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Obama on Obama

Submitted by Ciarán on Sat, 02/08/2008 - 10:39

I know he's developing a reputation for arrogance (about which John Stewart has a thing or two to say), but how's this for self-effacing? Take a look at his by-lined opinion piece in today's online Irish Times. For some reason the paper edition has credited this bandwagon hop to Breda O'Brien. Here's a screengrab for obvious reasons...

 

Update: Oh well, they fixed it.  My cheap smirking session comes to an end. We'll have to go back to laughing at Breda O'Brien's incredibly shoddy research instead. See Hugh Green for details.

After the Splurge

Submitted by Ciarán on Sun, 16/09/2007 - 22:42

John Quiggin has a good post over on Crooked Timber discussing the need for the Democrats to put an end to the Iraq debacle as soon as possible. Since a direct motion to end the war probably wouldn't work, Quiggin advocates that Congress repeat the tactic that brought Vietnam to an end: simply stop paying for it.

This leads to a sub-debate in the comments on whether the emerging Vietnam <=> Iraq consensus has any merit. It probably does. Still, I'm concerned at the idea that the ending-the-war options are the same for the Democrats now as they were then. I think that things are much much worse for them this time around. read the rest of this post »

Barack Obama's War Narrative

Submitted by Ciarán on Mon, 15/01/2007 - 23:43

Much like Richard Delevan and others, I've been very much impressed with Barack Obama. He's spectacularly articulate and, I hear, has a spot of the Clintons about him (the good bits).

At the same time, I can't help but be disturbed at his line on Iraq. I'm disturbed, in a sense, by what Obama's rhetoric says about how Americans might remember this war once they leave. read the rest of this post »

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