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Golden fools.
Don’t leave this post today before casting your vote for the Obamateurism of the Week! We’re not recycling anything this week, on Obama’s behalf or anyone else’s. Just remember Obama’s advice to treat others as you would yourself, until, er, you don’t want to anymore. What was the Obamateurism of the Week (5/13)? Previous weekly [...]
Culture.
Former President George W. Bush’s pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggesting a shift in the way the GOP discusses same-sex marriage… “Recommendation: A statement reflecting recent developments on this issue along the following lines: “‘People who believe in equality under the law as a [...]
Eleanor Rigby.
You’ve come a long way, baby. The old advertising motto that targeted women who thought of themselves as liberated in the 1970s came with no small measure of irony, since the point of the ad was to get women hooked on Virginia Slims cigarettes. Jessica Gavora sees a similar kind of irony in the Barack [...]
Desperate for cash?
Barack Obama insists that corporations and lobbyists will have nothing to do with funding the Democratic National Convention, a requirement that has put convention organizers into an $20-million hole. They recently tried to get unions to fill the gap, but apparently didn’t get much response from their sales pitch. On Thursday, the co-chair of the [...]
Guess what it says?
If you’re wondering what a second term for Barack Obama might mean, look no further than the EPA. According to the publication Inside EPA, the agency has created a simulator for a cap-and-trade system, a rather extensive project that doesn’t appear to just be theoretical. It’s not exactly a secret, either. Enterprising citizens who want [...]
Yeah.
If this is what the left needs to tell itself to come to terms with the prospect of defeat, so be it. We all find our own paths through the Kubler-Ross model, my friends. Don’t mock someone just because they’re momentarily stuck on stage one. Bill Clinton allegedly thinks O’s “incompetent” and an “amateur,” but [...]
Scandal.
What do you think, guys? Do we let The One slide on this or should we indulge in a little end-of-the-week outrageous outrage over a shiny news object of our own? What would the left do? Or rather, let me rephrase: What did the left do four days ago? Do note, this comes from a [...]
Party of Ideas™.
I think I’m going to make this a regular Friday feature. We’ll be dealing with a new Obama-manufactured nontroversy every week from now until the economy starts to wake up and give him something meaningful to talk about. Why not try to guess next week’s shiny object ahead of time? Says the Examiner: The Labor [...]
Trouble.
Fascinating numbers which I think bear out one of my points in this post last night about why the states keep banning gay marriage when national polls show a majority in favor. When asked whether they approve of O’s new stance on SSM, 51 percent say yes versus just 45 percent who say no. (Among [...]
Backtracking.
On Wednesday, I pointed out that Barack Obama’s so-called “all of the above” energy plan, as explained on his campaign website, had a very large omission. This graphic represented the energy policy on which Obama was campaigning for re-election: In case the graph on the left isn’t clear enough, here it is by itself: Oddly, [...]
Oh oh, O.
With all of his other competition out of the way, no one should be surprised how Mitt Romney stacks up against other Republicans in the Oregon primary, set for next Tuesday. A new SurveyUSA poll shows Romney with 58% of the vote, with Ron Paul in a distant second at 14%, which means that the [...]
Memory.
Yesterday, Barack Obama told an audience at a campaign rally that “sometimes I forget” the magnitude of the recession … and today, the RNC wants to make sure everyone remembers this quote. Their rapid-response team already has a video spot up less than 24 hours later, complete with somber, funereal music and the obvious data [...]
"It means nobody can run for President."
Not just the timing, either. Joe Scarborough also questions the prominence of the Washington Post hit piece, as well as its relevance. Mediaite captures the discussion on Morning Joe this morning, as Joe scoffs at the media reaction to Barack Obama’s “big nothingburger” of an evolutionary statement (via Freedom’s Lighthouse): “It means nobody can run [...]
What happens when you end up on Obama's enemies list.
Allahpundit e-mailed me this today, calling it “a perfect end to Bully Week.” While the media ties itself in knots over an alleged incident of bullying in 1965 involving Mitt Romney, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel reports on how ending up on Barack Obama’s enemies list brings out the bullies on the Left. Frank [...]
Bad week at the O corral.
A bad jobs report and an evolution out of the mainstream didn’t do any favors for Barack Obama’s standing in the presidential race against Mitt Romney. Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll shows Obama dropping back seven points in the three-day rolling average, while Romney hits the 50% mark for the first time: The Rasmussen Reports daily [...]
