Jim Leach

A long term Republican endorses Barack Obama, makes a speech at the DNC convention last night and the media turns a deaf ear. Amazing isn't it? That's exactly what happened when Jim Leach gave a very good speech explaining why he is endorsing Obama and why his party has gone astray. Here is the video:

When Leach started speaking last night, MSNBC went to it. Then they quickly went away and just said "oh that's former Representative Jim Leach". I wonder if they will do the same for former Democrat Joe Lieberman?

Steve Bennen has a great post on this latest example of the "liberal media" in action that deserves a read.

That would be former congressman, Republican Jim Leach from Iowa. Many might try to blow this off, but here is part of Leach's resume:

Interim director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University

In other words, Leach is a foreign policy expert (and considered one by hi colleagues). This is a big smack in the fact to the McCain campaign.