From Kay B Day, who described herself in the comments to an earlier post as a “former effective community organizer who never took a dime in government money”: Sen. Barack Obama often contrasts the billions in reserve in Iraqi revenues with what the war costs the U.S. But not a single reporter has asked the senator about a key economic decision on Iraq by some of Obama’s staunchest supporters, a

Because getting to the source of the problem would be, like, messy — whereas pinning the whole crisis on fatcat CEOs and “greedy businesses” is a tried and true populist dodge. From The Hill: Congressional Democrats and Republicans traded accusations Monday over what and whom to blame for the financial crisis amid startling new revelations surrounding the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers investment bank. Democrats aimed their harshest attacks at

Ironically, CNN notes that critics of the McCain campaign’s late attempts to tie Obama to Ayers are suggesting that McCain is trying to shift the focus away from economic issues — which would come as a surprise to the McCain campaign, though not to the LA Times. From Patterico, we learn that the LA Times cut off its reporting of McCain’s speech yesterday (which I linked here) just at the

me: “Howdy, ghost of Kimbo Slice! How’re you likin’ Heaven so far?” Ghost of Kimbo Slice: “What? I ain’t dead.” me: “Oh.” me: “Sorry. I assumed you’d seen the replay of your last fight.” me: “My bad. Say — let’s talk about pumpkins! Pumpkins are always fun, right?”

Geraghty: John McCain, today, finally starts talking about Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the irresponsible leadership at both, and the Democrats’ efforts to prevent serious oversight: Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. What was his actual record in the years before the great economic crisis of our lifetimes? This crisis started in our housing market in the form of subprime loans that were pushed on people who

David Hardy, PJM, gives us some insight into the workings of “grassroots” fascism of the kind favored by “progressives” — in this case, “moderate” Barack Obama, who has shown a very troubling tendency to insist upon control of any and every narrative, even going so far as to threaten legal action, or send out Action Alerts intended to direct his followers to shout down and smear those holding opposing viewponts:

From Mike Allen: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday is launching a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his course as a self-styled reformer. Pushing back against what it calls McCain’s “guilt-by-association” tactics, the Obama campaign overnight began e-mailing millions of supporters a link to a

Fit to lead! From CNN’s American Morning: CNN’s John Roberts: “I just want to try to get to the heart of it so that people at home can understand. Our Jim Acosta talked with your senior strategist David Axelrod about this. In 1995, William Ayers held kind of a get-to-know you event at his place where he was introducing Barack Obama to the political culture there in Chicago when he

Columnist for the Australian, Janet Albrechtsen, offers an “outsiders view” of the current mortgage credit mess: Take nonrecourse mortgage loans. When Australians borrow money to buy a house, they know that if they default and the mortgaged property doesn’t cover the debt, they will be responsible for the shortfall. And the lender will chase them for it. It’s a neat way of reminding Australians to borrow responsibly. In America, where