Posts by Gary Pearce
Just Wondering…
How long it took some nut on Fox News to blame President Obama, “socialist” Democrats, the IRS and big government for driving the Texas kamikaze pilot over the edge.
Read MoreTiger Tees Off
The toughest shot in golf is the drive off the first tee with a crowd watching. So I thought Tiger’s first shot off the public tee was a good one. All the self-styled PR experts will keep promoting themselves by critiquing his performance and offering their invaluable observations. But my son James…
Read MoreOverplayed
Since when does an obviously political and apparently unsupported charge by the state Republican Party chairman rate a screaming, streaming headline across Page B1 in The News & Observer? The third graf of the story said: ‘The head of the state elections board said Wednesday that officials are reviewing how all gubernatorial campaigns…
Read MoreDem’s Blues
Politico has an excellent overview of what’s happening to once-Republican states that went Democratic in 2008 – including North Carolina. One reason it’s excellent, of course, is that it quotes me. Click here to read the analysis.
Read MoreErskine to the Rescue
Can Erskine Bowles save America? Can history repeat itself? I was about halfway through the book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President, by Taylor Branch, when I heard that President Obama will name Erskine and another Great Compromiser, former Senator Alan Simpson, to lead a national commission on the budget deficit. …
Read MoreBayh-Bye
Something rings wrong about Evan Bayh’s ostentatiously principled withdrawal from the Senate. Maybe it’s the picture-perfect posing of his family at the press conference. Somehow you wonder if there’s a National Enquirer scoop lurking in the wings. Maybe Bayh fears the same fate his father met exactly 30 years ago – losing a…
Read MoreEnquiring Media
It must drive The News & Observer’s editors crazy. Every time the National Enquirer publishes a sensational new twist in the John Edwards soap opera, the N&O editors – like the rest of the mainstream media – have to decide whether to ignore it or check it out. Last week, they checked out…
Read MoreObama Up Again
Several readers pounced on my blog about Obama’s favorable ratings in North Carolina: “Hope that kool-aid tastes good,” one posted. Another: “Wow. Keep spinning, Gary.” OK. How about the latest New York Times/CBS poll: “At a time of deepening political disaffection and intensified distress about the economy, President Obama enjoys an edge…
Read MoreWhat’s Up? Obama!
Every day I read how badly things are going for President Obama. Democrats and Republicans, the mainstream media and the bloggers all alike trash him, his staff, his health care strategy, his jobs plan, his position on the banks, on and on. Then I read a poll – commissioned by the Civitas Institute,…
Read MoreRead Her Hand
Sarah Palin is an unending source of entertainment. She’s nearly as funny as Tina Fey’s impression of her. There’s the scrambled syntax – a sure sign of a scrambled mind. The brassy denial of reality. Reading a speech ridiculing President Obama for reading a speech. Attacking the bailout that she and John McCain supported…
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