Politics::Election2008: March 2008 Archives
Candidate, Improve Your Appearance! - Dick Cavett - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Look past some of the political nonsense and you'll find some useful speechifying tips here.
Mister Snitch!: Plain talk on "two candidates that love america"
A great piece of political analysis which aims to answer the questions, "Why is Hillary still in the race?" And, "What is Bill Clinton up to?"
RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - On Obama's Speech
"Candidates make all kinds of promises about what they will do, and voters need to find some way to gauge whether they will actually do what they say. One way to do that is to look at what they have done. By contextualizing Jeremiah Wright in the broader dilemma of American divisiveness, Obama has identified his experience at Trinity as a small instance of a larger problem that plagues the country, the problem to which he intends to dedicate the 44th presidency. It is therefore reasonable to ask what he did - empowered as he was as a high-profile, long-standing parishioner - to change the viewpoint of Wright or Trinity, and whether those efforts were successful. The essential problem of the speech is that it gives no answer to these queries." RELATED: Ed Morrissey writes, "How responsible or courageous is it to remain silent in that community while the rhetoric that Obama finds so objectionable gets delivered to the next two generations -- including his own children?"
Hot Air: Great: Mark Pryor to run unopposed for Senate after Republicans fail to field challenger
A state that voted twice for George W. Bush, and yet no Republican could be bothered to challenge the incumbent Democratic senator or any of the three Democratic congressmen. The one Republican incumbent congressman didn't draw a major party opponent either. Is the bar to filing for office that high in Arkansas?
Crunchy Con - Yes, Dear Leader, we can!
O-Ba-Ma! O-Ba-Ma! "This is not a political campaign, this is a cult of personality. I can't believe that I'm saying this, but more of this gaggy Dear Leader stuff from Obama worshipers I have to watch, the more I appreciate Hillary Clinton's plain old milk-curdling nastiness. Watch for yourself (but be warned: the chant gets stuck in your head, like a fresh dog turd in the grooves of your sandals)."
The Editors on Health Care & Presidential Politics on National Review Online
"Either [Obama's or Clinton's] plan would lead us to a government monopoly on health care, albeit slightly faster in Clinton's case. Senator John McCain's plan, in contrast, eliminates the roadblocks the government has erected on the way to a better system of financing health care." McCain would give taxpayers a tax credit for buying their own health insurance and create a nationwide market for it.
National Review: Michael Barone: Throw Out the Old Electoral Maps
Assume nothing about blue and red states based on past performance: "If I were running the McCain or Obama campaign, I would be doing in-depth polling and focus groups in 30 to 40 states -- and nationally, as well -- trying to determine which voting groups are moving or moveable toward my candidate and which are moving or moveable the other way."
