David Corn

I hope McCain picks Bobby. He isn't a serious candidate unless he hooks onto some nutcase to service the rabid right.

I think I called it when I said he would be the gaffe that keeps on giving.

Now he and his campaign have become a joke, not a funny one just a sad joke.

Thanks!

Perhaps the good governor, as running mate, could exorcise the gaffe demon who seems to be plaguing Sen. McCain.

DC,

Great observation.

As you imply from your points in this article, Obama's description's of his drug use need to be exposed to the same scrutiny. After all, breaking the law is certainly of more interest to the American public than braking Cathlic Church rules.

Is Obama prepared to disclose more about his drug use? Is the Obama campaign prepared to see more disclosed? "The event is a legitimate target for voter interest and media scrutiny."

America may or may not be ready for a national political debate about cocaine use by a Presidential candidate. By picking Obama as the presumptive Dem candidate, Obama would give the country a chance to find out.

Thanks for all you do.

Anbar Sheik Cited By McCain Was Assassinated Last Year

The major Sunni sheik who John McCain said was protected by the surge and subsequently helped lead the Anbar Awakening, was actually assassinated by an al-Qaeda led group in midst of the surge.

On Tuesday evening, McCain falsely claimed that the downturn in violence in Iraq's Anbar province was a result of the surge, when in fact the surge began months afterward. Moreover, he said, if it weren't for the work of U.S. forces, the major Sunni figure leading that awakening wouldn't have had the protection he needed.

"Colonel MacFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks," said the Senator. "Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening."

(huffpo)

The gaffe that keeps on giving.

I wonder if we will ever see his mental health records? All POW's are likely PTSD sufferers. It would explain some of McCain's thin skinned - knee-jerk responses. The inability to remember stuff is just regular dementia. It is normal for a 70 year old to forget stuff, we all have older family members.

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Question asked of Obama -

"If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge:"

Answer by Obama -

"No, because keep in mind that question, you wouldn't ... but keep in mind that kind of hypothetical is very difficult to know hindsight is 20-20 ... later ... but I think that what I'm absolutely convinced of is that at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with."

I wonder if we will ever see his mental health records? All drug users are likely memory loss sufferers. It would explain some of Obama's cryptic, nonsense responses. The inability to form logical answers to questions is just regular drug-induced brain-trauma. It is normal for a former drug user to forget stuff, we all know former drug users.

Sad, really.

Cheers

Barack Obama has won the argument on Iraq. The latest NBC/WSJ Poll, released tonight, shows that 60% of the voters think a timetable is a good idea, and 30% think it's a bad idea. Arguments about the success of the surge are irrelevant.

This is not helping John McCain, who is floundering and (out of frustration, presumably) lashing out at Obama and taking a ton of heat for it. It's getting so bad, even Business Week says John McCain's Brand has Jumped The Shark. Ouch.

(Kos)

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Oh SNAP, it was suppose to be McCain that was right?

Bummer in the summer ,eh?

Judging from this week’s management of McCain’s campaign communications, I’d say the biggest obstacle facing the Arizona Senator’s quest for the Oval Office is his own decision, helped by bad advice from his new chief campaign adviser Steve Schmidt, to walk away from the McCain brand.

Schmidt, brought on to “save” McCain’s campaign, advised McCain that its time for him to play the sappy, wounded victim, rather than the confident statesman. Oh Brother! Who think this is a good idea? This new strategy has also been garnished with a new piece of stage management Schmidt has given him: When you have the chance, they have clearly told him, snicker on camera at statements made by Obama. If Obama surrogates say that McCain and Bush statements about “time horizons” sound like Obama’s long-held positions on largely withdrawing from Iraq in 16+ months, or that their moves to prioritize the fighting in Afghanistan sound like positions Obama articulated months ago—-snicker. Laugh it off.

Up until this week, I’d have given McCain an even chance to defeat Obama in November. Obama is charismatic, but has a mighty thin resume. There are enough voters in the U.S. who aren’t sure about voting an African-American into the White House. Add to those people Republicans and people who like to see some gray hair on the President’s head when the *&^%$ hits the fan, and I’d have given McCain a better shot than some national polls.

(BusinessWeek)

Double OUCH. I guess the brain damaged ex-drug user isn't letting it hold him back, eh?

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Does the name Larry Sinclair ring a bell?

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Is McCain's Age Showing? Tongues Wag Over Flubs

We interrupt the nonstop coverage of Barack Obama's overseas trip to bring you some breaking whispers about John McCain.

He has been making a series of verbal slips -- invariably described as "gaffes" -- that are starting to ricochet from liberal blogs to the mainstream media. And fairly or not, some critics are suggesting the 71-year-old Republican candidate is showing his age.

McCain referred to the "Iraq-Pakistan border" in a "Good Morning America" interview; since there is no such border, he must have meant Afghanistan-Pakistan. He has twice referred to Czechoslovakia, a country that ceased to exist in 1993; mixed up Sunnis and Shiites; band identified Vladimir Putin as president of Germany.

(WaPo)

Oh dear, no small wonder McCain is in a snit about Germany . . . .

