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The GOP says, “ObamaObamaObama”

I’ve noticed that the news has been wall-to-wall Barack Obama recently. Some of the coverage has been positive and some negative, but above all it’s been nonstop ObamaObamaObama.
Not so much going on with John McCain, so I decided to go visit the GOP website and see what they have to say about things.
Guess what? […]

Obama prepares the ground for Iraq

Gracious!  That was quick!  In my very latest post, I wrote:
I seriously doubt it will be November, though, before Obama begins explaining how the changes in Iraq affect statements that time has rendered moot.
Looks like he’s definitely not going to wait.  He’s started to prepare the ground now.  (Full post on this at The Moderate […]

Obama and Iraq

Considering I’ve just been having a related discussion in the comments, I found this post from Ed Morrissey timely.
In three different appearances over the last two days, David Axelrod, Susan Rice, and Claire McCaskill all offered competing visions of Obama’s policy on Iraq.
(Former Captain) Ed is arguing that Obama’s surrogates are confused, and offers three […]

Obama and National Service

Some years ago, a gifted education specialist told me she thought that teaching gifted students to connect with the needs of wider society through community service was a crucial, important missing piece in GT education. That may be true, but what I thought at the time was that there’s little to connect any person […]

WaPo embarrasses itself

Coming on the heels of the Countrywide loans, I can understand why someone would think it worthwhile to look into the mortgage terms of various politicians’ loans. But when you find nothing, you really shouldn’t try to create something of it. It makes you look dumb.
The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He […]

Twisted spin from ABC

For the past week or so, Barack Obama has been accused nearly non-stop of “shifting positions”, “moving to the center” (or to the right, depending on the source), and/or “flip-flopping”.
While there have indeed been a couple of shifts, there’s also a massive amount of disinformation coming out about Obama. He was not, for […]

“Coloring” the issues

Every criticism of Barack Obama is not a racist attack, and all words are not code words. That applied to the sexism charges in the Hillary Clinton campaign, too.
Having said that, Ralph Nader is not getting intellectually sharper as he ages:
“There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a […]