Wages of bad data.
Eight states will cut off long-term jobless benefits this weekend, which comes from an agreement in Washington to dial down the length of benefits from 99 weeks to 79. The move will add more than 230,000 to the numbers of those cut off in 19 other states, bringing the total this year to over 400,000 [...]
“President Obama just ‘evolved’ himself into a one-term president.”
Hey, who would have dreamed that Mitt Romney could use evolution to unite the social-conservative base? Thanks to Barack Obama’s “evolution” on same-sex marriage, and Romney’s declaration that he will remain unmoved on the topic, social conservatives who had heretofore pledged to remain on the sidelines are now suiting up for November: Social conservatives who [...]
"Amateur," "incompetent."
Still think that Barack Obama might pull a convention surprise and put Hillary Clinton on the ticket and bounce the human gaffe machine Joe Biden out of his administration? Edward Klein has a reminder for all of us why Hillary wasn’t on the ticket in 2008. The title for Klein’s new book for Regnery on [...]
"Amateur," "incompetent."
Still think that Barack Obama might pull a convention surprise and put Hillary Clinton on the ticket and bounce the human gaffe machine Joe Biden out of his administration? Edward Klein has a reminder for all of us why Hillary wasn’t on the ticket in 2008. The title for Klein’s new book for Regnery on [...]
Values.
A few hours before President Obama offered his historic endorsement of same-sex marriage on Wednesday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. apologized to the president in the Oval Office for forcing Mr. Obama’s hand by airing his own views three days earlier, several people briefed on the exchange said on Thursday… People who know both [...]
Uh oh.
Via BuzzFeed, pity our poor media that it was The One who said this and not Romney. The difference is a full day’s worth of breathless coverage of a callous elitist who’s out of touch with America’s economic hardship. Maybe two, unless they get interrupted with a hot story about a teen Mitt beating someone [...]
"I'm getting job offers left and right."
To cleanse the palate, the perfect follow-up to Ed’s Hollywood post this morning and the answer to the lingering question in my post yesterday about what Lovitz meant when he said his celebrity pals had soured on O. I took that to be a standard liberal critique: They elected Obama to raise taxes and institute [...]
Lies and charades.
Whatever your feelings about Joe Biden, let’s thank him for sparing us the unbearable treacle of Behar et al. swooning over The One as he finally owned up to a position he’s none-too-secretly held and lied about for decades. Seriously, does anyone believe this? President Barack Obama planned to announce his support for same-sex marriage [...]
Political calculations.
Take a listen to this clip from ABC’s full interview with Barack Obama on same-sex marriage. When Robin Roberts pressed Obama about whether he was angry at Joe Biden for forcing the President’s hand on the issue, Obama says that Biden “got out a little over his skis” on the topic, but that he doesn’t [...]
Same-sex marriage strategery.
Or had he just misplaced it? Michael Hastings reports for BuzzFeed that Barack Obama’s support in Hollywood has waned, and not just with Jon Lovitz. The entertainment industry had concluded that the Obama administration had flopped — or at least they had until yesterday: Though Lovitz is on the conservative end of California liberal, complaints [...]
Another meme bites the dust.
Thankfully, our long national nightmare is over: Mitt Romney apologized on Thursday morning for pranks he helped orchestrate in high school that he said “might have gone too far,” including an incident in which he pinned down a fellow student and cut his hair. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was responding to an article published a few hours [...]
"Unexpectedly"!
Looks like Goldman Sachs has the right perspective on first-quarter growth, although perhaps not the right amplitude. Earlier this week, GS warned investors that the Q1 GDP estimate would drop to 1.9% based on limited warehouse inventory expansion, but that the trade numbers for March might push it down even further. Today, the Commerce Department [...]
So much for the "bigotry" argument.
If the President expects to get a boost at the ballot box over his flip-flop on same-sex marriage, the composition of North Carolina’s vote on Tuesday might indicate a big problem in his strategy. Obama came out publicly against Amendment One, which shifted the state’s ban on same-sex marriage from statute to constitutional amendment, and [...]
Distractions.
And so the general election media coverage begins. I guess the Washington Post ran out of stories based on Seamus the Roof-Ridin’ Dog. Despite demonstrating zero curiosity over Barack Obama’s college transcripts to check on just how brilliant the academic actually was, the Post now has a big expose on Mitt Romney’s high school career [...]
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