June 4, 2008

Obama staked out some hawkish positions, declaring that "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,"

June 6, 2008

He refused, however, to rule out other configurations, such as the city also serving as the capital of a Palestinian state or Palestinian sovereignty over Arab neighborhoods.

July 23, 2008

"It will be impossible to make progress on serious peace talks without putting the future of Jerusalem on the table," Daniel Kurtzer said yesterday at a conference organized by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute or JPPPI.

Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, has long been recognized by Israeli leaders, including prime ministers, as biased against Israel and is notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state. He was appointed as a primary Obama adviser on the Middle East earlier this year.

capt - "I guess the brain damaged ex-drug user isn't letting it hold him back, eh?" - at least we agree on who Obama is!! I'm all for the drug-addled trying to get ahead, it's just that his indecision and inability to commit is clinical evidence that the drug use might not have been as short-lived as BHO claimed in his book.

Cheers

Jindal: I will not be McCain's VP -

Bummer, I really wanted to explore the exorcist in a little more detail.

OFW!

Dan Abrams, the host of MSNBC's "Verdict," told viewers Monday that "gaffe after gaffe after gaffe come from John McCain, and they are forgotten. . . . There is no way Barack Obama would be able to get away with something like this."

Politico catalogued the errors on its Web site yesterday, saying: "McCain's mistakes raise a serious, if uncomfortable question: Are the gaffes the result of his age? And what could that mean in the Oval Office?"

The question is fair, says veteran analyst Charlie Cook of National Journal. "People wonder if McCain is kind of like a pitcher seven or eight years past his prime and misses a few here and there," he says. "When you're about to turn 72, people are going to be watching to see if you're slipping."

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Fair questions for gramps.

Keith O - RAWKS!

Keith: The McCain campaign is a knock knock joke!

Too effin funny!

Well, since the NBC organization is apparently the source of record -

"WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans think Barack Obama is a riskier choice for the presidency, but he maintains a six-point lead over Republican John McCain, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll."

BHO is a RISKIER CHOICE, according to a MAJORITY of Americans, with "gramps" only six points behind!!!!

Obama is truly the candidate of Change -

Washington Post – Top 5 Obama Flip-Flops as of February 25, 2008

1. Special interests

In January, the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwards as "special interest" money. Obama changed his tune as he began gathering his own union endorsements. He now refers respectfully to unions as the representatives of "working people" and says he is "thrilled" by their support.

2. Public financing

Obama replied "yes" in September 2007 when asked if he would agree to public financing of the presidential election if his GOP opponent did the same. Obama has now attached several conditions to such an agreement, including regulating spending by outside groups. His spokesman says the candidate never committed himself on the matter.

3. The Cuba embargo

In January 2004, Obama said it was time "to end the embargo with Cuba" because it had "utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro." Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not "take off the embargo" as president because it is "an important inducement for change."

4. Illegal immigration

In a March 2004 questionnaire, Obama was asked if the government should "crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants." He replied "Oppose." In a Jan. 31, 2008, televised debate, he said that "we do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."

5. Decriminalization of marijuana

While running for the U.S. Senate in January 2004, Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use. In the Oct. 30, 2007, presidential debate, he joined other Democratic candidates in opposing the decriminalization of marijuana.

McCain is old, what is BHO's excuse?

Cheers

McSame Outspends Obama 3-1; Gets Nothing for It

In fact, John McCain outspent Barack Obama by a bigger than 3-1 margin ($16 million versus Obama's $5 million) in June--and got next to nothing for his efforts. Nickolas' post shows the Pollster.com trendlines for the states McCain spent so lavishly on. The results for McCain are nothing short of pathetic. Only in Nevada does McCain show any serious uptick, while West Virginia hasn't been polled since June 2nd to make an assessment. As for the rest of the states? It's not even close.

http://tinyurl.com/5hrd48

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Bad news. Maybe if McForgetseverything outspends Barack 6 to 1?

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51% of voters are focused on what kind of president Obama will be vs. 27% for McCain.

55% want change, even if less experience, vs 40% for stability

Obama has greater risk (55%) vs. McCain (35%).

Obama is more mainstream (60% agree) compared to McCain (45%), but McCain has shared values lead.

43% of McCain supporters see him as the lesser of two evils vs. 22% for Obama.

Tony Blankley (MSNBC) reminds us this is eerily similar to 1980, and Obama is Ronald Reagan... the public wants him but won't commit until late.

Excited to vote for your candidate? 44% to 14% (guess who?)

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Maybe the campaign McCain is running will turn around all the numbers . . .

Not bloody likely but possible.

Former Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, the former Bush 41 adviser, considers himself officially "neutral" in the presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain, and is willing to offer advice to either candidate, according to two independent sources familiar with Scowcroft's thinking.

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I dunno but if McCain can't get the paleo-cons and he doesn't have the fundagelicals, he is down to his "base" - the M$M and they can only do so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ieHwOm4ljA

I said it before the youtubes will be the end of Johnny.

capt -

Thanks, you make my point for me -

GOES TO OBAMA - 51% of voters are focused on what kind of president Obama will be vs. 27% for McCain. THIS IS NOT A QUANTIFICATION - WHAT DOES "FOCUSED" COUNT FOR (i.e FOCUSED + CONCERNED?) -

GOES TO OBAMA - 55% want change, even if less experience, vs 40% for stability - CHANGE FOR CHANGE SAKE?

