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Hitchens: Why is Obama So Vapid, Hesitant, and Gutless?
Little Green Footballs —
... Hitchens nails it, in a piece on Barack Obama’s failure to surge ahead of John McCain even as McCain seems to flounder: Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless? (Title of the day.) ...
Is Barry Another Dukakis?
Pirate's Cove —
That’s what Christopher Hitchens wants to know
Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless? (snip)
And yet, and unless I am about to miss some delayed “groundswell” or mood shift, none of this has translated into any measurable advantage for the Democrat. There are three possible reasons for such a huge failure on Barack Obama’s part. The first, and the most widely canvassed, is that he is too nice, too innocent, too honest, and too decent to get down in the arena and trade bloody thrusts with the right-wing ...
Is Barry Another Dukakis?
Stop The ACLU —
That’s what Christopher Hitchens wants to know Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless? (snip) And yet, and unless I am about to miss some delayed “groundswell” or mood shift, none of this has translated into any measurable advantage for the Democrat. There are three possible reasons for such a huge failure on Barack Obama’s part. The first, and the most widely canvassed, is that he is too nice, too innocent, too honest, and too decent to get down in the arena and trade bloody thrusts with the right-wing enemy. (This is rapidly becoming the story line that will achieve ...
Doc Browns Time Machine
Varifrank —
... Then I read this Hitchens post and realized that there must have been some shift in time-space that resulted in the two of us thinking the same thing. ...
Hitch: Why is Obama So Vapid, Hesitant and Gutless?
COUNTERCOLUMN: All Your Bias Are Belong to Us —
Answer: Because he's a liberal.
Obama, The Disappearing Man: The More the Public Gets to Know Him, The Less There Is To See
Ace of Spades HQ —
Obama, The Disappearing Man: The More the Public Gets to Know Him, The Less There Is To See Christopher Hitchens asks: " Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless? " Uh, is that a trick question? Obama acts like an aimless twit because that's what he is. There is no "deeper Barack." Sure, he does fine on the topics he's rehearsed a hundred times (race, healthcare, race, anti-Bush, race, Iraq, oh and race), but give him something new to to think about and he defaults: "Present." That's what happened with Georgia. He gives a statement that he probably read on a bumper sticker: "War is bad for humans and other ...
Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Tuesday
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
What are the most popular stories around the web this morning? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. ABC News: McCain Gaffes Could Undercut Message on Economy, Foreign Affairs Philadelphia Inquirer: The Point: Disturbing Line Palin Tossed Off in Address CNN: 'I'll Never Stop Looking for Him,' Wife of Vanished ex-FBI Agent Says Slate: Is Obama Another Dukakis? Politico: McCain Aide: NYT Not Legit News Source Wall Street Journal: Stand-Ins, Naps Help Debate Preparation Time Magazine: How We Became the United States of France ...
Exposing The Man And His Empty Bag Of Parlor Tricks - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
(Pic created by Kurt TI)
He has been one of the most ‘prepared’ and polished politicians possibly in this nation’s political history.
Oh, he may not say the right things, but how he does say it so magnetically and gracefully … Unlike that dumb-ass cowboy from Texas who’s stunk-up the White House for nearly eight years. B-B-Q sauce stains on the carpet of the Oval Office … As ’stains’ go, the worst (huh? … wait!) Anyhow, he’s the MSM’s wet dream. No convictions. Always sitting in the middle of the field and ready ...
"Why is Obama so vapid and hesitant and gutless? Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis?"
Althouse —
Christopher Hitchens has some questions.
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"Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis?"
Stubborn Facts —
Christopher Hitchens asks some interesting and hard-to-ignore questions about Obama's current election hopes:
By the end of that grueling campaign season, a lot of us had got the idea that Dukakis actually wanted to lose—or was at the very least scared of winning. Why do I sometimes get the same idea about Obama? To put it a touch more precisely, what I suspect in his case is that he had no idea of winning this time around. He was running in Iowa and New Hampshire to seed the ground for 2012, not 2008, and then the enthusiasm of his supporters (and the ...
Who can you trust?
Belmont Club —
... since the Second World War. The intelligence establishment had very publicly been seen to fail. But many hearings, newspaper articles and Woodward books later nothing had changed. The same faces appeared in slightly different positions, like a deck of marked cards whose fundamental defects had been palliated by desultory shuffling. That leaves a housecleaning as the only possible venue for reform. The emergence of a “pox on both their houses” feeling may be the reason why, as Christopher Hitchens observed, Barack Obama hasn’t put John McCain away despite the Wall Street ...
Shaun Jacob Halper: Why Obama is (So Far) No Liberal Reagan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Progressives should (and will) continue fighting for Obama against that walking bag of translucent lies, medieval dogmatism, pure free-market fanaticism, and committed incompetence that is the GOP's geriatric/benighted ossuary of a ticket. Obama, unlike his boorish opponents, demonstrates many outstanding political qualities: intelligence, a gift of gab, sound judgment, a reassuring temperament, humor, and organizational acumen. He is not the gutless Dukakis-clone that Christopher Hitchens would like us to believe. It is just too soon to freak out; to cry; to panic; to ...
Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Wednesday
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
What are the most popular stories around the web this morning? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. Slate: Is Obama Another Dukakis? Time Magazine: ...
