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• Third party groundswell
  I don't think we can look to Ralph Nader draining enough lefties away from Barack to save a few purplish states. His big campaign stop at Dartmouth College on Monday drew an audience of eight. The Connecticut Valley Spectator reported the news on its obituaries page.
• Spirit of the Age
  From Britain's Daily Mail: A gardener has been ordered by council chiefs to remove three foot high barbed wire ringing his allotment - in case thieves scratch themselves climbing over it. Shouldn't that principle apply to prisons, too?
• Iran News Round Up
  Economy ·        Ridiculing the economic policies of the Ahmadinejad government, Alef News comments: "Some years ago, in every neighborhood there was a doctor who would prescribe Aspirin as a cure to all ailments and maladies... The appointment of Dr. Bahmani as director general of the Central Bank shows a similar tendency...whatever happens to the Iranian economy the government prescribes infusion of more money into the economy as the sole solution!" o       (E) Direct subsidies to begin, according to Ahmadinejad. ·        Alef News describes the mechanics of train ticket racketeering in Iran. #more#Human Rights and Labor ·        (E) 46-day hunger strike for Kurdish prisoners in Iran. Military and Security ·        Deputy chief of the Revolutionary Guards Navy commander Ali Fadavi says the Islamic Republic will launch unmanned vessels in the Persian Gulf. o       (E) More, in English. ·        Salary of Iranian military servicemen to be doubled. ·        Intelligence Ministry Public Relations Office claims "the famous villain Omid Aliz-Dehi known as Sardar [commander]" has been identified and arrested in Mashhad. ·        Intelligence Minister Ezheh'i: "What defeats all conspiracies is belief in God and self-confidence, unity of slogans and solidarity of the elites...We expected that this year would be a very tough one and this has been the case to a degree. Let's not forget that the United States and some of its allies claimed they would attack Iran by military means, even if limited to a few targets... This issue affected the atmosphere so much that some domestic experts considered it a serious possibility and some precautions were made. The United States and her allies even threatened more sanctions, which partially have been imposed... Sanctions, pressures and psychological instruments were used against Iran and we had predicted that the enemy thought they could create a tumultuous atmosphere in the domestic arena. After the effects [of rising prices and psychological operations had worked] the enemy would seriously enter the arena. This too was foreseeable...The enemy has activated dormant or marginalized counter-revolutionary movements by providing logistical support, training and organization in order to instigate insecurity in the Western borders of the country...the enemy is also behind counter revolutionary movements in the East of the country and by providing them with logistical support, training and propaganda in different Western media...These elements are well known to the Intelligence Ministry and we expect they stop from doing so. Otherwise we will take appropriate measures with regard to them...the enemy thought that by hard countersecurity measures and provoking some tribes they could create costly mayhem for us but the intelligence of our people and executives this did allow this to happen." Trade ·        (E) Iranian car maker blasts France's political approach to cooperation. Religion, Society, and Culture ·        Son of Sunni religious leader Qaradwi refutes rumors on his conversion to Shi'a Islam. ·        Asr-e Iran publishes an article on Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani's immigration to the United States. ·        Hojjat al-Eslam Re'isi, a judiciary official, warns against spread of superstition. Nuclear Issue ·        (E) NATO support for Israel's nuclear arsenal shocks Iran. Politics ·        Asr-e Iran compares editorials of Kayhan on cash handouts to the members of the sixth parliament and the current parliament. ·        Asr-e Iran publishes a report on Ahmadinejad's interview with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Channel One. ·        Khatami vice president Abtahi attacks potential candidate Abdollah Nouri, Khatami's former interior minister, as being an opponent of the Islamic Republic. Diplomacy ·        Ecuador's president to visit Tehran. Photo of the Day ·        Ahmadinejad visits North Khorasan.
• Who is Barack Obama?
  As Andy McCarthy notes below, John Hinderaker has raised questions about Barack Obama's apparent affiliation with the New Party and the Democratic Socialists of America. John has posted documents purportedly showing that Obama was a New Party member when he ran for the Illinois state senate.  Democratic Socialists of America, New Party, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, ACORN, Rev. Wright,  Frank Marshall Davis, Tony Rezko -- so many questions for the most liberal member of the senate, so little time.
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• Obama and the Clock
  There are reasons not to talk about Ayers, Wright, Khalidi, etc. -- not to talk about Obama and radicalism. But there are reasons for doing so, too. And I ask this: If not now, when? (If not us, who?!) After November 4, it will be too late. Isn't now the time to talk about it, discuss it, air it? Let Obama address it? What are campaigns for?   And where's the media's love of "vetting" (a word we heard a lot in early Palin days)?   It could be that Obama's past radicalism, or tolerance of radicalism, has nothing to do with his present self. It could be that he has come a long way. I am ever mindful that about half of NR's founding editors and writers were ex-Communists. But the thing is, they were really ex: and they were leading anti-Communists. To change one's mind can be glorious. But where is Obama now?   I have a feeling that, once Obama is elected -- if he is elected -- the media will have a new candor about him. For now it's, "Isn't Sarah Palin stupid and racist?" (To be a conservative is to be called stupid and racist, even if you're a combination of Albert Einstein and Frederick Douglass.)   At a minimum, Obama should face up to his past activities and associations. He should offer some explanation -- and who's better at talking than he? And who's better at talking about himself, and his life, and his thought, and his feelings, than he? How many self-examining books is he up to now? Ten?   The media will not make him address radicalism -- I'm sorry to be so crude about it, but it's true. It will be up to the McCain campaign, I suppose. And if not now . . .   Finally, don't you think that Obama should be made to talk -- very, very straight -- about Born Alive? Or is that, too, out of bounds?   Strange world.
• Free Advice . . .
  . . . to the McCain campaign: Make some television ads with just Sarah. Have her speak into the camera. Use her. To the MSM -- to speak loosely -- she may be damaged goods. A laughingstock. But not to millions of ordinary Americans. She is an asset. Exploit her. Let Jon Stewart and Maureen Dowd laugh. Let everyone else vote.
• Strange World
  Barack Obama is a miraculous politician -- maybe the luckiest one in the world. I think of this huge housing crisis. It should have come down badly on Obama's head -- damaged him severely. The Democrats' policies, particularly on "fair lending," have a lot to do with this mess. Obama supported those policies foursquare. And it gets worse for him -- or should get worse.   The poster children for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson. They got inconceivably rich in their jobs. As bad luck would have it, from the Obama point of view -- or as bad luck ought to have it -- these men are friends, advisers, and donors to Obama. This should have been a nightmare for him, politically.   Instead, it's Christmas morning -- a real boon. This is amazing. Sure, the Republicans ran a couple of ads, pointing out the Obama connection to Raines and Johnson. But the Republicans were immediately denounced as racists, because guess what? One of those men isn't white.   What a strange world, and resoundingly to Obama's advantage.
• Cojones watch
  The one-stop shop for all your needs - testicles: Testicle Stem Cells Avoid 'Ethical Problem' Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field. The new type of stem cells could