Filed under: International | Tags: 2012, clinton, election, hillary, mccain, palin, republicans, vice presdient, white house
It was a a remarkably brazen choice of running mate, but the Sarah Palin pick might just pose a few problems for Hillary’s Clinton’s long game. If McCain wins the election, he’ll be 76 in 2012. If he decides (as a result of age, health, GOP pressure…) to serve just the one term, the ready-made Republican candidate is a young woman with four years experience in the White House. A Palin 2012 run for President would combine: the opportunity to make history, four years of executive experience, and a republican base energised behind one of their standard bearers. Might 2008 have been Hillary’s best last chance?
Filed under: International | Tags: acceptance, convention, nomination, obama, speech
Justin Webb says it was clever stuff, Michael Tomasky thinks he got it right, Fraser Nelson isn’t so sure, nor is Tim Montgomery. You can find pretty much whichever slant you want on Obama’s speech lurking about online, somewhere.
The full video’s below, so you can make your own minds up. There’s something in it for every pundit, from the triumphalist White House portico set to the effectiveness with which Obama delivered policy specifics and attacks on McCain.
We posted yesterday on the sharpness of the attacks being landed on Barack Obama. How, then, could the Republicans score some points for McCain on a night that should be dominated by wall-to-wall press coverage for the Democratic nominee? Like this:
As the Olympic hype dies down and Mansfield is renamed Rebecca-adlington-field, there is still some debate over whether Olympic positives can turn into positives for the government.
Although British Olympic success will not inspire Brown into calling a snap election, history shows that in some small way, British sporting success and its politics are interlinked. Labour went into the 1970 general election ahead in the polls but ended up succumbing to Conservative victory. Some believe that an extra-time loss four days earlier to West Germany in the 1970 World Cup, and the consequent damping on the national mood contributed to Harold Wilson’s defeat
So which government should we be voting for if we want British Olympic success? In an exercise that proves that statistics can demonstrate anything, the table below does have some interesting revelations…
Filed under: Blogosphere, Labour | Tags: aspergers, brown, guido, liberal conspiracy
This, unfortunately, looks like it might just have legs. Guido posted it yesterday, suggesting that the PM might suffer from Asperger’s:
It is becoming harder to cover it up whatever it is – some interviews border on totally loony – the repetitive mantras, the uncorrelated bizarre smiles, the complete inability to empathise.
Sunny Hundal at Liberal Conspiracy picked up on it today: (more…)
