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07 Sept 19 : 47 | The Sacrifices Obama Has Made for His Country Barack Obama addressing donors at a high-dollar fundraiser hosted by the aging rock star Jon Bon Jovi: "I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife – I didn’t put... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 18 hours ago |
08 Sept 05 : 44 | Gallup/USA Today: McCain-Palin +10 Among Likely Voters Wow: The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an "enthusiasm gap" that has dogged the GOP all year. McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by 50%-46% among... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 8 hours ago |
05 Sept 18 : 00 | Rasmussen: Palin More Popular Than Obama and McCain Sarah Palin's favorability rating is 10 points higher than Joe Biden's; she edges out Obama and McCain by one point. Rasmussen reports: A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Now, following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
03 Sept 18 : 11 | US Weekly Adores Barack Obama and Smears Sarah Palin Steve Hayes has a piece on US Weekly's cover story trashing Sarah Palin; he notes that US Weekly's publisher is a big Obama contributor and the cover was sent out to news organizations around the country. Quite a revealing contrast with US Weekly's Obama cover, no? Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
01 Sept 22 : 42 | The Decency of Barack Obama The New York Times reports: In a brief press conference in Monroe, Mich., here to talk about Hurricane Gustav, Senator Barack Obama was asked about the suggestion by some Republicans that Democrats – particularly liberal bloggers – have pushed a story about the family of Ms. Palin, who was... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
03 Sept 05 : 10 | Pat Buchanan: Obama Shares My Position on Iran From the McCain Report: In light of the smearing of Governor Palin by Obama surrogate Robert Wexler and Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski, both of whom alleged Palin was a supporter of Patrick Buchanan and therefore a "Nazi sympathizer," this statement from Buchanan today seems noteworthy: Let me say... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
02 Sept 22 : 53 | Thompson Speech Hits Media on Palin, Obama on Abortion Fred Thompson will forcefully defend the selection of Sarah Palin tonight in a speech Republicans are characterizing as "red meat." He will argue that the feeding frenzy over Palin's is the result of "panic" from the Democrat-friendly mainstream media. "What a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
26 Aug 19 : 16 | Where in the World is Barack Obama? Apparently even he doesn't know. Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
30 Aug 00 : 14 | The Obama Show It's a hit: "Over 38 million Americans watched TV coverage of Barack Obama accepting his party's nomination for president on Thursday, far more than tuned in for the acceptance speeches of past Democratic contenders." How many of these viewers were watching Obama for the first time? Did they like... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
29 Aug 20 : 18 | Obama Campaign Attacks Palin Barack Obama's spokesman says that Alaska governor Sarah Palin is too inexperienced to be vice president: “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
29 Aug 09 : 02 | Obama's Speech Denver Having followed Barack Obama around on the campaign trail quite a bit, I found tonight's big speech to be of the middle-rank, at least by his own standards. At his best, Obama is a riveting orator--his Iowa caucus victory speech was gob-smacking in the brilliance of both its rhetoric and... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
28 Aug 16 : 45 | Biden's Better Case for Obama Joe Biden gave a speech in which—in contrast to Bill Clinton’s —Barack Obama is an actor. He makes choices and does important things from the time he is a young adult to the present. Instead of choosing Wall Street after college, he goes to Chicago, and he makes the lives of poor people the... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
05 Sept 20 : 15 | On Community Organizing As you know, the Republican party bravely cast aside the massive community organizer vote this week. Some have questioned whether the serial shots that RNC speakers took at community organizing were fair. Since I’ve been sarcastically referring to Barack Obama as “the longtime community... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
28 Aug 07 : 15 | Obama, as Bill Sees Him Bill Clinton left no doubt that he’s for Barack Obama. But it’s striking that his case for Obama depended much less on any accomplishments by the candidate than on his intelligence, character, “family heritage,” “life experiences,” and promise. Consider that section early on in which... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
