I hadn’t noticed until yesterday, but about a week ago yet another piece appeared in a national publication that confirmed what I’ve always suspected about President Obama: The man is either unable or unwilling to build the kinds of personal relationships necessary for good governance. As I pointed out on this blog just before...
Lunchtime thoughts: Fresh off his smashing victory in the Florida primary, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney committed the most delicious of gaffes. To borrow a construct from Michael Kinsley, Romney told the truth. In the process, he wandered into dangerous territory. In an interview this morning with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, Romney said: “I’m not concerned...
Update: Here is Jordan’s post that includes reader responses, including yours truly’s. * * * * * I recently spotted an item on Jordan Fenster’s fine blog, CT State Politics, noting that he’d received a campaign letter from front-running Democrat Chris Donovan, the current state House Speaker vying to be the Democratic nominee for...
Taking a break from the holiday obsession of the political junkie class (the Iowa caucuses), I noticed yesterday a piece in the New York Times that confirms what I’ve heard from other sources about President Obama: The man simply doesn’t like to engage in the sort of schmoozing and ego-stroking so essential to success...
What better way for presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich to ring in the Christmas season than with a dubious gift from George Will, who wrote another scathing column attacking the former Speaker of the House — this time for Newt’s stated intention, if president, of removing from the bench federal judges whose decisions he disagrees...
Update: Now Bloomberg’s Michael Kinsley has gotten into the act and is even more blunt: “Look, I’m sorry, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cannot be president: He is just too fat.” * * * * * * As you can imagine, the above headline caught my attention this morning on washingtonpost.com. It was...
No, West isn’t at a Nazievent – he’s visiting a Holocaustmuseum in Jerusalem. I’ve been hearing a lot of noise lately from Tea Party types who are bored with the dreary Republican presidential field for 2012 and are looking for a fresh face who just might stand a chance against The Great One. Two names come...
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