Larwyn just forwarded a Sigmund,Carl,and Alfred blog of John Podhoretz's Commentary blog. Sigmund et al. state of New York's Siena poll:
"...John McCain is now only 5 points behind Barack Obama, 46-41 – not shocking because polls have narrowed to similar margins in New Jersey. (It should be noted, however, that according to a Rasmussen poll released yesterday, Obama is leading in New York by 55-42.)
"No, the shocking detail has to do with a wild, 35-point swing toward McCain among Jewish voters. Obama led among them by a margin of 50-37 in August. This month, McCain is actually leading Obama by a margin of 54 percent to 32 percent."
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Has Barack Obama Gone Laissez-Faire?
Call me crazy but I was in the health club of the Emerson Inn and Spa this afternoon and saw a headline that said that Barack Obama has called the AIG subsidy "crony capitalism". Bravo. I sincerely hope that Senator Obama is going laissez-faire, although I can't help but wonder what those contributions from the Pritzkers and from George Soros are all about? Has Wall Street gone laissez-faire too? I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Really.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Gold, Stocks and The Dollar, Oh My!
The past month has been rather confusing on the investment front. I had been in gold stocks and they plummeted like the dickens into Hades. Presumably gold went down because the dollar went up and oil went down. Now mostly in cash, I watch gold shoot up as the S&P 500, the Nasdaq and the Dow take their own ride into perdition. What new torments await investors in the first rung of hell? Does the Dow decline further and gold continue upward? Has the dollar ended its six-week ascent? Are foreign central banks and the Fed playing games with the dollar? Why would the dollar ascend and gold and oil decline weeks before the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the subsidy of AIG and Freddie Mac? Do we have a free market, or a pretense of one, with the Wicked Wizard of the East making sport of it? With the Dow down better than 700 points this week, is it good idea for the Wizard to remain behind the curtain, pulling strings?
Candace de Russy's "Radical Mind"
My good friend Candace de Russy's article "Radical Mind" appears in the current issue of National Review. (A longer version of the article is available at Family Security Matters.) Dr. de Russy argues, convincingly, that although 63 percent of Americans believe that Barack Obama shares traditional American views, there are serious lacunae in his resume, questions about his upbringing and gaps in what we know about his associations with radicals ranging from the far left to Islamo-Terrorism. For instance, de Russy observes that at Occidental College in Los Angeles he strived "not to be 'mistaken for a sellout," and then continued to fixate on identity politics and radicalism while at Columbia.
Upon moving to Chicago after graduation:
"Obama elected to become a left-wing community organizer in Chicago. He was hired for the job, NRO’s David Freddoso stresses, by persons who had trained under academic-turned-radical-socialist and self-described agitator Saul Alinsky."
At Harvard Law, "He became adept at not giving away his true positions, 'giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once.'" The question that needs to be asked concerns the degree to which Senator Obama has cloaked his actual views over time. One indicator, notes de Russy, is that Obama has longstanding friendships with Rashid Khalidi, "a backer of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department" and William Ayers and:
"While Obama and Ayers served on the Woods Fund board, the trust made substantial grants to the Arab American Action Network, founded by Khalidi. The organization reports that it conducted an oral history project on “an-Nakba,” or the “catastrophe” of Israel’s founding."
As well:
"...just as Obama did not in the past hesitate to support the work of Khalidi, so did he not hesitate in his campaign to hire Mazen Asbahi as his Muslim-Outreach Adviser. Asbahi recently resigned in the wake of publicity linking him to legacy groups of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood."
Other of Mr. Obama's radical advisors have included Charles Ogletree, Robert Malley, and Cornel West.
Quite a crew to have running the country.
Upon moving to Chicago after graduation:
"Obama elected to become a left-wing community organizer in Chicago. He was hired for the job, NRO’s David Freddoso stresses, by persons who had trained under academic-turned-radical-socialist and self-described agitator Saul Alinsky."
At Harvard Law, "He became adept at not giving away his true positions, 'giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once.'" The question that needs to be asked concerns the degree to which Senator Obama has cloaked his actual views over time. One indicator, notes de Russy, is that Obama has longstanding friendships with Rashid Khalidi, "a backer of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department" and William Ayers and:
"While Obama and Ayers served on the Woods Fund board, the trust made substantial grants to the Arab American Action Network, founded by Khalidi. The organization reports that it conducted an oral history project on “an-Nakba,” or the “catastrophe” of Israel’s founding."
As well:
"...just as Obama did not in the past hesitate to support the work of Khalidi, so did he not hesitate in his campaign to hire Mazen Asbahi as his Muslim-Outreach Adviser. Asbahi recently resigned in the wake of publicity linking him to legacy groups of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood."
Other of Mr. Obama's radical advisors have included Charles Ogletree, Robert Malley, and Cornel West.
Quite a crew to have running the country.
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