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

Found this in the Sports section of Saturday’s Denver Post: A 15-year-old Chicago high school sophomore was told to remover her replica Cubs jersey at school because the dean thought the last name on the back, Fukudome [a starting OF for the Cubs – ed], sounded too much like a profanity. Ronny Cox, Andy Dick — and a million Asians with the last name Dong — could not be reached

Dan discovers a journalistic anomaly — from no less than the NYT. Next up? A deluge of frogs falling from the sky. Or maybe a decent Vin Diesel movie. Both of which, I believe, are signs of the apocalypse.

Solution? Have the “objective” media turn an empirical fact — William Ayers is not only a terrorist, but a proudly unrepentant one — into a “coded” message of racism. Here’s the APs Douglass Daniel, “Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge”: By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering

Ed Whelan asks: Isn’t it about time that campaign reporters demand live answers from Obama himself, rather than from uninformed campaign aides, about the basics of his relationship with Bill Ayers? For starters: When did you first meet Bill Ayers? When did you first meet Bernardine Dohrn? When did you first learn that they were unrepentant terrorists? Did you ever tell either of them that you condemned their terrorist activities?

Carl Sandburg wept. *

From the Political Radar: ABC News’ Teddy Davis, Rigel Anderson, and Arnab Datta Report: Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Sarah Palin indicated for the first time that she does not consider Barack Obama qualified to be commander in chief and sharply criticized him for saying last year that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are “just air raiding villages and killing civilians.” Calling Obama “reckless,” Palin said that where she comes

A few days back, in response to Jimmie at Sundries Shack and Stacy McCain of the Washington Times, I suggested that, from a strategic standpoint, the McCain campaign might have been waiting to use Sarah Palin as the key attack dog — the upshot being that she draws more elitist fire (jokes about breeder hicks seem to play poorly in Peoria), that the Obama campaign and their media arm concentrates

As Ray Robison points out via email, if the NYT is trying to get out in front of an Obama story to “soften it up,” might that not signal that, on the horizon, is to come a blistering offensive aimed at FINALLY publicly pinning Barack Obama to at least some of his more radical cohort? Because that would be boss. — As would be a willingness to go after Frank,