Looks like Punk McNasty is at it again.

So much for the "high brow" campaign the McSame campaign promised us.
Bush III or Bush-lite.

Take you pick.

DonnaG - I agree.

I have hoped all along that the Republicans would use their same tried and they think true smear tactics.

I think America is really sick of it and doesn't believe any of it (with a handful of exceptions from people whose brains function at Nash McNabe level).

I'm looking forward to this - I'm sure we're going to watch the Republicans go down in flames using this stupid excuse for a campaign tactic.

thats real good Republicans. But watch how this crap you're flinging will bounce off our guy in the general.

Us Dems have our own teflon man, his name is Senator Barack Obama, and he's sitting at the helm of the steamroller, fired up and ready to go steamroll over the McCain campaign to the White House.

There's no stopping us till we get there.

Obama '08

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/talking-points-for-when-idiots.php

Let's note that Clinton and the Republicans are officially running a coordinated campaign against Obama at this point.

So is the McCain campaign a 527 for Clinton, or is it the other way around?

I can't work up much anger at McCain. He's earned the right to have a grudge against the 60's and 70's radical left and if he wants to refight those old battles, Obama can keep reminding McCain that Obama was 8 years old.

What makes me a lot angrier is that Goldwater Gal, Hillary, bringing up this tripe in her campaign. I mean if the ditto heads can't wrap their minds around the idea that if you teach at a university you are going to run across a diversity of ideas and of people holding those ideas, OK, swell the Rovians can use their ignorance against us, but if you got a degree from Wellesley and a law degree from Yale and you can still pretend that you've never had an acquaintance that took extreme views, well, then you must have had your head in the same drug induced fog that Dubya managed during his university "education".

"Just because your candidate runs like a Republican doesn't mean she's immune to their attacks."

I'm loving that....great line.

McCain will be playing from the same Rove-Atwater book as Bush II, Bush I, and Reagan. I'm sure his campaign has a similar line of slurs for Clinton should she manage to pull off the nomination, this despite all the praise she's heaped on him. I'd like to think that people are tired of these tactics, but given how well they've worked in the past, I see no reason to believe they won't work again, especially given how much the press loves McCain.

Yes I just love me some Stepinfechitopoulous.

little pipsqueak.

Gotalife = gold standard for buffenbargering.

When you think buffenbargering, think Gotalife!

I cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot wait to turn the guns on this right-wing McCainiac. I honor his service, but after that.... Powzowee

TPMElectHillaryCentral sez:

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I cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot wait to turn the guns on this right-wing McCainiac. I honor his service, but after that.... Powzowee

I rather think McCain himself has thoroughly dishonored his own service.

Any man who, after being tortured and hearing his comrades screams while they were tortured, who then turned around and voted to torture other prisoners has no honor left, frankly.

None.

Just like Colin Powell - no honor left.

Role Model for Children - Obama

A few days ago Obama gave the 'finger' to Hillary on national television and smugly laughed about it with his audience. Is this type of malicious immaturity what you want your children to learn: lack of tolerance, vengeance and the bully mentality? After that one event, besides the mindless and uneducated, how could anyone seriously consider this Obama for any office?

Also, Obama's state-senate candidacy was launched at Weather Underground bombers Ayers house in 1995. Ayers who advocates the violent destruction of America may have much more to do with promoting Obama than we know. The organization MoveOn has aggressively intimidated delegates to vote for Obama and to shun Hillary and is likely closely connected with Ayers. Ayers finally got his bomb - Obama.

Obama also rigged his election to become senator by unfairly disqualifying his opponents. He did this by meticulously finding fault with each of the other candidates signed petitions until each of the contenders had to drop out, Obama was the last one standing, there was no election. This was another finger gesture towards the American public by Obama.

If this isn't enough, look at Obama's affiliations:
Wright
Meeks
Ayers
Abongo "Roy" Obama
Rashid Khalidi
Robert Malley
Hamas
McPeaks
Rezko
Auchi

And the list goes on...

This may be the time of the Anti-Christ, but do you want to be on the list of people who voted for him?

"He became friends with him and spent time with him while the guy was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization, the Weathermen."

Yeah, and McCain became friends with George W. Bush and spent time with him while the guy was unrepentant over his activities as a member of the anti-American terrorist organization, the Bush administration.

How is that the trolls are able to constantly whine about Obama "unfairly attacking" Clinton AND whine that he's not a fighter, that he's a wimp.

Doublething - the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time. Our trolls here are masters.

