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Tuesday, Jan 12
Americans Give Obama a Mixed Report Card for His First Year
Many millions of those “swing voters” who backed him are now dissatisfied with his performance. Support from those voters made Mr. Obama a solid winner, unlike Al Gore and John Kerry who narrowly lost in 2000 and 2004. But the bad news for President Obama is considerable.
Friday, Apr 3
Political Wisdom: Obama Diverges from American Exceptionalism
The G20 turned out to be a good indicator of how different President Barack Obama’s perceptions of the world are different from George W. Bush and John McCain’s visions of it. The G20 turned out to be a good indicator of how different President Barack Obama’s perceptions of the world are diff...
Tuesday, Dec 23
Political Wisdom: Sarah Palin, Wishing She’d Said More
Meanwhile, on the winning side of that campaign, there is much speculation about just how much the team President-elect Obama is putting together is filled with veterans—“retreads,” to the critics—from the Bill Clinton administration. Slate’s Chris Wilson lends a hand sorting out th...
Thursday, Nov 13
Opinion: Political Wisdom: Republican Hand-Wringing Continues
David Freddoso of National Review also looks at the meaning of the Democrats’ money advantage this year. “Conservative donors’ disillusionment and liberal donors’ enthusiasm helped Democrats win close races and compete in regions where their left-wing message is usually greeted co...
Tuesday, Oct 21
Political Wisdom: Is it Worth Covering Palin At All?
Speaking of the Republican vice presidential nominee, Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times looks into her college career, and finds she left few footprints. Among professors and classmates, Abcarian writes, “Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin…is barely remembered at all. In the five years of he...
Tuesday, Oct 14
Political Wisdom: Should Palin be ‘Pleased’ Over Troopergate?
Beyond that, Iraq is “turning out to be a clear American victory. No one can now believe that withdrawal by March 2008, as Sen. (Barack) Obama once advocated, would have been anything but an utter calamity. McCain needs to continue to emphasize the dire consequences of accepting such a defea...
Wednesday, Sep 24
Political Wisdom: A Pretty Good Day for McCain and Palin
What if Sen. John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin had a good day and nobody was watching? Alexander Burns of Politico sees Tuesday as that kind of day. “Go figure: on the first day in more than a week that the McCain campaign had its act together, the media was focused on bailout negotiation...
Thursday, Sep 11
Political Wisdom: Would Hillary Have Trumped Palin?
If only it had been Hillary…Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard argues that Sen. Barack Obama would be better off right now if he’d only chosen Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate instead of Sen. Joseph Biden. “Obama had his reasons,” Barnes writes, “particularly his discomfort with her a...
Wednesday, Sep 10
Political Wisdom: Democrats Rough Up a Lady (Palin, That Is)
The Democrats, a bit unnerved by the rise of Gov. Sarah Palin, are hoping to blunt that rise by getting a little rough with the lady. Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Politico write that “Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are intensifying their attacks on Sarah Palin, as her sustained and s...
Tuesday, Sep 9
Political Wisdom: Bristol Palin and a ‘Weird Anger’ on the Left
Meantime, Palin gets harped on once again for not yet subjecting herself to any meaningful interviews with journalists. “McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden all subjected themselves to tough questioning on the regular Sunday news programs. Palin was the only no-show…McCain’s advisers...
Saturday, Sep 6
Political Wisdom: Sarah Palin Can Have Star Power Too!
If Barack Obama can make being wildly inexperienced seem like no big deal thanks to his mesmerizing presence, why can’t Sarah Palin do the same thing? Well maybe she can – and she’ll probably have to, writes The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer. John McCain’s strongest attack again...
