pajamasmedia.com - 8/7/2008
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Classical Values has a wonderful post which examines the performance of Barack Obama’s campaign in the context of Saul Alinsky’s famous Rules for Radicals. Classical Values attributes the decline in BHO’s recent poll numbers to John McCain’s application of John Boyd’s OODA loop strategy. He writes:
Well he has gone after McCain in particular AND the [...]
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... And his excuse-mongering just makes it all the more irritating. It is not clear what provoked the soul-searching or why reality didn’t dawn on the pundits sooner. After all, they knew all along that he had virtually no experience and that he often sounded bizarrely confident about his nonexistent credentials. Nice wrapping paper, but is there anything in the box? Also related, via Belmont, Alinsky's Ten Rules for Radicals and how Obama is breaking the rules: RULE 1:”Power is not only what you ...
On His Six
Classical Values —
[image] previous entry | main August 07, 2008 On His Six Wretchard of the Belmont Club has an interesting take on my piece Obama Be . My favorite is: ...McCain the old attack pilot is on Barack's six and BHO's no Alinsky. Go read the whole thing. H/T linearthinker Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 08.07.08 at 02:11 PM TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://classicalvalues.com/cgi-bin/pings.cgi/7003 Comments Post a comment You may use basic HTML for formatting. Name: Email Address: URL: Remember Me? Yes No ...
John McCain YouTube Hero
Classical Values —
... beat Mr. Obama's channel for seven straight days and 11 of the past 14 days, in a signal he intends to compete for the YouTube vote. That is a giant reversal. Mr. Obama had been quadrupling Mr. McCain's YouTube views and beat him every day since February, according to TubeMogul, which tracks online video viewing. "I want to know who he hired. They went from recycling their TV ads to like putting out these witty shorts," said David Burch, marketing manager for TubeMogul. Wretchard at The Belmont Club thinks McCain was laying low until Obama defined himself in a way that ...
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Obama stopped by each table, making small talk in barely a whisper. ...
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