What I'm Reading, August 20, 2008

Our first Flakian-American President.

Mikhail Gorbachev defends the decisions of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev.

Reuters/Zogby poll shows that McCain has a five point lead on Obama; Ace gloats (mild language alert).

A fool and his money…and John Edwards, too.

Another Obama sibling is found in a shanty on the outskirts of Nairobi. (Hey, you can’t pick your parents or your siblings, but was O’s father busy or what?)

From the UK with Love: A World Without the American Soldier.

Leading Democrats—the Speaker and the Candidate—are now mouthing new words on domestic drilling, but the 2008 Democratic Party Platform going into next week's convention tells the same old story.

Rich Lowry is hoping that Senator Joseph Biden will be Obama’s running mate, strictly for the entertainment value.

Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski sign agreement to put a missile defense base in Poland, one which will contain ten American interceptor missiles. That deal had been nearly dead but Russia’s invasion of Georgia resuscitated it.

And speaking of the dead standing up …

Comments

[M. Simon]

I wish Ace would give up that mild language stuff. I a Navy man. I can handle the salty stuff.

[M. Simon]

Evidently I can't proofread though.