I’ve often wondered what would happen if a popular presidential candidate stopped showing up at events around the country, instead relying 100% on surrogates to extol his advantages. “John Smith is qualified, busy — and he’s not a blow-hard.” That would be the essential message. That’s the way campaigns were waged in the old days, when […]
Read the rest of this entry »The [Steve] Jobs Plan President Obama Ignored
Fascinating read in the Huffington Post this morning on a meeting between the late Apple chairman Steve Jobs and President Obama. Mr. Jobs, who was a vocal Obama supporter in 2008, reportedly told Mr. Obama that he would be a one-term president, in part because of his anti-business policies. Jobs also harshly criticized America’s teachers […]
Read the rest of this entry »Stark Raving Joe
Persistent rumors have abounded — and have been shot down with equal persistence — that Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might swap positions for the 2012 elections. The argument is that Biden adds nothing to the 2012 ticket — and that he yearns to be Secretary of State — while […]
Read the rest of this entry »Meet the New Bus; Same as the Old Bus
President Obama is boarding a bus for a three-day visit to 2012 must-win swing-statesVirginia and North Carolina. And his handlers are insisting politics have nothing to do with the President’s visits this time, USA Today reports, so the trip can be 100% funded by taxpayers. Is it me, or is this White House reaching the surreal?
Read the rest of this entry »Obama’s Victims & Demons
Charles Krauthammer writes thoughtfully this morning on a point I touched on last week to some criticism: In an attempt to fire up his base, President Obama has ginned up a dangerous climate of blame-the-other-guy in this country. Krauthammer calls it “The Scapegoat Strategy.” He writes: Obama’s new strategy: Don’t whine, blame. Attack. Indict. Accuse. Who? The rich […]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama Wanted to Apologize to Who?
Investor’s Business Daily is reporting that President Obama sought to publicly apologize to the Japanese government for America’s use of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. The weapons probably saved more than one hundred thousand U.S. lives, one of them being my father’s. He was on his way to Japan for the […]
Read the rest of this entry »How Will Herman Do?
A lot of eyes will be on businessman Herman Cain in tonight’s Republican Primary debate in New Hampshire. Cain’s dramatic rise in the polls is being seen as a temporary phenomenon by most political professionals. But what if he continues to excel in the polls? What if he continues to get better as a candidate? Is there room for a complete outsider in […]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama the Leader
President Obama is being wrongly accused of failing to lead the nation. His leadership is now on clear display in lower Manhattan any day of the week. It’s in the 1968-retread slogans painted on cardboard signs in Zuccotti Park. It’s on the faces of the young people scrawling them day and night. It’s in […]
Read the rest of this entry »Steady Wins the Race
If rumors are accurate that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is going to skip jumping into the presidential primary — and they appear to be— the grand winner of all the hype will be former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who is trodding slowly but surely toward the nomination. Speculation over Governor Christie began in earnest […]
Read the rest of this entry »Paul vs. Hellfire
You have to give credit to Ron Paul for speaking his mind about things, but in objecting to the successful drone strike on American al Qaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, Congressman Paul has shown that he’s not seriously trying to win the presidency. He’s only running to advance a palate of rigid libertarian ideals. If Mr. […]
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