How Obama Lost the Election

An outright suburb article in the Asia Times last week… Apparently Limbaugh read it on his show yesterday… and a reader sent it along to me here.

Just a taste:

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why

• Martin makes the point I’ve been making about Fannie and Freddie… that this does not constitute a government takeover or government growth at all, for that matter, since they were governmental creations in the first place.  And Billy responds. 

By way of The Conservative Grapevine comes an article in the Examiner, wherein we find:

 University of Minnesota staff were key coordinators of the recent violent protests at the Republican National Convention (RNC). The university employees are also

Jake Tapper, ABC News, quotes Bill Ayers:

were needlessly killed. Even though I worked hard to end the war, I feel to this day that I didn’t do enough because the war dragged on for years after the majority

Warren Meyer points out that the website of the proposed California high-speed rail bond says that the thing will generate 450,000 permanent jobs, which is an amazing thing when you consider that all of U.S. rail employs about half that

Uh-oh…

He almost wrecked Barack Obama‘s presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker’s marriage – and her job, The Post has learned.

Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual

Well, look, it doesn’t excerpt well, so I’m just going to have you go and read.

Bruce at Q&O has his own take on that one.

And check here at Q&O, as well, for Number 74.

You can

CHICAGO (CBS) ? Republican John McCain raised about $5 million in Chicago Monday night, or about $1 million for each hour he spent in Democrat Barack Obama’s home town.

CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports the only glimpse of

The polling trends continue. Rasmussen this monring, looks at their most recent polling in the five battleground states, and says:

· McCain is trusted more than Obama in all five states.

· In all five states, McCain is viewed

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• I’d say, Billy, that there’s a major difference in the perception of justice when you involve the religious freedom component. To put that into the same context as OJ Simpson, however, …which in my view is a connection that

I’ve commented elsewhere on this slip of Obama… “My Muslim faith”… etc.

But you know, we’re seeing an awful lot of pressure from various quarters for Sarah Palin to subject herself to interviews. Why do I get the feeling that

Art, over at the Conservative Reader, yesterday:

Today US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced plans for the new Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to take Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into conservatorship.   The power to do this was provided

USA Today:

In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/— 3

Remember what I said about ‘it’s all about ideas, and not the messenger’? Case in point, from the comment section at Talk Left… a rare bit of agreement:

Atrios links to Media Matters complaining that Tom Brokaw incorrectly stated