http://blog.rightsideup.org Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:37:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A thought has occurred to me in the last few days and has been percolating since then, and it is that Barack Obama is Tony Blair. No, obviously, Tony Blair was not the first black prime minister of the United Kingdom. He didn't break down racial and cultural barriers in ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/11/17/barack-obama-is-tony-blair/ As predicted before the election, there's been a massive round of post-mortem analysis focused on where the Republicans went wrong and the disastrous state the party is in at this point. Here's a roundup of some of the pieces that have appeared on CNN.com on this topic recently (I tend ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/11/17/roundup-of-post-mortem-analysis/ I've started seeing the post-mortem pieces appearing in the media about what went wrong for John McCain, how the Republicans are out of touch and need to change, and whether Palin will be the candidate in 2012. Aside from the obvious point about doing an autopsy on someone who's still ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/10/31/final-election-thoughts/ (back from vacation so likely to be posting slightly more frequently again) CNN has a story about a Gallup poll relating to John McCain's age and Barack Obama's race, and it draws some strong conclusions from the poll. But it seems to me that the poll is asking the wrong questions: The ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/07/10/polls-asking-the-wrong-question/ I was pleasantly surprised by this article in the Guardian reporting on the horror of the global warming community to find that even the Brits are not convinced by the alarmism they've been spreading. The UK has always seemed to me (based on my frequent trips back and conversations with ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/06/25/even-in-the-uk-theyre-global-warming-sceptics/ The problem with attempting to grab the moral high ground, as Barack Obama has sought to do in the presidential election, is that - unless you're really serious about it and can live up to it - you essentially raise the bar for your own behavior to the point where ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/06/23/obama-has-dug-his-own-grave/ It appears the Obama campaign has adopted a version of the Presidential Seal as a sort of logo to sit on the podium when he speaks at events, and it looks something like this: There are several objections to this, not the least of which is that it appears to be ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/06/21/the-republic-of-obama/ The media's going easy on Obama again (contrary to his bizarre suggestion here that the media has been going easy on McCain). This time it's in relation to his incredible about-face on taking public financing. He and John McCain had made a deal (publicly announced at the time) that they ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/06/20/obamas-public-financing-flip-flop/ I was watching CNN in the morning yesterday and was struck by a segment on how the flooding in the MidWest was going to affect food prices. The anchor Tony Harris was discussing this topic with Stephanie Elam, a Business Correspondent. Excerpts from the transcript (my emphasis): HARRIS: Midwest floods not ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/06/18/cnns-smug-hosts/ John McCain has apparently now started saying that he wants states to be allowed to drill off their coastlines. According to Jim Geraghty's Campaign Spot blog: John McCain just completed a press conference here in Arlington, VA. Not the most chock-full of news appearance the senator has ever made, but one ... http://blog.rightsideup.org/2008/06/17/mccains-policy-on-drilling/