27 Aug 08 : 18 | Barack, Hillary Barely Knows You Tonight, Hillary Clinton did a great job paying homage to her foremothers and to what was a historic candidacy--her own, if she did say so herself. She also did a decent job contrasting McCain and Republicans with Democrats, like her. But, as observed by the Fox News panel, among others, her praise... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
05 Sept 03 : 46 | The Smartest Take on Palin Yet ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg has what might be the smartest take yet on the Sarah Palin pick. Great stuff on McCain's flirtation with Joe Lieberman, on the meaning of the Palin selection, on what it says about McCain, and on what she says about America. The picture of Palin was painted last night:... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
05 Sept 00 : 09 | How Dare Sarah Palin Insult Community Organizers! Those trying to tarnish Sarah Palin's speech last night have decided to criticize Palin's alleged insult of community organizers: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities." MoveOn.org wrote in an email that Palin's speech "told... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
04 Sept 23 : 19 | Kristol: Thank You, Liberal Media Sarah Palin's speech last night apparently had an audience of some 37 million TV viewers, just a million fewer than tuned in last week for Barack Obama. Thank you, liberal media, for your herd-like idiocy and mean-spirited irresponsibility; you made her smashing success possible. Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
04 Sept 20 : 28 | About Last Night 1) I know I’m waddling in late here, and my tardiness presents a bit of a problem. There aren’t many ways of saying, “It was a great speech!” that haven’t already been exhausted. But it was a great speech, a campaign altering speech. For reasons still unknown, the Democrats based their... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
23 Aug 21 : 26 | McCain Goes After Obama on Abortion Via Jennifer Rubin, John McCain devotes his entire weekly radio address to criticizing Barack Obama's extremism on abortion, including Obama's vote on the born-alive bill (see the section in bold): The week began with a debate of sorts between Senator Obama and me at Saddleback Church in Lake... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
23 Aug 16 : 30 | Thank You, Barack! I have to admit to puzzlement over the Joe Biden selection. The conventional wisdom regarding vice-presidential nominees is first do no harm. Given that Biden has been a garrulous gaffe machine for his lengthy political career (36 years in the senate, although it feels like longer), it would seem... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
23 Aug 04 : 39 | Obama Campaign Abandons Red States Maybe Obama's media gurus read all the free advice I have for them here on the blog. Or maybe they're just finally catching on to the realities of this election. In either case, Obama staffers sacked their 50-state strategy days before the Denver convention and have begun focusing on the states they... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
22 Aug 16 : 50 | Obama’s "Underperformance" in the Polls By every historical indicator, Barack Obama should be doing much better in the polls. Why isn't he? Jeff Jones, who helps write the Editors’ Blog over at Gallup gives his believes that it’s not that Obama is underperforming, but that analysts’ expectations for the Democrat are too high given... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
04 Sept 07 : 45 | Hayes: Speech Thoughts Sarah Palin had to do one thing: She had to show that she belonged. Had she bombed or even stumbled a bit, the media's "unqualified" narrative would have gained currency and the questions about her vetting would have taken on new significance. She didn't. The speech was a masterpiece. She was... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
21 Aug 19 : 31 | Required Reading: Obama's Predicament From Reason.com, “The Loser Now is Later to Win” by David Weigel In this odd yet thoughtful (although sometimes incomprehensible) essay, Weigel diagnoses and seemingly laments Barack Obama’s latest predicament: The dynamic of the race now is summed up by the usual batch of oddly sexual... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
21 Aug 08 : 01 | Audio from 2002 of Obama Defending Opposition to the Born-Alive Bill Erick Erickson links to some audio purportedly of Barack Obama on the floor of the Illinois State Senate in 2002: Erickson says "I cannot vouch for the authenticity of it, but I trust the friend who sent it to me." According to the State Senate's online transcript database, the quote is real. ... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
