http://michellemalkin.com news and commentary from a conservative perspective Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:10:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Personnel is policy. Obama's policy is the Perpetual Campaign. Which is why he has surrounded himself with nothing but campaign goons. Dan Gerstein has an excellent column on all the president's hacks: The president's top advisers are not just overly political, they are almost totally political. Indeed, this West Wing is stacked with "hacks"--campaign ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/05/all-the-presidents-hacks/ Glenn Reynolds says the "Obama magic has faded." The glow is gone. The swagga has sagged. Indeed: In fact, the elections underscored Obama’s political weakness just one year after his triumphant victory over Republican moderate John McCain. The Obama invincibility that was so much in evidence then seems to have lost its power. People ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/04/mmm-mmm-mmm/ Guess it'll be an early night for all the Democrat water-carriers in the media who have already filed their preemptive pieces downplaying whatever happens tonight after the polls close and the ballots are counting. Here's a bit of the Obama-as-a-factor-but-not-as-much-as-we-want-you-to-think analysis of exit poll results. Politicker reports on the return of "It's ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/03/ballot-watch-waiting-for-the-results-that-everyone-tells-us-mean-nothing/ Alfonzo Rachel and friends rap the Left's victicrats from South Central to the White House: http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/27/damn-it-feels-good-to-be-a-victim/ Longtime readers will know that I have been very supportive of state initiatives on medical marijuana dating back to my years at the Seattle Times (see here, here, and here). So, I have no general policy quarrel with this at all. Finally, an Obama policy that officially reduces the role of ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/19/about-the-new-federal-medical-marijuana-policy/ Steven Crowder, you're a RAAAAAAACIST. No Peace Prize for you! http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/16/best-nobel-peace-prize-rap-ever/ President Obama with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gibbs (via White House Flickr stream) Earlier this week, I spotlighted White House interim communications director and chief Fox-basher Anita Dunn's career-long commitment to flacking for one of the Beltway's most entrenched and crooked creatures, Tom Daschle. I also noted that ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/15/anita-dunn-a-corruptocrat-flack-and-a-mao-cheerleader/ Oh, spare me. Please: There’s nothing more traditional in American politics than the wholesome family portrait: a beaming candidate, beaming spouse, reluctantly beaming teenagers. But when Bill de Blasio, a candidate for public office in New York City this fall, put his family in his campaign mailings and TV ads, there was ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/15/gag-obama-credited-with-making-interracial-marriage-acceptable/ Every year, the Magazine Publishers of America rewards the creative talents who design covers for leading publications. There are awards for sports covers, lifestyle covers, celebrity covers, science covers, and news covers. This year, the MPA created a special new category: BEST OBAMA MAGAZINE COVER. The winner? Obama cultist Jan Wenner's Rolling Stone: Here's what ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/15/magazine-industry-rewards-obama-cult-worship/ You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me: President Obama on Wednesday attempted to preempt the announcement that Social Security recipients will not get an increase in their benefit checks for the first time in three decades, encouraging Congress to provide a one-time payment of $250 to help seniors and disabled Americans ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/14/wealth-redistributor-in-chief-hey-lets-spread-around-another-13-billion/ Last night, it was Michelle Obama shunning the hostile and dangerous territory of South Carolina. Today, Bookworm Room notes this San Francisco Chronicle column item reporting that President Obama is hiding from the leftists in San Francisco: The White House's fear of protests from Code Pink and other left-wingers has put the ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/14/and-now-barack-obama-is-afraid-of-san-francisco/ Read, print and pass it on. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/14/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-the-nobel-peace-prize-recipient/ Has the waahmbulance arrived at the White House yet? Because the taxpayer-subsidized whining is getting really old: Calling Fox News "a wing of the Republican Party," the Obama administration on Sunday escalated its war of words against the channel, even as observers questioned the wisdom of a White House war on ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/13/fox-news-derangement-syndrome-strikes-again/ Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama cut his teeth in community organizing at Chicago public housing project Altgeld Gardens. Obama exaggerated his role as an activist at Altgeld Gardens, according to a 2007 LATimes report quoting other community organizers, and left behind more failure than success, according to this 2008 Boston ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/12/no-peace-in-chicagos-altgeld-gardens/ The Twitter hashtag of the day is #nobelol (started by Andy Levy) -- for Twitter users from the left, right, and center laughing out loud at Barack Obama's receipt of a Nobel Peace Prize he himself says he doesn't deserve. There's already a bumper sticker via College Politico: The worldwide derision has ... http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/09/dnc-humor-czar-condemns-nobel-prize-jokes/