Thomas Sowell tells it like it is
Dr. Sowell describes the critical differences between interests and visions. Interests, he says, are articulated by people who know what their interests are and what they want to do about them. Visions, however, are the implicit assumptions by which people operate.
A snoozer!
Some insight from the great Mark Steyn on the second McCain-Obama debate, with some genuinely rich imagery! The Corner at NR…
Keep your sunny side up [Mark Steyn]
Republicans have cause to be disappointed by last night: As everyone says, Obama wins by not losing. He looks more and more as if he’s already the president, while McCain prowling the stage seeking to “connect” looks more and more like Yosemite Sam after the dynamite* failed to go off.
Nevertheless.
Before everyone succumbs to a terminal case of inevitabilititis, it’s worth remembering we’ve been here before. In the last months of the primary campaign, the press kept assuring Hillary fans that Obama’s victory was inevitable and the shriller the media Obamaboppers got, the more bluecollar Dems sat on their hands. In the end all the King’s horses and all the King’s men had to drag the guy across the finish line. You couldn’t replay his spectacular victory in slow-motion because it was already slower than any slo-mo technology ever invented.
So we already know there’s a huge disconnect between the unstoppable Messianic force promoted by the media and the cooler appraisal by actual voters. What’s happened since primary season? The Iraq surge (McCain’s unique selling point) is a victim of its own success and has dwindled away to an irrelevant footnote, and the front pages are full of a supposed economic catastrophe which the crude rules of politics suggest any fool should be able to hang on the incumbent.
Yet Obama still can’t open up a solid lead. After all, why would record numbers of viewers watch the vice-presidential debate if the election’s already over?
Meanwhile, the supposedly damaged Republican brand is proving suprisingly resilient. I see one of the two New Hampshire seats that flipped blue in ’06 may return to the red fold next month. Where’s the blowout?
(*A lot of the dynamite is well past its sell-by date: Two references last night to Ronald Reagan negotiating with Tip O’Neill. No one remembers who Tip O’Neill is. McCain might as well have been evoking misty watercolor mem’ries of Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna. Obama, by contrast, is all future – which is understandable, given his past.)
[UPDATE: A reader responds:
Listen, Mark, sunny side up is fine but this one is over easy.]
Evidently, the Colt 45 flows freely in the streets of Harlem, NY
Howard Stern took to the streets to see just what the voters in New York City had to think. He found numerous Obama supporters uptown in Harlem, who evidently had no idea what they were talking about. To be fair, he found one McCain supporter who was comparably clueless, too!
My personal favorite interview is the Harlem woman who insists that Obama had more facts & information and spoke well (not in so many words), but then proceeds to misstate several of Obama’s positions with conviction!
The McCain/Palin Advance Team rolls into Sin City
Just got an invite to a McCain/Palin rally on Monday, September 15th here in Las Vegas, featuring the legendary Senator Joe Lieberman! Looking forward to it!
Coming soon to theaters everywhere!
This new McCain/Palin ad really feels more like a movie trailer. More and more, the GOP ticket looks fresh and vigorous, while Obam/Biden looks stale and tired.
Looking forward to catching it on opening day – January 20th, 2009!
The GOP-Battlestar Galactica Connection
I noted on The SSC way back on August 29th, 7:30PM PST, that Sarah Palin reminded me a lot of the President on Battlestar Galactica, Laura Roslin (actress Mary McDonnell). Indeed, John McCain looks a whole lot like Colonel Saul Tigh (actor Michael Hogan) on the series, too!
Well, evidently I am not the only one who made that connection! A fan put this together – kudos! The resemblance is uncanny!
VP Nominee Sarah Palin knocks it out of the park
Enjoy Sarah Palin’s excellent and groundbreaking speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention! Special thanks to Conservative Funhouse for making the video available on YouTube!
This young lady is a natural!
PS: And Michelle, there’s only room for one Alpha Woman in the 2008 Presidential Race, and you ain’t it! ;-)
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