Daily Archives: November 19th, 2008 «

 

Hillary Clinton might as well have been elected

Posted by: ST on November 19, 2008 at 7:44 pm » 6 Comments

… when you consider all the former Clinton admin officials Obama has tapped to work in his administration. Jim Geraghty sees some silver lining in all this. Jake Tapper speculates that Obama has a thing for the 90′s. Me? I’m tryin’ to lose myself tonight in a little music from that era:

 

Ayman al-Zawahiri calls Obama a “House Negro”

Posted by: ST on November 19, 2008 at 4:06 pm » 7 Comments

So, like, does the insult mean that the far left will finally be on board with conservatives on taking the fight to terrorists wherever they may be hiding, rather than worrying about their “rights”? Here’s the English translation of Zawahiri’s message.

 

Quote of the day

Posted by: ST on November 19, 2008 at 12:57 pm » 7 Comments

Via National Review: I don’t know what’s more grating, the quasi-bigotry that has you calling religious Christians low brows, gorillas and oogedy-boogedy types or the bravery-on-the-cheap as you salute — in that winsome way — your own courage for saying what (according to you) needs to be said. Please stop bragging about how courageous you [...]

 

Is Mitt Romney laying the groundwork for a 2012 run?

Posted by: ST on November 19, 2008 at 9:39 am » 3 Comments

He’s sounding very fiscally conservative in his New York Times opinion piece on the auto industry’s push for bailout money from Washington, but as James Joyner points out, he was sounding a decidedly different tune when he was running for the GOP nomination earlier this year. What’s changed? Maybe Romney saw the writing on the [...]