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July 23, 2008, 4:19 pm, 324268
Barack Obama held a press conference in Sderot, Israel today. I wouldn't have blamed him if he had stuck to a reasonable degree of pandering, but check out this question and answer from the press conference:
QUESTION: Senator Obama, you said in AIPAC convention that the (INAUDIBLE) Jerusalem could continue ...
July 23, 2008, 3:20 pm, 324267
MORE CAMPAIGN MUCK....Chris Orr suggests that John McCain ought to quit whining about the amount of press coverage Barack Obama is getting:The truth is that, while the inordinate coverage of Obama hurts McCain in some ways, it also dramatically decreases...
July 23, 2008, 4:18 pm, 324266
Jason writes http://obama.3cdn.net/20badf9c4471379fcc_h3m6bxsaa
.pdf, from BOfPWHQ:
To: Interested parties
Fr: Jason Furman, Economic Policy Director, Obama Campaign
Re: John McCain’s tax plan is $2.8 trillion more expensive than his advisors previously admitted
Dt: July 23, 2008
...
July 23, 2008, 1:42 pm, 324188
OIL SPECULATION....Yesterday the Senate voted 94-0 to proceed with debate on a bill designed to reduce speculation in the oil futures market. Megan McArdle calls the bill "monstrous," which, admittedly, would be my first guess too for any bill that...
July 23, 2008, 2:45 pm, 324186
BUSINESS TRAVEL....In recent decades, the cost of air travel has decreased and so has the service. MattY sees dark forces at work:But what's missing from this analysis is the executive suite. This is where folks have been able to give...
July 23, 2008, 2:14 pm, 324187
2010 OR BUST....The Washington Post editorial page has been the target of plenty of chin scratching over the past few years from people who wonder just what's going on in Fred Hiatt's shop, but today's effort really outdoes itself. If...
July 23, 2008, 12:24 pm, 324092
McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN....Was the troop surge in Iraq responsible for the Sunni Awakening? Of course not: the surge wasn't even a glimmer in George Bush's mind until several months after the Awakening started in Anbar province and was already showing strong...
July 23, 2008, 12:18 pm, 324091
July 23, 2008, 10:19 am, 324025
Joe Klein
is scandalized:
John McCain said this today in Rochester, New Hampshire:
This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. ...
July 23, 2008, 10:18 am, 324024
Eric Cantor is the House chief deputy minority whip whom we have written about in several posts including "A letter to Speaker Pelosi" and "Cantor on CAIR." Our occasional correspondent Joel Mowbray (jdmowbra@erols.com) writes:
With the speculation machine at full tilt this week that McCain may ...
July 23, 2008, 10:18 am, 324022
The Observer reports that a team of Hollywood insiders is currently working on a screen adaptation of Mary Mapes's 2005 book Truth And Duty. Mapes was the producer of the the 60 Minutes II story by Dan Rather about President George W. Bush's time in the Texas Air ...
July 23, 2008, 10:18 am, 324023
In his Examiner column War and peace and the Democrats," Paul Mirengoff collects conflicting statements made by Barack Obama on his signature issue of Iraq. Paul's column cites and relies on Peter Wehner's Commentary article "Obama's war," but it distills and updates the evidence of Obama's extraordinary ...
July 23, 2008, 8:33 am, 324021
Gracie Allen was one of the funniest people of the last century. Her basic routine was simple in principle but...
July 23, 2008, 10:29 am, 324020
A woman in Chicago has been charged with first degree murder for smothering her new born son. The teenage mother...
July 23, 2008, 8:19 am, 323958
There seems to be a growing amount of it surrounding the Obama campaign. Here concerning the
upcoming Berlin speech:
“It is not going to be a political speech,” said a senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background. “When the president of the United ...
July 23, 2008, 8:19 am, 323957
This sort of nonsense (and yes, I consider the source, but it is all too common on the left as it is) drives me up a wall. But trust me, this is precisely the sorts of "programs" you’re going to see with an Democrat majority in Congress and ...
July 23, 2008, 8:19 am, 323956
Here is Obama
squirming and shuffling about the surge:
Katie Couric (CBS): Before the surge, as you know, Senator, there were 80 to 100 U.S. casualties a month, the country was rife with sectarian violence, and you raised a lot of eyebrows on this trip saying even knowing ...
July 23, 2008, 2:19 am, 323810
I know little that is genuine truth, but of this I am most certain: the United States government, as a matter of policy set each and every day to practice, systematically and of necessity ...
July 23, 2008, 2:18 am, 323809
Noah Pollak has written a devastating critique of Bush administration foreign policy in its waning days. Pollak begins with John Bolton's assessment: "Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse. Then, after a survey of administration ...
July 23, 2008, 2:18 am, 323808
The trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan got off to a rocky start for the prosecution when the presiding military judge ruled that some of Hamdan's statements could not be used because they were obtained under "highly coercive" conditions. The Washington Post says that these admissions "made up ...
July 23, 2008, 2:03 am, 323807
BIN LADEN'S SOFT SUPPORT....After the imam leaves and the conversation lingers into the small hours of the morning, what do young Islamic radicals talk about? In "Bin Laden's Soft Support," in the current issue of the Monthly, Kenneth Ballen writes...
