President Bush, a fierce adherent of YOYO (you're on your own) for the masses and socialism for the rich, is about to sign the new housing bill with all its market corrections.
Charges of bias, particularly toward a charismatic candidate like Obama, create confusion among journalists -- as a result, they often overshoot.
For blacks, it is a call to arms, a celebration of ingenuity, from the breakfast table to the church, to the classroom, to the street. For whites, Black in America has to be just as complicated to watch.
The military has been so effective in muting the war, and the war photographer, that many of our best shooters have found themselves turning to the technique of irony.
McCain's policy reversal on coastal drilling reveals much about what he's apparently willing to do for the right amount of money.
It seems to me that this is going to be a tsunami-sized scandal for the Democratic Party and right now the coming typhoon of press coverage is close to breaking.
So McCain now thinks that everything went as expected during the invasion and that in fact American troops were greeted as liberators. One has to wonder if McCain's memory is really that bad.
So the Times presents Gallup data showing a clear trend toward the left, and calls it a "move to the middle." Is the assumption that we were mostly right-wingers a few years ago?
The level of arrogance being facilitated by our pathetic dependency on oil and our ineffectual policies poses an increasing and ominous threat to our national security, worsening with every passing day.
Our conversation converged on the conclusion that Obama looked "presidential" while McCain looked like a biblical Job wandering around from golf carts to supermarket aisles shopping for news and votes.
I don't think McCain actually thinks Petraeus is the chairman of JCS. But within the context of all of his other gaffes, one has to wonder. Is he slipping and making simple mistakes on a regular basis?
Think about consequences. Is it really a good trade-off to station a missile shield in Europe, one that has not even been proven to work, for having Russian bombers 90 miles south of Florida?
The Obama campaign hasn't shot down the other smears that have emerged or forcefully challenged the Pentagon's politicized role in spreading lies designed to damage the campaign.
