Tag: Obama

  • Obama's values

    I have a couple of reaction to this piece that ran in the Wall Street Journal yesterday: 1). It’s a load of crap 2). The writer is probably right. This is what the general election is going to be about. Obama and the Values Question Mark By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN, May 12, 2008 With the…

  • Hillary's agony

    Is She a Trojan Rabbit? By MAUREEN DOWD, NYT Op-Ed Columnist, May 11, 2008 If Hillary Clinton were to become Barack Obama’s vice president, would she take the back seat or would she just always be plotting, draining him of his magical powers? My own two cents, not Ms. Dowd’s? Yes, she will. Hillary, if…

  • Road to oblivion

    Party Like It’s 2008 By FRANK RICH, NYT Op-Ed Columnist, May 11, 2008 ANOTHER weekly do-or-die primary battle, another round of wildly predicted “game changers” that collapsed in the locker room. Hillary Clinton’s attempt to impersonate a Nascar-lovin’, gun-totin’, economist-bashin’ populist went bust: Asked which candidate most “shares your values,” voters in both North Carolina…

  • What we sow

    Seeds of Destruction By BOB HERBERT, NYT Op-Ed Columnist, May 10, 2008 The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully. Their repertoire has always been deficient in grace and class. So there was Hillary Clinton cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by “hard-working Americans, white Americans,” and…

  • More like the Hindenburg

    Hillary Rodham Clinton biographer Carl Bernstein has a fascinating post at cnn.com about her plan to land the vice-presidential spot on the Obama ticket. Titled Could Clinton land the VP nomination?, her plan to end her campaign and win the vice presidential spot is to blackmail and threaten Obama: Take me on as your vice…

  • Obama comes to Albany, Oregon

    Sen. Obama meets his fans, er, voters (Jesse Skoubo/Democrat-Herald) A beaming Katie Egan, 18, reaches out in a sea of hands to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama as he made his entrance to a Town-hall style forum Friday at the Linn County Fair & Expo center in Albany, Oregon. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Jim Webb wrote

    of Class Struggle in the Wall Street Journal opinion editorial page. Some people think Sen. Barack Obama does not understand poor working people. I am not one of them. Obama came into politics because it has been his life’s work helping working people. I understand Webb has other assets (and liabilities), but if he’s who…

  • Noonan: 'Damsel of Distress'

    I am sorry to say this but I hate Peggy Noonan. She helped propagate evil policies under the elder Bush. She continues to play a corrosive role in American public life with her column on the Opinion-Editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. But, in today’s paper, she rightly excoriates Hillary Rodham Clinton for her…

  • '*esque'

    Alan Chin shot this photograph of Sen. Barack Obama in Ohio for BagNewsNotes, one of my favorite blogs. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Their true colors

    (Mark Lennihan/Associated Press) The New York Post’s Wednesday morning headline. I do not want to waste any more breath on that beautiful dream (before the winks and nods to racist tactics, the say-anything-do-anything strategy to win) that was the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States. By…