President thinks his biggest mistake of his Presidency is …“story telling”?
I swear I almost laughed out loud when I read this. President Obama is asked in an interview what the biggest mistake of his presidency has been: "When I think about what we’ve done well and what we...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: Composite Obama edition
Heh … I think this sums it up pretty well. A sort of Ott Scerb like litany: If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen because you’ve been a little lazy over the...
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 02 Sep 12
This week, Bruce, Michael, and Dale talk about the Conventions and whether any of it will matter in the end. The direct link to the podcast can be found here. As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user,...
View ArticleLibertarians break for Romney
CATO has the news: The Reason-Rupe September 2012 poll includes our favorite ideological questions to differentiate libertarians from liberals and conservatives. Using three questions, we can define...
View ArticleObama in 10 quotes
POLITICO has a story out entitled “10 quotes that haunt Obama“. Haunt? I’d say they define him. The 10 quotes, minus the POLITICO take on each, are: “Washington is broken. My whole campaign has been...
View ArticleDebate: If it had been a prize fight, they’d have called it in the 9th round...
Or, as Michael Moore said, “that’s what you get for having John Kerry as a debate coach”. It appears the debate went pretty much in Mitt Romney’s favor last night, and, as you would see if you watched...
View ArticleObama loves the perks of office, but he’s not too crazy about the job
Alana Goodman provides some validation to my assertion that Barack Obama likes the perks of being President, but really isn’t that crazy about the job itself. First though, some interesting info on...
View ArticleAs the left calls Romney a “liar”, Thomas Sowell exposes the real liar
Pay attention because this is important. A week or so ago, a video from a 2007 Obama speech surfaced in which he used race baiting tactics to exploit the Hurricane Katrina disaster as proof that...
View ArticleHillary jumps under the Obama bus … or was she pushed?
Seriously. After spending 8 years holding Bush responsible for everything from 9/11 (it was an “inside job”) to a Pelosi’s hangnail, we now have the left settling on “it’s Hillary’s fault”? Truman’s...
View ArticleObama’s Navy: Ignorance or intent?
A little more on the abject ignorance Obama displayed concerning the Navy. Or was it, instead, the usual attempt to have it both ways? You know, talk about how everything is under control while in...
View ArticleMichael Barone: Slow-motion 1980?
Michael Barone is one of the few poll watchers I respect. I’ve watched him in any number of elections and he’s objectively called it the way he saw it, usually spot on, for whomever the facts indicated...
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Prediction time (Update)
If you haven’t read Karl Rove’s analysis of the election, you ought too. Yeah, I know, Rove is partisan and all of that, but, like Michael Barone (who, by the way, has predicted a Romney win), he knows...
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 04 Nov 12
This week, Bruce, Michael, and Dale make their final election calls. The direct link to the podcast can be found here. As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don’t forget to subscribe to the QandO...
View ArticleFinal thoughts on today’s vote
John Podhoretz mentions something we’ve been talking about for a while: If Mitt Romney wins tonight, it’ll likely be because of something revealed by a little-noticed statistic released yesterday by...
View ArticleObama Re-elected
And I was dead wrong. When you get it wrong, what you normally should do is check your premise. Mine was that the polls couldn’t have it right running a D+ anything. That, based on 2010 and the...
View ArticleThe Senate filibuster fight gins up – hypocrites to the left of us,...
Another example of why you can’t ever take anything a politician says at face value or believe them when they say they stand on ‘principle’. For instance, consider the looming Senate fight over the...
View ArticleObama’s second term: Thunder, lightning, but likely little rain
I think Philip Klein has the best read on Obama’s second inaugural speech. Oh, it had lots of things to make the left wet itself in joy, but, well, here’s what Klein thinks (he bases his conclusion on...
View ArticleSean Smith’s mother doesn’t think his death is phony … nor the scandal...
[Guest posting at Hot Air today:] In its usual inept and ham-fisted way, the Obama administration has chosen to address the scandals surrounding it by waving them away as “phony” – conspiracies...
View ArticleI thought our President told us al Qaeda was all but defeated?!
Well this has to be embarrassing: A State Department travel alert Friday said al Qaeda may launch attacks in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, as the United States is closing 21 embassies and...
View ArticleThe usual lack of leadership from a petty partisan ideologue
Not that it should come as any surprise to those familiar with our president. Nile Gardiner hits the sore spot: The American Left’s hatred for all things conservative has been on full display in...
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