WSJ.com: Obama Can’t Win Against Palin

By KARL ROVE
September 11, 2008
Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten into Barack Obama’s head. How else to explain Sen. Obama’s decision to go one-on-one against “Sarah Barracuda,” captain of the Wasilla High state basketball champs?
It’s a matchup he’ll lose. [...]

Biden: Hillary Is More Qualified To Be VP | Sweetness & Light

“Make no mistake about this, Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight.” – Joe Biden
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Ask me if I care…

…that’s my response to an article by Jonathan Freedland at The Guardian (UK), warning:
The world’s verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for
Subtitle:
An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse
Mr. Freedland, listen up:
There are times when the interests of the [...]

Pop! Why the Obama Bubble Has Collapsed

The Obama campaign seems to have experienced a “Minsky Moment.” That, as any financial bubblologist worth his weight in tulips knows, is the particular point in time when no more “greater fools” can be found to support a bubble and a Great Deflation finally begins. Sssssss. (The financial phenomenon is named after economist Hyman Minksy.)
Now [...]

Obama On His Heels

This campaign has taken a surprising turn since the Democratic convention. Everybody is still talking about the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Who would have predicted this just two weeks ago?
When I say everybody is talking about Governor Palin, I mean everybody. It’s not just that Palin has excited the Republican base and intrigued the press corps. She’s [...]

Talking Point of the Week

From the party so concerned about separation of religion and everything…
DailyKos, 9/4/08:

So apparently Republicans hate community organizers. A reader sends me a pithy response:
Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.

Donna Brazille, 9/7/08:
The Bible says to whom much is given much is required and it comes out of that tradition. So it [...]

From the Gut

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: September 9, 2008
If John McCain can win this election race with a 50-pound ball called “George W. Bush” wrapped around one ankle and a 50-pound ball called “The U.S. Economy” wrapped around the other, then he deserves to represent America in the next Olympics in any race he wants — swimming, [...]

Stand Up for Chuck

Joe Biden asks Missouri State Representative Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair bound, to stand up:

“Chuck, stand up, Chuck, let ‘em see you. Oh, God love you, what am I talking about?”
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What goes around…

Remember this line uttered by former President Bill Clinton in early January?”
It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, enumerating the years — and never got asked one time, not once, ‘Well, how could you say [...]

NYPost: Why Bam’s Failing

September 10, 2008
IF it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn’t have any idea what it’s doing, maybe that’s because it doesn’t.
Barack Obama has never run a campaign against a real Republican. And his main strategist, David Axelrod, is way out of his areas of expertise.
Axelrod specializes in urban politics. He’s run a bunch of [...]