Politics and other nightmares

Score one for common sense:

Plainfield will no longer enforce an ordinance banning political campaign yard signs more than 30 days before Election Day, the town's attorney said today.

What's red and blue and doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up?

Sen. Barack Obama holds a tenuous lead over Sen. John McCain in Indiana, with one in four likely voters saying they could change their mind on who to support for president, according to a new Indianapolis Star-WTHR (Channel 13) poll.

Obama's three-point lead in the poll, 47 percent to 44 percent, reinforces Indiana's status as a battleground in the race for the White House.

"The media this year are really in the tank for liberals."

"That, sir, is a boldfaced lie."

Sorry, that's the first think I thought of when I read this:

Yesterday Jr. Illinois Senator Obama told a bold-faced lie on the stimulus package. Not only did he not have a role in formulating the legislation, he didn't even bother showing up to vote on it.

OK, libertarians; get ready to beat me up.

I've written frequently, both here and on the editorial page, about the need to give third-party candidates their share of exposure during political campaigns. It's both fair to them and beneficial to the voters.

It's political season again, when another set of Indiana officials get to display either their complete ignorance of or complete indifference to the First Amendment:

A Plainfield man wanting to show his support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama filed suit today over an ordinance banning campaign yard signs more than 30 days before an election.

We've started interviewing the politicians for our fall-election endorsement interviews, so blogging will be a little light and/or spotty for the next few weeks. I know, I know, try to contain your grief.

Memo to the McCain camp -- lighten up:

By now, I suspect most of you have seen the opening skit from "Saturday Night Live," which featured a joint press conference hosted by Sarah Palin (played perfectly by Tina Fey) and Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler). If you missed it, and it was pretty hilarious, NBC has posted the whole thing.

Wall Street in meltdown, and this is what we get from the two presidential candidates:

In a statement, Obama said the upheaval was "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression" and blamed it on policies that he said McCain supports.

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Barack Obama's idea of "neighborliness" is just the newest term for confiscate-and-redistribute liberal economics:

Every time there is a natural disaster -- even if it's not an "emergency" -- the economic morons start coming out of the woodwork:

Prices fluctuated from a low of at least $3.94 a gallon to a high of at least $4.39, and two New Castle gas stations reportedly advertised gasoline for as high as $4.99.

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