

  Ever wonder what the moonbats say to each other when they think there are no conservative liberals around? Check out Wonkette's post about Sarah Palin's baby. Yes, it's disgusting and will make you throw up. But she's actually nice compared to the people who added their comments. I see that comments are now closed -- it was apparently too much even for Wonkette -- but I saved the whole works -- 23 screenshots worth. (Her blog posts don't print properly.) Here are some samples: Such a cute picture of the ...
  
  
• 10.31.08
  How to see through 501(c)(3)
  Schools, electoral politics (0)

  The College of St. Catherine bans Bay Buchanan from speaking on campus. The reason? Because as a 501(c)(3) organization it has to avoid any appearance of partisanship. (Buchanan is not running for office or campaigning for anyone, so that isn't really the reason, but you know what they mean.  If not, see below.) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on the other hand, goes into a fourth grade classroom and tells the kids that in Lincoln's time, "Republicans used to be the good guys." One mother was not amused, but Kennedy says it's OK, "since ...
  
  
• 10.23.08
  Planned presidency
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  Today I realized one more thing that's irritating about the way the left is treating Joe the Plumber. They keep talking about what would happen under Obama's plan. It's that word plan. In the olden days it wouldn't have been called a plan. It would have been called a campaign promise. We all know what those are worth. But some people somehow think calling it a "plan" somehow makes it legitimate. Under Obama's plan, he's going to tax us a lot and somehow that is going to generate magic revenue that he is going ...
  
  
• 10.05.08
  You betcha feel your pain
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  Jimmy Orr at The Christian Science Monitor gives a catalog of media criticism of Sarah Palin's "You betcha, darn right, heckuva lot" kind of talk. What I keep waiting for in all of this is a comparison to Bill Clinton's way of biting his lower lip and "feeling your pain." So I'll have to do it myself. I can't say I like one of these techniques a lot more than the other. I would probably like them even less if I had ever seen or heard them myself. But I say ...
  
  
• 10.05.08
  The fifties are back!
  electoral politics (3)

  Nostalgia is in the air. The presidential campaign is reminding those of us of a certain age of our youth, when McCarthyism roamed the earth. "Senator Obama, is it true that terrorist Bill Ayers is a fellow traveler of yours?" "Governor Palin, are you now or have you ever been a member of a traitorous secessionist party in Alaska? " (This was an accusation being flung around in the comments section of Strangemaps.) "Senator Obama's health care plan is socialism." "The Big Bailout is socialism." These are all good topics of discussion, but to reduce them to labels and guilt-by-association ...
  
  
• 10.05.08
  Stop Obama: Defeat McCain
  Limits on government power, electoral politics (0)

  For a few weeks I thought I might vote for John McCain despite McCain-Feingold. But his behavior on the Big Bailout makes that unlikely. One thing I've never liked about McCain is his adoption of Theodore Roosevelt as a role model. I consider Roosevelt an attractive personality but a terrible president. I've read several biographies of TR and have some of them on my bookshelf. But George Will tells a few things about him that I hadn't known before. Somehow I had not known that his ideology was so collectivist. ...
  
  
• 09.17.08
  CEO Sarah Palin
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  Last night Google News was flogging the story about Carla Fiorina and Sarah Palin. It was giving prominent place to headlines telling us that Fiorina said Palin was not ready to run a major corporation. My immediate thought was that none of the candidates in this campaign is ready to run a major corporation. Then, if one looked further into the news articles, the truth came out. That's exactly what Fiorina had said. Somebody with Palin on the mind had asked Fiorina about Palin, and she answered the question truthfully. But that person ...
  
  

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