Co-Workers: Obama Inflated His Resume – Sweetness & Light

It has been noted by Charles Krauthammer and others that very few people have stepped forward to vouch for Barack Obama.
Indeed, there would seem to be an especially conspicuous absence of witnesses to the years after graduated from Columbia and before he moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer.
Well, it turns out that [...]

Obama, ACORN, and Voter Fraud

First, a little background on Obama’s days with ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
The link between Obama, ACORN, the Woods Fund, Earmarks and the mortgage crisis
Inside Obama’s Acorn
Barack Obama’s closet
Now, a story in today’s Detroit Free Press:
Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them [...]

Obama Waffles – Racist or Fair Satire?

James Joyner
Attendees at a Family Research Council convention were buying up “Obama Waffles” like hotcakes before organizers decided they contained images that could be deemed racist and suspended sales.
Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing [...]

Independents swing toward McCain

By JOHN P. AVLON
Independent voters — the largest and fastest-growing segment of the American electorate — were always going to determine the winner of this election.
And in contrast to past contests like 2004, where independents viewed the choice between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry as a vote for the candidate they disliked least, [...]

The Great Unmasking

by Peter Wehner
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Everywhere you turn these days, you find the press in an agitated-to-furious state about the McCain-Palin campaign. Many reporters are downright angry, according to the Washington Post’s media critic Howard Kurtz, in part because of the “lipstick on a pig” controversy. That’s obvious to anyone who has watched the news this last [...]

Seeing through Obamanomics

by Jeff Jacoby
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“If I am sitting pretty and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t, what’s the big deal for me to say, I’m going to pay a little bit more? That’s neighborliness.” If that is Obama’s rationale for making the tax code [...]

Whites lift McCain to slim lead over Obama in poll

By ALAN FRAM
An overwhelming advantage in experience and lopsided support from working-class and suburban whites have lifted Republican John McCain to a slender lead over Barack Obama less than two months from Election Day, a poll on the presidential race said Friday.
The Arizona senator has a 13-percentage-point lead over his Democratic rival both with [...]

Obama’s change could cost big bucks

A few tax cuts? Negligible effect. Bigger government? Bad idea.
Paul Gessing is the president of New Mexico’s Rio Grande Foundation, a free-market research organization
Barack Obama promises “change,” but the real question American voters – particularly taxpayers – should be asking is whether Obama’s brand of change would improve our situation or worsen it.
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The Bonfire of the Hypocrisies

by Tod Lindberg
Historians looking back on these tumultuous times will no doubt argue over the precise date on which the Age of Palin began. Her speech at the Republican National Convention on September 3 certainly catapulted her to national renown. But there is a good case to be made for her introductory appearance in Dayton, [...]

Barack Obama’s big blunder

by Michael Goodwin
With top Dems fearing Barack Obama is in a hole, the Obama campaign has made a weird decision. It’s going to dig that hole deeper, harder and faster.
No more Mr. Nice Guy, Obama vows. He’s going to really start hitting John McCain now. He’s going to make voters understand that McCain equals four [...]