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Much or all of this has been said before and it may just be a matter of emphasis. Nevertherless... How McCain/Palin handle questions about abortion is critical in my view because for many women otherwise sympathetic to the McCain/Palin ticket the right to have an abortion is very important. I therefore believe that Palin needs to craft a response that, while adhering to their core beliefs, as much as possible frames the abortion issue not about whether abortion is right or wrong or whether abortion should be a fundamental right, but as an issue properly decided at the state level...

Obama notes ‘tragic’ US past [Note: These are excerpts from an article that appeared on July 28th. I searched but did not find it posted] American history's "sad" aspects require action, the senator tells cheering journalists... "There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for," Obama told hundreds of attendees of UNITY '08, a convention of four minority journalism associations. "I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our...

The general thrust of Obama's speech yesterday was rationalization rather than denunciation. A primary tool employed by Obama to this end was several false comparisons that Obama used in an effort to minimize the grotesqe and offensive nature of Wright's comments. Several commentators have pointed out some of these comparisons, but I wanted to aggregate them in one place- so I have listed the ones that I have identified below. If you are aware of comparisons that I missed, please respond. Comparison 1: "On one end of the spectrum, we’ve heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise...