The Globe and Mail: your one-stop source for more Obama cowbell
January 28, 2010 2:14 am American PoliticsKonrad Yakabuski drops this among many prize clangers in his defence of Obama’s petulant State of the Union speech:
In theory, Mr. Obama did not need to sound as contrite as Bill Clinton did in his 1995 State of the Union speech…
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[T]he new President’s electoral reversals to date – in two governors’ races and the special vote to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat – have been surface wounds compared to the near decapitation Democrats experienced in 1994.
Yup, just a flesh wound:
And it gets better:
Unlike Mr. Clinton, who declared in his 1996 State of the Union speech that “the era of big government is over,” Mr. Obama seems resigned to presiding over the biggest American government ever.
Resigned to it? When was there ever a sign that this was not in fact Obama’s cherished dream?!
No doubt Mr. Yakabuski is feeling that Matthews-like tingling in his leg as Obama takes manly grasp of the helm to set the controls for the heart of the sun.
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Glendronach
real conservative :
Date: January 28, 2010 @ 3:12 AM
I take it the left are crusin’ for a brusin’ then. They want more proof that the public wants limits on what they do.
The_Iceman :
Date: January 28, 2010 @ 4:08 AM
I thought it was telling that today Evan Soloman was running video footage of Scott Brown’s acceptance speech over the caption “Death of Conservatism: Republicans have become too ideological”. That’s right, Republicans winning a Senate seat in the Liberal stronghold of Massachusetts that has not elected a Conservative Senator in 30 years is a clear sign that Conservatism is dying due to their extreme ideology. Granted, that is the type of partisan spin that I have come to expect from Evan Soloman and the CBC.