09-15-08

Obama has taken the Gloves Off: Obama attacking McCain, the Senates most technologically savvy Senator, as someone that “doesn’t know how to send an email”. Is he mocking him for his age or his war disabilities?

Lee Siegel: Liberals always think there’s something broken in politics. Conservatives always think there’s something wrong with the culture. Why that gives Sarah Palin and the Republicans the edge in November.

Gerard Baker: Here’s the real problem with Mr Obama: the jarring gap between his promises of change and his status quo performance. There are just too many contradictions between the eloquent poetry of the man’s stirring rhetoric and the dull, familiar prose of his political record.

Democrats of Palm Beach County ignore history: Anderson was not available Friday to respond to the criticisms. But a spokeswoman said his office may not have been fully prepared for a recount. “I don’t think anybody even envisioned it, a recount, happening,” said Kathy Adams, Anderson’s spokeswoman.
Ed Morrissey on the latest ACORN scandal: Once again, this calls into question why Barack Obama pays ACORN for his GOTV efforts.  With criminal investigations underway in several states and now hopefully a federal investigation about to start, Obama shows extremely poor judgment in associating himself with such fraud — as well as paying $800,000 to fund it, unwittingly or not. 

Via Instapundit-Fannie/Freddie Fraud Fomented by Familiar Faces: “Blessed with the advantages of a government agency and a private company at the same time, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used their windfall profits to co-opt the politicians who were supposed to control them. . . . Fannie Mae, and to a lesser extent Freddie Mac, became enmeshed in the fabric of political Washington. They were places former government officials went to get wealthy — and to wait for new federal appointments. At Fannie Mae, chief executives had clauses written into their contracts spelling out the severance benefits they would receive if they left for a government post. The companies also donated generously to the campaigns of favored politicians.”

Kim Priestap: In a New York Post editorial, Amir Taheri writes that, according to Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Senator Obama told Iraqi officials that President Bush’s government was in a ‘”state of weakness and political confusion’” so the negotiations should be postponed until after the election.

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