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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 3 hours ago |
28 Aug 08 : 50 | Bill Clinton: My Excellent Foreign Policy In his speech last night, Bill Clinton said this: “My fellow Democrats, sixteen years ago, you gave me the profound honor to lead our party to victory and to lead our nation to a new era of peace and broadly shared prosperity. Together, we prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 11 hours ago |
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 12 hours ago |
28 Aug 02 : 24 | Dem Congressman: We Were Blinded by Ideology on the Surge A Hill aide points out this Seattle Times article, which reports that Democratic congressman Brian Baird is still a pariah in his own party for deciding to back the surge last August: Brian Baird was lonely enough back when all his Democratic friends thought he was wrong. But now that it appears... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 17 hours ago |
28 Aug 02 : 22 | The Biblical Obama Denver After visiting the Manifest Hope gallery, I did a dispatch with tons of pictures of the new Obama iconography. Some of it has to be seen to be believed. I was so moved by the change and the hope, that I dropped $20 on an Obama T-shirt: As you can see, this is more of an Old Testament... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 17 hours ago |
28 Aug 02 : 10 | Your Daily Dose of Dave Here's Dave Barry on Joe Biden: "The transformation of Joe Biden is one of the best story lines at this convention. A week ago, people would sprint from the room when Joe entered for fear he would start a sentence that might not end until Halloween. Now, suddenly, he is a towering stud muffin of... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 17 hours ago |
28 Aug 00 : 58 | An Interview with the Georgian Ambassador Denver Georgian Ambassador Vasil Sikharuldize is one of the busiest men at the Democratic National Convention, hopping from meeting to meeting to seek American aid for his embattled country. When I caught up with him Monday night, he told me that the need for $1 billion in economic assistance from... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 19 hours ago |
28 Aug 00 : 00 | Pro-Life Dems Denver It sounds like a joke: How many pro-life Democrats can you fit in a room? All of them! This afternoon, about 60 people gathered for a town-hall meeting of pro-life Democrats. Of this group, about eight were speakers and another dozen (at least) were media. Maybe the joke is right. That said,... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 20 hours ago |
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 27 hours ago |
27 Aug 08 : 13 | Dem Governors Gone Wild To follow up on Bill Kristol's report below, it looks like Mark Warner was moved earlier not just to let Deval Patrick bash McCain in prime time--but to get a back-to-back-to-back attack from Democratic governors Patrick, Ted Strickland, and Brian Schweitzer. Warner's speech was a paean to... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 35 hours ago |
27 Aug 01 : 56 | The Miracle of Birth at the Minnesota State Fair According to this Slate piece, those people arriving early to next week's Republican National Convention have a special treat waiting for them at the Minnesota State Fair. This year's fair features a new Miracle of Birth Center where visitors may witness the miracle from the comfort of the... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 42 hours ago |
27 Aug 00 : 53 | Required Reading: McCain! From Time.com, “McCain Prepared Remarks at American National Legion Convention” by John McCain While the speech John McCain gave this afternoon will lack the psychodrama of the Clinton antics this evening, I guarantee you McCain’s content will be more memorable: There are those who say that... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 43 hours ago |
26 Aug 23 : 22 | The Fortress of Solitude Found? Was anyone else distracted by last night’s not-so-jumbotron? It’s one thing to have Michelle and the girls look up to see their father on the big screen, just as Nancy once did, waving to Ron. But the eye-level image of Barack talking with his wife and daughters made me think of those memory... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 44 hours ago |
26 Aug 22 : 55 | The Fortress of Solitude Found? Was anyone else distracted by last night’s not-so-jumbotron? It’s one thing to have Michelle and the girls look up to see their father on the big screen, just as Nancy once did, waving to Ron. But the eye-level image of Barack talking with his wife and daughters made me think of those memory... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 45 hours ago |
26 Aug 18 : 37 | Required Reading: The Joe Biden Experience From National Review Online, “A Couple More Cents on Biden” by Jay Nordlinger If I were running the conservative punditocracy, the first thing I would do is chain Jay Nordlinger to his laptop like one of those monkeys in “Last Exit to Springfield” in order to force him to turn out more... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