Won't this interfere with McCain's attempts to distance himself and pretend he's "honorable" and "above the fray" while the GOP does their smear and sleaze?

It looks like McCain is tying himself to the GOP sleaze pretty tightly.

One more thing, doesn't this faux Ayers thing seem like an attempt to Boomer-ize Obama? Obama was not part of the sixties generation. McCain isn't a boomer but being in Vietnam puts him in there. Obama is trying to get past the 60s era arguments and divisions, but the Boomer-era pundit class can't seem to get past their own preoccupations with the 60s.

Thus the silliness of trying to blame the Weather Underground, Black Panthers, etc. etc. on then 8 year old Obama.

Just curious, but has anyone even bothered to ask Bill Ayers if he even has had any type of relationship with Obama outside of hosting the one meet-n-greet years ago and sitting on the same foundation board for a few years?

For that matter, have any of you Hillarybots who are so "concerned" about Ayers ever sat on a board? Cause if you had, you'd know that in most cases, board members are a pretty diverse group, not some circle of close friends. The typical board meets on whatever schedule they have, the members exchange pleasantries, then they go through the agenda, and then they adjourn and go their separate ways. The only "association" that can be shown about any two people - simply by virtue of them serving on the same board - is that they each individually agree with the mission of the organization. If that's going to be the standard, we could say that all vegetarians have an "association" with Hitler, because the connection is about as strong.

Um, they weren't friends?

Yes. Gotalife, you poor addled Short Bus Troll,

Senator Obama would just love to have John McCain go around boasting that he is better than George W. Bush, and cite Senator Obama as the source.

That will go down very well with the Rabid Right Wing of the Republican Party that thinks that the Sun rises and sets around Bush's Arse.

Go ahead McCain, make our campaign, and please take Gotalife, the poor addled Short Bus Troll, for a ride on your Crazy Talk Express.

The Washington Post exposes an other incident of where John McCain turns violent against a fellow Republican Senator.

Just what the nation needs as a Commander in Chief, or so Hillary Lieberman Clinton would have us to believe, a raging lunatic, in his eight decade, with his hand on the Doomsday Trigger.

Hillary is the new Lieberman.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041902224_pf.html

McCain: A Question of Temperament

By Michael Leahy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 20, 2008; A01

John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body. It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past, McCain's mounting frustration with one of his colleagues.

But when McCain leaned toward Charles E. Grassley and slowly said, "My friend . . ." it seemed clear that ugliness was looming: While the plural "my friends" was usually a warm salutation from McCain, "my friend" was often a prelude to his most caustic attacks. Grassley, an Iowa Republican with a reputation as an unwavering legislator, calmly held his ground. McCain became angrier, his fist pumping even faster.

It was early 1992, and the occasion was an informal gathering of a select committee investigating lingering issues about Vietnam War prisoners and those missing in action, most notably whether any American servicemen were still being held by the Vietnamese. It is unclear precisely what issue set off McCain that day. But at some point, he mocked Grassley to his face and used a profanity to describe him. Grassley stood and, according to two participants at the meeting, told McCain, "I don't have to take this. I think you should apologize."

McCain refused and stood to face Grassley. "There was some shouting and shoving between them, but no punches," recalls a spectator, who said that Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey helped break up the altercation.

Grassley said recently that "it was a very long period of time" before he and McCain spoke to each other again, though he declined, through a spokesman, to discuss the specifics of the incident.

Since the beginning of McCain's public life, the many witnesses to his temper have had strikingly different reactions to it. Some depict McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president, as an erratic hothead incapable of staying cool in the face of what he views as either disloyalty to him or irrational opposition to his ideas. Others praise a firebrand who is resolute against the forces of greed and gutlessness.

"Does he get angry? Yes," said Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who supports McCain's presidential bid. "But it's never been enough to blur his judgment. . . . If anything, his passion and occasional bursts of anger have made him more effective."

Former senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, expresses worries about McCain: "His temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him."

A spokesman for McCain's campaign said he would be unavailable for an interview on the subject of his temper. But over the years, no one has written more intimately about McCain's outbursts than McCain himself. "My temper has often been both a matter of public speculation and personal concern," he wrote in a 2002 memoir. "I have a temper, to state the obvious, which I have tried to control with varying degrees of success because it does not always serve my interest or the public's."

That temper has followed him throughout his life, McCain acknowledges. He recalls in his writings how, as a toddler, he sometimes held his breath and fainted during moments of fury. As the son of a naval officer who was on his way to becoming a four-star admiral, McCain found himself frequently uprooted and enrolled in new schools, where, as an underappreciated outsider, he developed "a little bit of a chip on my shoulder," as he recalled this month.

