Archive for September 2010
Hope Springs Eternal
This headline on a Wilmington Star-News editorial represents the apex of either naïveté or optimism about politics: âMisleading ads won’t work if voters are savvy.â
Read MoreTake Off
It’s Tom Fetzer’s job to run around the state sounding alarms. But it’s not the media’s responsibility to salivate every time he rings the bell. There is no greater example than the Perdue flight flap. In the end, that looks to be nothing more than a few small licks of flame. Fetzer did…
Read MoreA Tough Speech
When President Obama stared into the cameras Tuesday night he must have felt more than a tremor of foreboding. Nonetheless, he folded his hands in front of him and marched resolutely into the first minefield and announced we’re pulling out (except for 50,000 men) of a war we didn’t win. There hardly seems any…
Read MoreThe Marshall Plan
Senator Richard Burr’s ad shows he knows he could be vulnerable. Voters don’t know him or what he’s done. Which supports Elaine Marshall’s case for getting the $10 million she needs from the DSCC to be competitive. Senate Democrats are playing defense most everywhere this year. It would be nice to make one…
Read MoreGovernment Jobs
A reader called today with an interesting thought spurred by Richard Burr’s ad. She took issue with his suggestion that all jobs come from the private sector. She pointed out that government contracts with Blackwater, Halliburton, KBR and a raft of defense contractors sure created a bunch of jobs. She has a point.…
Read MoreA Win for Perdue
Remember the furor last year when Governor Perdue announced that dozens of long-term, convicted criminals might get out of prison early because of an issue over “good time”? Remember how everybody said what a disaster this would be for her? Remember how critics said she overreacted by threatening to stand in the jailhouse…
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