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More Obama Buyer’s Remorse

More buyer’s remorse from a former Obama supporter who now wishes he had supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic Primaries.  St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan opines:  Hillary was not new. She represented the second act of ‘Billary,’ and I had tired of that play long before it ended its eight-year run. So I voted for Obama in the […]

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Empty Suit

Dana Milbank has an excoriating piece in The Washington Post today on President Obama’s serial lack of leadership. It’s worth a read. What I find most interested in how ingrained the lack-of-leadership narrative has become, especially among the White House press corps. It will only grow more intense.  This could be a long 16 months for the […]

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Quote of the Day, Peggy Noonan

  “There was drama at the White House this week when a man tried to hurl himself over the fence. But the Secret Service intervened and talked the president into going back inside and finishing his term,” Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal, 08-05-11

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The 235,413 to Blame

  The culprits have been exposed.  Those greedy millionaires that President Obama and the Democratic Party have been pounding on for months have been identified.  There are 235,413 of them, according to solid reporting from Jennifer Epstein of Politico today.  They comprise .01% of the U.S. population.  A small subsection of them — 8,274 people– made more […]

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Greener Grass; Draft Hillary

University of Virginia Law School professor Christopher Sprigman tries to begin a Draft Hillary movement in the Chicago Tribune today. The former Obama supporter and Democratic National Committee lecturer blasts away at President Obama, writing: “I’m not a political expert, so I don’t know if Obama can be re-elected. I only know he shouldn’t be. […]

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Obama’s Very First Ad

http://youtu.be/UPy7RnHwvmA Thought it might be interesting to post the very first Obama for President campaign ad.  His committee wasn’t event formed when this spot went up.  It was aired by DraftObama.org, a precursor to Obama for President.   He sure looks a whole lot younger than he does today… Contrast the ad with President Obama’s remarks […]

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Obama in Major Trouble

There is a 2,800-word bombshell story in Politico this morning outlining the depth and multitude of challenges President Obama’s re-election team is facing. These pages have touched several times over the months on this, particularly how the state-by-state nature of presidential contests lines up against President Obama in November 2012.  In short, Obama is in big trouble, […]

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DNC Boosts Romney

In any primary campaign, the obvious strategy is to ignore your rivals and direct your fire at the general election opponent — and then fall to your knees to hope and pray that that candidate takes the bait and fires back. The point is to marginalize your primary opponents to irrelevance  by creating the perception that the race […]

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Quote of the Day, Eric Cantor

  “I think, frankly, he’s in over his head as to what to do about this economy,” Virginia congressman Eric Cantor on President Obama in interview with The Wall Street Journal. 

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Swing State Swindle

The federal government is now mandating that Pennsylvanians on public assistance be given free cell phones and monthly calling minutes on the public dime, The New York Post reports today.  And guess who pays for it?  Everyone else of course. The Obama Administration is using Pennsylvania, a swing-state in the 2012 election, as a test ground for this new […]

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