davidl on January 9th, 2012

Old Chinese proverb, never get into political urination contest with a politician with a tighter OODA Loop.    Christie may be fat,  but he knows how to turn inside an Occutard political ambush, video:

Hat tip video:  Nice Deb

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davidl on December 31st, 2011

If being voluntarily associated  with a racist  is bad for one politician, it should not be good for another,  yet,, Roger Simon, PJ Media:

That inability to select even marginally acceptable (non-racist) employees and colleagues should, on the face

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davidl on November 3rd, 2011

The media frenzy about trying lynch a black man in one graph:

Hat tip: New Busters

Hat tips:  Newsbusters, and Lonely Conservative.

This is what racism looks like The media will condone rape by a iberal white politician but dare a black

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davidl on March 7th, 2011

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The Audacity of a Dope, Jack Kelly explains the political phenomenon formerly attributed to one Barack Husien Obama, from RCP:

Mr. Obama’s campaign speeches consisted mostly of empty platitudes, which nevertheless were greeted with wild applause.

“Obama’s appeal comes

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davidl on January 27th, 2011

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SOTU reax, Washington Post:

PRESIDENT OBAMA entered office promising to be a different kind of politician – one who would speak honestly with the American people about the hard choices they face and would help make those hard

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davidl on January 10th, 2011

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Christina-Taylor Green, from Stephanie Innes, Arizona Daily Star:

Aspiring politician Christina-Taylor Green was born in the midst of tragedy on Sept. 11, 2001, and died Saturday morning while trying to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

The strong-willed 9-year-old third-grader

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2010

Doug Mataconis over at OTB, is commenting on the Anti-Palin backlash going on, and seems to me quite willing to be part of that backlash.

I’ve already made note since the elections of reports of growing concern about Palin

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davidl on November 5th, 2010

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The Obama method
, by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media:

[Barack] Obama, who was always himself given something (take your pick—Harvard admission, Harvard Law Review billet, Chicago Law School tenure offer, Noble Peace Prize, etc.) without requisite achievement, is

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davidl on October 26th, 2010

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Dope from Hope blasts Karl Rove, from Ben Smith Politico:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today broadened the assault on the Republican Party establishment — and former Bush adviser Karl Rove in particular — levied recently by Sarah

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davidl on April 19th, 2010

B.J. Clinton in the New York Stimes:

Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy. No one is right all the time. But we should remember that there is a big difference between criticizing a policy or a politician

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davidl on April 3rd, 2010

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Pirates – 11, Navy – 0, Dana Hughes and Kirit Radia from ABC News:

A U.S. Navy ship has sunk a pirate “mother ship” in the Indian Ocean and captured 11 pirates, and then promptly let them go.

While

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on December 23rd, 2009

mitch-mcconnell 1As discussed and promised on The Conservative Reader Report on December 22, here is the full Senate Minority Leader’s speech (Mitch McConnell of Kentucky) just prior to the Monday’s Cloture vote.  If you don’t have 13 minutes, you can

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davidl on December 1st, 2009

The natural trait of a politician is to hedge his bets, to obscure his positions, to hide his true beliefs.   Obama has mastered the political.    As opposed to mere a politician, a leader needs take a stand, be clear about

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davidl on October 31st, 2009

Eric, did you notice that while we were napping a couple of rednecks sneaked  into the state?   And boy does the National Republican Congressional Committee(NRCC) have grits all over their faces.

The NRCC spent $900,00 in an attempt to install

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on October 31st, 2009

Indira Gandhi was gunned down by her bodyguards on this day 25 years ago. Ramachandra Guha looks at the legacy of India’s most controversial and best-known politician….
Great patriot, but deeply flawed democrat – that is how history should remember

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