Can you make heads or tails out of this Obama-tory slush from Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal:
“He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief.” Read more »
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News & Notes, October 30, 2008 · This year, on a national level, both candidates are focused on the economy. But on a more local level, some states are running highly controversial ballot initiatives. Read more »
Some very important things didn’t get said in this very long campaign-or they were said very, very late in the day. Victor Davis Hanson lists four areas of national interest that the media insufficiently explored: campaign financing, the VP candidates (and he’s not talking about clothing allowances-he’s talking about the hidin’ Biden), Barack Obama’s past, and the charge that he just might have a socialist philosophy. Read more »
“Since the Obama phenomenon has no precedent in American politics, we must look to folk tales to understand it,” writes Wes Pruden in today’s Washington Times. Read more »
It’s been fascinating to listen to the reasons prominent Republicans are giving for endorsing Obama. Sometimes I wish they’d be honest: I just couldn’t stand people thinking I’m not in the in-crowd much longer. I think peer pressure, even for adults, has been a factor in the out-migration of some of our more elegant Republicans. I can think of at least one jumper who must be enjoying his Shakespeare Theatre events much more now that he’s publicly embraced The One. Read more »
It’s a heartrending and morally outraged look at Bill Ayers, the self-confessed 1960s terrorists the Mainstream Media insists Barack Obama is not “palling around with.” The video offers a moving view of some of the hundreds of young servicemen and their dates, servicemen who would have been blown to smithereens along with their dates in March 1970 had the Ayers’ led Weather Underground plot to plant 12 nail-filled pipe bombs at a dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey not come a cropper when one of the bombs exploded during construction in a Greenwich Village basement, killing Ayers’s girlfriend, Diana Oughton, and two others. Our Toronto friend Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury made the video, which we’re hoping will soon be all over the conservative blogosphere. Read more »
That effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from a noose in West Hollywood, Calif., has finally come down, after West Hollywood Mayor Jerry Prang had a little chat with the “artist” responsible, Chad/Michael Morissette. Morisette-as well as the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department what was besieged with e-mails denouncing Morisette’s Halloween porch decoration as a hate crime. Even many of Morisette’s neighbors in this ultra-liberal, mostly gay city abutting Beverly Hills had gotten worried about the effigy’s potential for putting them, as well as gays in general, in a bad light. A bunch of West Hollywood residents had been standing in front of the house holding up a sheet so that drivers-by would not be able to see the hanged Palin effigy. Read more »
This election may bring more change than many expect.
Daniel Henninger explains in today’s Wall Street Journal that it may also be more historical than many realize: Read more »
“Every time I hear Sarah Palin talking – more and more to jubilant overflow crowds – I hear the voice of America speaking,” writes Michael Novak on today’s National Review. Read more »
Polls have become an extremely lazy way to report on political campaigns. No digging is required and reporters get a new story with each new poll. I for one have never minded the horse-race aspect of reporting-as long as other stories are covered, too. Read more »
