Featured Articles — October 13, 2008

October 13, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

Jumping Ship… By Victor Davis Hanson
This is becoming a very strange campaign. On CNN last evening both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone-and a “new” nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, and a few unhinged people shouting at his campaign stops.

The Silver Lining of This Crisis By Fareed Zakaria
It has forced the United States to confront bad habits.

Fire the Campaign By William Kristol
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.

Bush’s North Korea Surrender Will Have Lasting Consequences By John Bolton
Nuclear proliferators have a new model to follow.

Barack’s Cool Pop By John Heilemann
He spent months trying to find the right economic voice. And his steady, understated, optimistic populism arrived just in time.

The Engine of Mayhem By Robert Samuelson
It’s easy to explain the continuing financial chaos — and the failure of governments to control it — as the triumph of psychology. Fear reigns, and panic follows. Everyone dumps stocks, because everyone believes that everyone else will sell. Only rapidly falling prices attract sufficient buyers. All this is true. But it ignores the real engine of mayhem: “deleveraging.” That’s economic shorthand for purging the financial system of too much debt.

Latin America Can Weather the Storm By Mary Anastasia O’Grady
Every crisis is an opportunity.

A flexible G-14 is the key to our future By Robert B. Zoellick
SEPTEMBER and October are shaping up to be hard months in a precarious year: a meltdown in financial, credit and housing markets; the continuing stress of high food and fuel prices, and the dangers of poverty and malnutrition; anxieties about the global economy.

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