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Phyllis Schlafly
Posted: 9/18/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
House Speaker John Boehner was quoted during the Republican National Convention as saying, "Have you ever met anybody who read the party platform? I never met anybody." Scoffing at the party's platform is the typical attitude of establishment-backed politicians who don't want to be bothered with addressing the hopes and goals of grassroots voters. Downgrading the platform is the mark of losing candidates, such as Bob Dole and John McCain.
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Thomas Sowell
Posted: 9/14/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Who would have thought that God and Jerusalem would become controversial issues at this year's Democratic National Convention?
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Emmett Tyrrell
Posted: 9/13/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Nuts. The Democratic National Convention is over. Watching Bill Clinton, Jean-Fran‡ois Kerry, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and all the other preposterosities -- not least being the widely under-depreciated Sandra Fluck -- I fell under a spell. I thought the convention would go on forever. There would be no need for horror movies, action movies, X-Treme sports, cockfights or soap operas. I could enjoy them all in the comfort of my own home -- all provided by the Democratic National Committee, safely watched over by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and probably select units of the North Carolina National Guard.
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Thomas Sowell
Posted: 9/13/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Politics takes a lot of brass. And Bill Clinton is a master politician. His rousing speech at the Democrats' convention told the delegates that Republicans "want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place."
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Ken Connor
Posted: 9/12/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
According to the breathless reviews of MSNBC correspondents and the like, the Democratic National Convention was a smashing success. With celebrity cameos, notable speeches by Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden, and a grand finale oration chock-full of the "hope and change" rhetoric that won Obama the White House in 2008, it was by all accounts a great week for Democrats.
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Donald Lambro
Posted: 9/12/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
August's abysmally weak job growth proved yet again that Barack Obama's economic policies are a miserable failure that will continue to undermine our country until he leaves office.
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Ralph Benko
Posted: 9/12/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Obama, belying his slogan of “Forward,” relentlessly pushes to return America to the Ford-Carter era of higher marginal tax rates and easy money. Romney credibly promises to get tax policy right and offers a possibility of monetary reform. Obama declaims: “The path we offer may be harder but it leads to a better place.” He’s half right. Obama’s path is harder. But it leads only to more of the same… and to ever greater hardship.
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Susan Stamper Brown
Posted: 9/12/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Life is messy and full of unexpected twists along the way leaving even the most obsessive control freaks among us feeling a bit undone, considering so much of the change introduced into our lives is rarely invited and not always good.
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Chris Robling
Posted: 9/11/2012 2:00:00 PM EST
It was a goofy, vacuous speech that capped a goofy, vacuous gathering.
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Paul Greenberg
Posted: 9/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Everything and everybody hits the wall as a national convention approaches its crescendo, diminuendo, and all the riffs in between -- all crammed into its grand finale: a nightlong recitativo with Wagnerian trills -- a cross between Ravel's "Bolero" and Little Egypt's hoochie-coochie.
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Daniel Pipes
Posted: 9/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Last week saw a dispute over Jerusalem at the Democratic National Convention that, in the context of similar incidents, provides an important insight into the party's covert distancing itself from Israel.
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Thomas Sowell
Posted: 9/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Former president Bill Clinton told the Democratic National Convention that Barack Obama has a plan to rescue the economy, and only the fact that the Republicans stood in his way has stopped him from getting the economy out of the doldrums.
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Armstrong Williams
Posted: 9/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The conventions are finally over. This week, Congress is back in session. One would hope that that would mean it’s policy time, not politics time in Washington. Unfortunately, that hope is just as vain as President Obama’s hope to lower the seas. The politicking will only intensify as we get closer to Election Day.
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Dennis Prager
Posted: 9/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The most important event at either national convention was the "vote" taken by the Democratic delegates on a last-minute resolution to reinsert the words "God" and "Jerusalem" into the Democratic Party platform.
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Bill Murchison
Posted: 9/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Two conventions, a few speeches and that's it? Obama-Biden beats Romney-Ryan like a drum and we get back to whatever it was we were doing before the election so rudely interrupted us?
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Cal Thomas
Posted: 9/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
In a speech resembling a TV re-run (the liberal website The Daily Beast called it "dull"), President Obama accepted his party's nomination for a second term. In doing so, he made the most ludicrous claim of this campaign, indeed, of his presidency: "You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth."
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Star Parker
Posted: 9/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Maybe Democrats have some slick salesmen, like Bill Clinton and our current president, who can sell you swampland and have you convinced that you’ve bought choice beachfront property.
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Bruce Bialosky
Posted: 9/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Julian Castro, Mayor of San Antonio, had the honored position of giving the keynote speech at the Democratic Convention. The 37-year-old had a lot of pressure as he was being compared to Barack Obama giving his speech in 2004. Fortunately his grandmother was not there because she would have taken him over her knee and given him a good thrashing.
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Matt Barber
Posted: 9/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven. (Matthew 10:33) Are you a believer? I’m not asking if you’re a Democrat, a Republican or an independent. I’m asking if you believe in God.
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Robert Knight
Posted: 9/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Now that we’re past the convention, let’s take a moment to ask, “Are the Democrats really this nuts?”
