The Hall of Fire

So far as I can tell, the "kill me" thing WAS propaganda by the left-wing blogs. The fact that there was other bad behavior of a similar (but less severe) nature at the Palin and McCain rallies does not negate that. Edit: Cross-posted with sf's edit. What someone said at Fox News has nothi...

Yes, I don't think that the Obama and Palin phenomenoms can be compared. They are too different.

I agree that there is an aspect of the analogy that is accurate.

Honestly? I didn't find them particularly appealing, which perhaps says more about me than them.

A left-wing McCarthy, eh? I am unaware of Waxman conducting hearings on unAmerican activities, or causing completely innocent people to be blacklisted and having their lives ruined. Yes, he is quite liberal, but believe it or not, that is not a crime. In fact many of his positions are consistent wit...

Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely. --Barack Obama, interview with Chicago Sun-Times, 2004 Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known ...

soli, I am less likely to get information from the Daily Kos than I am from the Drudge Report (which is to say, that every once in a while I check in on Drudge, but I never ever look at the Daily Kos, which I find to be both unacceptably partisan and horribly put together. I do occasionally look at ...

You haven't answered my question, Prim, and I'll extend it to Voronwë as well: if a GOP candidate had an extensive collection of friends on the radical Right, would you be so quick to dismiss it? If they were as tenuous as the things that I have seen about Obama, yes I would. I would judge the pers...

Not only has the Democratic Party taken over the White House and increased its majorities in both houses in Congress; there has also been a brewing revolution within the Democratic Party. Normally, committee chairs are based on seniority and it is very rare to have a longstanding committee leader be...

MSNBC claims that it will be NY Fed President Tim Geithner, not Summers. And that Bill Richardson will be Commerce Secretary. Supposedly an official announcement will be made on Monday.

GEITHNER LIKELY TO BE TREASURY SECRETARY

But, with the exception of Rev. Wright, there is no credible evidence (in my opinion) that any of these people were close to Obama (or, more importantly, that he was close to them). And Wright's influence on Obama, at least as manifested in Obama's writings and actions, was to convert him to active ...

I don't have a crystal ball either, but I suspect that he will be a mix of a leftist and a moderate. He will do some things that will infuriate the left-wing blogsaphere, and other things that will make conservatives say "I told you so."

Here Voronwë (and Noonan) are absolutely right, in my view: Gates should stay because he's *good.* Quite possibly the most effective and competent SecDef since the post was created (I discount the otherwise effective Cap Weinberger because of his dishonesty). If in fact this rumor turns out the be ...

And now 84! May the rest of your years be blessed by the Valar.

And please don't be too mad at me!

the last stop whereof, Harvard, being paid for through the good offices of Khalid al-Mansoor). What is your source for this statement? (I remind you that one of our rules for these discussions is "5. Avoid making assertions of fact without backing them up with links to a credible source. If yo...

Gates didn't bring us the war; Rumsfeld did.

I was wrong, it was Time, not Newsweek, back on June 18:

Joe Klein: Obama's Team of Rivals

Yes, change indeed. That is exactly the kind of change that Obama has been talking about. What he has been saying is that he wants to put competence above partisanship. The idea of having such a prominent member of the cabinet from the opposition party has been unheard of in modern times. Nor is thi...

sf, have you noticed that no one else is interested in talking about this? You keep posting stuff, and people keep ignoring it. That might tell you something.

soli, I'm still waiting for you to answer my question earlier in this thread.

The word is this Obama is in fact set on selecting Clinton for Secretary of State. He also plans to name Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to be secretary of homeland security. Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzkerwho was Obama's national campaign finance chairman, was his leading choice to become co...