Thoughts from some Tigers on Derek Jeter. I wanted Detroit to win, but it was very sad to see him carried off the field like that. I don’t tend to worship sports heroes, but it sounds like he’s a class act, despite the fact that he’s a Yankee. Here’s hoping that it’s not a career ender.
Meanwhile, unless the Yankees can pull off a miracle in Detroit, it’s looking like it may be another Tigers-Cards World Series. But the latter still have to wrap up their pennant.
…and the Deadly Tedium.
I have to confess that I’ve never read a word that she’s written.
Leave it to Ann Coulter: “Arlen Specter just switched to the Dead Party.”
De mortuis nil nisi bonum, so having nothing good to say, I have no comment.
…of low expectations:
Nothing works to destroy self-esteem quite like telling a black child he will be held to a far lower standard than whites, Asians, or Hispanics. Recognition that poverty plays a role in lower test scores is one thing; codifying that difference by telling students that you are expected to underachieve compared to other children is tantamount to surrender. The problem is too large and too complex to solve so we will hide our failure by simply dumbing down the standards by which we judge our own progress.
The bigotry actually isn’t all that soft.
Are the Benghazi attacks the equivalent for Barack Obama?
They should be.
…distracts from Big Bird. A must-read from Mark Steyn:
“There’s only one candidate in this race who is going to continue to fight for Big Bird and Elmo, and he is riding on this plane.”
She’s right! The United States is the first nation in history whose democracy has evolved to the point where its leader is provided with a wide-body transatlantic jet in order to campaign on the vital issue of public funding for sock puppets. Sure, Caligula put his horse in the Senate, but it was a real horse. At Ohio State University, the rapper will.i.am introduced the President by playing the Sesame Street theme tune, which, oddly enough, seems more apt presidential walk-on music for the Obama era than “Hail To The Chief.”
I can’t figure out who’s the bigger embarrassment to the Dems, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, or Stephanie Cutter.
Will this Obama/Biden message of “We killed Osama but they forgot to remind us about the blowback” really carry them past the election? The buck stops where?
I suspect that Mitt will make this a (to use a Bidenism) big effing deal during the debates.
[Update a couple minutes later]
More Hillary bus thoughts at PJMedia.
I critique it, over at PJMedia.
Good for the comedians, bad for the campaign.
I’ll be very interested to see what SNL does with it, if anything. It’s hard to see how they could resist.
The incipient war between the White House and the Clintons:
As of Friday afternoon, the White House, the State Department and the former president’s office did not return requests from The Daily Caller for comment on Klein’s reporting.
But as for the chance that Hillary Clinton would resign, Klein said in the interview: “At this moment, it appears unlikely that she’s going to do that. I mean that would be an extreme step for her to take.”
“Not only would it be hard to predict how it would play out as far as Hillary is concerned in the future, but it would certainly damage Obama’s chances for re-election if she resigned,” he said.
They say that like it would be a bad thing.