Politics::Election2008: July 2008 Archives

Tulsa World: Wayne Greene: Stop cutting my taxes, and can I get you some ice water

The Whirled editorial board is unanimous, as always -- they never met a tax increase they didn't like: "As we always do, we told [State Rep. Lucky Lamons] to stop cutting our taxes."

RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - On Obama's Message

"A message of unity could be effective, even though it is tricky to sell in a partisan campaign. The problem is the first part. Around what does the Obama campaign envision the nation unifying? Around the grand person of Barack Obama....

"Everybody thinks the economy is lousy and a strong majority thinks George W. Bush has done a poor job, but not everybody thinks Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread. To get to half-plus-one, he must persuade people who are immune to Obama-mania. He must frame this election in a way that appeals to them. He is not doing that right now."

Paul Greenberg :: Townhall.com :: Good News is No News

Why the media silence on the dismantling of al-Qaeda's last urban stronghold in Iraq? Even the New York Times has noticed and so has Barack Obama, in his own odd way: "Last year Barack Obama, who's now cinched his party's presidential nomination, was still arguing that the Surge would fail.... But don't look for any of his anti-Surge statements on Senator Obama's Web site, not any more. They've just been purged. And replaced by a new, more militant stance. To borrow a phrase from Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon's hapless press secretary: 'This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.'"