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Posted on 11.06.08 by dancurry @ 8:30 pm
When the history of this campaign is written, it should include a massive mistake by the Hillary Clinton team that probably cost her the presidency: Her negative research team failed to find the Rev. Jeremiah Wright tape. ABC News was first to air the infamous tape of parts of Wright’s sermons on March 12—after the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primary, Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses and several other key contests. By then, Barack Obama had a strong hold on the nomination. Once the tape aired, Obama’s poll numbers dropped and he struggled the rest of the primary season, barely limping home the nominee. Had the Clinton team found the tape and dropped it at a strategic point during those early contests, Obama would have been toast. There’s really not much question of this. The haunting part of this from the Clinton perspective is that the sermon tapes were available online and at Wright’s church. A basic job of negative research would have found them.
In the negative research business, this is malpractice. The Obama campaign also screwed up by not finding the tape in advance and removing it from the church and internet. This was the unpublicized turning point of the campaign. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 11.02.08 by dancurry @ 2:49 pm
Columnist Selena Zito of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review believes John McCain can win Pennsylvania. Polls have showed him inching to within several percentage points of Barack Obama.
I’m surprised Obama is not here on Sunday. Instead, he’s in Ohio. If there’s a late tightening in the race, McCain will win Ohio. But Pennsylvania is tougher for Republicans. Without it, McCain probably can’t be president.
That exactly describes the Reagan Democrats I grew up with in Missouri. They are not voting against Obama because they are racist. They are voting against him because of his elitism and arrogance. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 10.26.08 by dancurry @ 5:24 pm
The Palin smear factory continues working overtime, notes Power Line.
The sad part is that much of the MSM picks up its news tips from Sullivan. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 10.23.08 by dancurry @ 7:05 pm
Newt Gingrich unloads on the news media:
While the MSM lies, the public is noticing. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 10.22.08 by dancurry @ 9:23 am
Associated Press, which refuses to even mention that the Rezko-Obama house sale is under federal scrutiny, devoted massive resources to this “blockbuster.”
Here are the resources AP expended to get a story that alleges spending that almost certainly is legal.
And now that AP is done with that big probe?
I’m sure that’s coming next. As in next year or next decade. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 10.03.08 by dancurry @ 7:41 am
After 10 days of ridicule from the liberal high choir, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin showed once again they are not to be trusted as reliable brokers of information. The previous 10 days of reporting and commentary simply did not square with her superb debate performance. Palin outdebated the three other members of the national ticket, all members of the world’s most famous debating club, the U.S. Senate. Morning shows conducted by the MSM are grudgingly reporting Palin “did well.” They are rationalizing this by saying it doesn’t matter, it is a one-day story, she was reciting talking points, she didn’t answer questions, etc. They are reciting dubious “snap polls” without describing the methodology of those notoriously unreliable surveys. The same pundits who said Barack Obama won his debate over John McCain on style and tone and not substance are proclaiming that Biden won this one on substance. Whatever. The media elite like to say Barack Obama and Joe Biden have “nimble minds” but all I’m hearing from the Democratic duo is the same talking point: John McCain is another George W. Bush. I guess when liberal politicians repeat talking points endlessly that’s called strategy and when a conservative does it, it’s called “programmed” or “recitation.” What I saw last night was a confident communicator who was effective at times in piercing the Obama-Biden narrative. She got off the best lines of the night, was the most likable, and by far the most authentic. Biden talks about the middle class in a wooden, phony way. Palin is the middle class. If she stays on the national political scene, she is a deadly threat to Democrats and thus will continue to be savaged by that party’s surrogate partner, the MSM. Biden made a string of false and untrue statements last night, including misstating the U.S. Constitution. Palin made far fewer mistakes. But don’t expect to see the MSM dwell on the mistake gap—it doesn’t fit the narrative. Remember, Palin is the dumb one. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 09.27.08 by dancurry @ 12:48 pm
The angle the MSM (D-Obama) refuses to cover. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 09.27.08 by dancurry @ 10:38 am
I thought John McCain decisively defeated Barack Obama last night on substance. He schooled Obama on foreign policy and managed to steer the economy argument to earmarks and spending—his turf. If the MSM (D-Obama) was balanced, it would be pummeling Obama today for his Kissinger gaffe. My guess is it will barely touch it. On style, of course, Obama is hard to match. In reality, when you dice his words and substance, he’s the best disguised empty suit we’ve ever seen in national politics. He slides and dissembles gracefully and almost invisibly. Two times, however, I thought he slipped up. When Obama tried to match a story McCain told about a fallen soldier and the bracelet he wears, he had to look down to see the name of the soldier and verbally stumbled, briefly. If you are going to wear a soldier’s bracelet, you better have the story down stone cold or it looks like your symbol is a hollow pander. Another way Obama panders (and many other politicians) is constant use of the word “folks.” I always thought Obama’s use was particularly incongruous because in the liberal elite circles he hangs, I’m not convinced the “folks” are a big concern. But Obama reflexively uses the term of endearment, even when referring to terrorists.
Obama doesn’t have to pander to terrorists—I’m sure they already are hoping he wins. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 08.29.08 by dancurry @ 9:04 am
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a very risky pick as vice president. As a first-term governor, it brings the issue of experience front and center. But the news media, in the first few minutes of trying to digest this, are missing the point. Palin has built her reputation as a gutsy reformer. She stood up against her own party’s corruption in Alaska. John McCain’s strategists probably believed that the experience argument against Obama is relevant, but ultimately out of their hands. In other words, if Obama performed well in the debates and the public viewed him as qualified for president, the argument is negated. Reform, on the other hand, is something that Obama can’t claim. He has the festering Rezko house deal and did nothing about corruption in his own state. McCain and Palin have bucked their own party. They are truly independent. Obama and Biden are not. They are boilerplate Democrats with no credible record of reform. Suddenly, the change ticket changed to McCain-Palin. Technorati Tags: |
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Posted on 08.29.08 by dancurry @ 7:21 am
Pundits both left and even some from the right were effusive in their praise of Barack Obama’s speech last night. Once again, Obama, the magician, fooled them. This speech wasn’t even close to great as a piece of art. It was a mismash of several different styles—stump speech, soaring rhetoric, churlish attacks, defensive pre-emption. Much has been made about Obama writing his own speeches. If you look closely at the text, it appears that Obama’s language was invaded by insertion of the attacks and pre-emption. Read the text and then read George W. Bush’s 2000 acceptance speech. Putting aside partisan feelings, the Obama speech is not even close to GWB’s as a piece of writing. The tactics of Obama’s speech may have been clever, we’ll see. But a symphony it wasn’t. Technorati Tags: |
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