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Looking Like a President
The Corner on National Review Online — Tuesday, October 14, 2008 [image] Looking Like a President [Ramesh Ponnuru] Jay Cost : Strong leader, able to handle a major crisis, somebody you'd go to for the toughest decision in your life because you know he has good judgment. Right now, that man is Barack Obama - not John McCain. This is a clear indication to me that, as of today, the country is comfortable with the idea of Obama as President. If it remains comfortable with that idea come Election Day, he will win. . . . My opinion is that something like this is what happens when a major economic event fundamentally favors ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... might be reasonable people. The rest tend to blog at NRO. Harold Myerson: Conservative economists are going to have to deal with the market failure. No wonder we've seen a disoriented John McCain wandering the moors howling about Bill Ayers. What's he supposed to do? Admit that the Reagan-Thatcher faith in unregulated capitalism, to which every GOP presidential candidate was pledging allegiance just last winter, has collapsed? Jay Cost: These numbers are horrible for McCain. All of them speak to ...

A few Barrister links
Maggie's Farm — ... Obama campaign hands press their talking points - before the debate. The press needs to know what to say. Coordination, ya know? Obama looks like a president. I guess that's what counts. Tim Blair on Devil Children Good logic on private property. Wilkinson Sowell on negative campaigning. Regulation vs. deregulation. Tiger. Related: The Reregulation mantra. Time to go "John Galt"? Dr. Helen Carbon taxes and the Canadian election ...

John McCain: The Devil You Know
Patterico's Pontifications — ... at tonight’s debate.  I find myself in the odd position of agreeing more with Stu Eizenstadt that Presidential debates have historically tended to help the lesser-known opponent for the party out of power at the expense of the better-known candidate of the incumbent party.  Thus, the debates were (absent some monumental gaffe) likely favor to Obama even before the current economic turmoil moved the middle against the GOP. ...