[1] Welcome to the deepest daily read in the ‘sphere… the Nightly Ramble. Lots going on, today… we’ve covered most of the business with the bailout bill, but there’s a lot of other stuff going on too… let’s get to it.
- Obama had better be thankful to Allah, or Gaia or whatever that the bailout thing comes up just now. If nothing else, from his point of view, it will give him some diversion from the reporting on The Annenberg files, [2]the investigation of which is starting to bring fruit. Apparently, Obama and Ayers ahve a close working relationship, as we’ve been saying all along. Proof, Obama’s been lying to us.
- It strikes me that both our energy situation and our monetary situation, are self-made problems. Problems handed us by people who thought government was the solution to problems they had to make up to get people to respond. Just roll that one around for a while.
- A wonderful snark from Victor Davis Hanson [3] at The Corner:
“In short, the problem is not whether we think the affable Biden’s latest slip/goof/outrage is important, but whether we think anything he says any more is important. The next time he tries to offer something serious, from the AIG matter and coal power to campaign ads and Sarah Palin, I think we are at the point where most will smile, ignore him, and think ‘That’s just Biden being Biden.’ He could give the Gettyburg Address tomorrow, and the public wouldn’t know whether he wrote it, whether he was going to retract it, whether it was true, or whether he was serious.”
True. And it strikes me that anyone pushing such a person as one heartbeat away form the presidency has a long row to hoe to convince anyone that Sarah Palin is less qualified than ol’ Gaffe-O-Matic. Biden may well have more experience than Palin, but experience only counts if you’ve not demonstrably been a total screwup in that process, as Biden has.
- And, you know, I can’t help but wonder a bit. Jom Johnson… who was until recently on Obama’s VP selection comittee… I wonder if Biden wasn’t his selection. It strikes me as somehow fitting that the the person who helped orchestrate the Fannie and freddie Meltdown, should also be the one pushing Biden as VP material. And lest you think he’s gone from the Obama campaign, Politico says [4]he is decidedly not.
- Another Palin Smear disproved [5]. And, another. [6] Etc, Etc. Etc [7]. Meanwhile, did you know that Obama and Biden both helped to keep the “Bridge to nowhere” alive? Yep. [8] Nothng, however can stop the racist nonsense. [9]
- PETA wants Ben and Jerry’s to use Human breast milk for it’s ice cream [10]. And how do we keep ’em barefoot and pregnant so we can get the milk, PETA? What to do with the number of babies such things would produce? Imagine the sheer volume, here, needed to make a single production run of chunky Monkey. I mean even leaving aside PETA’s demonstration of a disconnection from reality, it must be said that this is a target rich environment. Imagine the names for the various flavors. New slogans, too… “Ben and Jerry’s… it’s just the breast:….”. “Bet you can’t eat Just one”…. though I suppose they’d have to pay George Carlin’s estate to use that slogan.
- Why all the concern over Sarah Palin her ‘shutting the press out’? Hume says it well [11]:
The Associated Press and other media outlets reacted with alarm when the McCain camp kept reporters from attending a photo opportunity with Sarah Palin and foreign leaders at the U.N. on Tuesday. AP reporter Sara Kugler wrote that reporters were banned “so as not to risk a question being asked of Palin.”The McCain camp later relented, but there was no concern by the AP in July when Barack Obama conducted similar closed-door meetings with European leaders.
And by the way, the Center for Responsive Politics reports Kugler donated to the liberal 527 group America Coming Together (ACT) during the 2004 campaign. Kugler gave $342 to the now-defunct voter registration group. ACT closed up shop after being fined $775,000 by the Federal Elections Commission in 2007 for violations of federal campaign finance laws.
So, it ends up being much about nothing. The complaints are a political stunt, fostered by a press which itself is naught but a willing mouthpeice for Obama.
- Reynolds, today, quoting MICHAEL SILENCE on why teachers should be using blogs. [12]
“All of them represent a relatively new style of writing. Anecdotal is out. Concise clarity is in. In these days of the Internet Attention Span, if you don’t get me in one sentence – two tops – then I’m gone. It’s safe to say George Will would not be on my aggregator. (Newpapers: hint).”
Irony; what he’s describing here is Reynold’s formula. Reynolds, though has never been long on discussion. I see that as a frailty, frankly. What the heck can you discuss in that short a space though? No wonder complex matters like economics get by most people. You simply don’t have the space to dis….. (ack!)