KABUL, Afghanistan — A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said.

So:
How you propose to keep the troops safe while being in these countries for 100 years Senator McCain - maybe you should explain it to the families above that just lost their loved ones.

Hagel is about as passionate as a guy like Hagel ever gets about foreign wars that get Americans killed for nothing and he absolutely loathes the neocons.

It will be very interesting to see if Obama puts someone like Hagel who thinks for himself on the ticket or in his cabinet or if he picks a stooge like Evan Bayh.

I hope Hagel would have a role in Obama's cabinet, however not as VP. As I've said elsewhere he is just too socially conservative. If Gates feels he needs to step down or Obama wants a clean break from all things Bush I think Hagel would be the front runner for Secretary of Defense.

I think any comparison of Hagel to Lieberman is an insult to Sen. Hagel.

I'll take their Hagel. They (the Repubs) are welcome to Lieberman and I hope they keep him!

Hagel, a harsh Iraq war critic and Reed, who voted against going to war sends a pretty damn strong message doesn't it? I love it. How can anybody question Obama's experience when he has Hagel and Reed as his Defense advisors? Far cry from Lieberman whispering in McCain's ear on McCain's ME trip.

Any word of who is accompanying Obama on his European tour? That could be dicey as Biden and Kerry are both jockying for that spot and Richardson feels he's owed something for his timely endorsement.

Can anybody answer for certain whether Rhode Island's Republican governor would pick Reed's replacement if he should be tabbed for VP?

hagel has a gravitas that lieberman doesn't at all possess; and his intentions are clearly for the good of the country, whereas lieberman's are not.

i also wouldn't object to him at the pentagon, as he's a firm believer in the chain of command. he could remind his employees of that; a message that seems to be increasingly ignored.

Some of you good folks have a short memory and forget that Chuck Hagel gave us Michael Mukasey, the Attorney General who now protects George W. Bush and the telecom industry and those involved in illegal torture, and who refuses to cooperate with Congressional investigations everytime he turns around.

When are you going to learn that our corporate controlled congress fears us?

If the recent vote on FISA hasn't awakened you by now, well...your kids and mine are going to be the targets and pay for our doing nothing.

You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

Chuck Hagel as VP
Now that's CHANGE that works for YOU

If you haven't seen this, I think it's a must see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2nNSMZKv_A

Mark Sanford is done as a potential McCain VP pick....

I think we should all drop a line to the New Yorker, as this is the most offensive thing I have seen in a long time. They say it's satire, B.S.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/13/yikes-controversial-emnew_n_112429.html#postComment

Oh yeah, he's gonna endorse Obama....Along with Colin Powell. You just wait and see!

I seem to recall that Hagel was the CEO of Election Systems Software here in Omaha. I admire his war stance wouldn't want to see him on the ticket. conservative judges, no equal rights, creationism, ........

Oh that is so nice, Chuckie is going to help Obama look viable in the fall election.

All those "white" guys buired in Mississippi who believed in Martin Luther King, Jr's., pack of BS, my goodness they were so *ucking stupid, like you know, that Mississippie burning movie, where white guys died for black people's and their stupid civil rights, based on some stupid premise that somehow anyone can't believe those stupid words in the US Constitution. Boggles the mind really!

There is not one single *ucking African American out there who would not vouch for those stupid idiot, dead WHITE guys, stupid as they were, imagine that, that they stood for African Ameican equality? I hate African Americans - they are so damn cheap, as cheap as Obama ever was to sell out his oath of office.

Really, I don't think there is even the mere premise that, that, that ever stupid sacrificial icon, OR pretense of an icon known of a US Constitution, even remotely met that African Americans have any equality, certainly no more that AT&T and Verizon, as well as a score of the other telecoms rights to even start asking opportunist leaders like Obama to spying on people and their war time kids for an entitlement program know of as the Pell Grant - stop bitching, please. Obama isn't going to give you a break, least not more that AT&T and Verizon.

I guess I just think that a natural leader that CAN NOT stand-up to the guys in Arlington Cemetery with the same utterly preachery talk about responsibility?

"We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child. It's the courage to raise one."

Thank you Oama for your courage in lecturing, however feeble it is - that it requires no responsibility to the US Consititution whatsoever. Those vets out in the field must live up to their oath, but Obama????

Keep preaching to the choir Obama and don't follow ANY of your own words, for Christ sakes dude, just lie for AT&T and Verizon, and the act of torture if you have to, to win, anything goes.

“I believe in personal responsibility; I also believe in faith,” he said. “That’s not something new; I’ve been talking about that for years. So the notion that this is me trying to look” — he waved his hands around his head — “centrist is not true.”

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

AT&T and Verizon were the "domestic enemies" and thus Obama did, you know, commit treason, no faith need apply.

It is all corporate gain. Does anything else really matter?

oops, sorry for double post.

my wireless is giving me fits.

I think that Kaine would be an excellent VP for Obama.

Hagel won't be Obama's VP but he still can be used as an attack dog against anybody who says that Obama lacks the experience to be a great commander in chief.

Why hasn't McCain been asked the most basic question? You believe that Iraq in analogous to Germany, S. Korea and Japan? Germany which had the Red Army on its door step that raped 2million German women on its way to Berlin, or South Korea which had millions of Chinese and N. Koreans who had already almost taken over all of South Korea but for US marines and Japan which had Russia and China on its door step and a demilitarized constitution. If MCCain believes that Iraq is analogous to those he is seriously delusional.