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?
October 4, 2008
October 4, 2008
“Palin: Obama Not Qualified to Be Commander-in-Chief”
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
October 4, 2008
“Palin says Obama ‘palling around’ with terrorists”
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
October 4, 2008
Ayers to the throne
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,
October 4, 2008
On “positive rights” born of the “new math”
Jack London gave us the Iron Heel; Edward Bellamy gave us the parable of the water tank; so leave it to Ric Locke to explain a few sticking points in the complementary narratives of a capitalist dystopia / seemless socialist Utopia, by providing us with the parable of the farmer, the bureaucrat, and the government: What to properly rail against? Consider for a moment the European Convention on Human Rights.