Featured Articles — October 30, 2008

October 30, 2008 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:

Don’t Let the Polls Affect Your Vote By Karl Rove
They were wrong in 2000 and 2004.

Even in the rural heartland, Obama has sparked an explosive conversation By Timothy Garton Ash
In this weathervane state they love God and guns. But they also see the long shadows of slavery and discrimination.

Careless with the Constitution By George Will
From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism. Tuesday’s probable repudiation of the Republican Party will punish characteristics displayed in the campaign’s closing days.

Why Democrats Will Target the Investor Class in 2009 By James Pethoukis
There are at least two pretty effective ways to turn someone into a Republican: (1) get them married with kids and (2) get them to invest in the stock market. So, if I were a highly paid Democratic political strategist, I would make sure to spend a few minutes every day thinking of ways to get Americans out of the stock market—the faster, the better.

America Compared to What? By Victor Davis Hanson
After the September financial meltdown, many abroad, and some at home, immediately — and with undisguised glee — blamed America’s problems on cowboy excess and forecast the end of American global influence.

The Audacity of Humility By Katherine Ernst
Does Barack Obama have any? Does it matter?

How They Would Lead By David Von Drehle
They only look as if they inhabit our galaxy. In truth, the men who would be President have been running for months in a parallel universe, a place where a Chief Executive changes laws by waving a hand and reorders society at the stroke of a pen. “When I am President,” the candidates declare — and off they go into dreamspeak, describing tax codes down to the last decimal point and sketching health-care reforms far beyond the power of any single person to enact. In their imaginary, reassuring cosmos, America is always a mere 10 years — and one new President — away from energy independence. And the ills of the federal budget can be cured simply by having an eagle-eyed leader go through it line by line. Then one of them wins the election.

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