Bird’s-Eye View

Caught this at Politico.com. Apparently, after stumbling through the Katie Couric interview and now facing rising concern among conservatives about her ability to be vice president, Sarah Palin is going back on the airwaves. While in “debate camp” in Arizona, Palin will do a round of interviews on conservative talk radio:
After the debate and talk […]

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Slate has a must-read assessment of John McCain’s gambit:
McCain needed to do something. He is slipping in the polls both nationally and in the battleground states. He’s playing on Obama’s turf in his effort to sell himself both as a change agent and as a steward of the economy. When voters are asked which candidate […]

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It’s no wonder why Republican John McCain would want to avoid a vote right now on bailout legislation.
Let’s say some sort of legislation comes out and is approved by the House. It would go to the Senate, and let’s assume the votes breakdown by party. Remember, Democrat Barack Obama by not taking any specific positions […]

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For those who love politics and baseball, you’re gonna enjoy this post. I’ve said all my life baseball can be a metaphor for all things, so here we go:
In an earlier post today, I said Republican John McCain found himself between a rock and a hard place about whether to vote for or against bailout […]

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U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. in a phone interview that ended a couple of minutes ago had this to say about Republican John McCain’s move to suspend his campaign until Congress comes up with a solution to the Wall Street mess:
This latest thing on the debate was really bizarre in the sense that he’s saying […]

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Was John McCain’s call to suspend the presidential campaign and delay the first debate a brilliant political move or was it gimmicky? Let’s assume his call for Barack Obama, President Bush and congressional leaders to huddle with McCain and draw up a bipartisan plan to address the Wall Street fiasco works. The upside obviously is […]

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I don’t doubt this post will grab a little attention from my colleague at the Sunday News because former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum discussed with the issues of the race with the Nest and how the campaign is shaping up in Pennsylvania.
Anytime you hear Santorum extolling the virtues of a McCain presidency, it’s a compelling conversation since Santorum […]

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Interesting piece at RealClearPolitics.com by Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and the ACLU, about Barack Obama’s plan to cut taxes for 95 percent of income earners:
The statistics speak for themselves. Only 62 percent of Americans pay federal income tax, meaning that 38 percent get a 100 percent refund of any taxes withheld. So […]

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The same FOX News/Rasmussen poll that had the candidates tied nine days ago shows Barack Obama with a 3 percent lead over John McCain in Pennsylvania.
Notes from the poll:
Obama is trusted more than McCain on the economy by a seven-point margin in both Michigan and Pennsylvania. The candidates are evenly divided on the issue in […]

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The McCain-Palin ticket rolls out a new ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1WiEOmXin8

Except, CNN says, that Obama hasn’t been mum:
Recently, though, he has proposed several principles for the plan — including limiting pay for executives of businesses that are bailed out by the government and making sure the effort includes a detailed plan for the money to be repaid.
“In the […]

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