- Rumor control: McCain doesn’t have cancer. [1]The Times, of course is making lots of noise about not being given McCain’s medical records, yet. The funny part of the story is, they’re still waiting for the health records of Bill Clinton, and they’ve not said word one about that. How about at least trying to be objective, New York Times?
Heh. Roger Kimball [2]wonders:
Why is John McCain’s non-affair with a lobbyist 8 years ago worth a front-page story while a possible link between a Colombia warlord and B.H. Obama is not even worth a mention on page B27? Isn’t that news that’s “fit to print”? Just asking.
Yeah, really. I guess what this boils down to is never saying anything negative about he who shall not be middle-named.
- Noted at the Greg Mankiw’s place [3]; links to here [4] (PDF) and here. [5] Both sources… one of them, the CBO… report clearly that the Bush tax cuts were NOT ‘Tax cuts for the rich”. The rich are paying quite a bit more in percentage, and in total. They also caused income to the federal coffers to rise, not fall. So why are the Democrats wanting to eliminate them? Most certainly not for their stated reasons.
- And so why on earth would the press want to finger Steven Hafill [6]? Seems simple enough to me… it matches their defeatist narrative. It’s easier to finger someone involved with our defense rather than admit we’re under attack.
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Scenes we’d like to see:
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- Teagan Goddard: [8]
It’s clear that for either Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic presidential nomination, they’ll have to win the majority of superdelegates at the convention. But what if the superdelegates split right down the middle like Democrats across the nation?
Well, I wouldn’t worry about that much; they seem tilted toward Obama. But, pray you, continue…
Talk of a joint ticket — Obama-Clinton or Clinton-Obama — might be an elegant solution to the problem. But what if Clinton wins the popular vote and Obama wins the majority of delegates? What if the next two months of campaigning turns so ugly they can’t stand each other? Would either candidate willingly step aside to take the number two spot?The answer might be for someone else entirely to step into the race at the convention. The most likely candidate would be Al Gore.
Ya know, we keep seeing this kind of chatter. But I have to tell you, folks… which Gore being increasingly exposed as an outright fraud on this global warming nonsense of his, a Gore candidacy would be the best boost possible for John McCain’s presidency. Assuming of course we can get McCain to denounce the people pushing AGW as a crisis. IN any event, I don’t see a Clinton Obama ticket happening. As I’ve said here previously, both their egos are far too big to give such a thing serious consideration.