Obama-Biden Meltdown

How woefully unprepared is Barack Obama to be President?   Republican administrations are expected to deal with old rude hags like Helen Thomas, and have.   On the other hand, the Obama campaign can not handle simple questions from a local reporterette,

From Investors’ Business Dailty:

IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: Day Eleven
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008

McCain has cut into Obama’s lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday.

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• I mentioned last night about polling data… and they’ve been having a bit of a row over it on many of the blogs I’ve

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• Over at Q&O, Lance points out that our tastes in women tend to change with the economic conditions. It’s called the ‘ Environmental Security

Reader John Rylanders points Cornerites to this very interesting October 2006 interview of Bill Ayers in Revolution (the self-styled “Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA”).

Some context: Ayers explains that he returned from summer

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• The Fed cut interest rates early this morning, to 1.5%. I’m not sure if that’s going to have the desired effect, but what

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A new week. A new Monday. And a few surprises over the weekend. Let’s get to it.

• Sam Youngman at The Hill reports that Sarah

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A busy Wednesday, and a new month. Let’s get to it.

• George Will questions the qualifications of Sarah Palin? That’s OK, I’ve long since started

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Lots to cover today, as always and as dictated by events, most of it to do with the bailout which at this point (About

The WSJ, this morning:

Top U.S. policy makers emerged from hours of tense negotiations with a clear message just after midnight Sunday morning: A deal to bailout U.S. financial markets has been agreed on and all that remains to be

Friday, end of the week. Fall is here, with a bang… 43 degrees this morning and even colder in some of the hills south of I90, and up in the Adirondacks. Leaves are changing the birds are flocking. Let’s see

You have not seen this person holding this sign before. You can go about your business. Move along.

• Heard this one on a local talk show… BO saying:
  

  “If we’re going to ask questions about who has been promulgating negative

• 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. 

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 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