So, in effect this election is really about a rejection of the Reagan legacy, which was quite an achievement – getting rid of the malaise and defeatism of the Carter years. So, the elites yearn for THE CARTER DAYS? Do these people not understand the history they lived through? I can, to a certain extent, understand the under-40 crowd not knowing or understanding what that was all about.

By the way, I voted for Carter twice. Not something I am proud of. However, like neo-neocon I came late to more conservative thinking. I actually made my break with the Left in 1987 and sort of vacillated in the no-man’s land of being a moderate. I started to move right-of-center after the U.S.S. Cole incident and the earlier African embassies bombings.

It’s true that Volcker is a Democrat and was appointed by Jimmy Carter but still… Volcker says he was motivated by all the challenges we face and how that requires new leadership and a fresh approach. However, I don’t see anything new with Obama, I just hear evasive language disguising old approaches backed by little or no experience.

I read the Sowell column earlier today. I’m a big fan of Thomas Sowell. I majored in economics in college and had he been a prof at my university I would have taken a course with him.

So far in the campaign, the Obonga camp seems to be making all the early moves, either in reaction or proactively. I sense that he and his people want to really pummel McCain early and hard. They want to build an early lead and build on it. Methinks it has to do with fundraising, and that they also want to keep on discouraging those who are disinclined to vote for him but are not enthusiastic about McCain. Tonight, the Obonga campaign announced that they might select a former military man for the VP slot. We know why they are doing that. And we know who those retired generals are: they are personally ambitious men who have no principles and would sell the Defense Department down the river. The type of men who were promoted by Bill Clinton.

Obonga knows next to nothing about, for example, the missile defense program. He calls it a failing system, when in reality it is hugely successful. All he need do is to read the DoD press releases about the tests and the analysts take on them. But, he has already made up his mind to go with Joe Cirincione’s views on missile defense and on satellite defense in outer space. The only thing that matters to Obonga is that The Ploughshares Fund is part of his progressive network and what they have to say about nuclear proliferation matters. If they say that Iran getting the bomb is o.k., because Iran deserves having a deterrence in order for there to be multipolar balance in the world, then that’s what he’ll go with.

Obonga’s “brilliance” is a shuck and jive. What does it say about our culture that COLLEGE EDUCATED people cannot fact check and distinguish between substance and rhetorical emptiness?

Now there’s a winner.

It beats: “That’s not change we can believe in” (cue creepy smile) from his depressing speech the other night.

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

Like Pelosi claiming that democrats had a plan to fix gas prices… which they didn’t. And after winning congress and getting called on it claimed the plan was hearings by the executive branch.. When congress could do it own. Which they do every couple years… and find nothing…