During a campaign stop at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, the most famous graduate of the Class of 1954 opened a window on what swirled inside him during his school years. "I was always the new kid and was accustomed to proving myself quickly at each new school as someone not to be challenged lightly," he told students.

"As a young man, I would respond aggressively and sometimes irresponsibly to anyone who I perceived to have questioned my sense of honor and self-respect. Those responses often got me in a fair amount of trouble earlier in life."

He defied authority, ridiculed other students, sometimes fought. The nicknames hung on him at Episcopal mocked his hair-trigger feistiness: "Punk" and "McNasty." Hoping to emulate his father and grandfather, also an admiral, he went on to the Naval Academy, where his pattern of unruliness and defiance continued, landing him near the bottom of his class. "I acted like a jerk," McCain wrote of the period before he righted himself to become a naval aviator, a Vietnam POW and eventually a career politician.

The trajectory of his temper, studied ever more intently as his White House ambitions took shape, includes incidents from his years in the House and in the Senate, leading up to the early days of his current presidential campaign. In 2007, during a heated closed-door discussion with Senate colleagues about the contentious immigration issue, he angrily shouted a profanity at a fellow Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, an incident that quickly found its way into headlines.

Reports recently surfaced of Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican, taking offense when McCain called him "boy" once too often during a 2006 meeting, a story that McCain aides confirm while playing down its importance. "Renzi flared and he was prickly," McCain strategist Mark Salter said. "But there were no punches thrown or anything."
'Everyone Has a Temper'

According to aides, McCain's frequent comments about his temperament reflect a recognition that the issue persists for some voters and the media. At times he expresses regret about his temper, often tracing it to the same resentments that ignited him as a boy: "In all candor, as an adult I've been known to forget occasionally the discretion expected of a person of my many years and station when I believe I've been accorded a lack of respect I did not deserve," he said at Episcopal.

On other occasions, he has contended that his blowups have served a purpose. In a recent interview with CNN, while referring to his temper as "a very minor thing," McCain declared that voters occasionally want him to vent: "When I see corruption, . . . when I see people misbehaving badly, they expect me to" be angry.

Salter, who has co-written five books with McCain that, among other things, explore the origins of his feistiness, said he thinks McCain's temper first became an issue after an incident in 1989, during McCain's first term in the Senate.

The nomination of a beleaguered John Tower to become defense secretary was already in trouble when Sen. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, a conservative Democrat who later became a Republican, helped doom it by voting against Tower. A furious McCain, believing that Shelby had reneged on a commitment of support, accosted him, got within an inch of his nose and screamed at him. News of the incident swiftly spread around the Capitol.

"I think it started there," Salter said, though by 1989, many of McCain's colleagues had already heard stories about other eruptions during his two terms in the House.

Part of the paradox of McCain is that many of the old targets of his volcanic temper are now his campaign contributors. Former Phoenix mayor Paul Johnson is one example. In 1992, during a private meeting of Arizona officials over a federal land issue that affected the state, a furious McCain openly questioned Johnson's honesty. "Start a tape recorder -- it's best when you get a liar on tape," McCain said to others in the meeting, according to an account of their "nose-to-nose, testosterone-filled" argument that Johnson later provided to reporters.

But Johnson, who once was quoted as saying that he thought McCain was "in the area of being unstable," today says that he has mellowed, citing a 2006 face-to-face apology that he said he received from his old adversary. "He's not the same guy, as far as I'm concerned," Johnson said. "And nothing has happened during the course of this year's campaign."

Cornyn is now a McCain supporter, as is Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, himself a past target of McCain's sharp tongue, especially over what McCain regarded as Cochran's hunger for pork-barrel projects in his state. Cochran landed in newspapers early during the campaign after declaring that the thought of McCain in the Oval Office "sends a cold chill down my spine."

Indeed, aside from a single testy exchange in March with New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller over whether he had had a conversation in 2004 with Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry about being his running mate -- a tape of which appeared immediately on YouTube -- McCain has been noticeably unflappable throughout the primaries. Advisers posit that his temperament ought to be a dead issue.

"Everyone has a temper . . . but there has been no evidence of a temper problem here," said Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager. "In our campaign, he has done give-and-take with people everywhere, regardless if someone agrees or disagrees with him. There is no more probing process than a presidential campaign. He has performed well under the most intense kind of pressure."
Friends and Enemies

McCain has been down this road before. During his 2000 presidential run, responding in part to questions about his temper and what effect, if any, his 5 1/2 years as a POW had on his psyche, he released about 1,500 pages of his medical and psychiatric records, which presented a clean bill of mental health.

