Obama Needs a Mea Culpa to Get Back on Track
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 13th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama Needs a Mea Culpa to Get Back on Track
Doug Schoen, FOX News
It shouldn't come as any surprise that Politico reported today that President Obama plans to mount a sustained and vigorous negative campaign against presumed Republican front-runner Mitt Romney.The president – having effectively run out of positive or proactive ideas — can only run a negative campaign.
Why the Straw Poll Matters
Jonathan Bernstein, The New Republic
It’s hard to imagine a screwier and easier to criticize step on the way to pick a presidential nominee than the Republican quadrennial exercise in mobilization, purchased votes, and kitsch that is the Ames Straw Poll, in which candidates compete for the bragging rights for an event that will draw fewer than 15 thousand voters and has no formal relationship to actual delegate selection. And yet, the results are undoubtedly important. Most Iowa observers believe that Mike Huckabee’s second place finish at Ames in August 2007 was a major step towards his victory in the state…
Debate Leaves Field Unchanged
Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Never before has there been a televised presidential candidates' debate so short a time before the Iowa Republicans' Ames straw poll. Last night's debate, co-sponsored by The Washington Examiner and Fox News Channel, provided plenty of spirited conflict and some unscripted or at least unanticipated moments.The sharpest conflict came between the two candidates from next-door Minnesota who, they assured us, are anything but twins. Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has spent more time and money in Iowa than anyone else on the stage but has been lagging behind Rep. Michele Bachmann,…
Obama Must Act Like a Real Leader
Spare Me the Hysteria About “Broken” Politics
Charles Krauthammer, NR
Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today's Washington, the most lazy, stupid, and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrary. Our political system is working well (I make no such claims for our economy), indeed, precisely as designed — profound changes in popular will translated into law that alters the nation’s political direction.The process has been messy, loud, disputatious, and often rancorous. So what? In the end, the system works. Exhibit A is Wisconsin. Exhibit B is Washington itself.
