Archives: 2008 July

I’ve alluded to the Washington’s Post outstanding editorial from yesterday about Barack Obama and Iraq, but it merits more attention than that. I’d like to focus in particular on two points that may not have received sufficient emphasis on this blog and others.
First, Prime Minister Maliki’s statements (which […]

British sportswriters sometimes refer to an athlete as “a nearly man.” The phrase is not an attack on the subject’s masculinity, but rather a reference to the fact that he had the promise of greatness but didn’t quite deliver. Former Everton starlet Francis Jeffers is a nearly man. Kieron Dyer, as well.
The “nearly […]

Maybe there is another explanation for Barack Obama’s trouble with the truth, but I’m not sure what it would be. He did it again today, loosing a palpable falsehood on NBC. Not that it’s a surprise; Obama coming out with a whopper has become pretty much a daily occurrence. Here is Obama […]

Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin was a coherent, articulate, but hardly memorable expression of the liberal internationalism that, I take it, will govern his foreign policy if he is elected president. This approach to foreign policy wisely recognizes the need for the U.S. to be heavily engaged in the world, but fails fully […]

I didn’t think Obama’s Berlin speech was as bad as Scott did. Actually, I could have given large chunks of it myself, although perhaps not with a straight face. It will no doubt contribute to the dawning realization among Obama’s nutroot fans that he doesn’t need them and doesn’t much care what they […]

In his sermon to the Germans, Barack Obama presents himself both as Barack the Baptist and the Obamessiah. Nevertheless, Americans naturally root for for the underdog to prevail. For pride to take a fall. Don’t we instinctivelyy seek to puncture the grandiose pretensions of a blowhard? It seems to me that […]