As a founding blogger of BoB, humbly beg to report I am thoroughly disgusted at the recent narrowing down- and simpling down- of the subject focus here. Hilla should this, Barack should that.  The Dems this, the Dems that.  While my observations and transgressions in such areas are duly noted, the mashup of “engagement” and […]

 
Is this really Krugman’s “cult of personality” guy? No wonder Team Clinton sez it wasn’t supposed to be a smear. Seven months is a long time for Barack to lead in the backstretch 

There is now less than a year left before the national election. What is to come next will hopefully be very different. And one thing that we can all agree on is that the Bush years have been a disaster for the image of America around the world.
So what to do? What […]

George Bush has been gallivanting around the Middle East in a desperate effort to save his legacy. However, his efforts to raise the alarm in the Arab states on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf about the danger of Iran came to naught. He forgot that Iran is the major trading partner […]

Quemoy and Matsu, the Spratlys, the Golf of Tonkin, and now this… how will it play in New Hampshire tomorrow?  Forget cheap, bad, actuarial driven healthcare for the masses.  Will the next “National Security President” please stand up.

Now that we’re starting to know just which presidential candidates know “what time it is,” allow me to remind you that daylight savings time starts on 9 March. That’s just two months from now… More important for political junkies, however, is that we return to “Standard Time” on 2 November, just 48 hours before Election […]

Describing the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the spokesman for her party said, “She has been martyred.” Commenting on Salon.Com, Sadip Roy concludes his remarks with the following,
In Pakistan, the death of Benazir could become the galvanizing force for a mass engagement in the political process. Or it could unleash the kind of revenge-seeking bloodbath […]

No, Mike Huckabee, it’s not some clinic for ball players to improve their kicking skills. It’s the self-proclained, allegedly  oil-rich ”independent” state stretching around the strategic Horn of Africa that may soon (with a little help from its friends) break away from the Somali “republic.”  Nobody in area code 713 is talking but my spies in cryogenics tell […]

Monsieur le president without wedding ring, with supermodel/chanteuse Karla Bruni. The Times online has all the dish that fits.  It won’t play in Peoria.  In Chalons-sur-Saone they’re giving the affair of the New Millenium a Gallic shrug. Hillary and Neil Young, Barack and Oprah,Huckabee and Faith Hill?  Can you imagine… 

Several of us here on BestoftheBlogs have made our livings as wordsmiths, producing words that our employers felt were worth paying for. But what is this art that we practice? What, in particular, do we think about the words that our colleagues place in the mouths of political candidates? How many of us would agree […]