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:

EO News: Snapshot of Past Climate Reveals No Ice in Antarctica Millions of Years Ago – July 28, 2008

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.

I have read a lot of different opinions out there, including those who say that we should remember the old days, when the federal government would not have assisted in any significant way. I first received this opinion via e-mail, but then found it online as well. The facts are questionable, as I couldn’t find evidence of any hurricane in 1927 in my cursory search. However, the underlying sentiment is a reflection of a broader opinion by many people that we should not simply dole out federal money in the form of blank checks to blindly rebuild the city. Some of the more conservative Republicans in congress are not entirely on-board with the President’s plans, either.

National Review’s John Tamny writes an interesting column, talking about the flood of 1927 that hit New Orleans (probably the disaster that the writer above mistook for a hurricane). In short, we need to take care that we are not spending money for political expediency, something that both Democrats and Republicans seem all to willing to do, trying to prove that their respective party is more sympathetic to the plight of gulf coast residents than the other. Nothing the federal government has done in the entire history of this country suggests that it is the best entity to re-construct an entire region. It will obviously have to be involved, but the less so, the better for all of us – especially the residents of that area.

There’s just not much to say now that the insanity of the 2004 election year is long-since over…

I guess I’ll have to find something interesting to devote my attention to, as a replacement for all the energy I was spending on politics…

Lookin’ pretty good.

Also:

Bush clearly has the upper-hand. If he can take Florida and Ohio, or several other combinations, he’ll get over the 270 electoral vote threshold and win the election. Kerry is on defense.

WorldNetDaily: Discovered papers: Hanoi directed Kerry

Who knows if this is true, but it certainly would not be surprising!

Thankfully, the electoral math seems to be stacking up against Kerry at this point. The best site I’ve found for keeping track of polls is RealClearPolitics.

Specifically, The electoral count update.

This drives me nuts. How nice of Tom Daschle and his cronies to finally allow a vote to take place.