A story in Details, of all places, goes further than any other MSM piece I’ve seen in probing Jindal’s desiness. It paints him to be a hard-driving morph whose religious conversion was inspired by a girl he had the hots for:
“I considered myself anti-Christian,” he wrote in another piece; elsewhere, he confided that he thought […]
A Boston Globe warhorse drew an interesting analogy today between a possible McCain-Jindal ticket and Eisenhower-Nixon. Jindal is 36, Richard Nixon was 39:
For a running mate Ike chose the young senator from California, Richard Nixon, who, at 39, provided a generational counterweight and also a salve to conservatives. George H.W. Bush was 64 when he […]
A couple of months ago, John McCain criticized Barack Obama for saying he’d launch surgical airstrikes against terrorists in Pakistan — when Dubya does so every other week. The GOP line then was that Obama was too aggressive with terrorists.
Yesterday in Israel, Dubya tried to link Obama’s willingness to talk to enemy nations to Neville […]
Wreath marks the spot
On this day, the 40th anniversary of MLK’s assassination:
King’s last words on the balcony were to musician Ben Branch… who was scheduled to perform that night… “Ben, make sure you play ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’ in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty.” [Link]
Gandhi’s memorial (or Samadhi) at Raj Ghat, […]
John McCain has made much hay of his foreign policy experience, but today he made the elementary mistake of mixing up Sunni groups with Shia:
Speaking to reporters in Amman… McCain said he… [was] concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back”… Sen. Joseph Lieberman… stepped forward and whispered in […]
Badmash’s obligatory Amitabh for President campaign rolls into town again now that the nominees are almost settled. But this year they’ve slicked up the artwork, posting it on a site with a gauzy blue heaven background like Obama’s.
[Obama] looks terrible in a turban… This is a serious weakness. Listen to me, America! There are many […]
Ninety minutes ago, John McCain stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the man whose Svengali called his Bangla-American daughter Bridget a black bastard child, and accepted his endorsement for the presidency. His daughter must be wondering why her dad embraces the man who hates her for being ‘black.’ Awkward.
… Karl Rove… spent time [with McCain] during the 2004 […]
Last night Hillary Clinton finally won a few primaries, showing once again that going negative works. Amid legitimate salvos about Obama’s NAFTA waffling and ties to a shady developer were Muslim smears and ads whipping up fear of terrorism. A Clinton attack ad seems to have darkened Obama’s skin color, like Time magazine did with […]
Scary, bearded candidate with Semitic name
Juan Cole penned a great post about how despite the GOP’s kindergarten strategy of sneering at Obama’s middle name (how’s that for substantive?), Republican nominee John McCain himself adopted a daughter of Muslim descent:
Since Hussein is a very common name in Bangladesh, it is entirely possible that [Bridget McCain’s] birth […]