Secretary of State Rice, at a press conference today:

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capitol, overthrow a government and get away with it.  Things have changed.

Once a statement like this is made, it is crucial that it be proven correct.
If Russia does not pull back to the August 6 lines, it should be expelled from the G-8.

I'll discuss Russia's rape of Georgia with Rudy Giuliani on today's show (and the rumor that Colin Powell will endorse Obama).  The transcript will be here later, and the podcast here. 

Michael Barone will also join us to discuss the momentum shift to McCain over the past three weeks.

I finished David Freddoso's excellent new book, The Case Against Barack Obama, on today's flight back from Philly, and will ask both Giuliani and Barone if they have yet read it.  Freddoso's book is carefully researched and thoroughly footnoted, and makes the very compelling case that not only Obama not a reformer, he's a very far left liberal, and his long time friends, associates and mentors range from radical to as crooked as any con man you can conjure up in your imagination.  Read the book and commit its key arguments to memory.




One of the strories Freddoso covers is Obama's support for Alexi Giannoulias, which ought to raise eyebrows --and the interest of the MSM.