Guest Post by Adam<\/p>\n
As a regular CR reader, I know people love these so I’ll try my best to reproduce one.<\/p>\n
Apparently a Yeshiva student stole Obama’s prayer<\/a> from the Western Wall (it’s a custom to insert a small piece of paper with a prayer into the cracks…at this point, the cracks in the wall are overflowing) and an Israeli newspaper published it. How long before someone says this is conspiracy by the Obama campaign to prove he’s not a Muslim?<\/p>\n There was a rumor on the interwebs yesterday that Obama deliberately “blew off troops” at an Afghan base to do a basketball photo op. It’s not true<\/a>, according to Army Lt. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green, who said Obama didn’t play basketball or even visit the recreation tent where the court was located. In any case, look for this latest rumor in an email coming soon to your inbox.<\/p>\n An article in the New Republic outlines a conflict<\/a> between NYT reporter Adam Nagourney and the Obama campaign over the Times’ article that was headlined “Poll Finds Obama Isn’t Closing Divide on Race.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I suppose it depends which divide you’re talking about though, because Latino voters seem pretty united around the Obama candidacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Josh Marshall confirms <\/a>that the Pentagon told Obama he couldn’t visit a military hospital with campaign staff. The McCain campaign pounced on a poorly worded press statement that it wouldn’t be “appropriate” for Obama to make a campaign appearance there, without noting of course, that Obama wasn’t actually allowed to go because it would be a violation of Pentagon rules.<\/p>\n The RNC might wanna fix that whole clock thing<\/a> they’ve got on their website now that Obama has visited Iraq.<\/p>\n The Washington Post is reporting <\/a>that the McCain VP pick could come any day now, noting that McCain is “anxious to counter the blanket media coverage that has followed Sen. Barack Obama on his overseas journey”. Anxious enough to get reporters to write articles speculating on whether his VP pick might come every day now? Naw, never that<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is satire<\/a>. You paying attention, New Yorker? My bad, I didn’t mean to interrupt you while you were counting your money<\/a>.<\/p>\n