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Welcome, dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere in the ‘sphere, Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.
- Charlie Rangel’s scandals just keep going on [2]. It strikes me that were the press to have actually been doing it’s job, they’d be spending a great deal more time on Rangel and less on trying to find some loose thread on Sarah Palin’s underwear. Let’s see, here. William “Cash in his freezer” Jefferson. Charlie Rangel. Barrack Obama?
- Summer is officially over. I had to use my rear defroster today for the first time this season on the way into work.
- Glenn notes [3]:
Christine Hurt [4] comments on whether the bailout is a good idea: “That’s the question I was asked by my fellow conferees at my non-corporate conference. My answer has to be ‘compared to what?’ . . . Would the market be able to right itself, after breaking more than a few Wall Street eggs, eventually? Not sure.”
Oh, yes you are. After the degree of government tampering with the free market process, you know full well it won’t recover on it’s own, particualrly when the original problems…. the mismanagement at F&F and the lending policies imposed by the government… are still largely intact. But the point of “Compared to what” is well taken. I’d like someone to tel me what alternative they have to the bailout, particularly given government’s culpability.
- We linked yesterday the Jawas and Rusty’s report on the Palin smears. Boortz notes it this morning [5], and says:
Within one hour of Jawa Report posting the information, the Winner and Associates employees had removed all the videos from Youtube and began to remove any traces of his activities. In time? Apparently not. Convenient.
Not unexpected. Turn the light on and the roaches scurry away. Obama needs to be called on the carpet for this one, bigtime. Who’s going to do that? Democrats? Yeah, right. Time to speak up, John. Patrick, are you listening, man?
- Boortz also wonders, correctly, what would happen if SNL would run a skit suggesting Obama had committed incenst with his daughters, as they did with Palin.
- Speaking of Palin, she certainly seems to be drawing a lot of nutballs. Naomi Wolfe for example, seems to have more foam under her nose than usual. [6]
- Anyone wanting proof that the Democrat party is not about energy independance will want to check out Biden’s comments on coal [7].
- The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article [8]up, backgrounding the efforts of William Ayers and Barrack Obama to radicalise schools in Chicago. Yes, they do have a working relationship and more. David’s already mentioned this this morning, and Bruce mentions it this monring [9], too, saying in part:
Stanley Kurtz digs into one of the more interesting and yet mostly unanswered questions of Obama’s past:
Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.
It’s not just his “most important executive experience”, it is his only real executive experience. Yet he doesn’t mention it or tout it. Why?Well perhaps it is because of what the CAC did and aimed to do. His relationship with Bill Ayers aside (which any fair-minded person would conclude was more than casual), what was the CAC Obama chaired?
The CAC’s agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland’s ghetto.
In works like “City Kids, City Teachers” and “Teaching the Personal and the Political,” Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? “I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist,” Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk’s, “Sixties Radicals,” at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.CAC translated Mr. Ayers’s radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with “external partners,” which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn)..
Over the years which Obama chaired the organization and sat on its board, it gave 100 million in funds to these activists ostensibly to foster improvements in “education” among the poorer parts of Chicago. Instead it was really aimed at fostering radicalism.
Why is the MSM being so quiet about this, I wonder? Gee.
- We didn’t hear much from that anti-Iran rally after it happened… at least not nearly so much a we heard going into the thing. Now, we have some idea why [10]. Any time the voice of the people can be heard, you can count on the story getting buried. Pajamas Media was there, by the way, and has free video. [11]
- I note this morning a lot of traffic on the “McCain can’t use the internet” ad that Obama foisted off on us a few weeks ago. Seems Biden is now saying it was “terrible”. [12]What the heck is this about? Good Cop /Bad Cop? If Obama wants to apologise for the ad, perhaps he should do it himself. His chocie for Veep, after all has a bit of a reputation as a loose cannon, with a big mouth… and the American people won’t know which to take seriously… Biden’s mouthing off or Obama’s stoney silence on his offense against the disabled, and against wounded military types…. Obama’s public scolding of Biden [13]not withstanding. Even assuming this back and forth is genuine… it’s costing a pile of credibilty. And it would appear the people are starting [14] to notice.
- Speaking of Creds, does George Will have any left [15] as a ‘conservative commentator”? Not by my lights. Of course the signs he was losing it have been there for some time, now [16].
- Pakistan is reportedly hunting feverishly for the AlQuieda cell that blew up the Islamabad Mariott [17]. Yeah, wel maybe they can team up with OJ. I’m sure he could use a break from the relentless pursuit of his wife’s killers across every freakin’ golf course in the country.
- Speaking of stabbings, let’s assume I won’t be taking a Greyhound Bus [18]anywhere anytime soon, OK?