The Bracelet Bungle?

One of the more odd exchanges from Friday night may turn out to harm Sen. Obama far more than he might have thought possible at the time.  Call it the bracelet debate: I couldn’t find a clip that contained the full Obama statement, so for fairness’ sake, here’s the text: OBAMA: I’ve got a bracelet, [...]

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Stuck on Spending.

We’re half an hour into the debate, and John McCain is incapable of explaining any aspect of economic policy beyond government spending. Obama talks health care, and McCain talks about how much waste is created by government spending programs. Lehrer asks about his position on economic recovery, so McCain talks about public corruption. Obama criticizes [...]

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“Equity”

“Equity” is the buzzword around Washington as it considers the financial bailout proposed by the Administration. Democratic Congressmen and Senators are demanding, among other things, that Washington get an equity stake in the companies that benefit from the bailout. It seems like an eminently fair concept: if the U.S. taxpayers are going to spend hundreds [...]

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The Racist Slur

CNN’s Jack Cafferty is the latest media personality to state without equivocation that ONLY racism can explain the closeness of the presidential election: The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the [...]

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McCain Heeds the Lessons of the Clinton Campaign?

One of the leading lessons political observers drew from Hillary Clinton’s loss to Barack Obama was her slow reaction to Obama’s emergence following Iowa. Rather than dynamically refocusing on caucuses rather than big-state primaries or attacking Obama’s credentials, Hillary’s team said “steady as she goes.” The result was a string of 11 straight primary and [...]

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A New Kind of Politics: Jail the Previous Administration

I am a big believer in stability when it comes to politics.  As much as we like to say freedom got us to where we are today as a country (and it certainly was a big part), stability and the rule of law probably got us further. Starting with John Adams’ departure from office following [...]

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Wow.

In my humble opinion, Governor Palin gave one of the more remarkable political addresses of my life. Some thoughts on the evening: Republicans were reminded tonight what it sounds like when a principled leader fights on their behalf.  After years of half-hearted defenses and ill-conceived agendas, Sarah Palin presented one of the most full-throated statements [...]

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The Palin Pick: Inspired, Inspirational, Inspiring

Notes on the Palin pick, in no particular order: McCain closed the deal with me (and likely millions of conservatives) with this pick. Not that we were planning on voting for Obama, but we were the Fred Thompson voters, the Mitt Romney voters, even some Mike Huckabee voters. We were deeply worried that the man [...]

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On the Other Hand…Brilliance

Geraghty and the folks at Hot Air bring to my attention a far more accomplished piece of political film, also of the McCain campaign. My only question is, how has the final quote in this series not been broadcast sooner?

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Living in the World As It Should Be

I don’t consider Michelle Obama’s convention speech to be some momentous statement of the campaign’s principles. It was pretty, it was quick, and it tried (although I don’t think it succeeded) to humanize the man who is being framed by McCain as too big for his britches. Nevertheless, it did strike some notes that, for [...]

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