Featured Articles — September 7, 2008

September 7, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage By Frank Rich
SARAH PALIN makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech — longer even than Barack Obama’s — you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum’s rush.

Rallying The Right, Confounding The Left By Kevin Rennie
It took Ronald Reagan 14 years to create a confident, optimistic Republican Party. Gov. Sarah Palin did it in six fraught days. Her introductory odyssey concluded with the great exhale of Wednesday night when the vice presidential nominee joined the thin ranks of performers who possess the power to astound.

The American Debate By Dick Polman
Let us swing the door ajar and invite the elephant into the room. One big reason Barack Obama is locked in a tight race, rather than easily outdistancing his opponent, is because he is black.

Palin Rises Above “Shrill” Media By Ruben Navarrette
SAN DIEGO — Anyone who heard Sarah Palin’s rousing speech at the GOP National Convention should now understand why Democrats have been trying to destroy her. And why, luckily for the country, they’ve failed.

Playing politics with family values By Barney Frank
WITH ONE important exception, what we have learned about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family does not reflect badly on any of them. What the Palin family story does do is underscore the flaws in the political philosophy that was critical to her being selected by John McCain.

The presidential soap opera is degrading our political process By Fred Siegel
Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama. The John Edwards soap opera of first his wife’s illness and then his infidelity. The wildly hyped faceoff between the Obamas and the Clintons which never came to pass. The Sarah Palin saga. All have become grist for the infotainment gossip mills, and it’s endangering our politics.

An Adviser Molds a Tighter, More Aggressive McCain Campaign
By Jim Rutenberg and Adam Nagourney
ST. PAUL — It was what aides to Senator John McCain describe as probably the worst night of his campaign.

Doubt, Distrust, Delay By Bob Woodward
During the summer of 2006, from her office adjacent to the White House, deputy national security adviser Meghan O’Sullivan sent President Bush a daily top secret report cataloging the escalating bloodshed and chaos in Iraq.

Right at the Edge By Dexter Filkins
Late in the afternoon of June 10, during a firefight with Taliban militants along the Afghan-Pakistani border, American soldiers called in airstrikes to beat back the attack.

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