"I'm not saying he doesn't have a temper, but it's governable," Salter said. "When he has a heated argument, it's usually with one of his peers, who are unaccustomed to being addressed that way by anyone, really. Sometimes he can't govern his tongue. He's just blunt -- he's a straightforward person."

McCain has built much of his appeal, especially with independents, as the fiery maverick willing to defy both parties. His tempestuousness has girded him in high-stakes confrontations, especially against Republican conservatives who regard his occasionally moderate stances as proof that he has sold them out.

"You will damn well do this. You will make this a holiday. You're making us look like fools," he privately exploded two decades ago at a stunned group of Arizona Republicans who opposed creating a state holiday in remembrance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Early during their days together in the Senate, Smith came to believe that McCain often used his temper as a strategic weapon, that if he "couldn't persuade you, he was going at least to needle you or [sometimes] belittle you or blow up into trying to have you believe you were beneath him, so that you'd be less likely to challenge him. He needed to be the top guy."

Smith admits to not liking McCain, a point he has often made over the years to reporters. "I've witnessed a lot of his temper and outbursts," Smith said. "For me, some of this stuff is relevant. It raises questions about stability. . . . It's more than just temper. It's this need of his to show you that he's above you -- a sneering, condescending attitude. It's hurt his relationships in Congress. . . . I've seen it up-close."

Smith, whose service in the Navy included a tour on the waters in and around Vietnam, said he stood stunned one day when McCain declared around several of their colleagues that Smith wasn't a real Vietnam War veteran. "I was in the combat zone, off the Mekong River, for 10 months," Smith said. "He went on to insult me several times. I wasn't on the land; I guess that was his reasoning. . . . He suggested I was masquerading about my Vietnam service. It was very hurtful. He's gotten to a lot of people [that way]."

While in the course of a policy disagreement at a luncheon meeting of Republican senators, McCain reportedly insulted Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico with an earthy expletive. Domenici demanded an apology. "Okay, I'll apologize," McCain said, before referring to an infuriated Domenici with the same expletive.

Salter insists that many of McCain's run-ins with colleagues and activists have resulted from McCain's conviction that his honor in some way has been questioned. "If he feels a challenge to his integrity, then he'll say something," Salter said. "If he thinks you betrayed him . . . he'll tell you, he'll be angry. . . . But he's also exceedingly forgiving."

During the early 1990s, McCain telephoned the office of Tom Freestone, a governmental official little known outside Arizona's Maricopa County. McCain had an unusual request. He wanted Freestone, then chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, to reject a job applicant named Karen S. Johnson, whose last governmental position had been in the office of a former Arizona governor and who had just interviewed for a position as an aide in Freestone's office.

According to two employees in the office, McCain told Freestone that the applicant's past political associations left her carrying unflattering baggage.

The pair of Freestone staffers thought it odd that a U.S. senator would even know that Johnson had applied for a job in their office, let alone that he had taken time out of his workday to pick up a phone and weigh in on a staffing matter so removed from the locus of Washington power. But McCain's disenchantment with Johnson was personal: A few years earlier, he had an angry exchange with her while she was the secretary for Republican Arizona Gov. Evan Meacham, who was impeached and forced out of office for campaign finance violations.

Around the time of Meacham's ouster, Johnson said, McCain paid a visit to him. Johnson recalled that McCain swiftly used the opportunity to lecture Meacham: "You should never have been elected. You're an embarrassment to the [Republican] Party."

A stupefied Meacham just stared at the senator. An indignant Johnson, as she tells the story, snapped at McCain: "How dare you? You're the embarrassment to the party."

As Johnson and another person working in Freestone's office remember, the surprised supervisor told Johnson about McCain's objections to her. "But I'm hiring you anyway," Freestone told her.

For Johnson, McCain's call raised questions as to whether he bore a lasting animosity against anyone who ever challenged him. "Everyone in [Freestone's] office thought it was all ridiculous . . . and petty," remembers Johnson, a devout Republican conservative who today is an Arizona state senator.

"Senator McCain says he has no recollection of ever making a phone call to block a job for Karen Johnson," Salter said.

During roughly the same period, McCain requested the firing of an aide to Arizona's senior U.S. senator, Dennis DeConcini, according to two top figures in DeConcini's office.

