While we're on the subject of stupid Democrat campaign nonsense, how about this little coda from Jonah Goldberg:

If owning so many houses (or being married to an heiress) is a problem, I do hope someone asks Barack why he was so enthusiastic about John Kerry in 2004.

Score!

And how about a little critique of the utterly stupid populist economic claptrap that Obama! is spewing at the moment:

Democrats seem unaware that “big corporations” — including oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies — are people. And that these corporations are also indispensable to our free, thriving society.

From whom are we supposed to get our oil, pharmaceuticals, and insurance? Ralph Nader? Nancy Pelosi? Molly Yard?

Moreover, these corporations are employers. I ask another question: From whom are people supposed to get their jobs? The Obamas? As the great John Derbyshire says, we can only use so many “community organizers” and “diversity-enforcement officers.”

Talking about herself and her husband, Michelle said not long ago, “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do. Don’t go into corporate America.” That is not so much disgusting as it is pathetic and ignorant. Look, I grew up with the same left-wing clichés. It’s just that some of us grew out of them, where, with others, they stuck.

Look, I understand the attraction of voting Democrat. I understand how easy it is to demonize the rich, to pretend that your problems are all the fault of big-whatever, to refuse to have any moral backbone on issues like abortion so as not to "offend" anyone or "impose your values," God forbid. I get it. It's just easier to be liberal, because it requires virtually nothing of you. Just like childhood, right?

Oh, I hope there are still enough grown-ups out there to derail Obama. It seems like there might be, but who knows...

Bob Dole thrashes Scott McClellan's face off:

"In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you," Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate. "No doubt you will 'clean up' as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, 'Biting The Hand That Fed Me.' Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years"

Dole assures McClellan that he won't read the book -- "because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job"

"That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively," Dole concludes. "You’re a hot ticket now but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?"

Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book. …