Readers of the Duck were privy to only part of a larger Duck-bloggers and Duck-regulars discussion concerning video footage of a McCain rally at Lehigh University.The discussion included an email missive from Andreas Behnke that I found quite touching. I asked Andreas...
Brad DeLong finds... uh... fault with McCain's "game changer."His conclusion?There's a big difference here: Democrats want to prevent depression and support the financial markets by investing...
Erik Erickson at RedState thinks he's found an Obama gaffe:Barack Obama suggests we need to consider moral issues in intervening with combat forces. He mentions intervening in the Holocaust and how...
The conventional wisdom was that McCain needed to "take it to Obama." McCain even signaled that he'd take the gloves off. But Obama swung first and was, in many ways, the more aggressive of the two....
I have a longstanding apathy towards State of the Union addresses. If a President says anything important (like declaring states part of an "axis of evil"), then I figure that the text serves just as well. My actions are bipartisan -- I don't watch anyone named Bush give these addresses and I didn't watch Bill Clinton either. And I generally didn't watch Ronald Reagan's efforts. However, there's a case to be made that I should have watched the address this year -- not because of what Bush said, but because of how specific members of the audience reacted.After all, both of the remaining...
Peter has a great post about the meaning of wealth in America -- and the diverse problem that voters making upwards of $97,000 annually pose to the Democratic candidates in the 2008 election campaign.After all, Democrats have long been said to represent the interests of the downtrodden. Think about FDR's "New Deal" or LBJ's "Great Society." Yet, Democratic members now hold many House seats in districts that are viewed as affluent by income measures. Though Peter framed this debate around the positions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, it arguably reflects the "two Americas" theme that...
Time for another installment of Ducking the Issues, where we here at the duck take a closer look at issues in the 2008 campaign.David points out an interesting article, reporting a study by the Heritage Foundation that asserts that the Democrats are now the “party of the rich.” When combined with a discussion between Obama and Clinton in a debate in Las Vegas the other week, you end up with an interesting and revealing set of income and class dynamics at play in the presidential election.As the Post reported:The two front-running Democratic presidential contenders, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.)...
Its always exciting when foreign policy comes front and center in an election. Usually its "The Economy" or some other domestic issue that separates the candidates, so its particularly interesting that the Democrats have turned to foreign policy as the first major issue on which the major candidates have (or have at least manufactured) a stark difference. Today's installment of Ducking the Issues examines the Clinton - Obama dust-up over meeting with foreign leaders.Lets go to the Transcript:QUESTION: In 1982, Anwar Sadat traveled to Israel, a trip that resulted in a peace agreement that has...