Posted in Politics on Mar 28th, 2008
Peggy Noonan’s column today in the Wall Street Journal is about Hillary’s “Bosnia” story, but it struck me more as the marking point of the end of her campaign. Hilary has lost to Obama. The Rev. Wright story didn’t turn the tide and now even her supporters are realizing that her [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 18th, 2008
There has been a big to-do over what former vice-presidential candidate and Hillary Clinton supporter, Geraldine Ferraro said recently about Barack Obama. Here’s the way the Wall Street Journal put it (see here):
In recent days, the Obama camp has been demanding an apology from Geraldine Ferraro, the former Vice Presidential candidate and current Hillary Clinton [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 14th, 2008
The exceptional military historian Victor Davis Hanson has written an excellent column today in National Review that parallels some of what I wrote yesterday on Iraq — albeit with much nicer prose.
Here is an excerpt from: Mirror, Mirror… Looking at Iraq
What is never discussed is how many Islamists flocked to Iraq, determined to defeat the [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 13th, 2008
One of the reasons I named my blog “RealClearTruth” is because I have a strong desire to make complex issues clear, to dig down to the essential elements in order to bring clarity and make it easier to determine what should be done. In this regard, I have not been satisfied with any of the [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 12th, 2008
Even though I am a conservative, I happen to like Obama’s message of optimism, hope and working together to solve our problems. Given that I view him the likely winner in the general election in November, I certainly hope that he will hold to his pledge of reaching across the isle to work with conservatives.
Even [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 6th, 2008
Of the 14.6 million votes cast on the Democratic side of yesterday’s super Tuesday primary, Hillary only won by 53,000 votes, or by only 0.36% (i.e., less than half a percent). Obama is said to have picked up more delegates, but the actual number is not clear yet, perhaps 5 to 14 delegates out of [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 1st, 2008
Well Super-Tuesday is coming up very shortly and on the Republican side it looks like McCain will do very well. Romney has hopes of eventually winning some mostly small Western states, and Huckabee may win some of the Southern states, but neither look like they have any chance of stopping McCain.
The thing that is clear [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 31st, 2008
Jay Nordlinger of National Review has been journaling from Davos Switzerland. In his most recent report (see here) he shared these stories that struck me as particularly revealing of the real truth of what is happening with the “war on terror” and how our own Western media has distorted that truth so badly…
Time and [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 28th, 2008
People are tired of Bush. People are even tired of the Clintons. While Hillary has done well in the primaries, and even captured significant segments of voters like women who identified with her, she — along with Bill’s help — have also attracted the scorn of those on the Left who are simply tired of [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 21st, 2008
So where do we stand in the primaries? Well, on the Republican side, everything now points to a major contest in Florida on Jan 29th. All four front-runners (Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Huckabee) technically have a shot at winning (see latest polls here). Even Fred Thompson has a chance. However, while McCain’s win in South [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 17th, 2008
Jeff Jacoby’s latest column in the Boston Globe talks about the Death of the Bush Doctrine. What is the Bush Doctrine you ask? Well it’s many things, but in the context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jacoby has it correct, the “Bush Doctrine” means the U.S. expects the Palestinian leadership to decide whose side they’ll be on, [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 16th, 2008
Michigan was the state that Mitt Romney had to win to stay viable. If he couldn’t win there, given his family background and strong economic message, then it didn’t look like he would be able to win anyplace (except in Utah and Idaho). On the other hand, a McCain win would have given him the [...]
We’ve heard a little of the crisis going on in Kenya, but this report from a Seventh Day Adventist university in Kenya really makes it clear how serious the situation is over there. It’s amazing to hear this kind of report from Kenya, which has been one of the more stable African [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 10th, 2008
This week’s column by conservative talk-radio host Dennis Prager questions Senator Obama’s calls for unity as “not truly honest” and “childish”. Dishonest because those who call for “unity” typically mean they want everybody else to drop their own values and take up theirs. Childish because by contrast “mature [people] understand that decent people will differ [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 9th, 2008
All the polls and most every analyst got it wrong. So few expected Hillary to win that even her own people didn’t appear to expect it. All the talk was of how she would soon “retool” her campaign.
But the critical moment came when Hillary herself saw the election slipping away from her. And in that [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 7th, 2008
If you read the DrudgeReport today, Matt Drudge makes it sound as if Hillary is ready to throw in the towel soon after she comes in an expected distant second place to Obama in the New Hampshire primary. Surprisingly, she has started to show a more emotional side to herself, that while endearing and finally [...]
Consider this true story (detailed here — following quote is taken from here)…
Rosa was a 13-year old Mexican girl serving tables in a restaurant that heard from a friend that in the US she could make 10 times more doing the same kind of job. She was very excited about the potential for more money, [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 5th, 2008
National Review Online points out this post by Ezra Klein:
I’ve been blessed to hear many great orations… But none achieve quite what Obama, at his best, creates.
Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 4th, 2008
Does Hillary’s humiliating third place finish in Iowa mean we should write her off?
Well, Hillary is an extremely professional candidate who has experience and important establishment support behind her. She has long been consider the Democratic candidate with the best chance to win the general election, and thus conventional wisdom would definitely NOT write Hillary [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 3rd, 2008
Well it’s Thursday morning and I may as well try my hand at predicting the outcome of the Iowa caucuses today. For the Democrats, it certainly looks like Obama will not only win, but win big (by over five percentage points). Hillary was the front runner for a long time — until people actually started [...]
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