The Untrained Ear

Peggy Noonan, in a piece about Barack Obama in the April 18 edition of the Wall Street Journal, pinpoints the crucial qualities of a political spouse. It wasn’t the focus of her article, so I wanted to ensure it got noticed with particularity:
[Michelle Obama] has a great deal that would be attractive in a [...]

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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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Barack Obama’s March 18 speech on race relations in the United States (note that I deliberately did not characterize it as a “speech explaining his voluntary choice of the Trinity Church, and Jeremiah Wright as the pastor, for himself, his wife and his daughters,” because that wasn’t in fact what the speech was about), should, [...]

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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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So here’s Barack Obama’s first major written statement on his relationship with his pastor, Jeremiah Wright — and remember, the issue here is not Jeremiah Wright’s statements themselves (though it is easy to see why people would be outraged by them), but rather Barack Obama’s voluntary 20-year relationship with Wright.
While many others were ooo-ing and [...]

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