September 10, 2008

Should Obama Demagogue The Fannie/Freddie Bailouts?

With Obama falling behind McCain in betting on InTrade.net for the first time this year, David Kane suggests that Obama should break with elite consensus and denounce the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:

Most of the good and great think that this bailout is absolutely necessary. I don’t think it is and, moreover, the politics of the issue line up nicely for Obama. Imagine that he said something along these lines:

Dear Sen. Obama: Don't Try To Sound Folksy

Obama's "lipstick on a pig" blunder is a reminder that he needs to hire a jokewriter so he can poke some much-needed fun at himself.

"Just How Stupid Are We?"

Senator Obama said:

Multiethnic Gangs In Fiction

Watching The Golden Spiders, a TV version of the Nero Wolfe novel made in the year 2000, I noticed that the races of two of the minor characters were changed to African-American. One was the butler at the victim's house, a white butler in the novel, which is not implausible change,and the other was Mort, a member of the Lips Egan gang, a white gangster in the novel, black on the screen.

Hispanic: W. Post wrong to publish CIS article: SPLC invoked

After my blog Fairness at the Washington Post!!! WSJ next? noting their carrying of an immigration skeptic article by Steve Camarota of CIS, a reader pointed out that this was just the standard MSM stratagem of throwing Immigration Patriots a very occasional bone. Of course, this is true.