QUICK TAKES ON BARACK OBAMA

** Update:  "Spread Wealth Around: Obama Aunt found in Boston slum  (HT: Drudge)   - Mark Steyn comments on the story: 

The London Times story of Barack Obama's Aunt Zeituni - like that of his penniless brother and the Kenyan grade school he promised to help - is interesting not only as a reflection on the candidate's belief that "spreading the wealth around" is a centralized government mandate to be imposed on Joe the Plumber rather than a personal act by, say, a wealthy memoirist whose books repackage colorful relatives to highly lucrative effect.

Me: It's the foreign press that investigates.  The American press doesn't.  See the bottom of this Gateway Pundit post for other Obama-related stories first researched by the foreign press.

** Update:  5 Things You Didn't See in Tonight's Obama Infomercial

**  Tony blankley - Is Obama Secretly Sensible?  Don't Bet On It    Me:  I consider Blankley one of our most astute commentators.  This column is a must read!    (HT: The Corner)

**- Fraudulent voting - If, as the Ohio judge says, you can cite a park bench as an address, who or what, is to stop you voting over and over again using a different name and a different park bench?  And why not bring busloads of Chicago's homeless to vote in Ohio?  Who's to know?  (This comment inspired by Lisa Schiffren's post)

** - Obama's dishonorable, despicable acceptance of fraudulent, untraceable donations  (This is huge, but not getting the media coverage it deserves).   Update:  Team Obama Deliberately avoided credit-card security checks.

** - The Los Angeles Times Suppresses Tape of  Obama's Friendship with Israel-hating Professor Khalidi

** - Victor Davis Hanson - The "messianic style":  by all means necessary.  To which VDH says, "If this is considered 'right', I'd rather be wrong with McCain."

**- Videos - Obama plays the Palin card here and is answered here.

**- Michael Barone - An Obama Preview from history Excerpt:

Obama seems determined to follow policies better suited to freezing the economy in place than to promoting economic growth. Higher taxes on high earners, for one. He told Charlie Gibson he would raise capital-gains taxes even if that reduced revenue: less wealth to spread around, but at least the rich wouldn’t have it . .  National health insurance that threatens to lead to rationing and to stifle innovation. Promoting unionization by abolishing secret ballot union elections.

The impulse to social engineering is unmistakable. Government officials will allocate resources, redistribute income, and ration good and services. Use government stakes in banks, insurance companies and Detroit auto manufacturers to maintain the position of those already in place, at the cost of preventing the emergence of new enterprises that might have been spawned by the capital being allocated.

** - Ben Johnson - Socialism we can believe in