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Entries from August 2008

A Shrewd Pick, But A Responsible One?

David Frum wrote on August 30th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Through this campaign season, John McCain has faced two ugly problems.
Problem 1: The Republican voter base is shrinking. In percentage terms, fewer Americans now identify as Republicans than at any time since 1980. The “rally the base” strategy of 2004 won’t work in 2008. The only way Mr. McCain can win this presidential election is   more

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Can Obama Dare To Be Dull?

David Frum wrote on August 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

A great speech is not always a smart move.
Just about everybody hailed Barack Obama’s March 18 speech on race as an effort worthy of Martin Luther King. Within ten days, it scored almost 3.5 million views on YouTube.
Yet it’s not clear that the speech did Obama any good.
Two weeks before the speech, on March 4,   more

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The Coming Chinese Slowdown

David Frum wrote on August 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

The leaders of China have carefully planned an imposing Olympics. They have bought new stadiums, new airports, new facilities of every kind — in fact, just about everything available to an authoritarian state with a full treasury and low labour costs.
They overlooked only one possibility: that the Olympics would arrive at the same time as   more

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Home Alone Dad

David Frum wrote on August 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm

Possibly you remember the 1990 film Home Alone. Parents leave on family vacation, forgetting one of their children? Very improbable, obviously.
But what does happen every summer, in who knows how many houses across the continent, is the scene just enacted in my house this week:Wife, children, dogs depart for some cooler summer spot, leaving the   more

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Three Dangers And An Opportunity

David Frum wrote on August 1st, 2008 at 3:31 pm

For most of the nearly three decades since 1980, the United States has been governed from the center-right. Now that era is drawing to a close.
Many Canadians will welcome this change. But Canadian policymakers should be on guard: this new era will present at least three serious challenges, even dangers, to Canadian national interests.
Danger 1:   more

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