Prayers go out to Tim Blair (TUE PM UPDATE: “NO SPREAD OF THE MALIGNANCY”)
Awesome Aussie blogger Tim Blair announced on his blog today that he has cancer, and he is having “major abdominal surgery” next week.
Barack Obama: One smooth operator
Three days after his national spokeswoman implied that something “bigger” (read: racism) might have been at play regarding what some are saying have been “racially insensitive remarks” made by the Clintons and their campaign, and two days after it surfaced that his South Carolina spokesperson was circulating a memo detailing how the Clinton campaign was supposedly “politicizing race,” Senator Barack Obama held a news conference today addressing the allegations in general:
House Speaker Pelosi’s favorite Democrat gets verbally slapped
… by the NYT of all places (emphasis added):
Hillary echoes Obama’s strategy of taking credit for the positive changes in Iraq – PLUS: More racially charged allegations
First, Barack Obama absurdly claimed in a New Hampshire debate earlier this month that the reason we are seeing much less violence in Iraq is because Iraqis were spurred into action after Democrat threats post-election 2006 to pull troops out of Iraq.