Obama's Bus Now Needs A Sub-Basement PDF Print E-mail
Written by Chief   
Monday, 05 January 2009 11:15

Let’s take a quick trip back to the campaign trail of young Barack Obama. In the summer of 2008, we saw the discarding of certain people as they became a “problem” for the Obama campaign. This became so much of a pattern, it is now assumed that if you do, say or think the wrong thing, you’re under the bus greasing the shocks. Stat.

It’s hard to remember who was first, but in rough order we saw the 20+ year mentor and father figure Pastor J. Wright tossed under for “God-damned” good reasons. Then Father Pflegger, Fannie Mae Exec and vice-president selecting aid, Jim Johnson took a dead cat bounce in June.  Realty "helper" and now jailbird Tony Rezko had to go. Terrorist, William Ayers, became just a neighbor.

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It’s A Chicago Thing PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mitch   
Monday, 08 December 2008 13:01

Liberals are upset that Obama, mirabile dictu, is actually acting pragmatic now that he’s in office:

Even supporters make clear they’re on the lookout for backsliding. “There’s a concern that he keep his basic promises and people are going to watch him,” said Roger Hickey, a co-founder of Campaign for America’s Future.Obama insists he hasn’t abandoned the goals that made him feel to some like a liberal savior. But the left’s bill of particulars against Obama is long, and growing.
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Gas and Circuses PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mitch   
Thursday, 04 December 2008 13:06

Watching Obama’s cabinet appointments, it’d be tempting to ask “wow - with an overwhelming mandate like they had, why are they not going straight for the end zone, rather than suddenly and visibly racing for the center?”

The answer, of course - they didn’t have a sweeping mandate.  It was a clear victory, all right, but McCain (thanks largely, I think, to Sarah Palin bringing out a base that’d been sitting on its hands since February) actually got about as many votes as Bush did in 2004; he’d have beaten Kerry.  Obama swept into office on millions of new voters - and as Minnesota Third, Sixth and Senate races showed, his coattails weren’t especially sturdy; people apparently voted for Obama and nothing but the Obama.

So how does the left feel about this?
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Static Cling PDF Print E-mail
Written by Chad The Elder   
Wednesday, 03 December 2008 09:32
Stuart Rothenberg wonders if Anyone Can Bring America Together in an Era of Division? In the piece, he shows that Obama's election was not in fact a unifying event and that the country still remains deeply divided, especially among cultural lines:
The country's deepest and most-explosive division revolves around culture.

Four in 10 voters attend religious services at least weekly, and they went for John McCain, 55 percent to 43 percent. Almost an equal number of voters, 42 percent, said they attend religious services only occasionally, and they went for Obama, 57 percent to 42 percent. And among those voters who never attend religious services, Obama won by 37 points, 67 percent to 30 percent.
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Ziegler Duplicates Obama Voter Poll Results PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ed Morrissey   
Wednesday, 03 December 2008 09:20

When John Ziegler first launched his website, How Obama Got Elected, his poll showing that Obama voters appeared ignorant of the campaign issues touched off a heated controversy over the results.  Ziegler offered a double-or-nothing challenge to anyone who wanted to fund another Zogby survey of McCain voters, but Zogby dropped out of the project instead.  Now John is back with a new survey — and it verifies the first:

The 12 “Zogby” questions were duplicated, one on the Keating scandal was added for extra balance. The results from Obama voters were virtually IDENTICAL in both polls.
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