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No surprises
The Sideshow —
I couldn't bring myself to watch or listen to the debate last night. Maybe some other time. Obama won with viewers, unsurprisingly. I did watch the last minute or so of it here this morning to find out what the context was for this photo, which looks shocking out of context, but it's not quite as bad as it looks. I also see that McCain must have taken a hint from all the negative reaction last time around and tried to look a bit friendlier toward Obama at the end. MahaBarb says the same was true at the beginning, though McNasty came out later. She also said, "Wow, the moderator wants McCain to answer the question that was ...
Complete Third Presidential Debate
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Obama unmasked
sisu —
We and the immediate blogosphere made note of Barack Obama's "creepy, smirky smile" that transmogrified his human face into "a bizarre theatrical comedy mask" every time John McCain mentioned an inconvenient truth about his opponent's words or deedst\ during last night's ...
It's no laughing matter
sisu —
How scary is it to contemplate the comedy mask that is President Obama's public face (left, photoshopped image of his gleeful expression last night at the contemplation of Rush Limbaugh's kidney failure ) that has the nation's elites in thrall? We keep being hammered with the mantra of his uh, um, brilliance. Are opinion shapers truly in awe of the hot air that floats his "soaring rhetoric"? Even putting aside the anti-Constitutional socialistic substance that animates his rhetoric , his smooth-talking Chicago-style thuggery makes our skin crawl. Used-car salesmen and Mayor Shin's bloviating "Four score" speech in "The Music Man" come to mind. ...
Barack Obama's Lucky Tie (Style)
Swampland —
This is how the President of the United States like it when the pressure is on: Cherry-red, with thin silvery-white diagonal stripes. He wore this tie last night. (See it here .) But that's not all. Gabriel Winant, an eagle-eyed blogger at Salon, lays out the pattern . Well, there's last night. Then there's the president's quasi-State of the Union speech . (He was standing in the House of Representatives chamber, with Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi behind him. It counts.) That's not all, though. He wore this tie for his victory speech in Grant Park on the night of the election. That was a big one. He had it on when he delivered his “closing ...