GOES TO MCCAIN - Obama has greater risk (55%) vs. McCain (35%).

GOES TO MCCAIN - Obama is more mainstream (60% agree) compared to McCain (45%), but McCain has shared values lead. MAINSTREAM IS A TRAIT, NOT A STANCE, SHARED VALUES IS A JUDGEMENT

GOES TO MCCAIN - 43% of McCain supporters see him as the lesser of two evils vs. 22% for Obama. OBAMA = MORE EVIL, GREATER RISK

Tony Blankley (MSNBC) reminds us this is eerily similar to 1980, and Obama is Ronald Reagan... the public wants him but won't commit until late.

Excited to vote for your candidate? 44% to 14% (guess who?)

OBAMA WINS IN THE TRADITIONAL (i.e "Excited")DEM "EMOTIONAL" CATEGORIES, MCCAIN WINS THE QUANTIFIABLE CATEGORIES.

Cheers

DC,

Following your logic, with Sen. Edwards high on Obama's potential VP list, we may be investigating an immaculate conception! That is, of course, unless Edwards lied last October when questioned about his marital infidelity.

Since infidelity also is against church law, the Obama campaign would owe us the details of this

To paraphrase your piece -

"Is Edwards prepared to disclose more about this conception? Is the Obama campaign prepared to see more disclosed? The event is a legitimate target for voter interest and media scrutiny."

Cheers

http://www.pollster.com/polls/ma/08-ma-pres-ge-mvo.php

Can we call it a nose dive?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign has bought $5 million worth of advertising time from NBC Universal to run TV spots during the Olympic Games, a source familiar with the deal said on Wednesday.

The package, believed to be an unprecedented political media buy for the Olympics, includes commercials that will run on the NBC network and cable channels such as USA, MSNBC and CNBC during the August broadcast of the Summer Games, the source said.

Can you imagine the noise if Obama gave a factually wrong answer while trying to put down his opponent on the very subject, then have a MSM edit the answer out and gave answer 14 to question 15 (I've forgotten now, it might've been the other way around... answer 15 to question 14), to cover for him?!! THEN, when word got out, the next day he gave a rambling bob'n weave explanation trying to link his mistake to the truth?

Instead of "that's mcsame being mcsame", it's like every MSM is saying "that's just crazy ol' grandpa" and overlooks it like it didn't happen,

wow 24 comments in the blink of an eye!
here is my prediction:
mcsame will be SELECTED (w/ jeb bush as his VP) because "the U.S. just isn't ready for a black man/white woman as president yet".
soon after, mcsame will be assassinated by ""lefty-anti-war-conspiracy theorists, etc."" and voila!
bushco is STILL the president of the U.S.

hey, doesn't iran deserve to have the effin tar bombed out of them?
if ever there was a ready-made mcmedia promoted bad guy then it is iran, right?
i reccomend that all of you encourage your chldren and grand-children to enlist in the U.S. armed forces!

gotta defend our freedums!

Neil Young Documents Antiwar Tour in Film
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=265040

UFO siting. SIGHTING??????

I love all the comments about drug use. Did those guys demand that Bush discuss and confess his years of alcoholism and illicit drug use? Did they opine that maybe Bush is mentally defective as heavy drugs are known to be? Did they demand that he reveal who soold him the drugs? Did any of them inquire into his refusal to undergo a flight phyiscal by a military doctor because he was afraid his drug and alcohol use would be incovered? (If they did, I missed it all, may I see some links to past stories on this matter?)

The right wing keeps amazing me with it attitude that its alright if a Republican did it but it is inexusable if a non republican indulged. Arrogancr, ignorance & hipocracy seem to be the best the righ wing can offer.

I predict McCain will drop off the ticket - health problems. He is not a viable candidate and he has been blowing it.

The Reich-wingnuttia has lost it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6N42M81Yg0

A great report from KO!

The McCain campaign in 44 seconds:

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

At a town hall meeting in Ohio this month, a student told McCain that Republicans were a dying breed on his campus.

"I understand the challenge I have, and I understand that this election is really all about the people of your generation," McCain said.

Many young Republicans said Sen. Barack Obama -- the 46-year-old junior senator from Illinois -- is inspiring voters their age, but McCain -- the 71-year-old senator who has been in office since the early '80s -- is not.

Eric Pearlmutter, a member of the Young Republicans at the University of Southern California, said the roaring enthusiasm that follows Obama is missing among conservatives his age.

(CNN)

I guess the young GOPhers are being ageists too, eh?

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Mr. Corn, have you considered the effect of racism if Mr. Jindal is selected for VP?

My guess is that "The Great American Dark" will cough up a massive "BLECH!" at the prospect of an Indian-immigrant-foreigner coming that close to power in our country.

Mr. Obama will suddenly be viewed - and elected - as the All-American Golden Boy he actually is.