The Untrained Ear

Shelby Steele’s insightful and incisive piece on Barack Obama in the Wall Street Journal as a “bargainer” candidate — a candidate who offers whites racial innocence, and blacks the opportunity to “document the end of inferiority” — bears reading. One of the corollaries to the “bargainer” concept that Steele discusses is the power, and [...]

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When Hillary Clinton was caught in an obvious and blatant lie, she resorted to a standard politician tactic — “Bait Throwing.”
Let’s look at this elegant example of Bait Throwing (from, of all places, an NPR report):
Clinton told reporters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that she erred in describing the scene, which she now realizes after talking [...]

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Michelle Malkin has a beautiful compilation that tracks the arc of Hillary Clinton’s fantasy about what her trip to Tuzla (in Bosnia) was like.
As a summary for those who don’t marinate themselves in the daily brew of the ongoing Presidential campaigns:
Mrs. Bill Clinton attempted to bolster her supposed international relations expertise (and an image of [...]

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