Insta-Pundit dispatches on the insanity of election 2008

It’s become increasingly clear over the past weeks that whatever McCain (aka “the Master”) and his candidates were trying to teach Sarah Palin has failed to sink in. And her recent interview with softball journalist Katie Couric has shown how lost she is when discussing any issue that can’t be answered by a rehearsed campaign [...]

Straight from Washington:
Congressional leaders and the Bush administration reached a tentative deal early Sunday on a landmark bailout of imperiled financial markets whose collapse could plunge the nation into a deep recession.
Analysis to come soon enough. It looks like the basics of the deal pretty much mirror what was there Wednesday with the addition of [...]

According to WaPo’s excellent article it looks like John going back to DC to fix the economic crisis backfired quite a bit.
Pelosi said Obama would speak for the Democrats. Though later he would pepper Paulson with questions, according to a Republican in the room, his initial point was brief: “We’ve got to get something done.”
Bush [...]

Look at what McCain says regarding the strategy for Afghanistan (first 30 seconds):

Call me out on this if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Gen. David Petraeus’s “surge” strategy intended for the urban and suburban environments for the greater Baghdad area? Even to first order, this idea doesn’t seem to be so easily transferred over to the [...]

Edge: Obama.
I know the current situation required otherwise, but I was hoping economic issues didn’t take up 1/3rd of the foreign policy debate. It’s a big world out there. Obama looked, acted, and spoke more presidential than McCain. He dominated the economic policy part, using a variety of examples and flaws in McCain’s position whereas [...]