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A lot of low spirits out there in conservative circles about John McCain’s debate performance last night. While McCain didn’t really stumble, he just didn’t do what he needed to do: forcefully and clearly attack Obama on a number of vulnerable points, raising the issues that will define the narrative of this final month.
With the [...]

OK, so right now we’re in the middle of a severe economic crisis brought on by the collapse of credit markets due to the careless assumption of a high volume of risky loans that could never be paid back.
Obama’s plan for health insurance goes like this: force insurance companies to take on high risk insurees [...]

Obama has started off blaming runaway Bush/McCain free market deregulation for the current economic situation. This is has been a recurring refrain for over a week, and it appears to have worked. But is it true? I don’t recall Bush making any big deregulatory leaps; at least not in the financial sector. Didn’t the post-Enron [...]

That was a big part of his community organizing in the early 1990s, according to this New York Post article:
IT would be tough to find an “on the ground” community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.
When Obama [...]

Amir Taheri is reporting that Obama is trying to get a jump on his administration’s foreign policy by attempting to negotiate a delayed troop withdrawal in Iraq:
According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.
“He asked why we [...]

Roger Kimball says the same thing, probably better.
I think it is bad form for Republicans to play this silly game. I do not know Sarah Palin. But from what I know of her, I would guess that if she even noticed Obama’s desperate little performance her first, and probably her last, reaction was to laugh. [...]

I like a good political slip-up as much as the next guy, but I’m concerned that McCain’s campaign and supporters may spoil the stupidity of Obama’s latest gaffe by taking it too seriously.
In this clip from today, Obama appears to make a very crude reference to Sarah Palin’s “pitbull in lipstick” joke (no doubt, that’s [...]

There’s also a long article from the June 30, 2008, issue of National Review that looks into Obama’s organizing efforts. It’s behind a subscription firewall here. UPDATE: It’s freely accessible now, here.
Excerpts:
Even Obama didn’t know when he first gave it a try back in 1985. “When classmates in college asked me just what it was [...]

This report suggests that McCain may have unbelievably attracted more viewers for his acceptance speech than Obama did the week before. I didn’t even expect McCain to beat Palin’s huge numbers, but if this bears out, it’s amazing and contradicts all expectations.
One thing to keep in mind is that, in addition to McCain benefitting from [...]

A reader sent this e-mail in to NRO’s Rich Lowry yesterday on the Palin coverage:
I rarely agree with Bob Herbert, but the thrust of his op-ed in the NYT today was right on. If the Democrats aren’t careful, they can take the year Hillary almost won the nomination (and probably the White House) and use [...]

I’m generally inclined to agree with Democratic rhetoric on this issue raised by Obama in his convention speech: it would be cool to find a way to protect gun owners’ 2nd Amendment rights while clearing the streets of AK-47s.
But the basic premise, seems to me, full of crap.
Is there really an epidemic of gun violence [...]

Just like 20 years of John Kerry’s Senate record was virtually ignored at the 2004 Democrat Convention, so was nary a reference made to any specific accomplishment of Obama’s during his import time as a “community organizer” and senator in the state of Illinois prior to his national emergence.
Stanley Kurtz has been digging into Obama’s [...]