Archive for September, 2008

Fossilized Foreign Policy

Fossilized Foreign Policy
On the international scene, Barack Obama is five years out of date.
By Victor Davis Hanson
… Obama for years has been talking grandly of curbing anti-Americanism. But reciting myths to screaming Berliners — that the world, rather than the U.S. Air Force, once saved Berlin from the Russians — or citing our own misdemeanors [...]

Obama Up, Obama Down

Victor Davis Hanson
September 10th, 2008
Obama Needs to Get Back to the Teleprompter and the Economy
Campaigns are cyclical. They ebb and flow. McCain no doubt will have a bad week characterized by Biden-like gaffes and getting off message. We all remember McCain’s ugly green backdrop behind his acceptance speech, and “my friends” ad nauseam.
Still, if some [...]

Palinomania

Victor Davis Hanson
pajamasmedia.com
If the post-Speech reaction of the talking heads at CNN, PBS and MSBNC, or the op-ed ravings of Gloria Steinem, Maureen Dowd, Eleanor Clift or Sally Quinn are any indication, the Secret Service better enlist the Alaskan National Guard for help ensuring the Alaskan Governor’s safety.
A beautiful, confident, articulate, independent, accomplished and conservative [...]

Credit where it’s due

Thursday, September 04, 2008
From “the corner” at NRO
Mark Steyn
I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - as a hillbilly know-nothing permapregnant ditz, half of whose 27 kids are the spawn [...]

A Shameful Week for the Press

NRO “the corner”
Yuval Levin
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
I have always tended to think that conservative complaints about the media are a little exaggerated. There are occasionally obvious instances of bias and clear examples of a double standard, but most reporters don’t want to fall into those and some conservatives are surely too sensitive to them. But [...]