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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Politico.com on how everyone from Obama to Biden to McCain to Palin can’t quite nail down a message on the current economic news:
But faced with a deepening crisis in the financial markets, no candidate on either presidential ticket has maintained an unbending position against government intervention. At the same time, neither campaign was eager to […]

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Barack Obama was appropriately forceful this evening in his visit to Buchanan Park when refuting the caustic rhetoric coming out of Minnesota this week. He was humorous to a slight degree when he said he’s been called worse on the basketball court and tough when portraying John McCain as out of touch with middle class […]

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1:02 p.m.: McCain ends by saying rural Pennsylvanians are not “bitter” and clinging to their guns and religions because they’re disenchanted with government and the economy:
“Judeo-Christian values they hold dear is the strength of America. They’re the reason why the people in Georgia today are looking to America.”
Gettin’ on the Straight Talk Express. Keep checking […]

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Here’s the latest attack ad from the Republican National Committee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haay-y4E6pA

This strikes me as more evidence of a directionless, bitter Republican brand in a year Democrats are confident of winning the White House and expanding their majority in Congress. It makes a false deductive argument in one segment (Marxists support Obama, therefor Obama must be a […]

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Add this to the list of scandals during the Bush administration:
Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke the law by using politics to guide their hiring decisions for a wide range of important department positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department’s credibility and independence, an internal report concluded […]

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Joe Klein from Time gets it right about why Obama hasn’t seen a bump in the polls during his well-covered overseas trip to the Middle East:
People may be thinking, what on earth is Obama doing over there when we have so many problems back home? Why isn’t he talking about the economy? No doubt, the […]

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I know many of you love New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd about as much as the smell of manure, but she makes an interesting point in her latest column:
Charlie Black crassly argued in Fortune that a terrorist attack would “be a big advantage” for John McCain … .
It’s hard to believe that if Americans […]

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June may be the cruelest month, not April, because all those voter polls really don’t tell us much about what’s going to happen in November. We’re four months out from the election, and anything - a foreign attack, a major scandal, Swift Boating - can change the playing field and equalize any advantage one candidate […]

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It is waaaaaaay too early to make any definitive conclusions about November based on a poll in June, but …
The results are part of the Quinnipiac University poll conducted simultaneously in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania asking likely voters their opinions of 2008 presidential hopefuls.
Sen. Obama, who holds a 52 to 40 percent edge over Sen. […]

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