Month: January 2008

Ron Paul On CNN

He defends his own character and views from the newsletters. YouTubes here and here. I’m sorry, but he just doesn’t seem like a bigot to me. That doesn’t excuse his at best negligent association with them. I’m shocked by the newsletters. Jamie Kirchick deserves kudos for unearthing them. But one point Paul does make that resonates: why is there no other evidence of his bigoted statements? I think Brookhiser’s judgment remains the soundest. But I’m not going to deny I feel embarrassed for not knowing more about this.

India and Pakistan

A reader makes a good point:

Both India and Pakistan are "front page" news today, all over the world. India, because TATA unveiled the world’s cheapest car. Pakistan, because, yet another suicide bomber killed 25 people in Lahore.

The contrast is breathtaking, but the reason is simple: one chose the path of secularism, the other, Islamism.

And one is a democracy and the other isn’t.

The Clintons, Race and Obama

Victor Davis Hanson:

[Obama’s] clearly as good a speaker as they come, as bright or brighter than Hillary, and understands American politics in a way reflective of someone 50-60 with decades more experience. So what will the Clintons do about that? We will soon learn — but already from bits and pieces that leak out, and Bill’s harangues, we are beginning to sense some of the same patronizing and resentment that heretofore was reserved only for conservative blacks. I would expect the Clintons will bite their lip and then adopt  the "we have to destroy the black candidate to save the black vote" mentality.