Senator Obama says he’s not going to take our guns away, because he doesn’t have the votes in Congress. What a politically brilliant thing to say in Pennsylvania. And he says that he’s not going to take them out of our house. What he doesn’t say is that he doesn’t want us to take them out of our house, either.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Defending “Community Organizers”
Iowahawk is on the job.
By the way, I’m about to get on an airplane to go back to get blown away by a hurricane, so no posting until this evening, if then.
Another Electoral Concern
Obama’s supporters don’t seem to believe in the Constitution:
While 82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obama’s supporters agree. Just 11% of McCain supporters say judges should rule based on the judge’s sense of fairness, while nearly half (49%) of Obama supporters agree.
This by itself is reason to vote for McCain.
Fool’s Paradise
People who go to work for the government with the expectation that it will provide them with retirement security are kidding themselves.
Getting local politicians *and* local unions to think more than a year or two is all but impossible. Do you realize that practically no local jurisdictions even have a Liabilities Budget?
It’s just part of that visionary and long-range thinking on the part of governments.
Off Guard
Here’s a Time article on how the Obama campaign plans to deal with Sarah. I was struck by the very first graf.
Nobody was more surprised by John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate than the people who run Barack Obama’s campaign. “I can honestly say that we weren’t prepared for that,” says David Axelrod, Obama’s top strategist. “I mean, her name wasn’t on anybody’s list. It was a surprise to a lot of Republicans as well.”
Well, why weren’t they prepared for it? A lot of the non-left blogs have been speculating about her for months. Rush reportedly was talking her up months ago, and there have been threads at Free Republic about her. She had come to Arizona to visit McCain’s house there. It was no big intellectual challenge to figure out that she was on the list, if not the short one.
Is this kind of intelligence cluelessness the way they plan to run the country?
Won Over
Bill Whittle is now sold on John McCain:
I had heard before that John McCain had been beaten in prison, and I admired him for it. But when he said he had been broken . . . I gasped. When this sometimes cocky, arrogant old man told me he had once been a cocky, arrogant young man until he was “blessed by hardship,” until he had been broken and remade — and in that remaking discovered a love of country so fierce and pure that even as a patriot myself I will never approach it — well, in that moment John McCain won my heart, to add to the respect and admiration he had already had.
When John McCain told me what I and untold millions of Americans have always believed, what others tell me to be ashamed of and mock me for — that I live in the greatest country in the world, a force of goodness and justice in dark places, a land of heroism and sacrifice and opportunity and joy — to me that went right to the mystic chords of memory that ultimately binds this country together. Some people don’t know what it is, but there is such a thing as patriotism — pure, unrefined, unapologetic, unconditional, non-nuanced, non-cosmopolitan, white-hot-burning patriotism. John McCain loves this country. I love it too. Not what it might be made into someday — not its promise, always and only its promise — but what it was and what it is, a nation and an idea worth fighting and dying for.
He also points out that Sarah has stolen Barack’s mojo. Read the whole thing.
Just How Stupid
…do all the people who were predicting that Sarah Palin would drop out within a couple days look now?
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Ann Althouse, on foolish Eagleton comparisons.
An Interesting Interview
…with Mike Griffin.
Not a lot new here for people who have been following it. And I would have a lot bolder vision for a “perfect world” than simply enough money to fly Shuttle while developing the Paintshaker. And he seems to be ignoring the issue that they share facilities and that mods have to occur (unless he was asking for enough money for new facilities for the new launcher).
And this is a useful point:
Q: When I tell non space people about the gap, the response is almost universally “you’re kidding.” Why is that?
Griffin: The ‘you’re kidding’ part and the lack of notice, for several years it was something fairly far off in the future. The actual circumstance doesn’t even occur in the next president’s administration unless that president gets two terms. It certainly wasn’t occurring in this president’s administration and it doesn’t occur in any of the next couple of Congresses, right? Nobody around today was certain to be on scene when the actual consequence occurs. Moreover, I don’t think anybody reading about it in the papers … thought really that it was going to be allowed to come to pass.
A lot of people argue that we need governments to fund things like this because private industry is too short sighted.
Give me a break.
Tied?
This is just one poll, but it indicates that either Obama didn’t get a convention bounce, or it was negated by events since (and the Republican convention didn’t really get going until last night). If it’s valid, it’s hard to see anything other than the Palin selection as the cause. And note the difference between this poll and the one on the weekend (eight points). As I noted previously, weekend polls are notorious for favoring Democrats.
Also, if valid, it’s bad news for Obama. If McCain gets a convention bounce, he’ll be well in the lead.
A Roundup Of Palin Reax
From Iowahawk.