harry truman

Yesterday, I wrote about the way in which the “brand” that was applied nearly immediately to the plan for the government to provide liquidity to the nation’s credit markets doomed it: Who in their right mind can support a “bailout” of $700 billion for “Wall Street.”

My colleague who rarely writes posted some of his insights yesterday - proof positive that still waters run deep.  He talked tough about the buyers market and I wanted to share…

Elect Blue provides the full text of a speech given by Rep. Jim Cooper to members of the Tennessee delegation to the Democratic National Convention:

Recently, my friend Steve Rubel said somewhere (Twitter? Friendfeed?

I'm from rural America. I'm convinced that rural Americans are not sitting around tonight thinking of ways to vote that would annoy Anderson Cooper.

- - Paul Begala in response to Sarah Palin's take on rural America and the media

When I find myself in agreement with Pat Buchanan, it always makes me think twice about the positions I hold:

If the Russia-Georgia war proves nothing else, it is the insanity of giving erratic hotheads in volatile nations the power to drag the United States into war.

The National Black Republicans Association (yes, Virginia, there are black Republicans) sent me an email referencing a fascinating article which appeared in the WSJ last week.

Many times, when I post one of these rants about the way reporters write about statistics (especially statistics about the economy), I refer (negatively) to the “on-the-other-hand” crutch nearly all business-related stories now include.

Jonathan Martin reports that John McCain may look to Harry Truman’s 1948 campaign as a model for victory: