Morning Roundup — Monday
September 22, 2008 at 8:09 am by Wayne GarciaToday’s theme for our links to the best political and media stories this morning? Excerpts, my friends, excerpts. Oh, and updates throughout the day in the box to the right:
- Obama “likes to point the finger of blame,” she said, “but has he ever lifted a finger to help?” “No!” the crowd yelled back.
- Ralph Nader says he has a place on the Florida ballot this November.
- 59 percent of voters predicted the economy would stay the same if Obama was elected, and 64 percent said it wouldn’t change if John McCain won.
- Just when Palm Beach County elections officials thought they were within minutes of putting a three-week nightmare of a judicial race behind them, yet another ballot-counting problem surfaced Sunday.
- Florida SayNo2 campaign against dangerous and deceptive Amendment 2 has just announced a contest to create your own commercial against Amendment 2!
- So in most of the news, stocks have “slid” and markets “gyrated” but not “crashed.” Companies have “tottered” and “struggled” rather than moved toward failure and bankruptcy.
- Anyway, newspapers today are online and they feature breaking news. That’s fine — except when the still listed breaking news is 18 hours old.
- George Will closes by saying “John McCain showed his personality this week… and it made some of us fearful.”
- The best way to hear Randy Newman is alone. Hearing him at home with someone else snickering along to his jokes isn’t much pleasure. Hearing him live, with other people around you, is peculiar torture.
