A round up of recent posts by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
At Booker Rising, Shay predicts “it may well be black folks who most undermine [Obama’s] candidacy.”
Dave Schuler thinks the reports of the death of the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council) are premature.
McQ offers “another reason to like Petraeus.”
Earlier, Joe posted on the subject of the hidden 2006 Surgeon General report. Opening with the same subject, GTL indulges in a little “told you so.” Money quote:
While partisan Democrats present their own tremendous dangers to our society via their (so called) Liberal nanny state assaults upon our Constitutional civil liberties, it is the partisan neoconservative Republicans who are actively sending Americans to their death beds before our very eyes at this time…
Which is exactly why THEY must go first. They are our “weakest linkâ€.
The Angry Independent draws our attention to “a place where women are routinely raped and receive little help or support; where rape cases often go uninvestigated.”
Patrick Joubert Conlon likes what he’s hearing from Fred Thompson on federalism.
Andrew Sullivan features a thoughtful quote from … of all people … Rush Limbaugh. (I know: It’s hard to believe, but click on over and read it for yourself.)