Don't miss these: 10/28/08

Here are some highlights for the day; the emphases are mine:

• Oops, there he goes again. Looks like Joe Biden got some questions he didn't like again — and once again, banned the station. Sadder aftermath: rather than commending their reporters, the station reportedly chewed them out. Now, these clips don't show enough to form a judgment. But the impression is the same as in the incident with Barbara West. Biden didn't receive the softball treatment he expects from the MSM wing of the Obama campaign.
• (BTW, on O'Reilly last night, West said she asked similarly tough questions of McCain, who chuckled and simply responded; no reports of campaign outrage and banning afterwards.)
  
• Similarly, regarding Obama's 2001 statements favoring wealth-redistribution, the Obama campaign has furiously lashed back, blaming — who? Blaming Obama for his statements and philosophy? Well, of course not. Blaming whoever released the tape? No. No, the would-be leaders of the free world blame... Fox News. See THIS and THIS. Of course, liberals see Fox News as terribly biased, because Fox (unlike the others) occasionally provides perspective on stories. So from that perspective, anything to the right of the far-left edge is right-wing extremism.
• Say, you know what? That's yet another thing Obama has in common with his old ally, Bill Ayers. Hunh!
  
• If I knew an open-minded Obama supporter (which isn't the same as an Obama supporter who says he's open-minded), among the dozen questions I'd like to ask is, "If the campaign reacts this way to inconvenient questions before election, how do you think the Obama administration would deal with dissent and public accountability?"
  
• Tangentially, I'm minded of what Dennis Miller has said: "I only think the race issue is out there because Barack Obama brought it up. All I see is an inexperienced guy that constantly reminds me it’s about race. For me it has nothing to do with the color of Barack Obama’s skin and everything to do with the thinness of it."
• Note William Bennett's distinction (on his radio show today) between what we have and the socialistic engineering that Obama advocates. Obama wants to rob Peter to pay Paul in the name of "fairness" (i.e. spreading misery). The ideal is that Peter takes from Paul to provide services common to both Peter and Paul.
  
• Robert Alt, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, teases out some of the alarming, radical implications of Obama's 2001 revelation.
• Leave it to a girl to say it straight. The problem with recent GOPish turncoats isn't that they're too moderate. It's that they're wimps.
  
• Palin-hater? I'll pray for you, but I can't help you. Open-minded? In addition to about a dozen similar links I've already provided, here's more first-hand affirmation of what most of us have already seen: Sarah Palin's a Brainiac, by former Ms. Magazine editor Elaine Lafferty. She observes that Palin has "a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a 'quick study'; I'd heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her 'confidence' is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is."
• Here's another thoughtful piece by a woman who observes that Palin is not given the respect she deserves and has earned. To pull one quotation: McCain "chose a governor of a state critical to our energy crisis. She is a very popular governor with an 80-percent approval rate. She was elected on her own merit without previous political ties. She is her own political creation, not the wife, daughter, sister or mistress of a politician."
• Ready for a real surprise? Even some of Hollywood is repelled by the Palin-bashing, and repulsed by MSNBC. A sub-surprise? That news was reported by al-Reuters. And one more...
  
• Surprise! The LA Times wing of the Obama campaign is reportedly sitting on a tape that might be damaging to their candidate.
• From the political to the Biblical: archeology is once again sticking a trowel in the heart of liberal, toss-the-Bible-aside reconstructions. This time the findings concern the Solomonic era, as well as Biblical role of the Edomites. (Thanks to Wyatt Roberts for giving me a heads-up on this.)
  

UPDATES:

• Cool. Al Mohler today takes note of the Schuller musical-pulpit event that I discussed Sunday. He gives a good deal more detail, but what he says is along the exact same lines.
• What have we come to when Chuck Norris shows more moral judgment and good sense than supposedly intelligent, informed, professed Christians, when it comes to the question of voting for pro-abort extremist Barack Obama?
• Less surprisingly, our indispensible and beloved sister La Shawn Barber tags off and weighs in with a crunch!
• Creampuff Christianoids may yet succeed in electing the most pro-infanticide candidate ever.