Obama’s position on public financing: Just words
Jake Tapper reports on Obama’s broken promise on public financing for the general election:
Remember those Iraqi benchmarks?
You know, the 18 benchmarks Democrats used to consistently hound Bush about? You don’t hear about them so much anymore. Commentary Magazine’s assistant online editor Abe Greenwald explains a bit about the benchmarks, and why Democrats aren’t using them as a hammer as much as they used to (h/t: Betsy Newmark):
Obamarama news round-up
There’s lots of Barry Oh! news to cover out there, so much so that I’m going to try and condense all the stories into one post. Here goes:
The general electorate – PLUS: Obama’s position on the Boumediene ruling
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder has examined some recent polls and has determined some common themes among them. The first one may surprise you:
Obama promises Iraq’s foreign minister that he will visit before November
Once upon a time Obama acted like he wasn’t going to go to Iraq again (outside of the one visit he made in January 2006). Now he’s trying to follow in McCain’s footsteps – literally:
GoreBama
The Goracle has officially endorsed Barry O.: