Tag: Obama
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His erstwhile friends
I promise to tell the truth always about my intention and my beliefs. Sen. John McCain, Republican presidential candidate Some of my fellow bloggers and pundits (the redoubtable Andrew Sullivan, for instance, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, and Time’s Joe Klein, to name just a few) had long labored under the illusion that John McCain was a…
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We should all be Republicans!
Alright, calm down. Let me rephrase. It just should not be possible that Republicans stand any ghost in heck of a chance of winning any office on Nov. 4, let alone the presidency of the United States. Yet, here they are and here we are. Sen. John McCain is buoyant, ascendant, barnstorming the nation, Alaska…
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Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska
Newsweek magazine, despite a generally laudatory profile of Sarah Palin, serves up some inconvenient facts to counter the myth that she and her state have been swathed in since her nomination: Palin is not regarded as an introspective or intellectual type—not the sort who likes to mull the deepest nuances of every issue. In that…
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Maverick chronicles, I
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Bouncing Alone
Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com makes a keen observation in his discussion of Sen. McCain’s post-convention bounce: “[W]e should remember that the Republican convention dominated the news on Friday and, to a lesser extent, continued to do so for much of the weekend.” He cautions against drawing conclusions too quickly. My question is this: “Why did…
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Republicans in Minnesota, a revisit
My friend, Chiara, sent me this note on Thursday, the final day of the Republican National Convention. I managed to miss the note and I’m offering it now for your consideration. Last night, my sister-in-law, Joyce, a nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of many, wrote to a number of us in the family to…
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Did Sarah Palin really say that?!?
Gawd, I hope this isn’t true. There’s a rumor circulating around the internet today that Governor Palin used racist and sexist slurs to refer to Senators Obama and Clinton: So Sambo beat the bitch. The rumor is thinly sourced to a woman named “Lucille,” who allegedly overheard the governor make the statement at a diner…
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Question
Does it matter that Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), is, at best, a spent force who mortgaged any ideals and principles he might have had in a Faustian bargain for the Republican Party nomination for president of the United States? It was painful watching McCain last night and then listening to the empty suit media types…
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Another word on Obama in Denver
Excerpt . . .: Obama has been more moving at the lectern—at the Convention in Boston four years ago, when he relied mainly on the story of his modest, yet remarkable, multicultural upbringing; at the victory party after the breakthrough win in Iowa, last January—but he has never described himself and his political vision with…
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A master stroke
Let’s give the McCain campaign credit for one thing: They sure know how to steal the Democrats’ thunder. Democrats dominated the nation’s attention this week with their convention, culminating with their historic affirmation of Barack Obama as the first African-American to nominated for president by a major political party. Sen. Obama punctuated that with what…