True North

In "Campaign finance fraud: The Associated Press covers up," John Hinderaker cites the Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff on the illiegal contributions of "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro" to the Obama campaign. We originally noted the underlying story last week here.

Pamela Geller has devoted substantial time and effort to exposing Obama's illegal campaign contributions with a special eye to his illegal foreign contributions. She comments on Isikoff's story: "The Newsweek article includes statement by the Obama campaign that they returned all the money from Palestinian brothers. The records show they did not."

Yesterday I took a look at "Biden's boners" in the course of his debate with Sarah Palin this past Thursday. Today a Wall Street Journal editorial reviews Biden's performance in "Biden's fantasy world." The Journal asks: "[W]hat are we to make of Mr. Biden's fantastic debate voyage last week when he made factual claims that would have got Mrs. Palin mocked from New York to Los Angeles?" That is indeed a good question, particularly when one pauses to remember that Obama selected Biden as his running mate for his supposed foreign policy expertise. The Journal begins with Biden's bizarre comments on Lebanon, where Biden asserted "When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will control it.' Now what's happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel." The Journal comments;

The U.S. never kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, and no one else has either. Perhaps Mr. Biden meant to say Syria, except that the U.S. also didn't do that. The Lebanese ousted Syria's military in 2005. As for NATO, Messrs. Biden and Obama may have proposed sending alliance troops in, but if they did that was also a fantasy. The U.S. has had all it can handle trying to convince NATO countries to deploy to Afghanistan.