10-20/21-2008

10-21-08--“Right now,” said Mr. White, the head of the American National Socialist Workers Party, “we’re facing the potential of a half-black candidate financed by Jewish money going up against a white candidate financed by Jewish money, who are both advocating the same policy. So you’ve got two terrible choices.” ... There have been sporadic reports throughout the country of Obama signs vandalized with swastikas, windows smashed at local Obama campaign offices and racist pamphlets dropped on doorsteps. Overt and thinly veiled racist comments about Mr. Obama have been caught on camera at rallies, and a Republican women’s group in California — the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated — has made headlines for a flier that showed Mr. Obama’s face on a faux food stamp that also included watermelon and fried chicken. NYT A19

--The characters [on “Family Guy”] ambush Nazi soldiers in an alley and steal their uniforms so they can travel without drawing attention. Putting on an overcoat, Stewie notices a McCain-Palin campaign button affixed to the lapel. NYT A18

10-20-08—“The landscape’s changed, said Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard University professor. “I think we’ll see a big turn in the US position [at upcoming international financial summit]. ... We certainly would prefer that market principles have an important bearing [on policy]. But I don’t think we can blow them [European officials] off as we might have a year ago.” WSJ A4