Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
November 16, 2012
Who’s the real General here? Obama faced daunting enemies: the GOP and its mouthpiece, Fox News. All of Wall Street. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United. Karl Rove and his political angels–Adelson, the Koches and others who threw good money after bad to cook the presidential goose. And a liberal cohort that was shaking in […]
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Tags: Aristotle and Tragedy, Gen. Allen, Gen. Petraeus, Holly Petraeus, Jill Kelley, Koch brothers, Paula Broadwell, Sheldon Adelson
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March 30, 2012
The HBO documentary, “Game Change,” regarding the weird inclusion of Sarah Palin into the GOP presidential campaign of 2008, is as the title suggests, about the attempt of the McCain team to rearrange the dynamics of a failing election enterprise. McCain, his wife and the Palin family all said they would not watch […]
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December 31, 2011
I saw crazy people throughout the GOP candidate debates. Each time, all present had a case of the crazies except for some debate moderators, like Wolf Blitzer, who was universally lauded for his handling of time, issues and the gaggle or show-offs who mugged for attention. Fox News didn’t come close to that […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Wallace, Fox News, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Megyn Kelley, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Republican debates, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Wolf Blitzer
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September 15, 2011
“Americans will flirt with and hear out any voice or opinion but will at last tend toward moderation. My last post told why Romney, at campaign’s end, will be the Republican nominee, and I stick with that prediction. Just a little over a month ago, Michelle Bachmann was the flavor of the […]
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Tags: Fox and Friends, Fox News, Free Speech, GOP, Gov. Chris Christie, Jimmy Carter, Megyn Kelly, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Rick Perry, Rupert Murdoch, U.S. Congress
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August 20, 2011
With all the pointy-headed intellectuals in Washington and their supposedly prissy ways, thank god for a cowboy to freshen up the political dialogue. For that, of course, we need a real cowboy, and they typically have little interest in politics. The laconic speech of strong, silent types makes for poor rhetoric, as in: […]
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Tags: GOP, Jon Huntsman, LBJ, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Obama, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul
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July 13, 2011
I love dead poets, and dead philosophers too. Thank goodness for liberal arts educations and their classical referents. They won’t make you rich like an MBA does, but they help to make important sense of the world. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is among the truest of insights: people and institutions that have the […]
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Tags: Anthony Weiner, Aristotle, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Greek mythology, News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, Religion in America, Roger Clemens, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, tiger woods, Wall Street Journal
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June 21, 2011
Did you see the Great Candidates’ Debate? Aw, well, it’s not like you missed anything. Republicans in the guise of “debating” is no longer (if it ever was) an opportunity to discern issues. No, it’s a red-meat party: throw it out raw to the crowd, and hear them roar. It’s a great […]
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Tags: GOP, GOP Leadership Convention, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Reggie Brown, Ron Paul
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June 14, 2011
If not sick of this story, we all should be. Too many sexual shenanigans among the famous surely have us jaded by now. I am here to add to the fascination, but as a concluding unscientific postscript. Certainly Anthony Weiner’s name lends itself to parody, given his particular fall from grace. But how […]
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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fox News, GQ magazine, Hooters, Jane Lynch, Megyn Kelly, Norbert Wiener, Playboy, Shirley Sharrod
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June 6, 2011
The GOP’s search for a viable presidential candidate is akin to a needle in a haystack. And we all know that such a quest can result in a very painful moment of discovery. What we have now, save for Pawlenty and the recent entry of the Mittster, looks like a group photo taken […]
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Tags: Chris Christie, Dick Cheney, GOP National Convention, John McCain, Joseph Smith, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Old Time Religion, Paul Revere, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, socialism, Tim Pawlenty
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