The Pattern of Star Power

Me at Q&O just now, on the bit with Caroline Kennedy and the senate seat here in NY:

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I’m not totally convinced that the issue is one of entitlement, or dynasty, or anything of that sort. I suspect

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News notes the passage of an event that frankly I didn’t figure on for another week or two…

Barack Obama  and the left side of the blogosphere have had their first real spat over

A 20-year association with a radically leftist, anti-American, racist preacher whom Obama referred to as a spiritual adviser meant absolutely nothing about Obama’s judgment or philosophy, and illustrated only the bigotry of those who dared criticize it.

A 20-minute association

B D Sharp writes in the Rochester, NY, Democrat and Chronicle:

In her first visit to Rochester, U.S. Senate hopeful Caroline Kennedy met Wednesday with Mayor Robert Duffy and Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, asking questions about upstate but

I’ve heard Paul White being bandied about for Obama’s pick to be Secratary of the Navy. With this, I know Obama was the wrong choice; this proves it. Look, White did OK as chief operating officer of the Intrepid Museum

BO (Barack Obama) has selected Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration.   Personally I could care less.   BO is about stage craft and one blowhard minister is pretty like any other.   However  even the leftard homphiles are starting

The nation is on the cusp of a depression.   We have an raw, naive and untested President taking office next monh.     New York State’s economy is  tanking.    What New York State does not need is yet another mere celebrity senator.  

It appears Ms. Kennedy thinks that US Senate seats are something to lobbied for amongst political elites when one decides one wants them, and that the public should be happy to simply fall in line. The fact that one has

Yet another story, from Tean Obama, Associated Press:

WASHINGTON – An internal review shows aides to President-elect Barack Obama had no “inappropriate discussions” with Illinois Gov. Rod

 or his staff concerning the search for a Senate replacement from Illinois,

We need to invade Michigan and rebuild the state from the ground up. We will be greeted as liberators, we have clear supply lines, and we can easily rebuild the auto industry with the kind of money we spend on

So who is tougher, a veteran of the rough and tumble world of Chicago politics or a mother of five, and state governor, from Alaska?   Michelle reports that BO’s chief of staff:

Rahm Emanuel can’t stand the heat

Michael O’Brien, Hill, reported that  Jennifer Granholm(D – Canada ) has called Senate Majority Leader Dirty Harry Reid (D-NV) Un-American:

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) said it was “un-American” for senators to have voted against approving a bailout of

Let’s demand that Obama follow Bush’ example and demand that his staff all cooperate fully with Fitz

Clarice Feldman, via Tom Maguire Just One Minute.

Rod Blagojevich’s conduit into the Office of the President Elect has been identified.   Less than surprising is that he from the same cesspool as Blago and BO, the PRI(People’s Republic of Illinois).    The conduit’s name Rahm Emanuel, soon to  BO’s

No need to wait for Obama to frame the issue when the Associated Press knows his favorite words already. They are great students of his oratory, after

Mary Katharine Ham, Weekly Standard