10-07-08

Did Ayer’s Write Obama’s Autobiography?

Hot Air: Barack Obama, Bin Laden, Zidane and Father Christmas all failed in bids to win local elections held in Brazil on the weekend, officials here said.

Ed Morrissey: Last week, defense attorneys representing figures in Illinois corruption cases tipped the media that Tony Rezko may have decided to cooperate with federal investigators.  Now it appears their worst nightmare has come true.  Federal prosecutors requested a delay in Rezko’s sentencing.

Sol Stern: The Bomber as School Reformer

Yuval Levin: “Who is Barack Obama?” is not an irrelevant question given the job Obama is seeking, and it’s a question he has sought mightily to avoid answering. The veil of secrecy he has thrown over his past (journalists have been denied access to his state legislative office records, documents about state earmarks he distributed in Illinois, a list of his legal clients, his state bar application, billing records related to Tony Rezko, medical records, academic records — all of which are the sort of documents candidates routinely make public) forces the question all the more.

Richard Fernandez: Fire at will…It’s called going pre-emptively negative. 

Don Surber: Politicians should never write a rubber check to their voodoo priestess.

David T. Hardy: The smoking gun…as a Joyce director, Obama was involved in a wealthy foundation’s attempt to manipulate the Supreme Court, buy legal scholarship, and obliterate the individual right to arms.

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