That implies that he thinks it would be harmful to the economy to raise taxes on “the wealthy few.”  If it’s a bad idea in an economic downturn, how is it a good idea any other time?  Someone needs to have a talk with the Messiah about logic and contradiction.

I’m sure it pained the Huffington Post to run this story about McCain’s speech not only topping Palin’s in the ratings, but also the messianic Obama’s speech, and every other convention speech in history.  Obama may be largely responsible for the surge in interest this election cycle, but that does not mean he’ll reap all the benefits.

Finally, Michael Barone does a good job of summing up the events and results of the last week at the GOP convention.  Now we’ll have to see how successfully McCain/Palin can execute on the pivot they made towards being maverick reformers, instead of focusing on “experience.”

In the meantime, my favorite line from National Review Online this morning about Joe Biden:

Real people don’t define “experience” as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong.

Jim Geraghty on Joe Biden vs. Barack Obama on National Review Online

Michael Barone on the unsustainable nature of Obama’s Narrative on National Review Online

Best line from the Weekly Standard Blog: “We’ll get to dust off Joe Biden’s greatest hits, a pleasurable task that will take weeks.”

I love Warren Buffett, but his politics just don’t match up with the pure capitalism that is Berkshire Hathaway.  This quote from a New York Times Magazine article sums up what Obama would do to us:

“If you talk to Warren, he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the economy at all — let the market work, however way it’s going to work, and then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it,” Obama said. “That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.” He continued by saying that he thought there was some merit in Buffett’s argument.

And of course, the Messiah video is just great:

The idea that 6 terms in the U.S. Senate make him a “foreign policy expert” is really amusing to me.  There’s a big difference between chairing a committee on foreign policy, and being the policy maker and executor of America’s foreign policy.

This goes back to the fact that Senators do not make good presidents.  But then again, that’s just my opinion – I could be wrong.  And yes, I realize that McCain is in the same boat.

My favorite Biden quote (of this presidential campaign) had to do with Rudy Giuliani:

There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11.

Here it is on YouTube:

Here’s a rundown.  You can click the position of each person for the supporting press release or article that I drew the conclusion from.

The folks over at betterimmigration.com have a lot of information on where the candidates stand, as well.