If you have a few minutes, take the moment to go read Brad Reed’s “The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency:” Narrowing down the Bush administration’s various debacles to a mere 10 was no easy feat. In fact, I expect that many people will express dismay that their least favorite moment was …
Archives for July 2008
Cry Baby
More rampant soldier-hating among the crazy left. For the record, here’s what I see is going on. Every campaign naturally follows the character of the guy in charge. John McCain has an insanely thin skin; whether it’s post traumatic stress disorder or because he’s naturally like that, even McCain’s Republican colleagues dread the thought of …
Get Ready for the Next Round of Hissy Fits
Can you believe Wesley Clark said this about John McCain: “Senator McCain probably wouldn’t get that much praise from this group. I can’t speak for them, but we all know that Senator McCain, as high-ranking as he is, his record in his last command I think was somewhat less than stellar.” I am outraged. I …
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The NRA Doubles Down
Anyone who thought the NRA was actually concerned with gun rights and gun safety is simply fooling themselves: The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year’s campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the …
Weird
Via Sully, this: Chronotopic Anamorphosis from Marginalia Project on Vimeo. The first thing I thought when I saw that was how long before that is in a movie in a theatre near you. If I had to bet, the Wachowski’s would have loved that for the Matrix.
The Real Bush Legacy
Via Yglesias, I see this piece from Col. Bacevich: The burden of identifying and confronting the Bush legacy necessarily falls on Obama. Although for tactical reasons McCain will distance himself from the president’s record, he largely subscribes to the principles informing Bush’s post-9/11 policies. McCain’s determination to stay the course in Iraq expresses his commitment …
BoBo Closes Ranks
Daivd Brooks sure closes ranks fast, doesn’t he? Now that Obama is the nominee, gone are the somewhat interesting columns, and now we can expect a steady drumbeat of anti-Obama BS. Today we get a healthy preview of the coming class warfare as seen by Brooks. It is how the hive mind works. *** Update …