Do Not Tread on Me
Thomas
Friedman decided that he can't let John McCain's claim of being a friend to
renewable energy go unchallenged.
He has missed all eight votes over the last year — which effectively counts
as a no vote each time. Once, he was even in the Senate and wouldn’t leave his
office to vote.
Thomas
Frank on what Barack Obama must do to win:
Mr. Obama cannot allow the right to profit from the discontent stirred up by
their own misbehavior...He should not recoil from the bitterness that's out
there. He should speak to it.  [...]
That's why this election must be a referendum on Republican rule and the
destructive doctrines behind it. It is a contest to put the blame where it
belongs.
Peter
Beinart says that Barack Obama needs to embrace the race issue and confront
white fears by "calling for the replacement of race-based preferences with
class-based ones."
Robert
J. Samuelson doesn't think the presidential candidates should be indulging
the fantasy of low gas prices and energy independence.
Thomas
Meany and Harris Mylonas discuss the danger of selectively supporting
independence movements:
Like every great power, the U.S.
favors self-determination movements that destabilize its competitors -- Russia, China,
Iran
-- and opposes (or ignores) ones that might upset our allies. That's the code
of realism in foreign policy. But it's also a Pandora's box. If America opts
not to respect the principle of national sovereignty, it discourages other
world powers from doing so and undermines state sovereignty the world over.