memeorandum: Re: Dismissing the Story (Andy McCarthy/The Corner)

4:05 PM ET, October 27, 2008

Top Items:

Shame, Cubed — The Drudge Report this morning led off with a link to audio of Barack Obama on WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station. And this time, Barack Obama was not eight years old when the bomb went off. — Speaking on a call-in radio show in 2001, you can hear Senator Obama say things …

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Obama advisor pushes back on ‘redistribution’ — A top legal advisor to Barack Obama, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, said today that Obama's 2001 remarks on “redistributive change” — pushed hard on the right today — are being misinterpreted, and that he was actually articulating …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Boston Globe, Spin Cycle, American Power, Daily Kos, Political Machine, Swampland, The Raw Story, TPM Election Central, Donklephant, Reason and Comments from Left Field

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Drudge's Latest — Go read the original talk that Obama gave on NPR and see if it says anything even faintly similar to the truncated quotes about to be used by McCain. I mean: come on. Here's the headline: … Here's what it's based on: the “tragedy,” in Obama's telling, is that the civil rights movement was too court-focused.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Political Machine, Newshoggers.com and Achenblog

Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:

McCain to Attack Obama for Public Radio Comments from 2001 — On Janaury 18, 2001, then-state senator Barack Obama appeared on a public radio chat show to discuss “The Courts and Civil Rights.” — You can listen to the whole show HERE. — In that show — WBEZ-FM's “Odyssey” …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Opinionator, Gateway Pundit and Oliver Willis

David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Obama on Redistribution of Wealth: As Orin points out below …

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, The Corner and race42008.com

Wall Street Journal:
Justice and Vote Fraud

Discussion: protein wisdom and PrairiePundit

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Smells Like Socialist Spirit; Update: Team O responds

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Progress Illinois, Wizbang, Verum Serum and www.redstate.com

Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Re: Dismissing the Story

Discussion: Wizbang and Outside The Beltway

Mark Steyn / The Corner: That Sinking Feeling — President-designate King Barack …

Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Obama on the Warren Court: The Drudge Report is blaring this audio …

Discussion: Chicago Public Radio Blog, Althouse, protein wisdom, Kevin Drum and The Huffington Post

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Curious Case of Doug Holtz-Eakin

Discussion: Obsidian Wings

Michelle Malkin:
Obama in 2001: How to bring about “redistributive change;” …

Discussion: Commentary and Right Wing Nut House

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Redistributive — Expect the oppo drawers to open this week …

Discussion: The Corner, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, FOX Forum and NewsBusters.org

Dana Bash / CNN:

More Palin off-script comments irritate McCain aides — (CNN) — Some aides to Sen. John McCain say they weren't happy that running mate Sarah Palin went off script Sunday and turned attention back to the controversy over her wardrobe. — The Alaska governor on Sunday brought …

Discussion: Washington Post, Comments from Left Field, Taylor Marsh and Salon

The Prowler / American Spectator:

Post-Defeat Planners — ERIC THE READY — House Republican Deputy Whip Eric Cantor has spent the last week making calls to fellow Republican House members he believes will survive next week's election, according to several members who received the call. “He is already lining up support …

Discussion: Wonkette and Emptywheel

Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Second-Guessing the Vice-Presidential Pick

Discussion: marbury and Newsweek

KCBS-TV:

Halloween Palin Prop Sparks Controversy In WeHo — WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBS News) ― Sarah Palin is not considered to be a friend of the gay community, but the Republican vice presidential candidate seems to be looming over the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Think Progress, Hot Air, Top of the Ticket, protein wisdom, The Moderate Voice, Classical Values, LAist, GretaWire, Mother, May I Sleep …, Moonbattery, SCSUScholars, Sweetness & Light and Wake up America

Jonathan Valania / Philly.com:

White people shouldn't be allowed to vote — It's for the good of the country and for those who're bitter for a reason and armed because they're scared. — is editor in chief of the blog Phawker.com — As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come …

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Jules Crittenden, Moonbattery, Stop The ACLU, Hot Air, QandO, doubleplusundead and Classical Values

Rasmussen Reports:

Election 2008: Arizona Presidential Election — McCain 51%, Obama 46% in Arizona — John McCain's lead over Barack Obama is down to just five points in his home state of Arizona. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds the Senator leading 51% to 46%.

