Oostveen's article and lying letters would fit very nicely under 2 of the following categories:

DRUDGE GEMS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE JUST DAMNED DUMB!

THE GOOD:

The Obama/Biden head seems to have a bad case of schizophrenia:

Joe Biden calls Obama ad ripping McCain “terrible:” http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/22/biden-calls-obama-attack-ad-terrible/. Almost immediately, Jawing Joe retracted, alleging he hadn’t seen the ad when he criticized it, sort of like he voted against it before voting for it, and now he thinks war hero McCain is “disgraceful.”

Then, on a whole different issue, the AIG bailout, Obama says running mate Biden put his foot in his mouth when he opposed it and “Joe should have waited:” http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/obama-on-bidens.html. Waited for what? His daily talking points which tell him what to say and how to say it?

“There were an uncharacteristic amount of empty orange seats for Obama’s rally” in Green Bay: http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1178184,obamarally092208.article. Perhaps his fans were perplexed over the in-fighting within the Obamanian Nirvana?

THE BAD:

Democrats “in a remarkably secretive” plot, prepare a half trillion dollar “Pentagon” spending package, chock full of enough earmarks to sink a few battleships: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/22/national/w131939D34.DTL&type=politics. Christmas seems to arrive earlier and earlier in Washington as well as in department stores.

Oil rebounds $25 a barrel on a weaker dollar and short supplies, among other factors: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a42969f2-88e1-11dd-a179-0000779fd18c.html. Drill here, drill now, drill offshore, drill onshore!

Biden: “We’re not supporting clean coal,” he said of himself and Obama....

(Read the rest of yesterday's Drudge gems @ http://genelalor.com/.)

CHOOSING ABORTION OVER ISRAEL

Please see “The Jewish Vote on November 4th,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/ and http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/jewish_organizations_choosing.html.)

“Death, be not proud,” wrote John Donne in the eighteenth century. Today we can say, “American Jewish organizations, be not proud.”

The brouhaha over Governor Sarah Palin’s “disinvite” to the Jewish anti-Iran rally at the U.N. apparently came down to Palin’s commitment to the pro-life movement, and the “disinviters” won.

According to Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post, Jewish American “Democrats threatened to bring down the organized Jewish community” over the issue and Israel be damned.

The rally was intended to protest a nuclear Iran and its very real threat to the state of Israel which Iran’s Ahmadinejad has sworn to annihilate but became so embroiled over Palin and abortion that the goal, preservation of Israel, was lost in ideology and abortion politics.

The rally was well-attended and the whole Palin affair was ignored: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023444.html.

(http://genelalor.com/)

SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE HERE!

Mo Rocca’s suggestion here is really directed at both Obama and McCain, some non-partisan advice on getting real: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/24/obamas-anger-problem/?icid=200100397×1210278745x1200562138.

Basically, he’s saying that Americans don’t want a wimp as president, that, especially today, we not only want but we need a president who shows some emotion, some anger, when it’s called for.

This is not to say that he, or she, should flip out, turn purple, jump up and down in a debate but we do want/need someone who will do a Megyn Kelly and, figuratively, grab his opponent by the scruff of the neck and say, “Now, listen, this is the way that it is, twerp, and don’t try to feed me that bs!”

Okay, more civil expressions may be substituted for “twerp” and “bs” but the point Rocca is making is that in a debate as well as in a sitdown with a foreign leader over a momentous issue, Americans have proven they don’t want a helmet-headed Dukakis who will sluff off the rape of his wife as if it were tantamount to losing your house keys.

Rocca’s article, titled, “Obama’s Anger Problem,” also points out that Obama does indeed have an anger problem, more specifically, that he doesn’t seem able to express anger, that he’s so restrained and constrained that he may be artfully concealing an underlying anger that he dare not let loose.

If correct, that is a problem, a big problem.

If Obama is so uptight and upset about something that it represents a seething tiger in his tank that would scare the bejesus out of the American public, it’s up to McCain to try to unleash it during the debates. Don’t expect the moderators to do it, either.

Even with the strictures imposed by debate guidelines, McCain could always slip in an aside such as,...

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Someone must have told old Garrison that since he's relatively competent at writing soporific, moronic stories that he's also capable of political punditry and character assassination.

Now he's blaming the economic and Wall Street crises on McCain?

The facts of the matter are that Wall Street has always been a cesspool of greed, long before Mr. Gecko pronounced that "Greed is good," that Wall Street is populated by as many Democrats as Republicans, if not more, and the mortgage debacle is the result of bleeding heart libs who campaigned to get witless people into their own homes when they could barely pay their rent.

The chit has hit the fan and we will all pay the price but, good grief, Keillor! Blame it on McCain? Have you no shame or brain?