Grab bag: How many more weeks until November 4?

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Obama seizes the attack, sharpens his criticism of McCain’s economic policies: “The ‘old boys network’? In the McCain campaign, that’s called a staff meeting.”

David Weinberger summarizes McCain’s interview in which he apparently confuses the Prime Minister of Spain with a leftist Latin American official, then stands by the position when he’s corrected.

Did SEC rules exemptions lead directly to the collapse of Lehman, Bear Stearns, et al?

Incisive thoughts about the ethics of blogging vs. the ethics of journalism, boiling down to closed vs. open means of production for the written word.

Clear, calm articulation of the Obama plan for the economy. Spread the news.

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Interesting perspective: “I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.”