First the latest from The Associated Press:

DENVER (AP) — John McCain tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate, two senior campaign officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
A formal announcement was expected within a few hours at a campaign rally in swing-state Ohio.
Palin, 44, is a self-styled hockey mom […]

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Barack Obama gave a terrific speech last night and I hate to quibble but …
Oh, heck, that’s a lie. I love to quibble, so here goes:
Obama said:

But the record’s clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say […]

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… that misses the point.
Talking to an Associated Press reporter writing about the anti-Obama focus of John McCain’s presidential campaign, Obama said: “It’s a leap, electing a 46-year-old black guy named Barack Obama.”
Obama, you see, is trying to make out like any attack on him is an attack on “the black guy,” despite the fact […]

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Andrew Ferguson, of The Weekly Standard, has done it again this week. (Last week he made the nearly inarguable point that our presidential politics tend to shy away from the truth.)
This week’s column, Sweet Nothings, takes on the vacuousness of Barack Obama’s rhetoric.
Ferguson suggests, toward the end, that Obama’s popularity might be because of, not […]

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OK, so Democrats, according to a Lancaster Sunday News report, are telling themsleves this could be the year.
The year they win the 13th District seat in the state Senate.
The year they win the 16th Congressional District.
The year pigs (or, more aptly, donkeys) fly.
Well, OK, that last one’s mine.
The hope — expressed by county Democratic Chairman […]

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Interesting.
A Wall Street Journal story today doesn’t go quite as far as Santorum — that Obama must goof to lose — but it does say that voters are looking at Obama first.

WASHINGTON — Midway through the election year, the presidential campaign looks less like a race between two candidates than a referendum on one […]

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So, former Pa. Sen. Rick Santorum believes John McCain can’t win in November unless Barack Obama proves himself unqualified, according to The American Spectator.
The link is worth a click, to see if you agree with Santorum’s suggestions of vice presidential picks for McCain.
But, gosh, one does wonder if Santorum’s pessimism isn’t driven a little by […]

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… but they don’t really matter.
I say this in reference to John McCain’s misstatement of when the surge began.
His defense of his inclusion of the Anbar awakening in the surge is that the strategy went along with the one the surge was meant to support.
That’s plausible, but he still goofed. The surge of troops President […]

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Wow!
I haven’t posted in almost a month.
Sorry about that.
The following link should provide a bit of restitution: It’s to Andrew Ferguson’s brilliant “We can’t handle the truth” in this week’s Weekly Standard.
Not only does Ferguson make a good point, in a fairly bipartisan way, about our politicians’ discomfort with truth-telling, but the guy can really […]

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… Obama’s as big a liar as any of them.
It wasn’t really surprising that Barack Obama decided to forego public financing of his presidential campaign.
He’s this year’s champion fundraiser — raising $265.4 million so far to John McCain’s roughly $96.7 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Why not maintain that advantage, rather than accepting […]

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