Saturday January 4, 2025

Foolhardy?

What can be more dumb than this?  Or, does Trump know something we don’t.   Tweet This Post

Still Close

Just one bad debate doesn’t mean that Trump is going to lose the election.  The candidates are still this close in swing states.  As I’ve written, now is the time for ground-pounding communications — door to door, rally to rally, voter to voter.  Tweet This Post

Even The Best

Even the best reporters can make glaring errors.  The key is to admit them when they occur and to work hard to avoid them in the future.  Such happened to PBS’ Judy Woodruff when she was discussing Israeli and Hamas peace talks.  She repeated a story from another news source about President Trump and the […]

Fact Check

If he had done the least bit of fact checking, he wouldn’t have made this bone-headed mistake.   Tweet This Post

With Stories Like This

With stories like this, it is hard for Israel to maintain its reputation among nations.  The baby had done no harm nor had his mother who was killed nor his brothers who also died.  The photo of the toddler inflames passions and revolts viewers. One asks how the IDF can justify harming innocent civilians and […]

Does It Matter?

Israel says its strike on a tent complex yesterday used highly accurate weapons. Still, a claimed 40 men, women and children died.  Does it matter the precision of bombs if innocent civilians are still killed?  Israel’s reputation as an armed bully hounding the Palestinian people is deepened with every attack like this.  With every civilian […]

Loss of Footing

The Washington Post is reporting that former President Trump is struggling in his campaign against Vice President Harris.  He hasn’t found a personal attack against her that resonates with his audiences.  His advisers are finding him undisciplined and low energy.  This helps Harris but sooner or later, Trump will find a groove and swing for […]

Slog

The presidential campaign has turned into a slog for the candidates.  It depends on ground level communications now — door knocking, events, hand-shaking, baby kissing.  Old fashioned politics.  The winner will be the one who organizes best.  Social media has a role but it is not definitive — not yet, anyway. Tweet This Post

The Trench Race

Political campaigns cost money — lots of it — and volunteers to do ground-pounding voter contact. It is interesting that the Harris-Walz ticket is ahead on both.  That doesn’t guarantee an election but it is a good sign.  Trump must be concerned or anyway, his strategists.  Political campaigns are communications on steroids for a one-day […]

Who’s Right? Doesn’t Matter.

There is a he-said he-said argument over Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery.  The Defense department says Trump’s campaign operatives had no right to film Trump visiting a section of the cemetery.  Photographs are not permitted.  Trump’s people say they had permission to shoot and the DOD is wrong.  The standoff apparently resulted in […]