Some random events from around the campaign trail today...
+ Clinton gave a big economic speech today. If I had more time, I'd focus on the entire speech. Since I don't, I'll focus on the one part that bothered me most. She wants to appoint "an emergency working group on foreclosures" tasked with helping us find a way out of this mess. And she suggested a few potential panel members: Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Paul Volcker.
Notice anything about that last? It is made up of people who either helped cause the mess or who didn't see it coming. Its precisely similar to her approach to the war: we should elect her, not Obama, because she voted for a war that she now wants to end.
The world is a very, very big place. We need some new experts, ones who have recently demonstrated their expertise by getting things right, not old ones who have repeatedly demonstrated their inability to get things right. Old names might be comfortable, but comfort is not what we need right now. [UPDATE: Good to see Obama hitting back on this.
+ Hillaryland has a new argument for why she should win the nomination: if the race were run with the rules of the Electoral College, she would be ahead. Only one problem: those aren't the rules we are playing by, and suggesting that they are is just plain stupid. See previous point on how Clinton needs to find some new experts.
+ Sen. Clinton is finally getting push back on her mangled story about her 1996 trip to Bosnia. Earlier today Clinton spokesperson Howard Wolfson was forced to admit that she might have "misspoke," and by the afternoon Clinton herself was admitting the same thing. The problem, as Josh points out, is that this wasn't just a simple misstatement. But hey... that line works for all of McCain's mistakes, so why not try it?
+ Boston University IR prof Andrew Bacevich endorsed Obama today. Bacevich is a decorated military vet who is a true old school conservative, so his opinion is worth paying close attention to.
+ McCain is apparently such a foreign policy expert that our friends in the media have decided in advance that they must defend him the potential fallout created by his own mistakes. It should go without saying, but Greenwald says it anyways: "Whether McCain's foreign policy views are entitled to respect is something that the voters ought to be deciding in the election."
+ Obama may have already racked up 1 million individual donations this month.
+ Good point from one of Andrew Sullivan's readers here: Whatever else the Rev. Wright controversy has done, it has forever put to rest the idea that Obama is Muslim.
+ In case you haven't come across it yet, here is the full text of Rev. Wright's post-9/11 sermon. If you haven't read it for yourself, you need to, because pretty much everything you've heard about it has been wrong.
+ And last but not least... watch in amazement as Jon McCain admits that he does not know how to us a computer:
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