And You Can Take That to the (West) Bank
THE CORNER BLOG
By Cliff May
Following his meeting with terrorist leader Khaled Meshaal, Jimmy Carter says he now believes Hamas is "no longer determined to destroy the Jewish state." 'It may be something they wish, but they know it's a fruitless concept,' he said. Well, I guess that's settled then, isn't it? And what about the fact that Hamas's charter continues to call for the destruction of Israel? Carter said Hamas leaders referred to the 1988 charter dismissively as 'an ancient document.' Surely, if there's one thing we should know about Islamists it's that they generally venerate, rather than dismiss, "ancient documents."
Michael Yon on the World Wide Web of War
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
Lopez: How has the Internet changed war reporting? Yon: It means that instead of getting paid to go to Iraq and get shot, I can do it for free. It also means the sky is the limit on reaching readers worldwide. People from approximately 100 countries come to my site each day
Where's Gloria Steinem?
By Ramesh Ponnuru
Obama on Clinton: 'You know, over the last several weeks since she fell behind, she's resorted to what's called 'kitchen sink' strategies. She's got the kitchen sink flying, and the china flying, and the, you know, the buffet is coming at me.'
Washington Post Falls Flat Attacking McCain [Mark Hemingway]
Yesterday, Ramesh called shenanigans on the Washington Post story about McCain's temper, and no less than McCain's right hand man Mark Salter wrote in to complain about the myriad ways in which the story was unfair and wrongly reported.
Well, it gets even worse. Over at NRO's media blog, Greg Pollowitz demolishes the credibility of the story and the sources involved. It seems one of the main sources for the story is a 911 truther and also believes that the Bush administration is running a secret plan out of the Commerce Department (which, natch, is headed by a MexicanHispanic-American) to merge the U.S. and Mexico into one country. Read the whole thing.
Does the media think that anyone who's a Republican is an instantly credible source to attack another Republican, and they don't need to bother checking? That also seemed to be the case in the Karl-Rove-masterminded-the-Don-Siegelman-indictment nonsense the media got swept up in.
Hillary and the Anti-Obama Vote [Byron York]
Greetings from Pennsylvania. I've been following Hillary Clinton's campaign for a couple of days, and I have a new story up on the home page. One thing I found particularly striking about the Clinton voters I met in the Mon Valley — the Monongahela Valley, a Clinton stronghold — is the sheer number who told me they won't vote for Obama if he is the Democratic nominee:
This is Clinton country. A new poll from Suffolk University, out today, shows Clinton leading Barack Obama statewide, 52 percent to 42 percent. But in the southwestern part of the state, here in the Mon Valley, Clinton has a huge lead, 74 percent to 17 percent.
And people here aren't just for Clinton. They're against Obama. At this Hillary rally, no one expresses any outright hostility to Obama, but they tell me over and over again that they just don't like him, that they don't care for him, that they don't trust him. They view him as inexperienced and not ready to be president, and they think he's selling them a bill of goods. "I could tell you I'm going build you a house, and I'm going to do everything you want," a man named Bernie tells me. "I'm going to put everything in it just the way you want it. And then you give me your money, and you find out I'm not a carpenter."
The new Suffolk poll found that found that 46 percent of Democrats surveyed in southwest Pennsylvania would either vote for John McCain or would be undecided if their candidate doesn't win. They're the people here tonight. When I ask whether they will vote for Obama if he wins the Democratic nomination, the answers are quick:
"If Hillary doesn't win, I'm not voting."
"No."
"I will not."
"I'd have to debate myself on that one."
Others said they would reluctantly cast votes for Obama. But at least half the people I speak to say they simply would not vote for him in the general election.
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