Howard Dean is upset that John McCain wants out from public matching funds for the primary. So much so that's he's filed a complaint with the FEC.Patrick has a few more pointed remarks. WSJ, "Obama's Finance Ploy":
Very well. If that's how he really feels about it, he'll tell Senate Democrats to give up their extraordinary block against the President's FEC nominees -- a block that is preventing the FEC from holding a pro-forma vote to allow McCain out of the system.
And who put the hold on Hans Von Spakovsky, one of the FEC nominees in limbo?
Barack Obama.
Barack Obama is promising to end partisanship in Washington, and here's a place to start: He could stop playing politics with the Federal Election Commission in a way that could hamper John McCain's campaign against, well, Mr. Obama.[snip]Recall the Obama audacity and hypocrisy on photo-IDs.
The FEC dispute centers on Hans von Spakovsky, a Bush appointee whose two-year recess term ended in December and who has been renominated. Before coming to the FEC, Mr. von Spakovsky was a lawyer in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, where he supported voter-ID laws that Democrats claim will harm black voters but have been vindicated in court. Mr. von Spakovsky's nomination was approved by the Rules Committee in September, but then Mr. Obama intervened with a "hold."
Never forget Barack Obama is a lawyer.
And it is no joke that he hails from one of the leading Judicial Hellholes in the nation, Crook County, from one of the most corrupt states in the country. Do we want someone like this as president?
UPDATE: Stephen Hayes on Obama blindsiding us conservatives as Reagan did liberals when he won the presidency. Yes, they are both charismatic--but Reagan was much better known--he had been governor of California, had been on the national speaking circuit for years, and had after all run for president once before. Obama came out of nowhere onto the national scene with one big speech at the Dem convention. Maybe we're a more lightweight nation than we were during the Cold War. I'd like to think not. I hope not.
UPDATE: Obama's plans for precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. Washington Times:
No other Obama proposal brings more military criticism than his plan to bring home one to two combat brigades per month from Iraq — meaning all such units would be out by the end of 2009, his first year in office.
A senior Pentagon official said an Obama swearing-in "will give the Arab street the final victory, the best optics, and the ultimate in bragging rights. They win. We lose."Retired Army Gen. John Keane, an architect of the Iraq troop surge, worries that talk of a U.S. pullout makes reconciliation more difficult. Gen. Keane has not endorsed any presidential candidate.
"Anyone who is advocating a precipitous pullout of U.S. forces, believing this will be a catalyst for political progress, does not understand the realities of Iraq and the minds of the key political leaders," Gen. Keane told The Washington Times. "The U.S. military presence is the glue that is holding things together in Iraq and is the fundamental reason for the recent political progress. If you remove this presence, the political leaders in Iraq will believe they are on their own and will fall prey to their own fears and paranoia. ... They will bunker down and the political progress will come to a dead stop."
Hillary compares Obama to Bush in her foreign policy speech yesterday. Now there's a stretch.
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