TW: A monthly feature, we present Steve Calabresi's most memorable quotes from the month of October. Attached also find the September edition-http://treylaura.blogspot.com/2008/11/greatest-hits-steve-calabresi-sept.html
On whether the US has a leadership crisis?
"The biggest weakness of the Bush Administration has been the president’s inability on television to communicate with the American people and with global public opinion. If Ronald Reagan was the Great Communicator, Bush is in contrast the Great Mangler of Sentences. But communication is only a part of leadership. The other part is staking out correct positions, popular or not, and persevering until you prevail. In these respects, Bush has been another Harry Truman. Truman was also deeply unpopular when he left office too, but he sure looked great in hindsight. I think the same thing will happen with Bush."
October 1, 2008
On who won the VP debater?
"Palin was likeable, warm, knowledgeable, and well informed on every issue contrary to all the predictions of the mainstream media. I predict she will connect better with swing voters in the West and Midwest than does Biden who often seemed angry and like someone tooting his own horn. Neither candidate committed any gaffes so this debate will probably leave us with a close election in which Obama is for the moment slightly ahead...
October 2, 2008
On who won the last POTUS debate?
"McCain did a terrific job tonight in painting Obama as one of the most liberal members of Senate: a man who wants to raise taxes and shut down free trade the way Herbert Hoover did in 1929; a man who wants eventually to get America to a single payer health plan; a man who sends his own kids to private schools but who opposes vouchers which would allow anyone to do that; a man who will “look at” oil and gas drilling and nuclear power but focus his energy on building windmills; and a man who repeatedly accuses McCain of being a clone of George Bush even though everyone in the country knows he broke with Bush on strategy in Iraq,on torture, and on opposing Bush’s huge expansion of government spending. McCain was awesome tonight, and the debate was by far the best general election debate this season. The one silver lining for Obama is that he made no big mistakes and the evening produced no sound bite moment that will haunt Obama. But, overall, McCain clearly won. Whether it will be enough to close the 5% gap in this race is anyone’s guess."
October 15, 2008
On whether the McCain was done by October 24st?
"The bottom line here is that as investors have come to expect an Obama presidency with around 60 Democratic senators, the stock market has crashed and expectations of a severe recession have risen. There are many causes of all of this, but Obama's tax and regulatory plans are one of the reasons for the plunge. If he wins, we should expect further losses and less social wellbeing than we have enjoyed over the last eight years"
October 24, 2008
The Arena solicited endorsments
"...On economic policy, Senator Barack Obama is pledged to repeat Herbert Hoover’s mistake of raising taxes and reducing free trade in response to a stock market downturn.This will turn a recession into a depression the severity of which we have not seen since at least the days of Jimmy Carter’s misery index.
The stock market is going down in direct relation to Obama’s poll numbers going up. It will drop a lot more if he wins and pursues the policies he has pledged to pursue."
October 25, 2008
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