Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

gwb didnt really even get that far given that he lost the 2001 election by everyones count except the supreme courts

plus gore ran a pretty terrible campaign, i think if it was even just slightly better he would have taken it

He didn't lose the election, but let's not reopen that can.

just saying gwbs an anomaly by almost any measure!

I wonder if NRO will change their site's colors to red in solidarity with China in their battle against Islamic extremism.

GARRISON: We're going back into the case. The taking of the Presidency.
BROUSSARD: Lord, wake me. I must be dreaming.
GARRISON: You're awake. I'm deadly serious.

gwb was an anomaly because as teflon as clinton was, people still kinda wanted to react against him imo, and it felt like there was this weird nostalgia for bush sr around that time

didn't the Poppy Bush nostalgia peak around 2006-2007 (e.g. a few Dem primary candidates taking Kerry's cue in waxing nostalgia for Smart Foreign Policy, etc)?

i dunno, i feel like when bush was running a lot of people were comparing the moral "decency" of bush sr to clinton, and so when his son stepped up they looked at him and then looked at gore as clinton's VP, and made their choice based on that.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU=

Gave me a queasy feeling in my stomach when I read it. Particularly because of all the people on FreeRepublic who were taking it as a call to start killing Democrats.

I couldn't read the whole thing. Who is that guy?

Psuedonym. More here:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjVmM2U5YjYzMjY3NTA4ZDAzNTVkZjE0NjMyY2Y1Mjg=

http://www.trashmenagerie.com/images/Depeche%20Mode/david-gahan.gif???

"You're on my list, pal."

http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsD/4067-14988.gif

Obama's New History of the Cold War [Andy McCarthy]

What does it say when the President of the United States is unable to acknowledge that the United States won the Cold War and broke the bonds of Soviet tyranny for nations of Eastern Europe?

Obama in Moscow yesterday, during his speech to students at the New Economic School:

... Like President Medvedev and myself, you're not old enough to have witnessed the darkest hours of the Cold War, when hydrogen bombs were tested in the atmosphere, and children drilled in fallout shelters, and we reached the brink of nuclear catastrophe. But you are the last generation born when the world was divided. At that time, the American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose.

And then, within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Now, make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.

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What does it say when the President of the United States is unable to acknowledge that the United States won the Cold War and broke the bonds of Soviet tyranny for nations of Eastern Europe?

It says that the POTUS is being historically accurate, you dipshit.

WHAT DOES IT SAY, ALFRED. WHAT DOES IT SAY.

James Mann's new The Rebellion of Reagan makes a convincing case for Reagan's diplomacy  (for which he got serious flak from the right wing at the time), but also credits Gorbachev's desperation and willingness to cut deals. Deadbeats like McCarthy probably called Reagan an "appeaser" for not riding with Maggie Thatcher on a white horse into Eastern Europe.

obama is forgetting when george hw bush jumped over the berlin wall on a dirt bike, landed, and shot a machine gun in the air in east berlin and said "okay, whose coming with me?"

"Okay, who's coming with me?"

http://www.frank151.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/20070719-bush41suicide.jpg

obama is forgetting when george hw bush jumped over the berlin wall on a dirt bike, landed, and shot a machine gun in the air in east berlin and said "okay, whose coming with me?"

― thee michelle boob elephant (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, July 8, 2009 4:51 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this was the raddest part of the 80s imo

iirc after shooting the gun into the air he chugged a pepsi

freedom should be the choice of every generation imo

andy mccarthy's freaking out about coverage of obama's first pitch. wow...:

Meet Me in St. Booie! [Andy McCarthy]

Though it's not a widely appreciated fact, we right-winger sports nuts have long known that the sports press is among the media's leftiest precincts. So I suppose we shouldn't be surprised at how little was said (as in nothing at all) about the reception President Obama received last night when he came out on the field to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the baseball all-star game in St. Louis. It was a packed house (over 50,000 in attendance), and the jeers were easily discernible.

Don't get me wrong: there was more cheering than booing. But that's to be expected: It was a festive national occasion, and most of us who disagree intensely with Obama's policies would be more apt to stand and cheer our president respectfully. That's what made the boos all the more noticeable to anyone — other than a sports journalist — who heard it.

The media fawning really is so shameless it's become self-parody. Take ESPN, for example.

Put aside the unacknowledged booing for a moment. The other embarrassing fact is that my six-year-old throws a baseball better (far better, in fact) than Obama. Yet the media went out of its way to obscure that, too — no doubt wishing to avoid unfavorable comparisons to the strike President Bush famously fired from the mound at Yankee Stadium at the 2001 World Series. In its live broadcast, Fox (and remember, this is Fox Sports, not Fox News) covered Obama's first pitch at a very weird angle that conveyed his spastic motion but didn't do justice to how pathetic the toss was. But that's nothing compared to ESPN's laughable coverage. Here's the clip. Besides reporting only that there was a "standing ovation for the commander-in-chief," the announcer made a point of noting that Obama's pitch "didn't bounce" before reaching home-plate (though the announcer did cop to the "horrible camera work that made the trajectory of the pitch impossible to see).

