HotList 07/24/08


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Obama’s $5 million Olympic-sized political ad buy: Sen. Obama’s campaign joins McDonald’s and Anheuser-Busch as early TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage from Beijing beginning August 8.

President Obama: MSNBC’s Howard Fineman wrote July 22, 2008:

[The] American people may be repelled at the sight of a man touring the planet in presidential style who has yet to even be nominated by his own party. There is something a little off about Obamapalooza, even if it is not entirely the candidate’s fault. The self-conscious mimicking of J.F.K. can be cloying or even worse. Kennedy went to Berlin in the midst of a Cold War crisis. To stand at the Brandenburg Gate and declare “Ich bin ein Berliner” took enormous guts. Obama has yet to match that fortitude — and he hasn’t been chosen president. However quaint it may seem, voters may want a say in that decision.

The ChiTrib’s John Kass also gets it right.

“According to a Rasmussen poll, half of all Americans believe the media will favor Obama in their news coverage leading up to the November presidential election.

Sadly, that half of Americans is wrong once again.

Because the election is over, isn’t it? Obama is president, all we’re waiting for is the transcending, when a beam of light shines on Chris Matthews’ face, carrying him to the heavens, smiling, that tingle running down his leg.”

Iraq: Ed Morrissey at HotAir has video and commentary on Obama re-writes history of “without preconditions” again and Obama vs McCain on the surge.

Afghanistan: Juan Cole at Salon opines that Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan—”his plans for that other war could mean trouble,” and Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com explains why Afghanistan isn’t “doable”.

Israel: Gateway Pundit provides an update on the Messiah in the Holy Land; Obama’s failure to “ensure Israel … that there will not be another Holocaust; and his denial that he flip-flopped on Jerusalem.

Campaign $$$: Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, hot on the trail of another Obama foreign contributor, asks who is Ronald Hickel?

Sen. Obama, you’re unelectable (and an illegitimate candidate)

  • Rick Moran, The Audacity of Inevitability, American Thinker, July 23, 2008.
  • Dean Barnett, Obama Ignorance Watch (A Very Special Edition!), The Weekly Standard, July 23, 2008.

  • Byron York, So Presidential. So Supremely Confident. So Confidently Striding. The Jacket…, The Corner/National Review, July 23, 2008.

  • Obama: “President of the World?”, The Anchoress, July 23, 2008.

  • Carrie Budoff Brown, Obama tour staged for political pop, The Politico, July 23, 2008.

  • Alessandra Stanley, Obama Overseas! In Presidential Mode! Back Home, It’s McCain in a Golf Cart, New York Times, July 23, 2008.

  • Clarice Feldman, It’s rewrite time again for Obama, American Thinker, July 23, 2008.

  • Jim Geraghty, Obama Remembers a YouTube Debate Answer He Didn’t Give, NRO’s The Campaign Spot, July 23, 2008.

    Obama’s foreign “policy”

  • SusanUnPC, It’s not just troops, it’s an overall strategy, No Quarter, July 23, 2008.

    Obamaviks

  • Cliff Kincaid, Blood On the Hands of Obama’s Terror Associate, Accuracy in Media, July 23, 2008.

    Obamaganda

  • John Mashek, The Myth of the Media Bias Toward Barack Obama, U.S. News & World Report, July 23, 2008.

    PUMA/Just Say NO DEAL

  • Mark Preston, Preston on Politics: PUMAs stalking Obama, CNN, July 23, 2008.

  • Riverdaughter, Midday at the Watering Hole: We’re 40% of Dems?, The Confluence, July 23, 2008.


    Rezkobama

    Courtroom Coverage
  • Eye on Rezko Blog, Chicago Sun-Times.
  • Tony Rezko News Archive, Chicago Sun-Times.
  • The Tony Rezko Case, Chicago Tribune.
  • Rezko Court Documents.

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