He has a spine and a brain! This has been so much fun.

Sorry to keep repeating this, but it's important: hundreds of thousands of US citizens may lose right to vote with new proof of citizenship requirements.

McCain, one word: Buttslammed!

Bam! Another bruising by Obama!

McCain is going to be in pieces by November.

I think Obama just barack'd McCain's world.

I know! Obama behaves exactly how I want a Democrat to behave....forceful, but measured. Intellectual, but grounded. Driven, but not power hungry.

I LOVE BARACK OBAMA! A once in a generation candidate!

Pres '08 -- Gallup Poll

May 19 McCain (R) 45% (-3), Obama (D) 46% (+4)
May 2 McCain (R) 48%, Obama (D) 42%

What best explains McCain's collapse?

Bush - McCain fear to negotiate foreign policy?
Bomb Iran song and dance?
Reverend Rod Parsley and Hagee damage?
Involvement in a AZ land deal scandal?
Expanding upheaval in McCain's campaign over lobbyists?
Slippery hold on past political courage and independence?

What explains his slide?

Yes, the Cuban Missile Crisis, precisely. What better example to contrast the 'cowboys' with the 'negotiators'. The negotiators in Kennedy's cabinet won out. If the cowboys had their way, we'd have been at war on our own turf.

McBushCain: The War Hybrid that is fueled by Fear.

"But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba"

That's right, the world was just magically on the brink of nuclear holocaust. Kennedy himself had nothing to do with that; he just walked into the office one morning and bam, brink of nuclear holocaust not that I expect Obama to criticize Kennedy given that he's the next JFK).

Of course, Obama's the same guy who said he won't set preconditions to meet, but there will be preparaiton. Caught Edwards take on that on CNN yeterday; even Edwards doesn't understand the difference.

Thank You Obama, this made my day better.

Barack Obama – Muslim apostate?

"Once branded as an apostate, President Obama would face enormous difficulties in the foreign policy realm, especially in the fight against terrorism."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080519/cm_csm/yburki

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR OBAMA!!

Obama's discussion position is easily discernable. Preconditions are requiring specific behaviors or acts from a country as a prerequisite JUST to talk. Preparations involve lower level talks, getting together the agenda, working out issues that may be solved at lower levels, gaining knowledge of who you're dealing with, who has the real power, all sorts of things. What Obama is saying, is that he will talk face to face with leaders, without requiring a country to acquiesce to our demands beforehand (which they won’t do anyway). It’s pretty simple really.

On the scale ranging from Reagan v. Mondale at one extreme to FDR v. Smith on the other extreme, I think this one is going to fall somewhere right around Clinton v. Dole. I have always maintained that Obama would be a stronger general election candidate than he is in the primary.

McCain is already looking like he's phoning shit in without thinking. He's going to stumble bad enough, and it's Tuzla II: Electric Boogaloo. But I don't even think obama needs for McCain to have a moment like that. I think he is going to steadily, but not in an overreaching way, hammer on McCain with the strong arm of a steady carpenter.

And I don't know if McCain--who is 71, not used to being told what to do, and having to walk a line between being appealing and being "conservative" enough for the base--is up to it. In fact, I know he's not up to it. Instead of being insistent yet tempered, his insistence comes across as ill-temper. Or worse: that sort of grandpa-talking-to-child-idiots tone he gets. He's not quick enough not to be hampered by resorting to message, because his message changes every day. And where it is steady, it's just Bush revisited.

There's a reason McCain was almost politically dead a year ago: he sucks at politicking. and there's a reason he's where is is now: because in a field of flakes (Rudy), punkinheads (Thompson), Mormon greenhorns (Romney), and the All Too Evengelical for the Norquist Group's Taste, Thank You Very Much (Huckabee--the best candidate they had), he was the least objectionable.

The waiter came and the GOP ordered a Ronald Regan Baked Potato, and they were told that the restaurant was fresh out of baked potato. So the GOP ordered carrots, because that's what you order when the restaurant is out of baked potatoes.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present John McCain: the carrot with all the goodness boiled out of him.

Fun campaign coming up.

I see swooning superdelegates.

Why is McCain stammering and stuttering? Has anyone notice how he appears weak? I think his response was spot-on. However, Barack had to not appear to be beating a women in the primary and now has to be careful not to appear to be beating on an elderly man.

McCain wants to continue all of Bush's failed policies, both foreign and domestic. Only crazy people keep doing the same thing over and over, and keep expecting different results.

Come on America. Try something different. Vote Obama2008

Dude, McCain can't raise his arms over his head because what was done to him while he was a POW. I'm no McCain fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I think we can lay off him for that.

Besides, there's plenty of other stupid shit we can make fun of him for. He's practically got a political bullseye hanging from his neck.

