Obama Mocks McCain’s Computer Skills
The Obama campaign launched a new ad yesterday, "Still," which mocks John McCain for being out of touch because, among other things, he "doesn't know how to use a computer" and "can't send an email." The Charge: McCain Computer Illiterate The key 'graph in its entirety: Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn't. He admits he still doesn't know ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 13, 2008 08:23
By Any Other Name…
Jonah Goldberg has sparked a minor blogospheric furor for a recent column in which he castigated Barack Obama, John McCain, and others for promoting a compulsory national service program, which he compared to slavery. There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 8, 2008 13:26
Racist Toddlers
A bizarre story in the London Telegraph, "Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist,'" is getting some play, thus far only from conservative blogs. The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 7, 2008 15:20
Obama = Charismatic = Hitler = Armageddon
Arthur Silber is, as am I, fascinated by the cult of personality surrounding Barack Obama. He notes some anecdotal creepy gushing on a local radio show and then Reactions of this kind to Obama are fairly common. No, they are not this extreme much of the time, but such statements are far from unusual. And many of Obama's less obviously deluded ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 1, 2008 08:19
Going to War with the Ideology You Have
Kevin Drum, responding to Jonah Goldberg's argument that George Packer's "The Fall of Conservatism" erroneously conflates conservatism with the Republican Party, retorts: No political ideology lives in isolation. We judge communism by how Mao and Stalin implemented it, we judge 60s-era liberalism by how LBJ and the Democratic Party implemented it, and we judge social democracy by how Western Europe has ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 23, 2008 07:50
Goldberg, Coulter, and Savage
Goldberg, Kevin Holtsberry, and Steve Dillard take exception to the assertion in my recent post on The Conservative Minority that "the modern Conservative Moment seems to be dominated by the shrill nonsense of Coulter and Jonah Goldberg and Michael Savage and Neil Boortz." First, it's a good sign that conservatives at least recognize that being associated with these people ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 4, 2008 15:56
The Conservative Minority
I feel like I'm beating a dead horse on the issue, but the continued high pitched battle between conservative Republicans who have rallied around conservative-come-lately Mitt Romney in hopes of defeating Teddy Kennedy's Good Friend John McCain remains the most interesting story this election cycle. Conservatives Love Romney The most recent Rasmussen poll shows that "Romney leads by sixteen percentage points ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 3, 2008 09:28
Conservatives Against McCain
Judging by the enemies he's making, I'm liking John McCain more with each passing day. Ann Coulter says she'd "campaign for" Hillary Clinton, who she thinks "is more conservative." Meanwhile, Glenn Beck is railing against "Juan McCain" for his outreach to Hispanics. Thankfully, this over-the-top stuff is being rejected by most conservatives. AllahPundit calls Coulter's statement "Madness" and Sean Hackbarth, late ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 1, 2008 08:28
On Bookstores And Conservative Books
There's been a lot of discussion around the blogosphere about the, um, difficulty some brick-and-mortar bookstores seem to have in ensuring that customers can acquire a copy of Jonah Goldberg's new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Amazon sales rank as of this posting: #6). Prof. Reynolds has posted ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 16, 2008 11:56
Republicans Love Barack Obama - For Now
George Will closes a subpar (by his standards, at least) column on the silly populism of Mike Huckabee and John Edwards with this praise for Barack Obama: Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee -- ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 6, 2008 08:11
