As we’d all hoped, Team McCain is hitting Obama hard today on his Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac connections, and noting McCain’s attempts to resolve these issues before they blew up like they did this week. First, here’s what Mc had to say at a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa earlier today:
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Wall Street Journal deputy editor Daniel Henninger has a must-read today on what McCain needs to do to maximize the reform skills and experience of Gov. Palin:
There’s been a lot of talk this election year about change, about who would be the candidate most likely to reach across the aisle in the spirit of getting things done in Washington. Barack Obama has talked a good talk on the issue, but when it comes to the walk, the USA Today correctly points out that John McCain has a proven track record of reaching across the aisle that Barack Obama does not:
Houston blogger Jason Smith and family thankfully survived the onslaught from Hurricane Ike, but as you’ve probably read by now, things are a mess in that part of Texas and it looks like there’s no end in sight. He’s uploaded some photos of what he saw before and after Hurricane Ike hit the eastern Texas shoreline.
It’s getting hard to keep track of how many times he’s played the race card (not to mention his surrogates), but he’s done it again, this time in a Spanish language ad that is so filled with distortions and lies – and race-baiting smears – that ABC’s Jake Tapper took the time to debunk almost every bit of it here.
