US Politics
Oh, yeah—It’s pneumonia
I have repeatedly set aside my reservations about Hillary Clinton to point out that the exaggerated distrust and even hatred with which much of the public views her is mostly irrational, a product of the demonization of her and her ...
Read MoreThe mini-pre-quasi-debate
It is now widely agreed that Mat Lauer did a poor job in hosting the presidential candidates’ national security forum on Wednesday. Word is that even at NBC, the host network, the assessment is that the forum was a “disaster.” ...
Read MoreTrump, Hate Speech and the Media
Today I’m going to resort to that lazy blogger’s device that I have used only very occasionally in the past: a link to a highly recommended post, with minimal commentary of my own. The poster is TPM’s josh Marshall. His ...
Read MoreThe Clinton Foundation Brouhaha
The Associated Press has come out with a story showing that a majority of non-governmental individuals that Hillary met with as Secretary of State during a selected period had been donors to the Clinton Foundation. The reasonable concern is that ...
Read MoreIs Trump right about anything?
Well, yes, much as I hate to say it, he’s sort of right about a few things, mainly in foreign policy. And now that he’s tanking in the polls, I can shed my reluctance to acknowledge his very limited merits. ...
Read MoreTrump and the Media (II)
Just a quick post today, since I can’t resist an “I told you so,” or, rather a “You heard it from me first” opportunity. A little over two months ago, I predicted that the mass media’s treatment of Donald Trump ...
Read MoreThe Non-dis-endorsers
President Obama has posed a question and a challenge to the numerous Republican leaders who have repeatedly found themselves disavowing one or another outrageous statement by Donald Trump but who still continue to endorse him: What does it take before ...
Read MoreBounce, Bounce
It almost invariably happens that a presidential candidate gets a “bounce” in the polls following his/her party’s convention. It even happened after the Republican grotesquerie in Cleveland: Donald Trump actually surged to a small lead over Hillary Clinton in most ...
Read MoreThe Hypopartisan Convention
I thought the Democrats did a good job in Philadelphia. Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech reminded us that her oratorical skills fall short of Bill’s or Barack’s, but after a rather wooden start, she loosened up and gave a pretty good ...
Read MoreThe Republicans Convene
I watched very little of the GOP convention. I just couldn’t bring myself to subject myself to the predictable mix of nonsense, hysteria and vitriol that was to pour forth from the podium. I did tune in now and then, ...
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