I’ve spent the last week–this one leading up to the election next week–thinking about what it is about Barack Obama that really bothers me. I mean, he seems a likeable-enough guy, good-looking, even-tempered, well-spoken. I’ve read Charles Krauthammer’s endorsement of John McCain, and of course, the editorials of my favorite conservatives at the Wall Street Journal, namely Daniel Henninger and Kimberly Strassel. But it was while watching the Dennis Miller piece on The O’Reilly Factor Wednesday night that clarified what it is about Obama that terrifies me. Barack Obama clearly doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong, and his entire life story illustrates it.

Barry’s mother was from Kansas, and in his first campaign advertisements, he talked about how she gave him her “Midwestern values”. Really? How do those values compare to two other notable Kansan’s–Bob Dole and Dwight Eisenhower? When was the last time[...]

This is Part 2 of the analysis of Friday night’s Presidential Debate.  Part 1 was posted on Saturday.
Iran
Lehrer asked for a “reading” of Iran by the candidates.  Are they a threat?  Both candidates made it very clear that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran was not acceptable.
McCain did a good job of highlighting both [...]

Here’s Part 1 of my assessment of Friday night’s Presidential Debate.  Part 2 will come on Sunday.
All I can say is, I was wrong.  Jim Lehrer does want to be the next Tim Russert.
I will say, I did not sense any partisanship on Lehrer’s part, but he sure dug into follow up questions, including a [...]

We were channel surfing on Saturday night because the Olympic coverage was of the women’s marathon, which I liken to watching paint dry, when we happened upon Rick Warren’s interviews of the respective candidates.  The least I can say is that the contrasts were spectacular.  John McCain was the all-around winner, (unless he was being [...]

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Ann Coulter says it well, here:
Well, it looks like it’s the end of the road for Hillary. Time for her to pack up her pantsuits and go back to – wherever [...]

So, Hillary this week graciously offered to debate Barack mano a mano.  No moderator.
Set their own rules.  Ask each other questions and answer them.
Millions of people across the country would be THRILLED to have a debate without moderators.
But can we really recreate the pure raw power of the Santos-Vinick debate (from the final season of [...]

I tend to agree with just about everyone on the planet (Michelle Malkin, Bithead, Sean Hannity, et al) that has told John McCain, in fairly direct terms, that he’s a dunce for asking the North Carolina GOP to back off with the Obama ads featuring the Reverend Wright.  All this at about the same time [...]

POTUS Election 2008
Examining The Issues

This is a special series written by the staff of The Conservative Reader. We will examine each of the candidates’ positions on issues they have deemed relevant enough to post on their web sites.

Today we will examine Clinton’s plan of action for American workers. If you have not read Part 1, [...]

POTUS Election 2008
Examining The Issues

This is a special series written by the staff of The Conservative Reader. We will examine each of the candidates’ positions on issues they have deemed relevant enough to post on their web sites.

Today we start our review of the 3 remaining candidates for President. The structure of this series will [...]

I hate to say this, but I’m not all that worked up about any of Hillary Clinton’s (or any other politician’s) hypocrisy.  Hypocrisy is unbecoming, and it may even raise some question of character (although I’m not sure how exactly), but it’s really empty criticism.  On it’s own, it might make a good argument for [...]