Month: January 2008

Europe’s Candidate

My roots are showing:

Whether or not the senator is a product of talk shows and is the very definition of a style that epitomizes the ideal of "change," Europe sees Barack Obama as the antithesis of George W. Bush. And confronted with the state of the world, this is something that makes all the difference. Seen from the Old Continent, Obama symbolizes the American spirit in the European heart. Barack Obama may not represent the full complexity of America, but he certainly represents the America that exists in the Europe’s wildest imagination.

Hat tip: William Kern.

For Romney

Pomocon James Poulos makes the case for Mitt’s integrity:

Romney has not become ‘the evangelical candidate’ like Huckabee. He has not become the ‘America, dammit’ candidate like McCain. He is not the starving prisoner of the neocon establishment like Rudy. He is not the candidate of broken dreams like Thompson. He is no Ron Paul, for much good and some ill. Romney’s far too supportive of waterboarding, and when he’s pandered at his worst it’s always been in the context of voicing support for Bush. But how he could possibly receive the nomination without making these kinds of moves at critical times (like the Huckabee surge) is beyond me. And I have noted before that Romney moved immediately back to the position from which he’s most credible and competent as soon as he stabilized his campaign. In this mode — the guy who can turn around the Republican party — Romney is commanding. John McCain is not.

Malkin Award Nominee

"America is blessed – very blessed. We have had an amazing leader who believes in the wisdom of ‘we the people’. Through 7 years of attack from within and without. from across the aisle and from those too obsessed with purity in his party, President Bush has been a stalwart gentleman who has maintained dignity and honor for his office as those around him have collapsed into angry rants. The nation is going to miss George W Bush.

His SOTU speech tonight was probably his best. And it rested upon 7 years of accomplishments only his enemies, in hopes of diminishing him, will never recognize," – AJSTrata, at Strata Sphere.