See Dubya has a nifty new video on change...that’s not so much of a change, with a soundtrack courtesy of Shirley Bassey (hence the above title). Someone should redo her Goldfinger theme:
Ohbaaaahma.....He’s the man, the man with the radical friends!
Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey spots s ome more history repeating , with someone infinitely less exciting than a SPECTRE villain: Mario Cuomo, whom Obama may have borrowed the boilerplate for his latest speech. And speaking of which, James Lileks writes:“John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy -- cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota -- he’d understand the kind of change that people are looking for."
Right here in Minnesota? Hardest hit by this economy? What is he talking about, exactly? Is this a specific reference to a specific...
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Hillary Byzantine ClintonFrom: eddriscoll.com
Post Date: 2008-06-03 18:40:36
Victor Davis Hanson finds Strange New Respect for Hillary Clinton, but notes the poison pill she’s planted to wind down her her campaign: Her bizarre offer to serve as VP, contrary to popular opinion, was a brilliant (if Byzantine) political move: she knows that she has earned the slot but that the Obamas don’t want her "dream ticket"; so now the onus is on them if they reject her "generous" and most logical offer, and only blame will follow if the Democrats stumble in the...
more Tiny Mummies Meets The Cocoon EffectFrom: eddriscoll.com
Post Date: 2008-06-03 17:05:25
Kathleen Parker has a sense of deja vu:I was reading Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker profile of political spinmeister Roger Stone and thinking, hmmmmm. Where have I read this before? And then I remembered. Matt Labash wrote a very long profile of the very same Roger Stone for The Weekly Standard last November and a follow up in January of this year. I dug up the profile to check my memory and remembered why I remembered it. The profile was mentioned everywhere, including David Brooks’s year-end...
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