Yahoo! News: Most Viewed OpinionMost Viewed OpinionOBAMA FAKING IT (Maggie Gallagher)- July 22, 2008 Maggie Gallagher - Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chiefhttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucmg/20080722/c... HOSANNA FOR POLAND'S UNSUNG HERO (Georgie Anne Geyer)- July 22, 2008 Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- When Bronislaw Geremek was tragically killed in a car crash in Poland in mid-July, most Americans did not recognize his name. Geremek, who Bronislaw, what Oh yes, we do know where Poland is -- more or less.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucgg/20080722/c... McCain Campaign: Obama is "Frighteningly Inexperienced" (The Nation)- July 22, 2008 The Nation - The Nation -- Barack Obama is in the midst of one of the more successful global tours by an American political leader in recent history.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080... Offshore drilling is a false promise (The Christian Science Monitor)- July 22, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor - There is no quick fix to $4.50-a-gallon gas, no way to provide instant relief to consumers we know are hurting. Yet President Bush and others continue to push the false promise of offshore oil drilling.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080722/cm... Candidates' positions on Iraq differ less than you'd think (USATODAY.com)- July 22, 2008 USATODAY.com - It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall in Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office a few days ago when the call came from the U.S. Embassy, demanding that he "clarify" his endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's plan to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq in 16 months.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200807... A split-second decision (USATODAY.com)- July 22, 2008 USATODAY.com - Janet Jackson's notorious "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was unquestionably a tasteless stunt, particularly in an event watched by 90 million viewers, many of them children. Viewers complained loudly and immediately. The NFL and TV networks got the message. The republic survived.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200807... A funny thing happened on the way to the voting booth (USATODAY.com)- July 22, 2008 USATODAY.com - In discussing the 2008 election last week, Jon Stewart cracked jokes about orphans, Viagra and prehistoric monsters.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200807... REDUNDANCY GOOD, REDUNDANCY BAD (James Kilpatrick)- July 21, 2008 James Kilpatrick - Every critic of the writing art, most memorably Professor William Strunk of Cornell, has inveighed against redundancy. E.B. White quoted him in "The Elements of Style." Let us listen up.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucjk/20080721/c... JIMMY CARTER'S ENERGY IDEAS DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE (Cynthia Tucker)- July 19, 2008 Cynthia Tucker - Even in his home state of Georgia, former President Jimmy Carter does not receive universal acclaim. He is regarded by many as a weak-kneed appeaser or a naive do-gooder with a puritanical bent.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucas/20080719/c... What to Say (Susan Estrich)- July 18, 2008 Susan Estrich - When my father died, so many years ago, my heart was broken. And then it got broken again. In the hours and days after his death, I was comforted by family and friends. But I couldn't help but notice who was missing, people I cared about, people I thought cared about me, who didn't call, didn't come, weren't there. Later, much later, I asked a few of those people why: Where had they been Why didn't they come And the answer was always the same.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20080718/cm_... |