Mary Katherine Ham doesn’t see much new, or at least desirable about the politics of Barack Obama: “He is a man who endorses raising the cost of free speech for everyone who disagrees with him. He is a man who sends out Action Wire alerts to mobilize voters to shout down detractors who appear on the radio. He is a man who sends letters to the Department of Justice to ask it to investigate political ads that aren’t even inaccurate, much less criminal.”

ACORN abuses and bullies its employees. Someone should call a community organizer to stand up for those people.

The Washington Post editors have a very sound analysis of the financial meltdown — with proper blame apportioned to misguided government regulation. Wouldn’t it have been nice to have seen John McCain explain it as coherently in the debates?

I think it’s actually helpful to John McCain to remind us that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the philosophy of judicial restraint which he represents are antithetical to Barack Obama’s vision of the judiciary. In fact, McCain might be wise to start talking more about this.

But on that score it seems especially odd for Colin Powell to have singled out the Supreme Court as a rationale for opposing John McCain. Remember in 2000 Powell vigorously supported George W. Bush who expressed admiration for Justice Scalia. It was fine in 2000 to appoint strict constructionist judges but not in 2008? One imagines this was either a rationale suggested by the Obama camp or evidence that Powell was looking for any available justification for supporting Obama.

If “Secretary of State John Kerry” and “Attorney General Eric Holder” (who has an understanding of ethics matched only by Bill Clinton) aren’t enough to give you second thoughts about an Obama presidency, nothing will. Yikes.

Denver Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput: “To suggest–as some Catholics do–that Senator Obama is this year’s ‘real’ pro-life candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse.” I’m not sure what he means by “worse,” but whether you are pro-choice or pro-life it’s hard to quibble with Chaput’s statement if you know anything about Obama voting record as a state and federal lawmaker. Why are pro-choice voters and interest groups (e.g. NARAL, Planned Parenthood) so much more clear-eyed than ostensibly pro-life advocates like Doug Kmiec?

The MSM never likes conservatives quite so much as when they are getting mocked – or when they dreaming up alternative careers for them.

Has Mason-Dixon picked up on a major shift in Ohio? Stay tuned.

Was the Bradley Effect really about race? Maybe we should call it the Kerry Effect.

It is absurd that we don’t have full medical records from either Joe Biden or Obama. The impact of the biased media unfortunately isn’t limited to depriving the public of information on just the health of the candidates.

Maybe Joe the Plumber does matter. From Rasmussen: “Eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans say either McCain or Joe the Plumber best understands the realities they face. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Democrats say Obama does. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 50% pick McCain or Joe while 38% name Obama.” Wow.

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