If the situation were reversed, and Obama outed McCain, is there any doubt that the mainstream media would be all over the story like white on rice. McCain says something outrageous and the press yawns. The double standard is ridiculous and ever-widening.

Posted at July 18, 2008 6:20 PM in response to No Word Yet From McCain Camp On McCain's Discussion Of Obama Trip Timing

Jeez--he gets more pathetic and offensive with each passing day.

Posted at July 17, 2008 11:39 PM in response to McCain: Obama Is An Extremist, "I Don't Know" If He's A Socialist

Russ--WTF did they teach you at Harvard because you sure didn't learn much about history, politics, statistics, economics, or moral values. The Republican party is politically and morally bankrupt. While the Democratic party isn't all that much better, I find it impossible to see how the party of corporate plutocrats, who have allowed their constituency to rape the country to the point where we're on the brink of the biggest economic disaster since the Great Depression, is going to hold on to the working class without clinging tight to the politics of fear and cultural division.

How anybody with half a brain could write a defense of the GOP after eight years of Bush (who is the natural conclusion of the Reagan Revolution) is beyond me.

Posted at July 14, 2008 7:51 PM in response to Grand New Party and Political Narrative

Another oldie but goodie from the Rovian bag of tricks. Just as Kerry was too French, so Obama will be too European, or too Islamic, or too black. It's the Republican way to paint the Democratic candidate as somehow less than American and less than patriotic.

I'm hoping that after eight years of President Stupid, Americans know better than to fall for this BS yet again.

Posted at July 10, 2008 12:06 PM in response to Top McCain Surrogates Questioning Obama's American-Ness

Good old Phil--still an idiot after all these years. And yet the Republicans are going to try to pin the elitist tag on Obama when they're the ones who are clearly out of touch.

Posted at July 10, 2008 12:00 PM in response to McCain Campaign Distances Itself From Gramm's "Nation Of Whiners" Comment

Maybe McCain can lead us all in another chorus of "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" again. Or perhaps we can just airdrop tons of cigarettes on them in hopes that they'll slowly off themselves.

I don't want this trigger-happy crank anywhere near the White House.

Posted at July 9, 2008 2:53 PM in response to McCain Campaign Unleashes Misleading Attack On Obama Over Iran

That ad was absolutely vomit-inducing. It's become increasingly clear that the theme of McCain campaign is going to be "Vote for me because I'm a War Hero. Please ignore the fact that I sold what little soul I had left to become Bush redux."

It's going to be a long and ugly campaign. McCain has clearly learned the politics of division, lies, and character assassination from the Bushies.

Posted at July 8, 2008 10:12 AM in response to McCain Ad: Empty "Hope" Won't Improve Our Lives

I wonder how much longer before McCain's whining about being attacked about his war record will make him look like a big ole pussy, especially when he whines one moment and attacks Obama the next. What a weenie. I know the press is in the bag for McCain, but at some point taking every little thing as an attack makes him look like an overly sensitive, grumpy old man. And who wants their grumpy crotchety grandpa as president?

After finally seeing the much ballyhoed Clark comment, where he essentially repeated what his interviewer asked him, after his interviewer had already asked him the same basic question about six times, made me wonder again what planet the MSM is on to blow something so inconsequential so very far out of proportion. Sigh. It's going to be a long election season. Rove may be back in Texas, but his tactics survive.

Posted at July 1, 2008 5:28 PM in response to Webb Spokesperson: Um, No, We Didn't Attack McCain's Service

I'll be holding my breath to see if she does the right thing on Saturday or if she continues to spread the harmful meme that she somehow won the popular vote--the implication being that she is being cheated out of the nomination. After her behavior in the last few months of the campaign, I no longer trust her to behave decently.

Posted at June 5, 2008 9:42 AM in response to Hillary: "I Intend To Deliver" On Vow To Strongly Support Obama

I guess that puts to rest the notion that he's less electable than Clinton, at least to the extent that polls taken this early in the game can tell us much of anything.

He should get a much bigger bounce once Hillary concedes.

Posted at June 4, 2008 11:54 PM in response to CBS/NYT Poll: Obama Led McCain By Six Points Before He Clinched The Nomination