Obama glides by the truth

Opinion Journal:

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... The Illinois Democrat made his by now familiar claim that eight years of "deregulation" caused the current panic, but Mr. McCain never challenged him to explain what policies he's referring to. Bill Clinton debunked the deregulation line the other day on the public record, but the Republican never mentioned that. Mr. McCain did make a stab at hanging the failures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac around Mr. Obama, but without any real explanation for why they mattered or how they represent Washington's status quo.

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One of Mr. Obama's gifts is his ability to glide over contradictions with the greatest of ease. He spent minutes explaining that we spend "$10 billion a month" in Iraq that should be spent here in the U.S. But a short time later he was promoting what sounded like a surge in Afghanistan, and vowing to spend even more money to assist "the economies" of Eastern Europe. He also proposes to provide free health care while claiming he'd cut more spending from the overall budget than his new ideas would cost. If Mr. McCain lets that last claim go unrebutted, he deserves to lose.
One of the problems with the debate format is that both were running over their allotted time and many times they were never given an opportunity to rebut what the other had said. Only the day before McCain had given a very effective speech on the regulation-deregulation issue but he was not able to condense it into a sound bite for this debate for some reason.

One of the things Sarah Palin has been able to do is nail a few sound bites in recent days. Her comments on Ayers are clearly driving the Obama campaign to distraction as well as teh NY times which wants her to talk about something else. One of their op-ed columns today was on the patriotism of paying taxes. It is too bad we can't get Obama and Biden back on that loser of an argument. What do liberals mean challenging our patriotism every time we take a deduction?

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