20 Aug 19 : 28 | Obama Adviser Gives Advice to Syria Eli Lake reports that Daniel Kurtzer, an unpaid foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, took a little junket to Damascus last month: The next president, whether Republican or Democrat, will make a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement a priority only if the two sides, meeting now in Turkey, make... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
03 Sept 23 : 03 | Palin's Energy Expertise Larry Kudlow writes about Sarah Palin's experience dealing with energy issues: Coming from the natural-resource rich state of Alaska, Palin is an experienced energy expert. She knows more about the economics of energy than senators McCain, Obama, or Biden. And in this year of the oil-shock... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
19 Aug 23 : 38 | Obama Dreams of Single-Payer Health Care Yesterday, while speaking to an audience in New Mexico, Barack Obama admitted that he thought it would be great if American adopted a plan for universal health care: Barack Obama said he would consider embracing a single-payer health-care system, beloved by liberals, as his plan for broader... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
19 Aug 16 : 25 | Required Reading: Obama Ready to Soak the Rich From the Wall Street Journal, “For Obama, Taxes Are About Fairness” by William McGurn Great column here by McGurn, exploring the “soak the rich” tax mentality that characterizes Barack Obama’s campaign: Mr. Obama, by contrast, started out much more directly, suggesting that if you make... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
18 Aug 17 : 08 | Powell and Obama California politico Willie Brown predicts that Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama: I'm basing my forecast on a series of phone calls that I received this week. I can't say who called me, but I can tell you one of the questions I was asked: "What do you think the reaction would be if former... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
03 Sept 00 : 26 | Required Reading: McCain's Uncomplicated Love of Country From the Wall Street Journal, “Why McCain Still Has a Chance to Win” by Peter Robinson Forget the somewhat off-key title, which I would wager Robinson had nothing to do with. (That’s how it goes when you contribute op-eds to major dailies – trust me.) You’ll love this column, as it more... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
02 Sept 20 : 17 | Irregular Joe The New York Times follows Joe Biden to his hometown: "I give you my word as a Biden," [Biden] said, “if [Obama] grew up in my neighborhood as he did in Kansas being raised by his grandparents, he’d be our friend, he’d cover our back. That’s Barack Obama.” (Actually, Mr. Obama was raised... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
02 Sept 19 : 28 | Barnes: Lieberman's Independent Appeal Why is Joe Lieberman speaking at the Republican convention tonight? Simple. John McCain asked him to. Lieberman, the independent Democratic senator from Connecticut, long ago endorsed McCain for the presidency over his own party’s nominee, Barack Obama. But speaking to thousands of excited... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
02 Sept 16 : 17 | Ready on Day One? Ed Morrissey has gone through the bother of producing a thorough transcript of Barack Obama’s painful soliloquy on why he’s ready to handle any disaster as president. I think you’ll find the Hyde Park Hamlet’s logic as impressive as his eloquence: Anderson Cooper: Some Republican critics... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
17 Aug 00 : 34 | The Obama Campaign Courts Celebrities Obama is just back from his Hawaii vacation, so who can blame him for skipping tomorrow's fundraiser in the Hamptons? Going in his place will be Caroline Kennedy, and celebrity co-hosts "include Alec Baldwin, Christy Turlington Burns & Ed Burns, Barbara Lee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Carl... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
12 Aug 16 : 43 | Obama and McCain Cosponsored Resolution Supporting NATO Membership for... As John Noonan notes below, Fred Kaplan criticizes "the Bush people" and the "neocons" for supporting Georgia's bid for NATO membership: Bush pressed the other NATO powers to place Georgia's application for membership on the fast track. The Europeans rejected the idea, understanding the... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
12 Aug 06 : 47 | Obama Stumbles Presidential elections are decided by a series of important moments. This may be one of them. Barack Obama put out another statement on the developments in Georgia and moved even closer to where John McCain was at the moment the crisis began. He read it, on vacation in Hawaii, standing in front... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
