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Bush to hold a global economic summit. Lovely. A bunch of central planners getting together to centrally plan how they can further interfere in our economy and take more freedom from us, ostensibly for our own good but really for their own good and we'll suffer the consequences.

The press has been missing in action on our success in Iraq, but they're all over this tiny rally in Baghdad, only a few thousand people in a city of 7 million, and that's probably exaggerated knowing our press, of protesters who don't want Iraq and the US to sign a security pact.

4 out of 5 al Qaeda online forums have disappeared.

McCain suggests that Obama's tax plan is socialist. Did he just figure that out?

Cato reports that the Treasury Dept. has no authority to force banks into selling it shares, but it did so anyway. Author explains that this will lead to further abuses of power and further damage our markets.

Pat Buchanan explains that if Obama wins the presidency, he will be at war with America. On a 2 dimensional scale, America is center-right, and Obama is about as left as it gets. Americans won't like that. Obama is trying desperately to appear moderate in the general race after winning the nomination by taking the far-left, and it appears he's fooled enough Americans to get away with it so far in this anti-Bush environment. But the race isn't over yet, and the more he talks about using government force to spread people's wealth to other people, the more ground he will lose. There's no chance that Obama will govern as a moderate. He's a not very stealthy Marxist, and we can only hope voters figure it out in time.

Thomas Sowell shows that Obama's record on reform and moderation doesn't match his record. Thomas Sowell wonders why negative campaigning has become so stigmatized. I think its because since all of our politicians are corrupt, the people are tired of hearing about it. Every campaign exaggerates the weakness of the opposing candidate. Except McCain. He's gone out of his way to help hide Obama's lifelong pursuit of Marxist ideals. That's just crazy.

I remember this Gallop poll showing only 13% of Americans want government to spread the wealth around, which is the basis of Barack Obama's entire economic plan. But the Bush hatred is still enough to keep Obama slightly ahead. I still think McCain would have been smart to tie Obama's socialist economic policies to Bush's socialist administration.