You all have a lot fun of intentionally distorting beyond recognition McCain's words about Iraq (e.g. 100 years IF ...), but just let people pick apart Obama's words a little and it isn't so funny, huh?

Posted at July 4, 2008 1:32 PM in response to Obama Reiterates: Combat Troops Out Of Iraq In 16 Months

Bush listened to his generals, so in keeping with being the politician of change, Obama should listen to his generals, too. No wait - that's not change, is it? That's more of the same. Say, I'd better stay on my toes from now on.

Posted at July 3, 2008 8:50 PM in response to Obama Suggests He May "Continue To Refine" Iraq Policies

My, yes, this is all so different, isn't it? Certainly does represent a change from the old politics-as-usual. Excuse me for a second while I fall out of my chair laughing.

Reading the Obamabot's contorting themselves into pretzels trying to follow Obama's "refined" flip-flops, it really is true that you can fool some of the people ALL the time.

Posted at July 3, 2008 6:21 PM in response to Obama Suggests He May "Continue To Refine" Iraq Policies

"...it is a myth that people who support Obama have mocked and derided Senator Clinton and her supporters."

Sooooooo then, the thousands upon thousands of messages here on TPM and on DailyKos, etc., deriding Senator Clinton and her supporters were all a myth? Sort of like a dream?

Boy, you can really sling it. I think we could take your post, squeeze and wring it, and get quite a bit of oil.

Posted at June 8, 2008 3:48 PM in response to Hillary: Time To "Write The Next Chapter In America's Story"

Fyi, a vote for McCain would NOT be equivalent to validating the decision to invade Iraq. It was a horrible blunder to invade Iraq, but that doesn't mean that it would not be still another blunder to simply pull out and leave a mess behind, to say nothing of shirking our responsibility for the mess there. "You break it, you own it." - Colin Powell to George W. Bush.

And even more fyi, Obama's famous virtual vote against the Iraq invasion would be a lot more impressive if he had been a sitting U.S. senator at the time, and had seen the intel (bogus as it was), and had to weigh the impacts of his vote to U.S. security as well as his own re-election prospects. Here's a what-if for you: What if our intelligence would have included a secret photo of Osama shaking hands with Saddam standing beside a stock of bio-chemical weapons? How would Obama's virtual no-vote have looked in retrospect? Since he didn't see or know about any of the evidence at the time of his virtual no-vote, and therefore didn't offer any arguments about the specific weaknesses of any evidence, his no-vote was nothing more than a gut feeling. Personally, I'm not impresses with ANYONE's gut feelings, Bush, Obama or whoever. I want leaders who make decisions based on evidence, not gut feelings and lucky guesses.

Posted at June 8, 2008 12:19 PM in response to Hillary: Time To "Write The Next Chapter In America's Story"

Some theoretical physicists speculate that all possible universes exist, for example, there's a universe where Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, and JFK went on to serve two full terms.

I bring this up only because I would ABSOLUTELY FRIGGIN' LOVE to see the universe where Hillary won the nomination from Obama, because I would fully expect to read op-ed columns, and thousands of message-posts from Obamabots, swearing to either vote for McCain or sit out the election.

Posted at June 8, 2008 11:03 AM in response to Hillary: Time To "Write The Next Chapter In America's Story"

Flip, flop, doesn't change a thing. But it's nice to see that after 20 years it's finally dawned on Obama that he doesn't agree with what Wright and Co. have been preaching all these years. Something of a slow learner I guess.

Posted at June 1, 2008 8:45 AM in response to Obama Explains His Break From Trinity Church

Lean and muscular? Oh, be still my beating heart!

I'm sure that appeals to all the women and latent homosexual men out there among his supporters, who ironically enjoy calling themselves "issues" voters.

But I am glad to hear he gets enough roughage. That's the first thing I always ask myself about any candidate running for office. Sometimes he looks a little constipated, like when ABC

Posted at May 30, 2008 9:07 AM in response to Obama's Doctor: He's "Lean And Muscular With No Excess Body Fat"

How odd. When Josh Marshall was putting McCain's 100 year comment in wall-to-wall 24/7 headlines for days, and TPM was filled with thousands of message posts from gleeful pod-people, I never saw ONE post (except my own) which was pointing out that it was all B.S.

Yet you say that "many of us" on the Obama side abhor such distortions? Well, I'll play along and assume for the sake of argument that you might have a frog in your pocket, so that's two of you, but it doesn't alter in the slightest the fact that 99.999% of Obama supporters, TPM, and Obama himself were intentionally distorting McCain's remarks.

So if you're going to say it's sad that poor Obama's remarks were misrepresented, then at least admit it goes both ways, especially when you're posting here on Bias Central, i.e. TPM - the Pod-People Network. Honestly it makes Fox News look like a shining star of journalistic integrity by comparison. This place is a hog wallow of bias.

Posted at May 29, 2008 10:50 AM in response to Obama Clarifies Position On Meeting With Foreign Leaders

Really? Iraq is not Germany? You say that as if you think you're making a point. McCain said IF Iraq is stable. Is it that hard for a pod-person to understand a two-letter conditional word? What's the matter, didn't they program you for conditional statements?

Apparently they didn't program you to recognize simple hypocrisy either, such as whining about people taking Obama out of context and then proceeding to do just that to McCain in the very next pod-person gulp of carbon dioxide (the pod equivalent of animal life breathing air).

Posted at May 29, 2008 10:41 AM in response to Obama Clarifies Position On Meeting With Foreign Leaders