Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

by BarbinMD [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Your one stop pundit shop.

Richard Cohen regains his journalistic mojo and kicks Sarah Palin and the traditional media's ass. And now, words I never thought I would type...Cohen's column is a must read.

Eugene Robinson asks the question that I'm afraid we already know the answer to:

But John McCain wants us to talk about Barack Obama's acquaintances. He and Sarah Palin are going to try their best to make us talk about anything but the big issues facing our country, because most Americans think Obama's solutions are better than McCain's.

Knowing that, are we in the media going to aid and abet the McCain campaign's obvious ploy?

Frank Gaffney reveals the real culprit behind the current, worldwide financial meltdown: a community organizer in Chicago that Barack Obama supported. And don't forget Obama's ties to domestic terrorists and radical Islam. In other words, Mr. Gaffney took the McCain campaign's latest talking points and ran...straight off the deep end.

Thomas Sowell explains how Democrats are to blame for the economic meltdown and how "the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world" is now in the hands of people being fooled into voting for Barack Obama because of smooth rhetoric and the liberal media.

Bruce Fein thinks that Joe Biden and Sarah Palin were both losers in their debate.

H.D.S. Greenway reminds us that George W. Bush is still the president. Bush probably wishes he hadn't:

The hubris and arrogance of Bush's first term still poisons the wells of good will this country once enjoyed. The undermining of the Constitution, the secret torture chambers have besmirched this administration more than any tawdry intern scandal ever could. Today we are bogged down in two wars and an unprecedented deficit, with a financial crisis of a magnitude not seen since the days of Herbert Hoover. The president has so little respect it's as if he has already left the stage.

Derrick Z. Jackson talks to some Bush voters. It's nice to see Americans waking up.

Erwin Chemerinsky wants Barack Obama and John McCain to talk about the Supreme Court:

Even with the economic crisis and the war in Iraq as dominant political issues, there is time to discuss the president's role in filling judicial vacancies. The stakes are no less than the content of constitutional rights for a generation to come.