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August 2, 2008

More fair and balanced news from The New York Times

But this is to some extent Mr. Obama’s sleight of hand. He relies heavily on surrogates, and tends to back into his attacks. So he cues up Mr. McCain as "an honorable man" and a "war hero," before skewering him as lacking in ideas.

Wouldn't the impartial way of saying this be to say that Obama tries to attack McCain as lacking ideas? Or am I wrong? Perhaps it is it an impartial finding of fact that Obama has successfully attacked McCain as lacking ideas.

There really are only three issues that the Republicans seem to have any advantage over the Democrats; energy, foreign policy / defense, and taxes. The people seem to care less about these issues than ever and the Republicans are failing to change the debate to focus on them.

Something has been bothering me about Obama's policy on Afghanistan. Are all those people who are against the Iraq war and love Obama for being against it going to be happy if he scoops up all those troops in Iraq and moves them into Afghanistan? Because those guys are going to be in harms way. They will be shot at, blown up, and otherwise in a unfriendly environment. They just will be in a place differing in different one from the one they left in weather, geography, and language, making much of their experience useless. I wonder (although hope not) if the body count will be just as high there. No one who cares may be paying attention now that we are in a bit of an anyone but Bush honeymoon, but then the peacenicks are going to try to eat him alive once he has their undivided attention.

Posted by OneEyedMan at August 2, 2008 9:22 AM

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