Category: The Dish

It’s a good question. Soon, I hope. At least before February 5.

These people are grace-free. The one great benefit of this campaign so far has been to reveal the Clintons for who they really are.

The Washington Times story I linked to earlier is untrue, according to the guy himself:

I do not support an amendment to the constitution that would prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens.  I have no intention of supporting a constitutional amendment to deny birthright citizenship.

Is this a primary or a revolution? The turnout is massive, aided surely by the mild weather.

Obama on his grandmother, mother and wife.

"You know and it’s a lot of the Clinton people that are putting this out and I really resent it. It’s wrong. I believe very strongly that this was a big vote for Obama because he brought a lot of new people in. That’s why he won and those people should stop trying to get scapegoats," – Bill Richardson on the Clinton machine’s spin.

They thought they were evenly divided between Clinton and Obama, and then they picked up the paper, saw he’d won Iowa and … felt great. They realized that part of them had always wanted Obama to win, but they’d never quite dared to believe it could happen. It’s a brief Blogging Heads clip. Check it out.

O’Reilly explains his brawl with Obama’s security. And a new video! What a douche.

I think he realizes he now has to punish the children of illegal immigrants to win over the GOP base. One of his more admirable qualities in the race to the immigration bottom on the far right was his refusal to penalize kids. Well: that has now gone, according to the Washington Times.

A strikingly positive review from the New York Sun:

One of the questions we’ve been thinking about in advance of the New Hampshire primary is whether a case can be made for Senator Obama. We understand that, in respect of these columns, the notion sounds improbable. He is running on a war plank — withdrawal — that is almost the polar opposite of ours and on an economic approach that is Keynesian. But he is such an attractive individual, speaks in such an inspiring way, and uses language in a way that evinces such intelligence that it would be short-sighted to fail to look for the upside of Mr. Obama and the aspects of his candidacy on which one might make common cause.

One of Obama’s strongest personal attributes over the years has been his ability to win the respect and affection of many of the conservatives he has engaged with. In fact, it is very hard to find any conservatives in his past who do not rave on about his reasonableness and maturity. That doesn’t mean he is a conservative. It does mean he grew up respecting conservative positions in public policy, and learning from them when he could. I think mature conservatives will, like the New York Sun, be willing to engage this man with open eyes and curiosity.