That's great, but WaPo has been pretty pro-Obama for most of this election cycle.

Now if the WSJ were to endorse Obama...

I'd say that David Brooks implicitly endorsed Obama this morning, as well.

Which isn't all that surprising, but Hiatt? The ultimate tire-swinger? This has gotta burn for him.

Wow.

I figured Hiatt would equivocate this all the way to Nov. 5th.

Wow.

I read this last night.

I guess I'm just glad that McLame showed the true McLame finally and that the MSM got the message - and it probably wouldn't have if not for Sarah Palin.

Worst political mistake of all time, IMO.

Palin has taken down the ship with some help from McCain, of course. You just can't dodge the incredibly poor choice that McCain made by picking Palin. If you admit you screwed up, then you look pretty damned silly. If you constantly make statements to the public about your fellings of "assurance" that Palin is qualified, then you look even more idiotic. Sorry John, this gamble cost you the election and you know it.

What's funny about all this was Rick Davis criticizing Kristol for his stating that McCain's campaign should all be fired. I think Rick is seeing the last of his career as a campaign stategist.

Good riddance to bad trash.

As for Powell endorsing Obama, I couldn't care less. If anyone should have "blinked" it should have been Powell when handed the task of going before the U.N. and laying out the "facts" behind the Iraq was justification. His stellar image is permanently tarnished in my view.

PEACE

When will see Fox News endorse Obama? Hannity for Obama? Perhaps O'Reilly? You know, they are "Fair and Balanced." I think that is the most idiotic slogan that Fox could come up with. I would think that "Dirty Laundry" playing as their "theme song" would be much more suited.
I love to watch Hannity squirm. I'd like to sneak an Obama bumper sticker on his car, but that would certainly hurt Obama.

When will see Fox News endorse Obama? Hannity for Obama? Perhaps O'Reilly? You know, they are "Fair and Balanced." I think that is the most idiotic slogan that Fox could come up with. I would think that "Dirty Laundry" playing as their "theme song" would be much more suited.
I love to watch Hannity squirm. I'd like to sneak an Obama bumper sticker on his car, but that would certainly hurt Obama.

Here is another "signal that McCain's enormous goodwill among a certain class of Beltway insiders has been sapped -- irrevocably, perhaps -- by his sleazy campaign and his choice of Palin."

Peggy Noonan penned an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal, titled "Palin's Failin'" at:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122419210832542317.html

"In the past two weeks she has spent her time throwing out tinny lines to crowds she doesn't, really, understand. This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine. She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite. She doesn't seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts.

"...the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism."

I think McCain's problem is he only sees Republicans. Watching him defend Palin and his outrageous supporters on Letterman last night it's clear he thinks or hopes that everybody buys into that nonsense. I suppose he really can't say anything else or his poll numbers would drop out of sight but my guess is he's sequestered in his campaign bubble and the bad news doesn't filter up to him much from his staff. He can only read it in their faces and that's bad enough.

Cue the wingnuts to start claiming that the WaPo was always in the tank for Obama.

Nevermind that it is a rightie editorial board at heart on most issues, and endorsed McCain in the primaries.

All so nice, except that this little change in the US's political ambience leaves several devestated countries in its wake. And millions, literally, of bodies. It's more than just a change in the regulations. And the money, where has it all gone.
Obama's administration must start with an accounting. Otherwise, they will try to dump the blame on him. And he won't get a thing done 'til his third term!

Here's my favorite line from the editorial:

Mr. McCain would draw on many of the same policymakers who have brought us to our current state. We believe they have richly earned, and might even benefit from, some years in the political wilderness.

Amen.

I say fuck Colin Powell!! once a day and twice on Sundays.
He is a man that has lost all integrity, dignity and honor in the service of the GWB & DC whitehouse.
He, as a four star general knew that we did not go into Iraq with enough troops and yet said nothing.
Then his UN presentation fiasco was another monstrous blunder. He has no spine. His recommendations are worthless!! His latest glowing pronouncement of admiration of Senator Stevens is another nail in his character legacy coffin.
Nuf' said.

Assuming that we can 'agree to disagree' on Powell (some of us, including me, still have respect for him), his endorsement would be good for Obama and possibly excellent, depending on how he explains it. I can't think of anyone better than Colin Powell to explain, politely but tellingly, what a disasterous decision it was to select Sarah Palin and why for that reason alone, he could not possibly endorse McCain.

(And if he endorses McCain despite the fact of Palin, I'll join in every nasty thing the rest of you want to say!)