Bird’s-Eye View

Heard the one about how Barack Obama misleads the public about a position staked out by John McCain?
You don’t often hear the question above because the McCain campaign has shredded and diced Obama’s tax position so badly people really do believe the Democrat’s going to raise everyone’s taxes (not so).
But in the Spanish-language ad down […]

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In case you missed it, yesterday the U.S. House led by the Democratic caucus passed a measure to lift the 26-year ban on off-shore oil drilling as long as it’s 50 miles away from the coast and the coastal state approves it.
I can see it now: Come to Ocean City, Maryland. Great crabs, Great beaches, […]

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Associated Press business writer Michael Liedtke has a piece in tomorrow’s Intell (check out the biz section) about the fallout from expected bankruptcy filing by Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. I mention this because I find the final paragraph, paraphrasing an analysis done by Daniel Albert, a managing director for Westwood Capitol LLC, kind of curious, […]

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There are two must-reads in recent weeks which will give you an idea how the race for president has arrived at the sometimes absurd, sometimes heated point where Obama struggles to get back on track and McCain is riding the surge of Hurricane Sarah. One is about McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, and the other is […]

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According to the Associated Press:
On Tuesday, Obama criticized McCain’s policies as similar to those of President Bush, saying: “You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”
Let me put this plainly and […]

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Been doing some redecorating here at the Nest, and now we’re geared up for an enhanced version of our “LIVE” series. We’ve been consistently blogging live for major events featuring presidential candidates since April, and now we’re going to make the series interactive. No more having to click “Refresh” on the browser. Guests of the Nest can watch […]

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Gov. Ed Rendell held a press conference at Franklin & Marshall College this afternoon on the eve of John McCain and Sarah Palin’s visit. Most of Rendell’s conference was spent attacking Republicans for misleading the American public on Barack Obama’s tax policies, which Rendell is largely accurate. When the conference was opened up to questions […]

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A look around the blogosphere about Republican John McCain’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night.
Gerald F. Seib and Laura Meckler of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Sarah Palin had the easy part - firing up the base - while McCain had to appeal to moderates, independents and even crossover Democrats.
Delegates in the […]

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One thing many Republicans love is decisive leadership. They want that leader who can make choices using his or her gut instincts, which is one thing that helped sink Democrat John Kerry’s campaign in 2004 and could significant damage Barack Obama’s in 2008.
Hillary Clinton tried to use this tactic in the Democratic primary, but I […]

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The New York Times published a story today looking at the roots of Sarah Palin’s political career. Fascinating narrative in that she took a no-holds-barred approach to her campaign for mayor of Wasilla, in the mid-1990s a town of about 6,500 people. Municipal elections in Alaska like this are traditionall non-partisan affairs, which is why […]

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