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"Carter tried weakness and the world got tougher and tougher because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators, when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead."

David Axelrod, senior advisor to the president, fielded the journalists' questions in the hallway of the Blue House instead, telling them that the public's expectations had been "too high." Hmmm... and the source of those high expectation was? And ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Newt Gingrich,  David Axelrod,  Dede Scozzafava,  Glenn Reynolds

And now, from the left...

I empathise with the Tbog poster who is himself left in outer cyberspace wishing that he too had a heart and a brain. He wishes that Althouse would give him some of hers since she has way more that she needs. But he is trapped in his heart and mind's ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

"The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night i

First!! I saw this yesterday on Insta and laughed my ass off. That's odd, I thought the first line of Dreams of My Father went like this: Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family. What I love about this ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin,  Jonah Goldberg,  Google Inc.

What if hippies had money... and good taste?

A photo-walk around Madison's East Side got me thinking. There's a hippie aesthetic, but it's not well-developed enough, and there isn't enough money to run with it, which could be a disaster if there isn't good taste — and it's hard to have good ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

"How much worse does Obama have to get before Althouse decides McCain would have been better?"

I wish I had time for this, but work calls :) the professor pictured Obama standing up to a Democratic Congress, not what we have now, Congress standing up to a Democratic Obama. Still, it's divided government, n'est-ce pas? Is there no analog to Sim ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party,  Second Life

The "drifter" and the "bug man."

Bizarre ending to a weird story. I am of mixed opinion about the street people I meet. Most of them are simply dysfunctional. I don't know how they survive. They certainly don't have the skills to function in our society. They're like throwbacks to an ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

"Hi, I like this article but... Can someone tell me about Barack Obama?"

Yeah, I saw that too. It was pretty funny. I don't know what drives people to post spam. Do others really click the links? You had Mukesh and Deepak here a few weeks ago. Anyone click their online gambling links? Besides me, of course? Spam? I'd ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin

Twitter ads — a self-limiting concept?

RT @Ron: Tweets are 140 characters, not 180.||AA is Twitter rusty. I agree. Nice post. This comment was brought to you by Cheerios. The oats in Cheerios are the only major cereal grain proven to lower cholesterol. Let the wholesome goodness of Cheerios ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

At the Count-Your-Blessings Restaurant...

I'm thankful that I'm not a candy wrapper. One turkey is named Liberty, the other Solvency... breast or leg? Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to his daughter, explained why he preferred the turkey to the bald eagle as the emblem for our nation: "For my ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Benjamin Franklin

We didn't go out looking for turkeys today.

What the heck were Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, and Joe Biden doing in the Arboretum?? Cheers, Victoria Who knew that wild turkeys have purple feathers. Purple seeks you out. Over at Publix even the natural free range birds are featherless. Never mind ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  22 Nov 2009

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