Category: The Dish

They’re not even hiding it any more.

"Cynicism towards the kind of vaporous flapdoodle Obama trades in is fully justified, and ought to be encouraged. Doubt that an Obama administration will be able to do any better with the nation’s issues than a Clinton, McCain, Romney, or Paul administration, is likewise fully justified, given Obama’s lack of executive experience, or of experience in any real job; as is doubt that the things Obama says he wants to do, are desirable. Fear that an Obama administration will just take more of our money to sluice away on bureaucratic extravaganzas, ditto.

The man’s a hard-left socialist, for Heaven’s sake. Anyone falling for this stuff learned nothing from the later 20th century," – John Derbyshire, failing to catch the Obama wave.

I would expect no less. But "hard-left socialist" is too crude. Obama is more interesting than that.

Now I know why David Gergen goes to Davos:

Hat tip: JPod.

Yes, he has them – and when they’re good, they’re great:

Obama has made the Super Tuesday vote more about who we are than who the candidates running for president are.

It’s the community organizer in him. Only now the community he is organizing is an entire country. I do think this is an important aspect to Obama’s liberalism that provides a bridge to conservatism. He is not a traditional top-down big government liberal. He’s a pragmatist who believes in finding ways to empower people to run their own lives. No, he’s no libertarian. But his view of government’s role has absorbed some of the right-wing critiques of the 1970s and 1980s. Hence the lack of mandates in his healthcare proposal and his refusal to engage in racial victimology. This nuance is worth exploring. Unlike Hillary, he doesn’t believe he is going to save anyone. He thinks he has a chance to help some people save themselves.

Sign me up. Kinsley had a good column too.

The New York Review discovers blogs.

It’s anyone’s guess between Romney and McCain, but my gut tells me Romney wins this one:

The dreamers get closer to reality:

The plane is Reaction Engines’s A2 concept, a Mach-5 (3,400mph) craft for 300 passengers funded in part by the European Union’s Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project (Lapcat). Lapcat wants an airliner that can fly from Brussels to Sydney in less than four hours. If built, the A2 will do just that—without producing a trace of carbon emissions.

Still a long way off, but … In the meantime, eat less meat.

A Mormon environmentalist blog. Why not?

Niche blogging at its best.