He was very smart not to just go with Romney’s speech.

It was a more sedate speech than I’d expected, but one suspects that too much passion might be misinterpreted. As for the content, he said some things that echo arguments liberals (not just black politicians) have made in the past: Wright’s comments are rooted in a history of real

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With a shoutout to Swampland commenters here.

As it were:

Clinton has said in her stump speech, “We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small, or too poor, send the First Lady.”

Sinbad scoffed at this statement as well: “What kind of president would say ‘Hey man, I can’t go ’cause I might get shot so I’m going to send my wife. Oh, and

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He’s started. Here’s the text. Obama seems to be speaking with deliberate, almost forced calm. But it’s a remarkable speech on paper. And my guess is that he will be amping up the emotion toward the end.

My husband joked this morning that perhaps Obama should just give Mitt Romney’s speech, but, obviously, Obama has to do more than just calm fears about his “weird” religion. In fact, the concern here is less about the strangeness of his or his pastor’s beliefs than, one could argue, their familiarity. We’ve seen the movie Rev. Wright

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Reports are that this one was “particularly excruciating,” so, uh… I may fast forward some myself. In any case, direct audio link here.

Our own jayackroyd demands answers and gets them:

Thank you for writing. Mr. Kristol has affixed to the top of his column a correction on this issue. You are correct, he was wrong.

Here’s the sweet vindication:

In this column, I cite a report that Sen. Obama had attended services at Trinity Church on July 22, 2007. The Obama camapaign

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The Curious Capitalist is looking for ideas, though he has a few of his own.:

“Subprime crisis” was fine at first, but it’s now totally inadequate to describe what’s going on. “Credit crisis” is way too generic. And “rolling financial crisis of 07-08(-09?),” which I use above, is way too lame.

UPDATE: The latest report from the White …

You know things are bad in the economy when what passes for good news is the hope that we’re probably not on the verge of the second Great Depression. “I think we know more than we did then, and just the fact that we have a big federal government is a stabilizing factor,” Paul Krugman of Princeton (and the New York Times) tells Fortune …

• “And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things [like, war and stuff], and they’re things that I really have to work at.” [TP]

•”[W]hat’s happening here is far bigger than the particulars of Obama and Wright, it’s about cultural dissonance that was going to bubble up one way or another.” [TNR]

• “The

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Back before I became I joined the MSM borg, one the most frequently-asked questions I got in interviews and panels and whatnot was, “Why should anyone trust what they read on a blog?” Everyone who asked it seemed to think this was a great stumper, you know, like what they were really saying was, “blogs maybe the sexy new thing but you’re

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They don’t actually pay me quite enough to sit through these… But here’s the audio (thanks to 2008Central.net), and I’ll post some highlights once I listen/Google what other people said: Obama, Clinton