Author: BooMan

Bold Prediction

I still think this campaign is like an arm-wrestling match where Romney is expending everything he has to try to move Obama into a defensive position, but he just can’t budge him. But we know how that works. You fight and...

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Obama Has the Momentum

We can talk about polling bounces all we want, but what we should be seeing in today’s polls is a bit of distortion in favor of Romney because he just held a three-day convention and the Democrats have not yet responded...

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Chuck Norris, Kung Fu, and Religious Tests

I always kind of thought of the audience for Kung Fu movies as a bit Sinophile, or at least Japanophile. Along with that, of course, comes an open mind about alternative medicine, alternative religion, and a broadened horizon...

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Obama Wants to Win. That’s a Problem?

Jodi Kantor’s piece on the president probably is not intended to be helpful, but since her audience is the New York Times’ readership, I don’t think it will do any harm. If the worst you can say about the...

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Ryan’s Bad First Impression

Even senior Bush strategists admit that Paul Ryan’s convention speech was completely dishonest. Here’s what I don’t get. Shouldn’t Paul Ryan have been presented as the All-American boy next door?...

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