Richard Epstein
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Department of Where The Fuck Is Your Mirror, You Arrogant, Insulated Hypocrite
Mr. Obama, who declined to be interviewed for this article, was well liked at the law school, yet he was always slightly apart from it, leaving colleagues feeling a little cheated that he did not fully engage. The Chicago faculty is more rightward-leaning than that of other top law schools, but if teaching alongside some of the most formidable conservative minds in the country had any impact on Mr. Obama, no one can quite point to it.
“I don’t think anything that went on in these chambers affected him,” said Richard Epstein, a libertarian colleague who says he longed for Mr. Obama to venture beyond his ideological and topical comfort zones. “His entire life, as best I can tell, is one in which he’s always been a thoughtful listener and questioner, but he’s never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings.”
Seriously? The activist, state legislator, Senator and candidate for President of the United States has "never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings," says the guy who has literally never done anything but go straight from college student to law school student to law school faculty?
Do people not think when they open their mouths? Even the supposedly brilliant ones?
YEARGH
I would also stop and ask what the hell the Gray Lady is doing dignifying this kind of unprovable potshot crap, but it's not even worth the bother at this point.
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what she says, what he hears
Sunday, April 6, 2008
she says: "I can't be responsible for his happiness"
he hears: "just because he looks like he's feeling down doesn't mean I should show him some extra TLC if I don't feel like it"
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turnout
Monday, February 11, 2008
Terrific Democratic candidates, close contest, record-busting Democratic primary and caucus turnouts all over the place.
Second rate Republican candidates, choices between the lesser of who cares, low Republican primary and caucus turnout numbers.
It's almost like voters can tell when their vote will and won't matter, and act rationally.
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McCain's Dobson's -- er, Hobson's -- choice
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Here's one example of just how big a problem Dobson, Limbaugh, et al are creating for John McCain. Who will he pick as VP?
The choice will be first prognosticated and then scrutinized, both ad nauseum, as all VP selections are. So in the post-Super-Tuesday lull, let's get cracking. For McCain, the meme will almost surely be: will he pick a Real Conservative?
If he does -- by selecting, say, Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum, Jim Gilmore -- he squanders what little opportunity he might have had of winning self-identified centrists, and likely alienates whatever independents still believe in the "maverick" and his Straight Talk Express. But if he doesn't -- by selecting, say, Joe Lieberman or Chuck Hagel -- he seals Dobson's contempt and loses all hope of rallying the religious right's turnout machine.
Maybe he tries to pick someone who's a blank slate nationally, so that the right and the center/independents can fill the empty vessel with whatever drink they prefer. But I think that's inherently risky too. First, nobody's really an empty vessel, and reporters will delight in outing the "real" candidate. Second, the Democrats will do the same storytelling, but with more impunity. And how many empty vessels are there, really, outside of the Dan Quayle category?
Does he have any good options?
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We
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
"We are the hope we've been waiting for."
- BHO 2/6/2008
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"about 109,000"
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Number of hits at Google for "cleveland indians" torture.
That ump who called Kenny out in the fifth will burn in a special section of hell.
Jack Roy, you sick commie-lovin' east coast wannabe, I'd root for the Rockies in 4 if I didn't think the Curse of Chief Wahoo would rub off and bring them tumbling the whole mile down.
Rooting for a team from Denver. It's like a guaranteed week of tasting hurl in my mouth.
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Not Wake Up
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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