Archive for the ‘Barack Obama’ Category

September 23rd, 2012

Obama promises to put some grassroots pressure on Congress in a second term. About farking time.

September 21st, 2012

Yes, political change has to come from the outside as well as from the inside. But then why disband OFA rather than keeping it in the field?

September 20th, 2012

Barack Obama shows how to dance gracefully on the grave your opponent has dug for himself.

September 17th, 2012

Yes, that video is real. And it’s deadly.

September 17th, 2012

… can’t even keep his own staff from sliming one another when the going gets tough. The contrast with Obama is instructive.

September 14th, 2012

“One who, were it proved he lies, were neither shamed in his own, nor in his neighbors’, eyes.”

September 11th, 2012

Political prognosticators and pundits (including Nate Silver at 538) have long suggested that President Obama will be in more trouble the more the economy seems to be faltering.  This makes obvious sense.   But there is a way in which both a rational voter model and an attentional shift model could militate in the other [...]

September 9th, 2012

Mitt gives in.

September 8th, 2012

George Will is as intelligent a figure as the Red team has to show. If the best Will can come up with as an argument against Obama is to cite the lunatic ravings of a third-string Straussian about Obama’s hidden agenda - it seems he’s part of a conspiracy against the Constitution embracing Woodrow Wilson, [...]

September 6th, 2012

A freedom which only asks, “What’s in it for me?” - a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism - is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.


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