Speaking stupid all the time
Harry Reid is not a smart guy, but he combines his stupidity with a large dollop of phony humility that is really unattractive. It’s an unendearing combination. Rush Limbaugh’s description of him as Dingy Harry has it just about right.
Reid is the subject of national attention today for having said of Barack Obama [...]
Fact-Check This
The Associated Press got an advance copy of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, and assigned eleven reporters, apparently, to try to find errors in it. The eleven collaborated on an article titled “FACT CHECK: Palin’s book goes rogue on some facts.” In fact, though, the AP’s catalogue of alleged errors–six in total–is thin [...]
Can’t he just be an ambassador to some place far away?
Rumor has it that Secretary of Defense William Gates will resign by the end of the year and that President Obama will nominate former Senator Chuck Hagel to replace him.
The idea that Gates will resign seems plausible enough, and it may be that Hagel will be tapped to replace him. However, nominating Hagel [...]
McCain’s Take on ‘Going Rogue’
In an “unprecedented” performance for a non-fiction book, Palin’s forthcoming “Going Rogue,” in the wake of its release date announcement, is at the top of the Amazon and Barnes and Noble lists.
John McCain was asked about the book today, which takes its title from criticism of her performance on the campaign trail (some of it [...]
Race to the Bottom
Last year Geraldine Ferraro called Barack Obama’s race an
advantage. “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this
position,” she said to a California newspaper, the Daily
Breeze. “He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And
the country is caught up [...]
What you mean we wee, keemosabe?
Preaching to his flock at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington this week, Barack Obama disparaged the Washington scene:
[L]ast year just about this time, you’ll recall that the Republicans had just nominated their Vice Presidential candidate, and everybody was — the media was obsessed with it, and cable was 24 hours a day, and [...]
