How should Obama respond?

Quincy Adams at The Reality-Based Community offers suggestions to Barack on how to respond to Maverick’s guilt-by-association tactics in tonight’s debate.

The official Web site of Sacramento County's Republican Party encouraged people to "Waterboard Barack Obama." The comments were removed later in the day.

The Bro(s)

My bro pays his disrespect to Brownsville’s Broad Prize and Brokaw.

‘My Friend Bill Ayers”

It’s rare that I recommend reading anything in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s an exception. “My Friend Bill Ayers.”is a piece by Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew (see my review here) and founder/editor of The Baffler.

Mr. Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where his work is esteemed by colleagues of different political viewpoints. Herbert Walberg, an advocate of school vouchers who is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, told me he remembers Mr. Ayers as "a responsible colleague, in the professional sense of the word." Bill Schubert, who served as the chairman of UIC's Department of Curriculum and Instruction for many years, thinks so highly of Mr. Ayers that, in response to the current allegations, he compiled a lengthy résumé of the man's books, journal articles, guest lectures and keynote speeches.