Drill, drill, drill, says the lady Veep (to be?), in this CNBC interview “days before” McC picked her, in which she notes that Biden voted against the trans-Alaska pipeline 30 years ago (about halfway thru interview) and calls him and Obama “naive” in saying or implying that “renewable” alternate energy supplies can make a short-term difference. [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
All politics is what?!
In Alaska, Sarah Palin shot down her homegrown “good old boy network”: [She] put her political career on the line by challenging the corrupt, old Alaskan Republican bulls on their sleazy pay-for-play politics and their use of the public trust to fill the pockets of their friends. That’s John Kass today. She didn’t merely talk about [...]
Catalyst for same-old, same-old
Linda Lenz’s Catalyst Chicago, mentioned below, looks like a Democrat front organization. Consider this from a January ‘08 posting (a “web extra” about “electing an education president”), which embodies its implied hostility to major conservative issues. Like McCain and Romney, Huckabee is a big supporter of school choice, charter schools and homeschooling. Also like his [...]
The lady protests selectively
Three things wrong with Linda Lenz’s spirited defense in this morning’s Sun-Times of Annenberg Challenge, Obama, and William Ayers (p. 14, Sports Final, Commentary, “Other Thoughts,” not online, would be here) [Later, thanks to Nicholas Stix in his comment below, it’s here]: 1. She does not address why Obama did not come clean about his extensive [...]
Pundit hits home run — three months ago
Jack Kelly had this in RealClearPolitics last June: There is one potential running mate who has virtually no down side. . . . . At 44, Sarah Louise Heath Palin is both the youngest and the first female governor in Alaska’s relatively brief history as a state. She’s also the most popular governor in America, [...]
Veep lady
Handsome is as handsome does, but she’s off to a very good start: I love her. Tags: Sarah+Palin, Vice+president+pick
Would O. buy a used car from this man?
Putin to CNN yesterday: SOCHI, Russia (CNN) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. . . . . Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous region of South Ossetia. Putin said his defense officials [...]
The poet and the junior high struggle
Here’s to an American winner: If Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were alive today, he’d be 201 years old and on his 13th knee replacement. He isn’t, having died in 1882 at 75, young by today’s standards. His bust was placed in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey after his death. It’s the only American bust there. “Like [...]
Denver, we hardly knew ye
The seamy side of Mile High: During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, “You’re lucky I didn’t knock the f..k out of you.” One can only wonder how this would be covered if those were Republicans hobnobbing with lobbyists. Another thing: Isn’t Barack supposed to do away with this [...]
Axel-who?
James Carville grinds at least two axes these days, his Clinton affiliation and his professional rivalry, but is he right about the dum-dum Dem convention, failing to score, and is it a sign (not the first) of David Axelrod being in over his head once he goes national and general, as opposed to Chicago and [...]