11 Aug 19 : 22 | Daily Blog Buzz: OMG Obama 2 Announce VP by Text Message LOL! Want 2 B the first 2 know Barack Obama's VP choice? You can sign up to receive a text message alert when he decides! Is this a good idea? Hot Air's Ed Morrissey concludes, "Instead of looking presidential in making this announcement, Obama looks like a parent trying too hard to be hip around his... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
12 Aug 17 : 30 | Obama's Celeb Call-List Forget about the Hillary emails. More interesting is Obama'a correspondence with several celebrities. Obama lived in California for two years, matriculating at Occidental College, before transferring to Columbia. But before he left Los Angeles, he seems to have internalized the cult of... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
11 Aug 18 : 25 | Barack O'Fonda? Via Andrew Sullivan, Nate Silver asks: How can someone being portrayed as "the biggest celebrity in the world" also be painted as radical and out of the mainstream? Either Obama is like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton: a fluffy, substanceless, mass-consumed but empty celebrity-for-celebrity’s... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
08 Aug 02 : 10 | Big Oil Barack - The Logo Apropos of Jake Tapper's scoop showing that Barack Obama receives more money from Exxon/Mobil than John McCain, blogger Jeff Dobbs of The Voice in My Head (which you should be reading every day) has come up with a logo to convey the gravity of the situation. Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
30 Aug 23 : 27 | Kristol: Gingrich on the Power of Authenticity Newt Gingrich e-mailed me the following, which he gave me permission to share with the wider world: Authenticity is the one word threat to the Obama-Biden ticket. There is something going on this weekend which traditional pundits, traditional consultants and traditional... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
30 Aug 19 : 54 | Required Reading: Palin Playing in Peoria From Rasmussen Reports, “Palin Makes Good First Impression: Is Viewed More Favorably than Biden” by Scott Ramussen From Rasmussen Reports, “Daily Presidential Tracking Poll” by Scott Rasmussen Now I know why the left was so angry when John McCain selected Sarah Palin as his running mate... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
29 Aug 07 : 53 | A Defensive and Evasive Speech Barack Obama's speech was a historic event. From where I was sitting, the stadium shook. But Obama was clearly playing defense. People have said he isn't specific enough, so he filled the speech with specifics. He found it necessary to respond to McCain's jokey (and effective) "celebrity" ad. He... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
28 Aug 16 : 45 | About Last Night Our four day national nightmare is almost over. If we can just get through tonight! In the meantime, some thoughts on yesterday: 1) THE BIG HE - Everyone else went gaga over Bill Clinton. I didn’t, but then again objectivity when it comes to this particular political figure has never been my... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
28 Aug 18 : 39 | Required Reading: Just Like the Great Depression From the Wall Street Journal, “Economy Grew 3.3% in 2nd Quarter, Much Higher Than Initial Reading” by Jeff Bater and Brian Blackstone Okay, lets’ get a couple of things straight. There have been two whopping dislocations in the economy over the past year or so. The decline in home values and... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
27 Aug 22 : 48 | Beware Biden! When John Kerry tabbed John Edwards as his running mate in 2004, certain members of the pundit class swooned. They figured Edwards’ immense political skills would dramatically bolster Kerry’s chances. Me, I was perplexed. If John Edwards was in fact such a magnificent political talent, how come... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
27 Aug 16 : 58 | About Last Night Our four day national nightmare is now half over. Herewith, some thoughts on day two of the DNC. 1) I was doing commentary last night for New England Cable News last night, so I got to watch Hillary Clinton’s speech in the company of a couple of co-panelists who were devoted Hillary Clinton... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
26 Aug 22 : 20 | Required Reading: The Incorrigible Bill Clinton From The Hill, “Bill Clinton in Denver Again Undercuts Obama” by Sam Youngman Let me be clear – since he burst onto the political scene some 17 years ago, I have been no fan of Bill Clinton. It is thus confusing and disorienting to be feeling a tingling up my leg nearly every time the former... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
