VDH on Obamamania - the insane kind
Moonbattery on Sarah Palin:
...she is the Anti-Obama: not some slick package disguising a bogus ideology, but a real person. The reason establishment journalists in their condescending phoniness hate her with such sputtering ferocity is that she is us, miraculously poised to dethrone the elite. So much for the Democrat pose of representing the people.
Related, Powerline has a good summary of how the NYT has abused its authority in its coverage of the candidates Related, from an Insty reader:
Even here on the UWS you find people who are wavering or are going with McCain. Not the therapists or the ones who read The Nation, and hardly a majority, but plenty of level-headed professionals and so forth. Now extrapolate that phenomenon to the white ethnic (and Oriental) 'hoods in the outer boroughs, then further out to the construction worker, cop, and fireman types on Long Island, Rockland County, etc. Then look at the historical voting patterns of upstate. In play? Closer than anyone thinks, that's for sure.
If Obama loses the election, will it be blamed on racism or on the stupidity of the voters? Of course, it could be something else:
Might it not also be true that Barack Obama’s brand of effete, "Democratic" and "elitist" politics just doesn’t sell with the same intensity on America’s first Western frontier as it seems to do on the two coasts and among those in less independent states who look government first for an answer to their hardships? Al Gore’s sure didn’t and John Kerry’s didn’t either. Organization and lectures from self-righteous and indignant Ohio politicians notwithstanding, perhaps Ohioans just don’t like politicians who are taken with the idea that they are better suited than the people to decide what the people ought to do.
Related: Jules discusses the old Beer Factor
McCain responds to the reports of Obama's secret undermining our policy in Iraq. We will see whether this is true.
Obama abandons his hope and change, decides on a partisan attack approach. Kaus: Outrage at McCain is a loser's game
Biden: Vote for Obama because he's black! Does that mean we should vote for Biden because he's white?
Obama second largest beneficiary of Fannie and Freddie funds
Mark Steyn refers back to his June post. A quote from it:
"'Heal the planet'? Is this guy nuts?" To be honest I prefer a republic whose citizenry can muster no greater enthusiasm for their candidate than "stilted cheers" to one in which the crowd wants to hoist the nominee onto their shoulders for promising to lower ocean levels within his first term. As for coming together "to remake this great nation," if it's so great, why do we have to remake it? A few months back, just after the New Hampshire primary, a Canadian reader of mine – John Gross of Quebec – sent me an all-purpose stump speech for the 2008 campaign:
"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."
