msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in firing official, legislative panel rules

http://breakingnews.msnbc.com

I rarely read conservative columnists.  Not enough hours in the day to read writers I agree with.  For some reason this morning
I decided to read David Brooks column:

The Class War Before Palin

in which he laments about the current bent of the Republican Party.

Just heard it on the news. It is a bipartisan conclusion.

CNN has a short report. The pdf document is online. The first finding confirms that Governor Palin abused her power.

(sorry for the short diary)

Just days before the second face-to-face, nationally televised meeting of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain came a torrent of accusations and innuendo against Obama, the Democrat, by McCain, the Republican, and his GOP surrogates.Accusations that had months earlier failed to make a splash were urgently regurgitated -- most especially an inference that Obama's acquaintance with a Chicago figure who was active in the Weather Underground in the 1960s proves a disregard for his own country by the Democratic candidate.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson nationalized the old Texas sentiment of confidence and respect: He's someone to go to the well with.

As we approach the end of the Bush-Cheney administration, we are presented with the consequences of eight years of nihilistic politics, greed-and-crony finance, and feeding of hatreds and division among our brothers and sisters.

I hope that you all will watch and share this video to help spread the message that Obama has a strong network of military families supporting him to be President and Commander in Chief.

This address drew some flack for the suggestion that Barack was somehow playing the "race card".  Look at it now in the context of the current race & wonder if anyone could have given a more accurate prediction of not just how this cycle would progress, but also why.

"Why isn't he farther ahead? Why can't he finish McCain off?"

These statements are what we will be hearing more of from Obama critics and pundits in the next few weeks. Pat Buchanan might as well tattoo any one of these on his forehead to save him some oxygen in thse upcoming weeks.

It's an argument that we heard often in the closing month of the primary by many pundits and opponents of Obama,when they didn't have many other cases to make. The argument essentially concedes that Obama is going to be the winning candidate while setting up a soft cushion to catch the critic or supporter of his opponent when the eventual loss of their candidate occurs. It's a natural response to the realization of a stinging defeat,and we see it in sports all the time. A close loss in anything is demoralizing,so you try to turn it into a positive in order to accept it easier.