Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
It’s no coincidence that the man who writes the absurd claim that Hillary Clinton is from the center-right of the Democratic party is also the author of “Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush.” Barnes clearly doesn’t do the judgement thing.
PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... with Bill Ayers? Bill Ayers? Where did that come from? And then Russo quotes another wing-nut, Fred Barnes, as saying: Chances are he’ll bow to the teachers’ lobby in choosing an education secretary. Fred Barnes? This is really a slow time for pundits.
All in Faber (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Fred Barnes asks whether Barack Obama might- horrors!- be a secret centrist. If so, it won't only be we who supported John McCain who will be surprised. It will also be those most instrumental in getting Mr. Obama nominated and elected- and they won't be happy. HT: Real Clear Politics
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm as struck as Mark McKinnon by the sudden, if tempered, swooning of the center-right for Obama. even Fred Barnes has had an epiphany of sorts. They are responding to his obviously sensible and accomplished picks for the economy and...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
In August when John McCain selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate, with the exception of Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes who still had pheromone up their nostrils from the lunch they had with Sarah in 2007 when the cruise ship on which they were riding stopped in at Juneau, no one else in the "lower 48" (as those of us in the subarctic call the US of A) had heard of...
Moonbattery (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
At least we have the allegedly right-wing Fox News to counter the Obamunist hype blaring from the rest of the mainstream media. How's this for fair and balanced : "There is really only one de facto president, and we finally have accepted that — that it's Obama," said FOX News contributor Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard. Norman Ornstein of the AEI explains why Obama...
Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... facto president, and we finally have accepted that -- that it's Obama," said FOX News contributor Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard.Obama has made great theater of his Cabinet appointments, setting up a shadow government to rival the president's team as he prepares to move into the White House on Jan. 20.As Bush dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to...
Donklephant (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Professor Christina Romer as Obama’s choice to head up his team of economics advisers Then Fred Barnes started making cooing noises towards the President-elect… It’s not that Obama, despite his unswervingly liberal record in the Senate, turns out to be a pragmatist. The point is he’s pragmatic (so far) in one direction-rightward. Who knew? Yeah, who knew? Maybe all of those bloggers...
MsUnderestimated (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Yesterday on the Beltway Boys, Fred Barnes called Mort on the carpet for a piece he wrote about Rush, Hannity and Laura Ingraham, saying the Republican party needs to dump them and stay away from their ideas. Mort tries to make his case, but as Fred’s face tells the story, I ain’t buyin’ it either. What [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Ok, so Larry Kudlow is celebrating the Obama spike in the stock market in his inimitable Boys Gone Wild When Something Goes Up way--and, in...
