Nightly Ramble: Captions, Obama, Clinton, And the Whole Sordid Mess;More

• YetAnotherJOhn gets second place, and the boss gets an honorable mention in today’s OTB Caption Contest.
•  McQ  points up today the idea that the thing Stan kurtz was chasing about Obama nad Ayers is still in play
  

  Until they are

I said last night that Obama was revealing himself as an anti-private -property, anti-capitalist socialist. From that thought, a couple of fantasy scenarios occur to my mind to help ilustrate this::

* What would have happened, had Obama been asked

So now, we see Barack Obama trying to make something out of the number of houses McCain does or does not own, and because he didn’t know the exact answer…(Seven, by the way, including investment property) this is supposed to

• Yes, I’d seen the reports of the death of Stephanie Tubbs-Jones. I had nothing of any value to add to it, so I didn’t mention it. Of course now I’m taking Feedback claiming this lack of response to this

I note this morning a press release floating around from the McCain camp, posted by Rich Lowry this morning:

Please see comment from me on Barack Obama’s new ad supposedly running in Georgia:

“Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of

• My office at work is getting moved, so I spent half the day without connectivity. The ramble, as a result will be a bit shorter than it would have been otherwise.
• Well, we know one guy who won’t be the

The experts are now starting to wonder if the tide isn’t shifting toward McCain:

Alexander Mooney at CNN:

In what could be an ominous sign for Barack Obama just days before he is formally named the Democratic presidential nominee, a

Two things;

1. I’ve noticed that our hit rates had dropped pretty badly, and I getting worried we did somehting wrong in the content. Turns out I had sitemeter in the right sidebar, when only the left shows up in single

• Amazing, how the press isn’t covering the drop in oil prices the way they covered every penny of it’s rise. Despute a bit of bouyancy surrounding Faye ad the possiblity of disruptions from that storm, prices are back on their

Is this person really so craven that he would not“intervene” for himself? Would he really just stand there and let someone elsemaim or kill him without raising a hand in his own defense?

Billy, I have to tell you,

Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah takes on St Andrew the Incontinent:

June 30, 2008:

McCain himself disowned the Swift Boat nutters in 2004 as “dishonest and dishonorable.” I find both attempts to smear the war records of people who

Bruce McQuain at Q&O:

Bill Donahue of the “Catholic League” is demanding that certain “credentialed blogs” covering the Democratic Convention be cut from the list for being “offensive” to Catholics.

“The list of credentialed blogs include radical sites like The

After crushing about 300 spam comments, today, I decided the highest priority is to get THAT nonsense under control. So, I’ve added an anti-spam tool in the comments.  Yeah, I know it’s a pain, but look; My database is showing

• So, Iran now says it’s warplanes are able to reach Israel. Now why would they want to level THAT threat, I wonder? I mean, they could make it there, but they couldn’t make it BACK. Wouldn’t that be a suicide

Given the nature of this message I tend to doubt that NRO and Stanley Kurtz will mind my extensive quote here from his post, at all. Obviously, the intent is to get the message out, my intent is to help