26 Aug 05 : 30 | McCain: Counterprogramming in Hollywood John McCain is at the Beverly Hilton -- known to locals as the "John Edwards Beverly Hilton" -- raising money from Hollywood Republicans. There are seven people in attendance. Actually, the room can only hold 400 and many people wanting to buy tickets to the less-expensive reception were turned... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
26 Aug 04 : 58 | Convention Politics Up Close Denver Inside the Pepsi Center, sitting in a close-down row, I think I’m seeing Carmelo Anthony out there on the court. I think I see him muscling in for a leaner from about 12 feet, with a bunch of bodies sliding in for maybe a rebound. But no such luck. I’m at the Democratic Convention, not at... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
26 Aug 01 : 08 | Saddleback Outtakes For my story in this week’s issue, “The Faith-Based Campaign,” there were some details about Saddleback Church that I was not able to use, for space reasons, but may be of interest especially to people wanting to know more about this high-profile church: Saddleback is, by intention, “a... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
26 Aug 00 : 33 | Emily's List: No Boys Allowed Denver Four years ago, the gals at Emily's List refused to let Matt Labash cover their big event in Boston because no boys were allowed. Today the press people at Emily's List told me that they wouldn't be able to give me a credential for tomorrow's event where they're bringing Nancy Pelosi, Hillary... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
25 Aug 22 : 04 | Faint Praise Denver Hillary Clinton wasn't invited to address the DNC's Hispanic Caucus until early this morning. Nevertheless, she showed up at the Colorado Convention Center shortly after 10:30 for her first public talk to convention goers about Barack Obama. It was revealing in both what she did and did not... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
25 Aug 18 : 56 | I Wish I Owned Eight You’ll pardon me for having some confusion over the current state of Democratic thinking regarding multiple home ownership. In 2004, the Democratic standard bearer owned multiple houses, and yet the party figured his wartime valor trumped that purported stain. Present-day secular saint Al Gore has... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
25 Aug 17 : 37 | Managing Irrational (Clinton) Exuberance Senator Joe Biden’s selection as the Vice Presidential nominee creates a short-term challenge for the Obama campaign: how to manage disgruntled Clinton supporters at the convention. Disappointment among some women voters, of course, could plague the Illinois Senator for the duration of the... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
25 Aug 16 : 15 | Required Reading: From the Mouths of Liberals From Obamaweek, “A Liberal’s Lament” by Sean Wilentz First, a little quiz – who said it? “This year will not be a year of politics as usual. It can be a year of inspiration and hope, and it will be a year of concern, of quiet and sober reassessment of our nation's character and purpose.... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
23 Aug 20 : 21 | Reading Joe Biden Andrew Ferguson wrote a great send-up of Joe Biden's book (among other campaign books) in the THE WEEKLY STANDARD last December. [Biden] has published Promises to Keep, a nearly flawless specimen of the traditional campaign book--as perfect as the whitened teeth and Photoshop-blue eyes that gleam... 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 02 : 51 | Biden? Is the plane already on its way? Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation and the Washington Note reports that a key Biden staffer has cut short his family vacation in Hawaii to return to D.C.: Biden has a few people he's had around forever and some new additions to his insider crowd. Three of... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
22 Aug 20 : 33 | Obama Taking Pelosi's Lead on Chet Edwards for VP? There's some late breaking speculation that Obama will pick Texas congressman Chet Edwards as his running mate. Nancy Pelosi first floated the idea back in June. A few weeks ago, she said on ABC's This Week: "I didn't want to see a discussion of candidates for vice president without showing the... 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 |
22 Aug 00 : 26 | China's Demographic Time Bomb Nicholas Kristof writes today about the dazzling rise of China. I don't mean to over-extrapolate his argument, but he seems to be suggesting that in a generation, China will be the world's leading culture and economy. At least I think that's what he's getting at here: Now the world is reverting to... 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 16 : 53 | Obama on Powell From an interview with TIME Magazine: TIME: One of the biggest moments in the campaign is going to be your announcement of a vice president. What is that decision going to tell voters about you? Obama: Hopefully, the same thing that my campaign has told the American people about me. That I think... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
20 Aug 20 : 21 | Chicken Bingo Banned in Quebec I'm surprised that residents of Quebec would let animal rights activists get the better of them on their 400th anniversary: The Thetford Chicken Massacre is not as well-known as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but the controversial Quebec tradition in which participants place bets while decapitated... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
