Purely political

The last week before an election is always crazy. The atest communiques from the battlefield:

• "Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said that as president he would hold regular press conferences and "not just call on my four favorite reporters." But the Democratic presidential nominee hasn't held a full press conference -- submitting himself to more than a handful of questions from his whole press corps -- in more than a month, since Sept. 24, 2008, in Clearwater, Fla. (ABC Blog)
• "Newspapers and magazines swarmed around the first black student to win the most coveted spot at the most vaunted club at one of America’s most prestigious institutions. In interviews, Mr. Obama was modest and careful. (In a rare slip, he told The Associated Press: “I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”) He signed a contract to write a memoir." (NYT)
• Chuck Norris: "I'm voting for those not yet born" (guess who he's not voting for)

Priority items:

• "A taped radio interview from 2001 that has re-emerged has Barack Obama saying the civil rights movement failed when it became so dependent on the Supreme Court that it never got around to working toward redistributing income. (FoxNews) [Watch the YouTube clip here.] {Fallout tracking here, excellent and insightful NRO commentary here.}
• WaPo: "Almost Everyone Would Do Better Under the McCain Health Plan ... His tax credit is larger than the current tax subsidy for insurance."