Tag Archives: david axelrod

2 minute warning

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dave

According to Nate Silver, there is approximately a one seventh chance of Romney getting the presidency. The statistical equivalent of being down by a field goal with three minutes to play. Maybe being down by a run with two outs … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, david axelrod, Groucho Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers Horse Feathers, Mitt Romney 2012, Nate Silver pollster, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sergei Eisenstein, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

the state has no business in the bedrooms

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Dave

of the nation’s citizens, unless of course its to go bottom feeding for the lowest common denominator among first time voters. This is a new elan in presidential politics, but whatever the value it demonstrates how the institution of government … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, david axelrod, Julie Borowski videos, Lena Dunham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, steven crowder videos | Leave a comment

could you repeat that question?

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Dave

How accurate are polls? ( see link at end)…According to John McLaughlin most polls that favor Obama are based on random calls, not even registered voters, let alone likely voters. He accuses the Obama campaign of pressuring pollsters to produce … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, david axelrod, David Axelrod Gallup Polls, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitt Romney 2012 | Leave a comment

ballad of barack pumpkinhead

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Dave

The lost prophet of the Frankfurt School, who was, with hitherto unrevealed redemptive and messianic qualities restore the dream of social justice and economic prosperity for an all regardless of race, creed, or taste. The man who could pull back … Continue reading →

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that brown eyed handsome man

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Dave

It keeps coming back to “is there a lesson of Munich?” With the Obama administration’s apparent appeasement of terror supporting states which has been perceived to prove the contempt of this administration’s antagonism towards Israel and a certain ideology around … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2012, Bill Murray Caddyshack, blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, conference Victims of Terrorism, Daladier France, david axelrod, Glenn Beck, Global Counterterrorism Forum GCTF, James Taranto journalist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohamed Morsi, Neville Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain Munich, Paul McCartney Run Devil Run, Paul McCartney Sun Records, Sarah Palin, Saul Alinsky | Leave a comment

the searchers: lookin’ for his master’s voice

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Dave

Political spin gymnastics where Axelrod et al. will try to twist and bend anything possible in order to make Obama appear and appeal to something approaching pro-Israel within a more populist context. By nature, he’s out of the comfort zone … Continue reading →

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phoenix city

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dave

A long night. Fifty years of darkness. A solar eclipse from 1939 to 1989. Poland. A lot of psychological baggage from basically a landlocked nation surrounded, bartered and chatteled off by stronger powers. To rebuild must take place on many … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama Poland, Bernardo Bellotto, Bernardo Bellotto paintings, Claude Lanzmann, david axelrod, David Frum, Donald Tusk Poland, Jan Karski, Jerzy S. Majewski, Nazi destruction Warsaw, Radek Sikorski, Radoslaw Sikorski, Sophie's Choice, Warsaw Palace of Culture, Warsaw reconstruction after WWII | Leave a comment

room with a view: long-term lease

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

Separate deals. Back room deals. Secret deals. off the books deals. The last Supper: a second sitting? the line up is around the block from Zion’s gate… Who owns what and where and the mirage and myriad of ownership rights, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allon Diskin, Barack Obama vatican, Benny Nehemia, david axelrod, Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Jerusalem Old City Initiative, Jesus Last Supper, Juan de Juanes, Lenny Bruce, MK Danny Ayalon, Ottoman Empire, Rahm Emanuel, toby abrams, Vatican Land Ownership Jerusalem, zeng fanzhi | Leave a comment

americana as cultural habitat

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dave

Much in the vein of Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray and even the art of Jack Levine, its modern protest satire that helped define the left of center cultural aesthetic. The left cultural industry machine that by nature is part of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged david axelrod, Edward Sorel, josh higgins obama 2012, Leo Sorel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Glaser, Norman Rockwell, Otto Dix, push pin studios, seymour chwast | Leave a comment

king for a day?

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Dave

It seems incredible that only one in three white voters approves of President Obama’s performance.Or is it? From Konrad Yakabuski: The President’s overall approval rating has been boosted by overwhelming support from black Americans. Only one in three white voters … Continue reading →