The aide, a veterans affairs expert named Judy Leiby, first ran into problems with McCain in the late '80s, when she sought to correct what she regarded as a McCain misstatement about DeConcini's record on a veterans issue. She was attending a Phoenix meeting between McCain and some veterans when she rebutted a McCain assertion that DeConcini, a Democrat, favored a bill that included a cut of some veterans benefits. "That is incorrect," Leiby said, detailing the specifics of DeConcini's position as McCain listened stonily.

Sometime afterward, McCain called DeConcini and asked that he dismiss Leiby, insisting to the senator that his aide had become a toxic, partisan figure. According to the two people in the office, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, DeConcini defended Leiby and, praising what he characterized as her bipartisan fairness and expertise, urged McCain to give her a second look. McCain refused, repeating his demand that Leiby be fired.

DeConcini "politely told McCain to go to hell," according to a source close to the conversation, adding: "Not once in [DeConcini's 18-year Senate tenure] did another senator ask for an aide to be dismissed. Not once did anyone speak about an aide like that."

Episodes such as the Johnson and Leiby incidents, along with McCain's oft-chronicled blowups on Capitol Hill, have led critics to say he has a vindictive streak, that he sees an enemy in anyone who challenges him.

"I heard about his temper more from others," said Grant Woods, McCain's first congressional chief of staff, who is generally regarded as McCain's closest confidant in his early political years. "According to them, he really unleashed on some of them, and they couldn't figure out why. . . . It happened enough that it was affecting his credibility with some people. If you wanted a programmed, subdued, always-on-message politician, he wasn't and will never be your guy."

Woods helped orchestrate McCain's first House campaign in 1982 and worked to get him elected to the Senate in 1986. That year the Arizona Republican Party held its Election Night celebration for all its candidates at a Phoenix hotel, where the triumphant basked in the cheers of their supporters and delivered victory statements on television.

After McCain finished his speech, he returned to a suite in the hotel, sat down in front of a TV and viewed a replay of his remarks, angry to discover that the speaking platform had not been erected high enough for television cameras to capture all of his face -- he seemed to have been cut off somewhere between his nose and mouth.

A platform that had been adequate for taller candidates had not taken into account the needs of the 5-foot-9 McCain, who left the suite and went looking for a man in his early 20s named Robert Wexler, the head of Arizona's Young Republicans, which had helped make arrangements for the evening's celebration. Confronting Wexler in a hotel ballroom, McCain exploded, according to witnesses who included Jon Hinz, then executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. McCain jabbed an index finger in Wexler's chest.

"I told you we needed a stage," he screamed, according to Hinz. "You incompetent little [expletive]. When I tell you to do something, you do it."

Hinz recalls intervening, placing his 6-foot-6 frame between the senator-elect and the young volunteer. "John, this is not the time or place for this," Hinz remembers saying to McCain, who fumed that he hadn't been seen clearly by television viewers. Hinz recollects finally telling McCain: "John, look, I'll follow you out on stage myself next time. I'll make sure everywhere you go there is a milk crate for you to stand on. But this is enough."

McCain spun around on his heels and left. He did not talk to Hinz again for several years. In 2000, as Hinz recalls, he appeared briefly on the Christian Broadcasting Network to voice his worries about McCain's temperament on televangelist Pat Robertson's show, "The 700 Club." Hinz's concerns have since grown with reports of incidents in and out of Arizona.

In 1994, McCain tried to stop a primary challenge to the state's Republican governor, J. Fife Symington III, by telephoning his opponent, Barbara Barrett, the well-heeled spouse of a telecommunications executive, and warning of unspecified "consequences" should she reject his advice to drop out of the race. Barrett stayed in. At that year's state Republican convention, McCain confronted Sandra Dowling, the Maricopa County school superintendent and, according to witnesses, angrily accused her of helping to persuade Barrett to enter the race.

"You better get [Barrett] out or I'll destroy you," a witness claims that McCain shouted at her. Dowling responded that if McCain couldn't respect her right to support whomever she chose, that he "should get the hell out of the Senate." McCain shouted an obscenity at her, and Dowling howled one back.

Woods raced over, according to a witness, and pulled Dowling away. Woods said he has "no memory" of being involved, "though I heard something about an argument."

"What happens if he gets angry in crisis" in the presidency?" Hinz asked. "It's difficult enough to be a negotiator, but it's almost impossible when you're the type of guy who's so angry at anybody who doesn't do what he wants. It's the president's job to negotiate and stay calm. I don't see that he has that quality."