19 Aug 21 : 19 | Daily Blog Buzz: Veep Talk It's "Veep Week," says The Trail's Dan Balz, and practically every blogger has a contribution to what he calls the "orgy of speculation." Both candidates are expected to announce their VP before the end of next week. The New York Times reported yesterday that Barack Obama "has all but settled" on... 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 16 : 58 | A McCain Gotcha? Not So Fast Politico's Ben Smith, who has done some terrific reporting on this year's presidential race, has an item up on John McCain and evil. In it Smith suggests McCain is fudging facts -- or at least being careless -- for dramatic effect. The headline on the brief story, which occupied a spot on... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
17 Aug 19 : 09 | Sticking with McCain Saddleback Church Lake Forest, Ca. In the “message” room afterwards (“message” being a churchly word for spin), Gary Bauer, for McCain, having described the candidate’s performance as “a grand slam home run,” told me that “all this talk that Barack would peel off a significant... 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 |
15 Aug 16 : 55 | Georgia Not On Their Mind An interesting nugget from today’s Rasmussen Daily Snapshot: “Despite the Russian invasion of Georgia, daily tracking data shows no shift in voter priorities for Election 2008. Forty-one percent (41%) say economic issues are most important while just 22% name national security issues as the top... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
14 Aug 16 : 38 | Required Reading: Fooled by John Edwards From Salon.comhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/08/14/edwards/, “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye” by Walter Shapiro Shapiro laments how he bought John Edwards’s long stream of shinola only to be betrayed when Edwards’ true nature finally revealed itself in that Beverly Hills men’s room: ... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
13 Aug 16 : 36 | One America, Two Conventions Now that the Democrats say there's only one America, they're holding two conventions. The first Democratic Convention is on the second and third days and will feature the Clintons, and the second Democratic Convention will take place on the first and final day and will feature the Obamas. The... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
11 Aug 16 : 38 | Jolie's Indecision Is Opportunity for McCain Angelina Jolie hasn't endorsed a presidential candidate, and tells reporters despite (political) overtures from both Obama and McCain "she's waiting to see what commitments each makes on international relief issues." For those on the right who think Jolie is a lost cause, recall that she wrote an... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
11 Aug 16 : 54 | The Heart of the Left Over the past week, several of our friends from the organization Vets for Freedom (VFF) have returned to Iraq. All of the men and women on the trip are veterans of the Iraq War, most of them combat veterans. The idea was that they would return to the areas where they served so they could see what... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
07 Aug 22 : 47 | Hillary's Finally Got a Crush on Obama In an online chat with supporters today, Hillary Clinton wrote: "I am so pleased that Senator Obama shares my commitment to universal health care." Of course, during the primaries Clinton argued that Obama's plan was not universal. She said to Obama during one debate: You know, when I proposed a... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
05 Aug 02 : 43 | Quote of the Day From the great James Lileks: In the summer of ’78 I was back home in Fargo between college years – exiled from the civilized world, cast into barbarity. During the day I labored under the hot sun painting giant fuel tanks in the hot sun, next to an auto-body shop that exhaled poison and Eagles... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
01 Aug 19 : 03 | Obama's Gift to the Late Night Hosts Blasting McCain's latest ad, Obama meant to say the 30-second spot featured Britney Spears. Instead he said Hillary Clinton. Oops, he did it again. Check it out: "Now we’ve got ads about Britney and Paris," Obama said referencing McCain's new ad comparing his opponent to the young celebrities,... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
28 Jul 18 : 45 | Only Top Shelf for the Obama Campaign The Obama campaign is not just spending thousands on coffee. It's also racked up a fairly sizable bill for wine and assorted booze. In total, the Obama campaign has charged over $6,100 at Sam's Wine and Spirits in Chicago. And the luxuries don't stop there. They spent nearly $2,800 on 14 meals at an... Source : Weekly Standard Blog |
28 Aug 19 : 56 | Georgia on Almost Everybody's Mind George F. Will: "[D]ecades hence, historians will write about today's response to Russia by the West, perhaps in obituaries for the idea of 'the West.' If Obama does not speak to this crisis Thursday night, that will speak volumes." He's right, of course. As you listen to the assembled Democrats... Source : Weekly Standard Blog 25 minutes ago |
