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  • Obama Ruthless -- Like RFK and Mr. Spock?

    Every time a truly effective leader comes along -- whether it's President Obama, Lyndon Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Golda Meir or Robert F. Kennedy -- one of the first charges leveled against him or her is ruthlessness. Mr. Spock of STAR TREK had the same problem. Not that he was ever actually ''wrong'' when he elected to sacrifice one or more ...
    Posted to The Big Idea by KristineMSmith on May 18, 2009

  • Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake

    Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009

  • Correction of E. Bazelon & J. Resnik Distortion of US Const.

    I am responding to an article by E. Bazelon & J. Resnik, reluctantly. I say reluctantly because I find it disturbing to have to correct a foreigner on their own country's culture, much less politics. The aforementioned individuals made the extraordinary claim that ''Obama should look when he makes his first appointments to the bench''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by rgates1 on December 23, 2008

  • What happened Nov. 13th

    On Nov. 13th Blagojevich told Advisor A to go ahead and ask Individual A to inform the Obama transition team of his intention to create a non-profit organization and that he would need help obtaining some big donors. Who knows how that conversation went, but it doesn't look like it went according to plan. (I venture to guess it was a ...
    Posted to Politics by ChrisCom on December 9, 2008

  • Gail Collins hits, and also misses, the mark

    “Confessions of a Phone Solicitor” is the title of Gail Collins’ column in today’s New York Times. Here are some excerpts. [A] telemarketer named Ted Zoromski quit his job this week over John McCain’s message. Zoromski was prepared to nterrupt people during their dinner hours to encourage them to vote Republican. But when he got the script saying ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by mathpol on October 23, 2008

  • Gail Collins hits, and also misses, the mark

    “Confessions of a Phone Solicitor” is the title of Gail Collins’ column in today’s New York Times. Here are some excerpts. [A] telemarketer named Ted Zoromski quit his job this week over John McCain’s message. Zoromski was prepared to nterrupt people during their dinner hours to encourage them to vote Republican. But when he got the script ...
    Posted to Trailhead by mathpol on October 23, 2008

  • Liberal Media Lies

    Political logic augurs a Democratic triumph in looming US elections but Barack Obama’s White House duel with John McCain is still a statistical tie, prompting some to wonder why he is yet to break away. Political logic augurs a democratic triumph? Augur: To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell. What signs or omens are they looking ...
    Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 12, 2008