A thought on timing in elections
An election is a snapshot, a single poll taken on a particular day. Opinions, on the other hand, are in flux. Part of Obama’s good luck so far has been his timing.
Continue reading →An election is a snapshot, a single poll taken on a particular day. Opinions, on the other hand, are in flux. Part of Obama’s good luck so far has been his timing.
Continue reading →Obama recently compared his own executive experience favorably to Palin’s. He’s run a big campaign, he said, and she was mayor of a small town. This conveniently leaves out a few details—that he has a campaign manager, and that her … Continue reading →
And here we were thinking it was actually a trash-talking, spectacle-wearing, pregnancy-concealing, former beauty queen/sportcaster pistol-packin mama named Sarah Palin. But no; it’s really George Bush [see link’s last paragraph for the revelation]. To be more precise, John McCain’s running … Continue reading →
Gaffe wars. [See also this. Since this particular tempest is about economics, I’ll not weigh in myself.]
Continue reading →Cries that the Democrats have engaged in sexism towards Palin are not misplaced. Palin is also hated for her social conservatism—even by feminists, who acknowledge she’s a woman, but a woman from the wrong side of the issues. But perhaps … Continue reading →
Fergus Shanahan of The Sun asks, “Why, oh why, oh why can’t WE have a Sarah Palin?” And the Australians want one too.
Continue reading →Campaign ad received in an email from a friend. Stick with it till the end.
Continue reading →An eyewitness report from Dr. Sanity: Palin was surprisingly charismatic. I mean you got that impression watching on TV, but in person you can see that her impact is at least doubled.
Continue reading →Breno Mello, the spectacularly handsome, charming, brooding star of the original “Black Orpheus,” has died in Brazil. Mello is one of the main attractions of this unusual film, a favorite in my youth for its music, vibrance, and sad tale … Continue reading →
It is troubling that the MSM has abdicated its investigatory task by being surprisingly uninterested in shining light into some of the more suspicious regions of Barack Obama’s past. And of all those dark corners, the very darkest may be … Continue reading →
I wonder why they didn’t see it coming. It’s not as though Palin’s name hadn’t been mentioned as a possible VP candidate.
Continue reading →For those of you who are eager to know why, oh why, oh why on earth John McCain stood in front of a sickly electric-green background for a few terrible minutes last night, the mystery may be solved. Sort of. … Continue reading →