Discussion: Arizona Daily Star, Comments from Left Field, Pajamas Media and MyDD

Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: MCCAIN'S MAP BLUES

Discussion: Comments from Left Field and The Washington Independent

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Wright TV — The National Republican Trust PAC, which aired one harsh anti-Obama ad that it also used to fundraise on Drudge and elsewhere, says it's putting $2.5 million behind this spot in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. — The ad is exactly what many conservatives have been hoping …

Discussion: The New Republic, Wake up America, Hot Air, Spin Cycle and Riehl World View

Connie Bruck / New Yorker:

ODD MAN OUT — Chuck Hagel's Republican exile. — In early June, Senators Chuck Hagel and John McCain met in Hagel's office on Capitol Hill. McCain, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, considered Hagel—a fellow-Republican and the senior senator from Nebraska—among his closest friends in Congress.

Discussion: Opus Hussein X's Blog, Matthew Yglesias, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Think Progress and The Crypt's Blogs

The Trail / Washington Post:

McCain Gives Economy Speech in Ohio, Warning Against ‘Dangerous Threesome’ of Democratic Leaders — CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sen. John McCain gave a surprise economic speech this morning, delivering a forceful restatement of his economic proposals and hammering Sen. Barack Obama as a tax-raising liberal.

Discussion: The New Republic, Raising Kaine and Early Returns

New York Times:
In Final Sprint, McCain Zeroes In on Economy

Discussion: TalkLeft and The Caucus

Alan Bernstein / Houston Chronicle:

GOP leading in two key congressional races, poll says — Culberson should win, but Lampson may not, survey finds — Two Houston-area congressmen under political siege likely face opposite fates in the Nov. 4 election, according to a poll conducted for the Houston Chronicle.

Discussion: Off the Kuff and PrairiePundit

Eve Fairbanks / The New Republic:
If John Murtha Loses, Do We Care?

Discussion: The Politico and Reason

Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Times:

Where Does the Vice President Belong? — THE presidential campaign has taken a detour into a dispute over the constitutional status of the vice presidency. It all started when Sarah Palin asserted in her debate with Joe Biden that the vice president should play an important role in the legislative branch.

Discussion: The LA Times President …, Dean's World and Prometheus 6

Adam B / Daily Kos: InstaRefuted — Glenn Harlan Reynolds, today's NYT:

Arthur B. Laffer / Wall Street Journal:

The Age of Prosperity Is Over — This administration and Congress will be remembered like Herbert Hoover. — About a year ago Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous and I set about writing a book about our vision for the future entitled “The End of Prosperity.” Little did we know then how appropriate its release would be earlier this month.

Discussion: The Corner, The New Republic, The Heretik, Babalu Blog and Don Surber

New York Times:

This Year's Butterfly Ballot — In Florida's “butterfly ballot” debacle of 2000, voters in Palm Beach County were so confused by the odd layout that many appear to have voted for the wrong candidate by mistake. At the time, there was a lot of talk about improving ballot design.

Discussion: Facing South

Diane Tucker / The Huffington Post:
Confusing North Carolina Ballot Leaves off Votes for President

Discussion: My Left Wing

Chris Bowers / Open Left:

Things Are Looking Very Good — Worried about “the tightening?” — Well, Obama's national lead has been stable at 7% for a month now. The national campaign is not tightening, and we are just seeing statistical noise. — Even if the campaign were tightening, Obama would still have a comfortable national lead.

Discussion: Democrats.com and MyDD

Zogby:

Reuters/Zogby Battleground Surveys: Obama Leads in 6 of 8 States, Most By Very Small Margins — Obama Ahead in FL, MO, NV, NC, OH & VA — UTICA, New York - Reuters/Zogby telephone surveys of eight battleground states show Democrat Barack Obama ahead in six.

Discussion: The New Republic, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and TPM Election Central

Greta Van Susteren / GretaWire:

SENATOR OBAMA CAMPAIGN LAWYER TRYING TO INTIMIDATE STUDENT JOURNALISTS ?? why because they CAUGHT and EXPOSED actual fraud? — SENATOR OBAMA CAMPAIGN LAWYER: TRYING TO covertly INTIMIDATE COLLEGE JOURNALISTS? — If you have been watching ON THE RECORD at 10pm eastern, you know about Palestra.net — the college news network.

CNN:

Some voters ‘purged’ from voter rolls — CNN Special Investigations Unit — ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — College senior Kyla Berry was looking forward to voting in her first presidential election, even carrying her voter registration card in her wallet. — But about two weeks ago …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Ben Smith's Blogs, Boston Globe and Daily Kos

William Kristol / New York Times:

Remember the Marne — “My center is giving way. My right is in retreat. Situation excellent. I attack!” — That's the message supposedly sent by General Ferdinand Foch of France to his commanding general, Joseph Joffre, during the crucial First Battle of the Marne in September 1914.