The lede from today’s New York Times: AMMAN, Jordan — For what feels like forever, Israelis and their Arab neighbors have been hopelessly deadlocked on how to resolve the Palestinian crisis. But there is one point they may now agree on: If elected president, Senator Barack Obama will not fundamentally recalibrate America’s relationship with Israel, or the Arab world. One gent is downright denouncable: “He’s like a chameleon,” said Walid

Only your divisiveness, upset, anger and disappointment will save the world: “We have one candidate who essentially is telling us every day that the world as it is just fine. That what we’ve been doing for the last eight years is fine,” Obama said. “Stay the course. Don’t make too many changes. “And then we have this other candidate — Barack Obama — who is saying every day that the

At the HuffPo, Seth Colter Walls went through Barack Obama’s June fundraising report, finding that only eight of Hillary Clinton’s 311 “Hillraisers” ($100K+ Clinton bundlers) gave money to Obama in June.  Moreover, the total they gave was a paltry $19,250.  Furthermore, only a few Hillraisers gave to the DNC or its Victory Fund in June.  Walls adds that several dozen more Hillraisers are rumored to have donated in July; some have hosted fundraisers for

Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball last night, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell pulled back the curtain on the Potemkin press coverage of Barack Obama’s visits to Afghanistan and Iraq.  Newsbusters has the video and transcript: MITCHELL: Let me just say something about the message management.  He didn’t have reporters with him, he didn’t have a press pool, he didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or

As you are aware if you read my Sunday morning post, we drove Aidan to camp yesterday. It was closer to a 4 1/2 hour drive than the 3 1/2 hour drive I figured on. But we got there. Only to discover that the immunization records we had were incomplete; that is, they showed only one MMR innoculation, when two were required. We were certain that he’d received both, and

…Unless, of course, you cause Obamalot any kind of discomfort, embarrassment, or “outrage” — even if you happen to be completely on the side of the new Messiah. At which point, all bets are off. From the LA Times blog: There’s probably no connection whatsoever. But the New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama’s early political days in Chicago’s ward politics (available here) was the

The Drudge Report dispatch on the New York Times rejection of an op-ed piece by John McCain addressing Iraq and responding to Obama’s prior NYT op-ed on the issue is atop Memeorandum at the moment, so lets get to it. ABC’s Rick Klein and Sara Just reprint more of the rejection letter from op-ed editorial page editor (and former Clinton administration official) David Shipley: “I’d be very eager to publish the Senator

The Wall Street Journal’s John R. Emshwiller notices that Penny Pritzker — Barack Obama’s national campaign-finance chairwoman — helped run Hinsdale, IL-based subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank to its collapse in 2001: Ms. Pritzker served as Superior chairman until 1994. During that period, Superior “embarked on a business strategy of significant growth into subprime home mortgages,” which were then packaged into securities and sold to investors, according to a 2002 report

The Politico fills in some of the backstory on Camp Obama’s June fundraising. Jeanne Cummings reports that $21 million came from the un-itemized small donors (below $200) throughout the month, and not all on the last day as initial summary of Obama’s donations posted on the FEC website had led some to believe.  Though I would still hypothesize that the bulk of that money came in when Obama effectively locked

In speeches at Constitution Hall and Netroots Nation (formerly Yearly Kos), former Vice President Al Gore challenged the US to shift its entire electricity sector to carbon-free wind, solar and geothermal power within 10 years.  The speech was quasi-fisked by Andrew Revkin at the New York Times, of all places.  But Revkin avoided the depths of Gore’s detachment from reality in this passage: Ten years is about the maximum time that we as