All Entries Tagged With: "palin"
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year and welcome to the very first Friday Morning Fix of 2009!
After more than six years of living in the sunny Caribbean I’ve finally moved back to Massachusetts (when I arrived it was 8 degrees Fahrenheit and snowing). Thanks to those of you who sent “good luck” emails and best wishes. I appreciate [...]
A Sign of the End Times
Is this story missing something – like the huge, glaring fact that Sarah Palin draws numbers because she’s such an ignoramus that she has no idea how much of an ignoramus she actually is? Politico sounds the bugle of the end times:
Three weeks after the Republican ticket suffered a sweeping defeat at the polls, Sarah [...]
Obama’s Image, Somali Pirates, and Sarah Palin
One of the things I’ve always liked about Obama is that he projects a “cool” image without making it look like he’s trying too hard. Contrast that with the wooden, grumpy John McCain that we saw during the election and it’s easy to see why he has such celebrity power. He’s easy to look up [...]
Where is Osama Bin Laden?
Whatever your opinion of Bush there’s no doubting the fact that the U.S. has not experienced another major terrorist attack since September 11th. And while many of his tactics have been controversial (to say the least), the overwhelming majority of Americans are pretty happy not being blown up and don’t really care what measures are [...]
Obama the Never-Ending Campaigner
The 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections are over and Barack Obama has won. His first order of business was to try and lower the stratospheric expectations of his presidency and he did so in his acceptance speech. The following statements stuck out like a sore thumb to me:
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will [...]
Skit or Campaign Commercial?
Personally, I find this clip from Saturday Night Live hilarious. But at what point does a skit cross the line from parody and turn into an unpaid campaign commercial? This one seems to come close.
Matt Drudge and the McCain Campaign
This week was not good for the GOP – in spite of Matt Drudge’s overt attempts to resuscitate the McCain/Palin campaign by posting misleading headlines and implying that the race is close. It’s not and you can see examples of Drudge’s bias here and here. Anyone who gets their news solely from Drudge lives in [...]
What Does Peggy Noonan Think of Sarah Palin?
I’ve been a fan of Peggy Noonan (speech writer extraordinaire, respected political pundit, and author of On Speaking Well) for a long time. Here are some nuggets from her latest in the Wall Street Journal:
But we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she [...]
The Sarah “Barracuda” Palin Effect
This is what McCain’s campaign looked like before Sarah “Barracuda” Palin strutted and winked her way into our hearts. Now the base is fired up and downright frightening to watch. Thankfully, McCain tried to calm some of them down last night. We’ll see this week if that’s the signal of a new direction or not. [...]
How Informed is the Average American?
Ok. We all agree that these people are way on the fringe of society. But what about these folks in Ohio? Aren’t they saying the same things? And again, everyone has the right to vote for whomever they wish, but do these people seem informed? I mean honestly, “he’s a one man terror cell” and [...]