For your enrichment...

Here are two great articles by two people who are much smarter than me. You should read them. Thanks to BoldSon.com for the link to the Strassel article.

1) Obama & Friends: Judge Not? by Charles Krauthammer, from the Washington Post. Great article, describing why Obama's sketchy (at best) past associations are extremely important in understanding his character and judgment.

As a side note, I love when McCain puts out ads or stumps about this subject, and Obama's response is always to either a) declare how unfair and out of line these "negative" ads are, followed up by his own "negative" ads, stump speeches, or spokes person freakout, or b) blantantly lie about whatever the ad is. For example, in response to McCain's new attack on the Obama being buddies with William Ayers, Obama's camp spent a good amount of time this week talking about whether or not McCain saying "that one" was racist. And then Obama said he "didn't know about Ayers' terrorist past," followed up by today saying he "thought he was reformed." I couldn't make this up if I tried. Don't you love this guy and he "new politics?" I'm so glad he's beyond it all.

2) Obama's Magic by Kimberley Strassel. From the Wall Street Journal (via Real Clear Politics). Discusses how many of Obama's ideas/promises are completely outside of reality. Here's my favorite part:

To kick off our show tonight, Mr. Obama will give 95% of American working families a tax cut, even though 40% of Americans today don't pay income taxes! How can our star enact such mathemagic? How can he "cut" zero? Abracadabra! It's called a "refundable tax credit." It involves the federal government taking money from those who do pay taxes, and writing checks to those who don't. Yes, yes, in the real world this is known as "welfare," but please try not to ruin the show.

For his next trick, the Great Obama will jumpstart the economy, and he'll do it by raising taxes on the very businesses that are today adrift in a financial tsunami! That will include all those among the top 1% of taxpayers who are in fact small-business owners, and the nation's biggest employers who currently pay some of the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world. Mr. Obama will, with a flick of his fingers, show them how to create more jobs with less money. It's simple, really. He has a wand.

I'm currently working on a little write up to do my best to explain how we got into this financial crisis since neither candidate has a clue. Which is especially interesting seeing as Obama's buddies (and himself too) are mostly responsible for it.

Playlist-
Fleet Foxes
Mock Orange- Captain Love
Underoath- Lost in the sound of separation
Sigur Ros- Med Sud I...
The Beatles- Sgt. Peppers (no Nate, I did not steal your copy.)
Death Cab- Narrow Stairs
Norma Jean- The Antimother
Metallica- Death Magnetic
M83- Saturdays = Youth