PRINCETON, NJ — A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination. This is particularly true for Hillary Clinton supporters, more than a quarter of whom currently say they would vote for McCain if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee.

It would appear that Obama isn’t the great magnificent unifier that the media and his supporters claim him to be. As it gets closer to the election and more and more people begin to realize exactly how far to the left and out of touch with America this guy is he will be more and more vulnerable to defeat. Anyone who thinks he is going to ride some wave to victory is going to be sorely disappointed.

In a death-penalty case that has become an international issue, the U.S. Supreme Court declared yesterday that President Bush had no power to tell the state of Texas to reopen the case of a Mexican who has been condemned for murder and rape.

By 6-3, the court ruled that the president went too far in 2005, when he decreed that the states had to abide by a 2004 decision by the World Court. That decision found that a number of Mexican citizens who had been sentenced to death in the United States had not been given the assistance from Mexican diplomats that they were entitled to receive under an international treaty.

The center of the dispute is Jose E. Medellin, now 33, a one-time gang member in Houston who took part in the rape and killing of two teenage girls June 24, 1993. The victims were abused for an hour, then killed to prevent them from identifying their tormentors.

Winston-Salem Journal

Could Bush have been any more obvious in his attempt to suck up to the Mexican government, which he has had a love affair with since the day he moved into the White House?  This is the same man who took us into war against the wishes of the UN noting American security lays in our hands, not theirs, but suddenly feels we need to bow down to the World Court when a Mexican national rapes, tortures, and murders two teenage girls on our soil?

As I said, the motive here was clear.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona said yesterday that a government bailout of banks should be based “solely on preventing systemic risk” and not on helping financial and property speculators.

“I will not play election-year politics with the housing crisis,” McCain told a group of Hispanic small-business leaders in Santa Ana. “I will evaluate everything in terms of whether it might be harmful or helpful to our effort to deal with the crisis we face now.”

Winston-Salem Journal

Good.  They shouldn’t be bailed out.  These are multi billion dollar corporations that engaged in this risky behavior and they are now paying the price for it.  They need to sink and the market needs to correct itself naturally without government interference.  Bailing them out on this will only encourage this behavior in the future.