Is America beginning to weary of “Yes we can”?

The most politically potent emotion of the past 18 months has been Obamamania…The big question now hanging over American politics is whether Obamamania is giving way to Obama fatigue.
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Fred Thompson: Dangerous Times In Georgia Demand Serious Leadership

(I)t’s no time to give a kid with barely a learner’s permit the keys to the car.
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Pundits review anti-Obama books

Anti-Obama Books Take On Obama Narrative – Eli Saslow, Washington Post
Corsi, Swift Boats, Obama, The Enquirer, and Smears – Byron York, NRO
No Excuse for Republican Smear Tactics – Joe Klein, Time

The 3 a.m. Phone Call is Real

By Mona Charen
Hillary Clinton’s best anti-Obama ad came to be known as the “3 a.m. phone call.” It stoked voter worries that in the event of an international crisis, the first-term junior senator from Illinois might be out of his depth. On Aug. 8, the White House phone did ring, alerting President Bush that the [...]

Why Doesn’t Barack Obama Open Up About His Past?

No, I don’t just mean the same old same old Kansas-Kenya yada yada.
I mean, why doesn’t he tell us, once and for all, the reason the dots of his past don’t connect?
Maybe there is a reasonable explanation for it all.  But why make those of us in the voting public work so hard to find [...]

Powell rejects Democratic convention talk

Former Republican secretary of state Colin Powell denied Wednesday that he was to appear at the upcoming Democratic convention, in what would have been a coup for White House runner Barack Obama. ABC said Powell ended the conversation without entertaining any more questions about whether he might endorse Obama.
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NRA to Montana: Obama a threat to gun owners

The National Rifle Association said Wednesday that Barack Obama is trying to mislead voters about his past support of gun control, calling the Democratic candidate “a poster child of the extremist, elitist gun control movement.”
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