Political Pyro

For those of you who live and die for Real Clear Politics as the source for the most relevant news links of the day, I would like to draw your attention to a couple of articles that seemed to have slipped beneath their radar.

The first is Business Week, September 24, 2008:

Bill Clinton on the Banking Crisis, McCain, and Hillary

In this article, Bill Clinton explains that Obama’s deregulation myth has nothing to do with the current financial crisis. (more…)

Barack Obama’s staunch support for Raila Odinga (now Prime Minister of Kenya) during his bid for the Kenyan presidency was casually reported by the mainstream media last year. When Odinga lost, he encouraged an uprising by his supporters that resulted in genocide. (more…)

The recent financial meltdown on Wall Street may have been years in the making, but the climax has certainly come at a questionable time: two months before Election Day. The only problem is — no one seems to be asking the question:

How is it that trillion dollar corporations sliding into a hole of bad debt, hundreds of billions of dollars deep, suddenly decide to throw in the towel two months before Election Day? (more…)

The fact that John McCain’s polling numbers have been in steady decline since the beginning of the financial meltdown a few weeks ago, without any serious offensive to make a comeback, leads me to believe that the McCain camp is up to something really big.

In the past, whenever McCain looked as if he were fading, his campaign under the steady leadership of Steve Schmidt would suddenly snap out of it and launch a massive attack.

In essence, the pattern of attack that McCain has consistently shown he prefers is one that was no doubt learned from five and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton: strength through the perception of weakness. (more…)