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Posted at 11:14pm on Jun. 13, 2008 REDSTATE ROUNDTABLE #13: What John McCain Underestimates
Does The Leader Have The Troops?
By Robert A. Hahn
This Roundtable concerns Mark Halperin's piece concerning What John McCain Underestimates.
Thomas Crown: The "Major League vs Little League" difference between Obama's infrastructure and his own. This is the only one that worries me. Obama's actually a fairly crappy politician from any standpoint but organization. McCain is actually a pretty good politician from any standpoint but organization.
Moe Lane: He's an organizational god? Then why didn't he win California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, or Massachusetts?
Thomas Crown: No, he's not crappy at organization. There's a difference. He's not Bush in 2000. He's Clinton in 1992.
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Posted at 5:16pm on Jan. 26, 2008 Polls: Media Leading Democrats Over a Cliff
Now hear this: the country opposes the war
By Robert A. Hahn
It often happens that liberal reporters, in their zeal to proselytize on behalf of Democrats, trumpet the Democrats' talking points so loudly that the Democrats themselves come to believe their own BS. The liberal line blares from every pore in the media. It must therefore be true. This phenomenon has led to numerous gravity checks for the Democrats.
Some new polls, and the coverage of them by the Associated Press, suggest that another face plant is on the way.
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Posted at 6:05pm on Nov. 11, 2007 Democrats blitz Iowa to rev up support
Everything you need to know about the presidential race
By Robert A. Hahn
The Associated Press and Reuters are busy contributing to the nation's preparation for next year's presidential election by covering the Democratic candidates' efforts to woo voters in Iowa. The headline above is the one the AP is using.
The AP's John Glover tells us that
- The race for the Democratic presidential nomination moved into overdrive Saturday, as candidates scrambled to outdo each other to win over the Iowa activists who will leadoff the contest on Jan. 3.
Six Democratic rivals trotted out celebrities, filled the air with populist rhetoric and schmoozed party regulars in the most hectic day of a campaign that's been intense for months.
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Posted at 11:00pm on Nov. 9, 2007 The 0.006% Solution
By Robert A. Hahn
As are all Americans, Karl Rove is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Democrats winning Congress:
The goodwill they enjoyed after their victory is gone. Their bright campaign promises are unfulfilled. Democratic leadership is in disarray. And Congress's approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in history.
What’s not to like?
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Posted at 1:52pm on May 21, 2007 AP Junks-Up Science to Smear Veterans
Veterans less likely to be in prison? Let's smear them with it!
By Robert A. Hahn
By now you've seen the headlines:
- Inmates who are vets more likely to be sex offenders
- Vets in prison twice as likely to be sex offenders
- Study links imprisoned veterans, sex crimes
But have you seen the story?
All of these stories are based on a filing by one Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press. It would appear that (a) Mr. Apuzzo is selling a conclusion that was supported by neither the data nor the researchers, (b) Mr. Apuzzo's Math Kung Fu is weak, and (c) Mr. Apuzzo shares with his AP colleagues a virulent disdain for the military which leads them to make up stuff like this.
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Posted at 1:19am on Mar. 26, 2007 Ha. Ha. Ha. Your Kung-Fu is Weak.
Blood, sweat, and fears
By Robert A. Hahn
From The Scotsman we learn that Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to up the ante in Britain's confrontation with Iran. After a series of dramatic behind-the-scenes telephone calls, Blair is set to assemble the COBRA Team.
Finally, a bunch of old men wearing suits will have a meeting. And this on the heels of Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett's declaration that she is "extremely disturbed" by events. In addition to these tough displays of restraint, the Blair government intends to raise the diplomatic temperature; seek a public denunciation of Iran from important undersecretaries in Brussels, Belgium; and issue a no-nonsense demand that Iran relent.
Presumably, the old guys in suits — meeting deep below 10 Downing in a maximum-security bunker — will formulate a plan to hold a meeting to draft a statement. After which, extremely serious words will be spoken, followed by increasing pressure, additionally upped antes, and even stronger demonstrations of restraint.
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Posted at 3:16pm on Mar. 9, 2007 Wade Sanders, Historian
Winston Smith Was Never This Persistent
By Robert A. Hahn
Today's Washington Times brings us more proof — as if we needed it — that liberal crusaders will say virtually anything to promote their agendas. The example we see today does so without the slightest hint of concern for truth... or even reality.
Wade Sanders, a former Clinton Administration official, demonstrates his skills as a bogus historian in a breathtakingly dishonest column entitled Kerry and the swift-boating victims. The column is part of a never-ending stream of revisionist history gushing from the left intended to convince the public that their own eyes lied to them; that Senator Kerry — a one-time anti-war activist who smeared an entire generation of military veterans while meeting with and cooperating with our North Vietnamese enemies — was an innocent victim of dishonest campaign practices.
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Posted at 6:04pm on Feb. 26, 2007 President Focuses on Long-Term Strategy
More Brickbats From the Press
By Robert A. Hahn
In addressing the National Governors Association today, President Bush focused on several long-term strategic issues. On the topic of health care these included changing our tax code to help more people buy private health care insurance, and Bush's Affordable Choices program, which helps states to make private health insurance affordable.
The role of a president in an organization apparently escapes the Associated Press reporter, Robert Tanner, who thought that the President of the United States ought to spend his time on short-term funding issues instead. The President did have Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt address the Governors' concerns on those issues, but the Associated Press nevertheless headlined Tanner's article Bush avoids talk about child health care.
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Posted at 8:15am on Feb. 26, 2007 On Her Majesty's BDS
By Robert A. Hahn
Last night, at least, it was possible to find on the Drudge Report a link to a truly amazing piece of... reporting. It seems that US Generals Will Quit if Bush orders Iran Attack. Matt Drudge has since had the good sense to take his link down, but The Times bravely trudges on, demonstrating to anyone who will listen that its Washington reporters — Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter — have gone native. They have joined their Potomac brethren in the increasingly silly frenzy known as Bush Derangement Syndrome.
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Posted at 5:08pm on Jan. 22, 2007 Happy News is Here Again
Gimme That Old Clinton Eyewash
By Robert A. Hahn
It is now generally conceded that President Clinton left no legacy. With the possible exception of welfare reform — helpfully forced upon him by a Republican congress — very little of substance was produced in the eight years of the Clinton Administration.
Who knew? You certainly would never have known that from the press the Clinton Administration received at the time. If you followed the news, President Clinton accomplished something positively wonderful every day. On Monday it was "Clinton to Assure Healthy Babies." Only by plowing through to the fourth boring paragraph would you learn that President Clinton had proposed spending one million dollars over the next ten years on this program. Unless you had some experience with the federal bureaucracy, you might not realize that this sum barely paid the fully-burdened cost of the CPA they'd hire to account for the money. But never mind that; from now on America would have healthy babies. It said so right in the paper. Chalk one up for President Clinton!
On Tuesday, Clinton would give a speech at the NASA headquarters committing this nation to placing a pie in the sky in this decade. Once again, only the fine print would reveal that no serious money was to be spent doing this. The reporters never seemed to care; or perhaps they never bothered themselves with the facts, er, details. Whichever it was, "the news" that day was that President Clinton's science program would place a pie in the sky, just as soon as his two terms were up.
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