Monday's musings

The federal government announced today it was taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While Wall Street responded favorably to this take over, such action is just one more instance of our government intruding into our lives and asking folks who are fiscally responsible to yet again, bail out a failed institution. When are we going to wake up?...Did anyone notice that the province of Anbar was turned over to the Iraqis last week? The Iraqi government,overall, has met 15 of 18 political benchmarks. Why isn't anyone in the mainstream meadia talking about this or any other success in Iraq as a result of the surge. McCain was correct about the surge and should be given full credit...McCain's ability to restore his image as a Maverick at last week's RNC could potentially hurt the Obama campaign which is trying to paint the McCain/Palin ticket as a third term for George W. Bush... USA Today/Gallup survey showed McCain ahead of Obama 50 percent to 46 percent among registered voters, a turnaround from a previous poll taken by the newspaper just before last week's Republican National Convention... Reports from AP today state that "MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators. The change reflects tensions between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the impartial newsgatherers at NBC News. Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights and that viewers would accept them in that role, but things fell apart during the conventions." It's about time!

There are 57 days until the presidential election. And, it's been 2,752 days since there's been a terrorist attack on US soil. Good day and God bless!