Having reunited with his old boss after a falling out in the '90s, Woods is back on board. Barbara Barrett, too. Other Arizona Republicans, once spurned or alienated from McCain, have accepted invitations to rejoin him, though not Sandra Dowling or Jon Hinz, who said, "I've just seen too much. That temper, the intolerance: It worries me."

Yeah, that one touched a nerve.

That is the spirit, fight back.

Probably make mcwar show that famous temper.

Just when I think that you have gone completely over to being gotnolite you go and say something like that and partially redeem yourself, somewhat.

From first link provided by Erick -

On Sunday, McCain said Coburn was “a great humanitarian… in my view, one of greatest spokespersons for the rights of the unborn.”
“To compare [Ayers] with Dr. Coburn, who spends so much of his life bringing babies into this world, that in my view… borders on outrageous,” McCain said..

So for Bob Allen we will see similar defense like -- he's an honorable man who has served his state with honor -- or some such crap.

I guess Obama supporters should be pleased that he is getting so much scrutiny from McCain and the media. It must be because he is the presumptive nominee. Thus far they have come up only with the following dirt: (1) he has a pastor who often sounds like a crackpot; (2) he has a former extremist radical living in his neighborhood who also does charity work at the same charity Obama volunteered for; (3) he sounded elitist at a fundraiser once; and (4) he thinks its okay to not wear a flag pin along with 99.9% of other Americans. Finally, through excellent investigative journalism, it has now been debunked by this scrutinizing media that he is not in fact a member of the Muslim faith.

How Obama can withstand such scathing scrutiny is uncanny! Even the media has marveled at how Obama is still accepted in decent society after these incredible gaffes and scandals.

As sarcastic as this sounds, it is, in fact, the political story of the moment. If I didn't know better, I would think there was something conspiratorial or sinister in this situation, but I know better -- America and its news gathering representatives follow politics like they follow big time wrestling -- they don't care what's real-- and the commentary is filled with references to fake head slams.

Anyone who cares to think about it knows that big time wrestling is fake. Similarly, anyone who thinks about it will realize how fake this whole Obama scrutinizing is.

Consider Obama's mangled and otherwise unremarkable sentence that conservative, small town voters are not racist (that was the question he was asked) -- but they simply tend to vote on guns, god, and immigration, because they don't believe Washington will tend to their economic needs and are embittered over this reality.

The main insult in the story was to the people of San Francisco, who were maligned simply for being the geographic location of the remarks!

Now let's assume for purposes of argument that Obama knows and deals with Ayers but that Obama doesn't think like Ayers or approve of bombing things. What's the story?-- he didn't kick his butt when he found out that Ayers lived in Chicago? Is that what he should have done? Punched him out? Stopped him from doing charity work? Refused to look at him?

This is odd because everyone seems to like the fact that he Obama is a Christian, right? Would Jesus ostracize and ignore folks who had sinned?

Was it tacky for Bush to attack McCain in South Carolina based on racist, stupid claims? Yes, so why is it okay to ask Obama if he is Muslim, if he is black enough, if he regrets not punching out Reverend Wright, and if he is a secret supporter of the Weather Underground?!

Only one answer is possible. He's the only person alive who has a chance of becoming the next President of the United States. I'd be offended if I were McCain.

Hey, hey John McCain!
How many senators have you shoved today?

Lestatdelc
It has as much to do with McCain's temper as the comment I replied to saying Hillary is Lieberman. I just noted the hypocrisy.

Gotalife has a new sockpuppet.

How do we know? Well first the avatar--she's been fond of using "fuck you" imagery as we all recall with the Scalia picture. Second, the short sentences and their rhythm is just too similar to be coincidental.

Gotalife has no life.

Sad.

Pathetic.

Oops!

Obama:
"You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain," Obama said in Reading, Pa. "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."

Um.... I thought we were saying that McCain is another Bush. I thought we were running against McCain, not Bush. I didn't think we wanted to paint McCain as better than Bush. This really is a new kind of politics.

At least 30%. I'm having trouble imagining voting for her at this point.

And I have never missed a vote.

But hell, Hillary-Joe claims she doesn't need me - I'm an activist and she doesn't like us.

What an ugly (racial) double standard. Barack has to renounce, reject, denounce, explain, apologize for everyone he knows.

Does Hillary have any splainin of rejecting or denouncing to do?

For starters:

http://digg.com/politics/Senator_Hillary_Clinton_Must_Explain_The_Praising_of_KKK_Grp

http://blackcommentator.com/274/274_clinton_udc.html

(maybe this has been posted - I saw it as a comment on HuffPo).