Obamanomics Paints Ohio Red
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 16th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Obamanomics Paints Ohio Red
Stephen Hayes, Wall Street Journal
Two years ago this week, with a little more than two weeks left in the 2008 presidential contest, Barack Obama delivered a speech on the economy in Toledo, Ohio. His advisers touted the speech—on the most important issue of the race, in the state that decided the 2004 presidential contest—as the beginning of his closing argument.One month after the collapse of Lehman Brothers froze the global economy and seized the campaign, Mr. Obama laid out his “emergency rescue plan.” “It's a plan that begins with one word that's on everyone's mind, and…
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Kirk’s Brilliant Career Reduced to Negative Ads
David Brooks, NY Times
Mark Kirk has had a brilliant career. He graduated from Cornell, obtained a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Georgetown. He worked at the State Department, the World Bank and the law firm of Baker & McKenzie before becoming counsel to the House committee on foreign affairs. He has served for the past decade as a congressman from the northern suburbs of Chicago.
Your Pre-Election Post-Mortem
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
When the election is over, prizes and trophies and hosannas will be issued left and right. But why wait? As a public service, I present an infallibly prescient scorecard of best and worst of 2010.Most suicidal candidate. Carl Paladino is running in a deep-blue state with sky-high taxes, yawning deficits and rampant corruption. The last elected Democratic governor resigned in disgrace, and his successor is so tainted that he dare not run for another term.
Obama Tried Too Hard to Work With GOP
Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta JC
Amplified by the right-wing message machine, Republicans paint President Obama as an unyielding left-winger, an unreconstructed liberal who refuses to compromise. The president's critics have turned the truth inside out: One of Obama's greatest political weaknesses has been his stubborn "” and unrequited "” love for bipartisanship.The president has made some of his biggest mistakes trying to woo a GOP opposition that has committed itself to frustrating him at every turn. If he had ignored recalcitrant Republicans, for example, his health…
