Part of the freakshow aspect of last night in St Paul was the focus on Bristol Palin in her maternity outfit and her boyfriend alongside. What is she wearing? Is that a designer outfit? How pregnant is she? How tightly…
Everyone’s still reeling from the attacks on community organizing last night. Something, by the way, that Obama did more than 20 years ago, from ’85-’88. He served Catholic parishes on the South Side, ran an office with a dozen employees…
We just went into another reality. Maybe it was the moment when Piper was licking her hand to slick back Trig’s hair as he rested in her lap in the Palin family box, a nice moment, a real one, and…
Just heard the erstwhile charming Mike Huckabee say that he doesn’t worry about what Obama told the Europeans on his great adventure overseas, but about what he “brought back.” Ideas that would somehow curtail American “liberty.” And earlier today David…
The forthcoming issue of Middle East Policy contains an astonishing piece by Ian Lustick of the University of Pa. on the desperation inside Israel about its future, titled “The Abandonment of the Iron Wall: Israel and the ‘Middle Eastern Muck.'”…
Dennis Prager, the conservative radio show host, is saying that the Republican Party has never been so hospitable to Jews, that Jewish and liberal are no longer synonymous. Then there’s Joe Lieberman turncoating for the Republicans. A true data point,…
Obama is speaking right now about energy policy–intelligently, forcefully–at a rally in Ohio. The Republicans are talking about Sarah Palin’s relationship with Bristol Palin and the father of Bristol’s child Landslide.
The Forward reports that Michelle Obama is related to a Chicago rabbi who is a black Israelite, Capers Funnye. “Obama is supposed to be close to Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, who was Hillel Rabbi when I was at Yale,” says…
Say what you like about Sarah Palin, she has tremendous chi or life force; she’s sexy, and is the best thing that has happened to political spectacle in about 500 years, since Caligula, or Henry V. To the right is…