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Political Commentary

Don’t Know Much About History

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Apparently, the president is as ignorant of history as he is of math.

I like this idea:

The fact that Obama quickly gets lost in the weeds when he’s taken off message should put a big fat bull’s-eye on him for any of his opponents in his upcoming reelection campaign. A point I’ve made in other forums and repeat here is this: A sufficiently ruthless opponent would not defer to him but take any and every opportunity to discomfit him. What this, and similar episodes, shows is that he has never had to deal with a very public event, from which he cannot escape, in which he’s lost control and is being made to look bad. That thin veneer of cool would quickly melt. He doesn’t improvise well and doesn’t know when to stop digging: it’s tough when you believe deeply that you’re the smartest guy in the room. In fact, the person he least respects has the greatest opportunity here. Media mavens that run our so-called debates can be counted on to try to keep things predictable. Obama’s opponents should not accommodate that ruse.

The great thing is that it’s not something he can fix. It would require him to completely reconstruct his self image, and his ego would never allow it. A Fred Thompson would have destroyed Obama in every debate. McCain wasn’t capable of it, either intellectually or by temperament. Oh, and I agree with John Hindraker that the president is not a smart man. He just plays one on teevee. I’ll be this is why we aren’t allowed to see his transcripts.

[Update a few minutes later]

Obama: “Mistakes? I can’t think of any.”

[Late morning update]

The president misunderstands Passover as well. No surprise, given all the years he spent in Reverend Wright’s anti-semitic church.

Business, Economics, Political Commentary

Six-Dollar Gas?

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It could happen, if the dollar continues to fall. And the White House seems determined to make that happen.

I have an idea for an ad campaign next year. Show a video clip of Obama back in ’08, talking back how “gas prices will necessarily go up” to carry out his green agenda, or about “bankrupting the coal industry.” Then end the ad with, “He got what he wanted. Did you?”

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture

To The Consternation Of The Suits In Hollywood

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Atlas Shrugged seems to be doing pretty well:

business has been brisk enough for producers Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro to expand from 299 theaters to 425 this weekend and to 1,000 by the end of the month. They don’t have enough film prints to fill all the orders.

“Things have turned for us,” Kaslow said. “When we started, exhibitors were not embracing the film like we thought they would. Now, we can pretty much go into as many theaters as we want. It’s just a matter of logistics.”

Unexpectedly!

Though he’s still cautious, this would bode well for Parts 2 and 3.

Political Commentary, Space

Back To CA

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The conference was very interesting, and I hope useful in the longer run, and I want to thank the Cornhuskers for their hospitality. Stayed at a very nice hotel downtown (Cornhusker Marriott) that would have been at least three benjamins a night in DC, for only one. I didn’t blog it yesterday because I was busy finalizing my own talk on Civil Reserve Space Fleet, Space Guard, and my three rules of space policy which are:

Rule 1: Space is not important. Over the fold for the other two: Continue reading Back To CA →

Political Commentary

Thoughts On The Latest Thuggery And Brown Shirtery

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…in Madison. Glenn Reynolds has a pithy explanation:

Because to them, politics is sports and religion rolled into one.

I think that’s true as far as it goes, but it’s also an extremely intolerant religion, and the sports fans are like British football thugs.

[Late evening update]

“Why do “liberals” applaud awful behavior?”

Once you understand that they’re not really liberals, it becomes a little more clear.