Election banter

McCain’s surge…

From Frank Rich in NYT

It was laughable to watchjournalists stamp their feet last week to try to push Mr. Obama into sayinghe was “wrong” about the surge. More than five years and 4,100 American fatalities later, they’re still not demanding that Mr. McCain admit he was wrong when he assured us that our adventure in Iraq would be fast, produce little American “bloodletting” and “be paid for by the Iraqis.”

Even Brooks sees it…

In an otherwise insidious column on education, or as he calls it “human capital development,” conservative wing-nut David Brooks can’t help notice that his boy John McCain has nothing to contribute to the discussion.

If you look at Barack Obama’s education proposals — especially his emphasis on early childhood — you see that they flow naturally and persuasively from this research. (It probably helps that Obama and [University of Chicago researcher James] Heckman are nearly neighbors in Chicago). McCain’s policies seem largely oblivious to these findings. There’s some vague talk about school choice, but Republicans are inept when talking about human capital policies.

Inept? Geez, that’s mostly all they talk about. I mean who else views humans simply as capital?

So much for McCain’s solution to the energy crisis…

Chicago Tribune:

Stevens is the single most prominent advocate of oil drilling in protected areas, and charges that he took more than a quarter-million dollars worth of unreported gifts from oil services contractor Veco Corp. and its executives will play right into Democratic efforts to paint Republicans as a party captive to Big Oil.

Jed Report:

John McCain planned to visit a New Orleans area offshore oil rig...but suddenly canceled, blaming the weather. But it turns out that today it is 85 degrees and sunnypartly cloudly. Perhaps the fact that a huge oil spill has contaminated the New Orleans water supply and closed the Mississippi River has more to do with McCain's quick turnabout?

Russo’s backdoor pitch to stay home on election day

Electing more Democrats in November will create as many problems as it solves.

What problems are those, Alexander? Did you ever really have any problems with Bush and the neocons? If you did, maybe you should mention them every once in a while between Obama bashes.

Also, why are you still so worked up about the little snub by your anti-diversity soul mate Liam Julian, over at Fordham? Is their something festering beneath the surface that we don’t know about? A quid pro quo, maybe?