Obama's response about Kennedy talking to Khrushchev doesn't exactly refute Obama's statement at the MSNBC debate in which he said he would meet without preconditions with Ahmadinejad of Iran. Kennedy didn't meet with Khrushchev over the Cuban missile crisis, nor would he have done so without preconditions. Sounds like Obama is not so subtly trying to shift the focus from his misstatement in the debate and redefine the argument into the merits of negotiation. That still leaves McCain with the ability to attack Obama's original statement in the debates.

This is the right response from Obama. No back pedaling. You take a swing at me, I going to aim for your teeth.

Amazingly, McCain is setting himself up for the exact same problem that Bush has had for four years. "We need to stay in Iraq until it is better, but I don't know what that means or when it might happen." The public is onto that game by now.

Speaking of Iran, nukes and appeasement; I would like to ask Senator McCain for his position on Pakistan. Here we have a horribly unstable nation already in possession of nuclear weapons. Worse yet, Pakistan has supplied their nuclear know-how to the highest bidder (courtesy of A.Q. Khan)! What has the U.S. government done in response? We’ve given them more military and economic aid! In a nutshell; we’re giving that country money so we don’t have to worry about them (or whichever proxy they sell to) using their nukes in a ‘unsavory’ way. Sounds like appeasement to me...

Obama drank...his...MILKSHAKE!

This episode shows how we'll win.

Obama deals out a "What are Bush and McCain afraid of?" instead of a "They're trying to make American's afraid." Make the point that it appears to be the Bush Republicans who seem to be scared of every little terrorist, every little dictator.

We're going to be Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, once again.

But for those that are scared understanding these simple concepts is not obvious and when they try to hide their fear by being macho through cowboy diplomacy the nuance and rational though simply go over their heads by default.

Apart from his experience as a POW, which we all honor, what exactly has McCain ever done to prove that he has sound foreign policy judgment? As far as I can tell, nothing.

"inexperience and reckless judgment."

That were Dubya and his huggy buddy McCain, when one took us into an unwarranted war by cherry picking information, and the other enabled and still supports it, wholly.

When McCain shouts "inexperienced" and "reckless" he should be talking to his mirror.

Check out the Real John McCain. Video of some of his contradictions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

I seriously cannot wait for Obama to push Grandpa's buttons and watch him come unhinged. It will happen at some point between now and November. Guaranteed.

Senator Obama is on the right side of this argument. Just like the gas tax--a no-brainer.

Now if he's just as quick to the draw with the swiftboaters as he has been with Bu$h and McCain, we're in for a memorable election!

It's the Forbidden Question!

Someone's on to us!
Media Defense Squad encircle McCain!
"POW! American Hero! Maverick! POW!"

Finally, finally, finally a Democrat refuses to assume a defensive crouch when it comes to national security. Notice the reaction of that crowd, standing ovations, sustained applause to a blast of fresh air from a new kind of Democrat.

I don't think it is possible to underestimate the impact of this kind of approach. Not only is he taking on Bush, McCain and the neocons but also the pentagon, defense contractors and all of the folks in Congress that thrive on their dime, the embedded media and their generals, the chronically insecure armchair warriors, the whole war machine.

The number one priority for picking his Vice President is that they share this approach to national secuity.

Oh, Heaven help us all if Obama gets control!!

YIKES...

All Hill supporters listen up: If Hillary doesn't get the nomination, we all need to stick together and vote for McCain!!

At least he'll keep us safe until 2012!

At this point I don't even care if Obama is right on this. He is exposing the McBush bullshi* for what it is. Who knew he had well, some backbone. Talk about teticular fortitude.

Frankly, I don't think people are as interested in the issues surrounding this argument as how the candidates handle the argument itself. They want to see that Obama has some backbone, he wins on all the other issues - the foreign policy one I think is mostly one of strength.

I know I am biased but McCain just comes off as dishonest. I think he would be better served just to argue on the merits. I understand why they want to paint Obama as inexperienced but I just think the way they are doing it comes off as ridiculous.

For God's sake, Otto, Kennedy met Khruschev for a summit in 1961, more than a year before the Cuban Missile Crisis.

As for Rae, if you really think another four years of idiotic cowboy bluster and reckless warmongering will make us safer--go ahead and vote for McCain, who makes no secret of wanting to continue Bush's policies (both in terms of foreign policy and economics). Just remember that you'll also be voting to take away women's abortion rights, opportunities for just and equal pay, etc. Four more years of Bush--yeah, that's the ticket!

Obama will meet with his Muslim friends: Enemies of America.

Do not take my words for it, Read Obama's own words from his books:

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'

From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

From Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side yo u were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'