Now, take a look at this clip from MLB.com, about 24 seconds in. It's the only decent footage I've seen, and it shows that Obama's first pitch did bounce. In fact, the pitch did not even reach home-plate — and they evidently knew it wouldn't. The player who was sent out to catch Obama's pitch (more on that in a moment) was crouching on top of home plate, not behind it where catchers always set up. And even so, he had to reach out a couple of feet in order to short-hop the ball, which otherwise might have bounced all the way to the backstop.

Now, about that player who caught Obama's pitch: It was none other than the Cardinals' great first-baseman, Albert Pujols. What does that matter? Well, the tradition is that the first pitch is tossed to the catcher, not the first-baseman — and, in fact, the starting catcher for the National League last night was the Cardinals own Yadier Molina. But while Molina is popular, Pujols is like God in St. Louis (in fact, a fan in the stands either last night or the night before was holding a banner that said, "In Albert We Trust").

I think Obama's people knew he would get a very mixed reaction last night. His entrance was shrewdly orchestrated. The cheers and boos started as soon as he came onto the field, but he was steered immediately over to shake hands with Stan Musial — the most beloved player in the history of the Cardinals. No true St. Louis fan would boo Satan if he was shaking hands with Stan the Man. The president then went straight to the mound, where today's Stan the Man, the great Pujols, took good care of him — quickly embracing Obama right after making sure his heave looked borderline respectable ... with a little help from the cameras. Finally, Obama moved was ushered quickly over to the third-base line, where Cardinal legends Bob Gibson, Ozzie Smith, and Lou Brock (among others) were there to share warm-handshakes.

In the box score, as reported by the Obamedia/Sports Division, it will read like a standing-O for The One as he hurled a bull's-eye before strutting off to warm waves of adulation. If you were watching, though, Obama looked like the guy who bowled a 37.

That proves he's a Commie, right?

the strike President Bush famously fired from the mound at Yankee Stadium at the 2001 World Series

of course, how could we forget that historic pitch W. threw; he threw it famously.

not commie, fag. keep up.

"Though it's not a widely appreciated fact, we right-winger sports nuts have long known that the sports press is among the media's leftiest precincts."

?!?!?!

not commie, fag. keep up

Oh sorry, it's Bill Plaschke that's the communist.

the liberal sports-media elite

http://ebar.com/images/articles/marcus_cigardudes_3108.jpg

And that Chicago White Sox jacket Obama was wearing clearly symbolized his close ties to the corrupt Chicago democratic political machine no matter the explanation he gave to the Fox broadcasters

fwiw jim goddamn rome is blabbing abt obama's pitch and how important it is not to bounce a presidential pitch

clearly in the tank for obama

mccarthy's posts make much more sense if you imagine them being barked out of an open office window by a shirtless dude pointing a .45 at his own head

You mean that's not how he does that?

Exhuming McCarthy

LOL

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODg2MWNmNzk1MjllNzlmMGQ4NDlkYWYzOGExMTM3OWQ=

holy fuck alive

It certainly does reawaken my interest.

and my sense of wonder

oh that's from 06! still, wow.

Are we living in an inside-out black hole?

derb honey i don't even know anymore

wau

Yeah, Derbyshire had actually first heard about that the year before courtesy of yours truly and talked about it:

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_03_06_corner-archive.asp#057835

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_03_13_corner-archive.asp#058247

Consider too this post in response to that:

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2005/03/party-monster.html

lmaooooo

Pardon Ed Whelan:

Fake Umpire Hiding Behind Fake Love of Baseball? [Ed Whelan]

Pardon the baseball fan in me:

President Obama says he’s a longtime fan of the Chicago White Sox, but he calls Comiskey Field “Cominskey.” And Judge Sotomayor, in her testimony yesterday, asserted that “Few judges could claim they love baseball more than I do” and that she “grew up … watching baseball.” But a March 28, 1995, story in USA Today, titled “U.S. District judge not a baseball fan,” stated that Sotomayor “grew up a few miles from Yankee Stadium but says she knows little about the sport.” And yesterday she said that “many residents of Washington, D.C. have asked me to look at the Senators” as her new team. But as even a casual baseball fan would know, the D.C. team is the Nationals, not the Senators.

i dunno, pols sports pandering is megalame

HE CALLS COMISKEY FIELD COMMIE-SKI FIELD. PROOF

smart enough to know the washington senators (the long-dead baseball team), not smart enough to know the nationals? maybe it was a brodeo kinda thing, like "you senators are my new team!"