URLs du Jour

2008-01-06

  • George Will has a must read, taking on two of our favorite candidatess:
    Although Huckabee and Edwards profess to loathe and vow to change Washington's culture, each would aggravate its toxicity. Each overflows with and wallows in the pugnacity of the self-righteous who discern contemptible motives behind all disagreements with them and who therefore think that opponents are enemies and differences are unsplittable.
  • In the meantime, Scott Johnson at Power Line spots Huckabee circulating a bogus quote from Abe Lincoln, as Richard Nixon once did. This comes soon after he attributed a Godfather quote to Sun Tzu. What is it with this guy anyway?

  • Stephen Green watched last night's debates allegedly in the process of inebriation, but had it together enough to observe:
    Did you know that Hillary has experience? Experience with change? Change that only her experience, her experience with change, can bring about? And that she's a woman, a woman bringing change with her experience of womanness? Yeah, me neither.

  • Harvard economics prof Greg Mankiw listened to the Democrats debate while sober. (I mean, Professor Mankiw was sober. I think.) One candidate "demonstrates extraordinary ignorance (or perhaps extraordinary disingenuousness)"; one candidate "shows extraordinary clarity and honesty"; and one "offers some typical vacuous blather". Try to guess who was who. Hint: Edwards is none of the three, especially not the honest one.

  • Dave Barry's in New Hampshire, and unfortunately I've missed seeing him so far. Follow the saga of DICK HARPOOTLIAN (so far) here, here, and here. A sample:
    But those who watched the debates saw history in the making, as it became clear, over the course of the evening, that one person, and one person only, embodies the wisdom, the judgment, the maturity and -- yes -- the simple humanity that this nation desperately needs in its next president: Charlie Gibson.

    Unfortunately he can't afford the pay cut. This means we're stuck with the actual candidates, who, as I say, are in a testy mood, as was evidenced in the Republican debate when John McCain and Mike Huckabee, during a particularly testy exchange over illegal immigration, gave Mitt Romney a wedgie. The Democrats, meanwhile, continued their ongoing obsessive argument about change -- who is the most for change; who has done the most changing; who can change with the changing times to bring change to those who need a change; who has taken the time, with all this tromping around New Hampshire night and day demanding change, to change their underwear; etc.

    Just a couple days to go, guys. We'll make it. Probably.


Last Modified 2008-01-06 7:45 PM EDT