As the president said four years ago, when you’re desperate, you make the campaign about little ideas.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
George McGovern
It is amazing how far to the left the party has drifted over the decades since. I don’t think my father, who died a third of a century ago would recognize it. I actually had a McGovern sticker patching up a tear in the rear window of my MGA in 1972, but I was a callow youth, slightly too young to vote. If I hadn’t been, it would have been the other vote that I regretted (the first one was for Carter in 1976 — I wised up by 1980).
Desperation
When it strikes incumbents.
This is why they resort to binders and Big Bird.
“Not Optimal”
Here are some other things that aren’t.
A Trojan Horse In California
Why California voters should oppose Proposition 31.
The Preference Cascade
Just in time for Halloween, a scary campfire story.
If you’re an Obama supporter, that is.
Candy Crowley
The analogy seems a little mild to me. It’s more like she let Obama commit a facemask on Romney, but he was still running toward the end zone, so she helped tackle him.
Binders
The Amazon reviews, by and for women.
I’m not impressed. I keep a bunch of supermodels in an accordion file, myself.
[Update a few minutes later]
Frank J.: “Binders of desperation.”
Fog Of War?
…or fog of lies?
Col. David Hunt has persuaded me that the attack was followed in real time not merely by the State Department but more than a hundred people in the White House situation room as well as in similar facilities within DoD and intelligence agencies. Logs [would have been] kept noting what officials entered these facilities, when they were notified, what decisions were requested/made, what was said by officials, etc., etc.
Col. Hunt paints this picture based not on direct knowledge but on his extensive knowledge of how these government agencies conduct crisis management operations. Obviously, in a six hour crisis there was plenty of time for all the various crisis management facilities to come on line, something that Col. Hunt depicts as happening pretty much instantly.
I am persuaded by this picture, and I think it leaves a dramatic — and much more damning — impression of the alleged confusion, passivity, and disengagement of the president.
Sounds about right.
A Meaningless Phrase
And yet there are never any consequences. Well maybe there will be some in three weeks.