I haven’t watched the prime time Democratic speeches so far, and I’m not staying up tonight either. I’ll watch the Clinton and President Obama speeches on Saturday. Maybe. But Reihan Salam said something about Clinton’s speech yesterday that struck me not . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s an interview regarding by recent book on empire at http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/ this morning. . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Lawler is of course right about the 2012 Democratic platform’s provision on abortion. It is about as far on the pro-choice end of the policy spectrum as you can get. It also happens that President Obama is , and always has been, very far on the pro-choice end of the spectrum. His . . . . Continue Reading »
The Democratic floor fight had a lot of interesting elements. It had Middle Eastern foreign policy relating to an ally (Israel.) It had culture war politics (whether to include a reference to God in the platform.) It had passion on both sides as the Democratic delegates fought to out scream each . . . . Continue Reading »
This is impressive , because it is all about the state of the Democratic Party. The political unpopularity of the platform as it came out of committee has appeared to be a bit of scandal in the news, but I thought that was simply because I read more right-leaning news sources than . . . . Continue Reading »
Some examples, 1. Reagan was pretty reticent personally but I think this selection from his 1980 debate with Carter works very well: I don’t know what the differences might be, because I don’t know what Mr. Carter’s policies are. I do know what he has said about mine. And I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
All right, I do begin to wonder at the direction of our Republicans. Sadly, my conversion was not through the good points made by my colleagues on the deficiencies of the Republican convention, neither those fierce ones of Mr. Piss and Vinegar, nor the lengthy argument I had with Pete. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat writes something that strikes me as very right (well, he often does that.) Romney’s speech last night was extremely vague on policy. If you went into the night not knowing what Romney wanted to do, you left the night not having learned much of anything. It was all personality . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Romney gave a win by default speech. The theory seems to be that what is holding the marginal voter(s) back from supporting Romney is that they think he is a guy who doesn’t care about anything but making a buck for himself and that “humanizing” (I hate that word) is the key to . . . . Continue Reading »
I only hear the speeches and worse, hear them on NPR. There, commentators tell you after a speech what deprecatory things you should have thought in case you didn’t think them. We tuned in last evening just as Clint Eastwood began speaking. We didn’t know then what is . . . . Continue Reading »
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