Tom Maguire insists that bloggers use Google to get basic facts about Barack Obama’s past. Good luck with that effort, Tom.

One way to look at the McCain campaign suspension: “Democrats who are mad are mad because it is politically brilliant, not because it is dumb.  There is, as far as I can see, no actual harm in postponing campaigning, or the debates; we can just as easily learn McCain’s terrifying plans for the country next week.”

Bill Clinton sounds like he’s channeling John McCain on need to come together for a bipartisan deal. This should not be a shock to those who have been following along.

David Broder explains why Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have been largely invisible: “The reason, I have to believe, is that public disdain for Congress and its top leaders is as great as the disillusionment with the president.”

I think I’m with Larry Kudlow: “I don’t like it, but sometimes you just have to stop the financial fear.”

One vote of approval Barack Obama wishes he didn’t have: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Speaking of Google, maybe the Washington Post should use it to check out local media reaction to the Joe Biden line about his notion of a U.S. clean coal ban before coming out with howlers like this: “Biden continues to fulfill the traditional role of a running mate; he is going to second and third tier media markets in the Rust Belt–Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan–bashing McCain and Palin and drawing positive press coverage in the process.”

Stanley Kurtz explains the Bill Ayers connection.

Ben Smith–who’s not about to get in the tank with the Grey Lady–questions the point of the story about Rick Davis’ former firm being paid by Freddie Mac and points out that the Obama camp (shocked? me neither) is pushing it. Jim Geraghty puts it to the Obama camp more bluntly here. (“Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae didn’t have to buy access to John McCain because they had already bought your guy.”)