The morning shows are wall-to-wall (column-to-column?) chatter about the Temple of Barack. And it is something to behold.
How many left hands can you have? Howard Kurtz says: at least one more. Is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow really an “unwilling symbol” of the ideological drift in cable news or the latest beneficiary? (Who knew that MSNBC was “lodged firmly on the left”?) Like Howard Wolfson said, it is not exactly the Huntley-Brinkley network anymore, huh?
Further support for my favorite McCain strategy: run against Congress!
A number of liberals and MSM types (but I repeat myself) were less impressed with the Joe Biden speech than I. Maybe I got suckered in by the personal story.
A perfect diagnosis of what ails Barack Obama: “His problem is that there is nothing in it to suggest he has spent any significant time thinking about these people other than as a political abstraction. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it is so hard for them to get a sure grip on him. When a politician leaves no political trail, some voters get lost. For Sen. Obama, after this long campaign, too many still look lost.”
A very interesting take on Barack Obama –evasive, ambitious, aloof, and not given to nitty-gritty work. An odd combination for a presidential candidate.
The GOP has had a good week, but it really all depends on the speech tonight. Have they prepared the battlefield sufficently? (The Barack Temple was pure luck, but they figured out Obama’s weakness and he rewarded them by playing to type.)
A stunning 2004 Barack Obama interview: you can’t cut and run from Iraq. Read the whole thing.
If Bob Beckel can figure it out you would think someone on the Obama team would have too. But no, the columns stand. It is not like sympathetic pundits didn’t warn them. (“Obama’s backdrop gives off much more of a Temple of Delphi-vibe than a Lincoln Memorial-one. This might turn out to be the greatest stage screw up since Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge set.”)
“Enough with the overkill“! Now he tells us.
No intent to try to script Joe Biden? It’s not like it would ever work.
The McCain team might learn something: a questionable VP pick right before the Convention can be quite disruptive. (It helps to have a defined message going in, of course.)
Everyone thinks this election is 1992 or 1980. Maybe it is 2004.
David Frum is right about the “optics.”
One of the many benefits of Hillary Clinton is that she frees liberals to shred ridiculous Democratic archetypes. Somehow when she says these things, they realize how appallingly dishonest and cloying they are. Funny how they never ragged on John Edwards for promising Christoper Reeve would walk again if Democrats were in the White House.
The MSM concedes the limits of personal diplomacy? National security isn’t based on interpersonal charm? Well, when it is George W. Bush. You don’t think they might conclude that Barack. . . nah, never mind.
What’s not to love? Ever the class act at Camp Obama.
