As I’ve surfed around the blogosphere, there’s been a theme at some of the blogs on the right: one of utter contempt for President-elect Barack Obama. Not even two weeks elected as President, and I’ve already seen what hard-core partisans on the right will offer up for the next four years: exactly what the hard-core partisans on the left gave us for the last eight. Complete and utter derangement.
Patrick Edaburn over at The Moderate Voice recently wrote an article chronicling his experience on two partisan blog sites he frequented during the election: RedState and DailyKos. He spoke first about the quality of the articles, but then got into a discussion about how each site treats viewpoints that dissent from the site’s normal viewpoint.
The United Nations ineffectiveness has been well-documented, as has its predilection for granting voice, credence, and credibility to some of the world’s worst leaders. Now comes perhaps the ultimate contradiction: Saudia Arabia will preside over the U.N.’s 2-day conference on religious tolerance. Yes, the same Saudis who not so long ago flogged a female rape victim, etc., etc.
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Being interviewed for, perhaps, the last time during his presidency, George W. Bush told CNN he regrets “saying some things I shouldn’t have said.”
The ‘things’ refer to some of the statements Bush made on the war on terrorism and Osama Bin Laden. “Dead or alive” and “bring ‘em on” are two of the phrases he wishes he would never had uttered.
One imagines that his famous “you’re either with us or against us” line is one of the things Bush regrets saying as well. (more…)
OK, it’s over. The other guys won the election. Now, why are you behaving like them? This circular firing squad business of blaming everyone but yourself for the loss isn’t what I expect from rugged realists. So what are you going to do about it?
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Now I would be the least surprised person in the room to see the suggestion that Jamie Gorelick be appointed Attorney General in the new Obama administration coming from the New York Times. It is what I have come to expect from the paper of Walter Duranty, and Jayson Blair, and supporter of yes, Jamie Gorelick’s current client, Duke University. If the Obama team is serious, then it really does raise issues that were raised in the campaign, and which the media, including the NYT, discounted.
Historian Ilan Pappe participated in a conference in Manchester, Great Britain, earlier this year. A video of it was published on YouTube which has not received the attention it should receive.
During the conference, Pappe reiterated a point he made in his latest book: that Israeli policy towards Palestinians was crafted in 1967. The idea was to create a Palestinian prison, not a truly independent, free and prosperous Palestinian state. (more…)
President-elect Barack Obama is considering asking current United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to stay on for at least another year, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Two Obama advisers told the WSJ that Obama believes it would be best if Gates stays on due to the wars in Afghanistan and especially Iraq. A senior Pentagon official added that Gates would most likely accept the offer if proposed. (more…)
The conservative Power Line blog published an email from a reader who served as an election judge on November 4 for a precinct in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The reader writes:
As “machine judge” it was my duty to set up and take down the voting machine. I still find it very surprising that there has been no attention to the issue pertaining to problems with transmitting the election results in Hennepin county. I followed up with other city authorities and confirmed what I had heard.
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