Archive for May 16th, 2008
May 16th, 2008
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Any notions Mike Huckabee might have had about running for vice president on the Republican ticket probably died with the stupid joke he told today about somebody pointing a gun at Barack Obama.
As I said here the other day, I don’t figure John McCain would have picked Huckabee for the second slot anyway. This should pretty much cinch it.
HERE’s the story about the joke.
UPDATE: Here’s a video of Huckabee delivering his thigh-slapper:
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May 16th, 2008
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Republicans who think the current dust-up over foreign policy somehow damages Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy are whistling past the graveyard. Just the opposite is the case.
Charges that Obama is some kind of Neville Chamberlain soon will go the way of the fiction that he’s a Muslim, too, or that he took his oath of office on the Koran. The same will happen to notions that he’s the Hamas candidate in this election. Most Americans know nothing of Hamas — and the Jewish folks to whom Hamas is more familiar will mostly end up voting for Obama in November anyway.
The real political resonance of this controversy redounds to Obama’s benefit by giving him a huge spotlight in which he can more closely tie John McCain with George W. Bush. That’s EXACTLY WHAT HE DID to a fare-thee-well today in South Dakota. Pray tell, how does that help McCain?
When will Obama’s critics learn that it’s not as easy as it might seem to make him a pariah? The guy has survived the political equivalent of the Perils of Pauline in the past two months, and he’s still favored to be our next president.
May 16th, 2008
You political junkies likely will take interest in THIS PEEK inside the hapless Hillary Clinton campaign organization.
May 16th, 2008
Mr. Straight Talk should change his nickname to Mr. Zig-Zag Talk.
John McCain’s been peddling baloney of late about how Barack Obama is somehow inclined to be too chummy with Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Palestinian government.
Actually, Obama’s been saying that Hamas should renounce its violent ways before diplomatic relations with the United States are established.
But McCain said this of Hamas when it emerged victorious in Palestinian elections:
“They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it’s a new reality in the Middle East.”
Former Assistant Secretary of State James P. Rubin puts the matter in perspective HERE.
