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Veepstakes

by blue stockings | Kathy Kolbert still thinks Obama is a progressive and hopes he'll pick a progressive veep.  I am going to vote for him, but he ain't no progressive.  I'm expecting to be let down on this as well as FISA, reproductive rights, NAFTA, etc., etc.

Deb Cupples is disappointed that he didn't choose Clark.  Clark's one of the smartest Dems I know of and I agree with Deb.  Kind of a letdown in more than one way, particularly if Clark was dissed the way it seems. 

Colbert Twofer: John McCain Steals from Wikipedia /Blame Monica Goodling

Did John McCain plagiarize?

Christian PAC Comes Out in Support of Obama, Infuriating the Right-eous

by Teh Nutroots | As Damozel posted earlier at BN-Politics, McCain's attempt to present his wife as a biker chick hasn't panned out too well for him. A man who goes a-wooing the far right evangelicals can't really be too buttoned-down or zipped up.  This is one sort of mistake I don't remember ever seeing George Bush make.  As we've all seen, far right Christians are fine with violence, but they hate any whiff of sex. 

And now there's a Christian PAC that's come out in support of Obama. (Washington Wire)  It's true.  This must be that "Christian left" that Damozel is always going on about---which I kind of thought was a myth---or maybe  it's the Christian center or not-so-far-right.  I don't know.  I don't know jack about God.

A recently launched Christian-based political action committee, the Matthew 25 Network, will air a television ad in support of Barack Obama touting his family values that will coincide with a faith-based forum on Saturday hosted by Pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church  in Lake Forest, Calif.

CNN Inquires: "[IS] OBAMA THE ANTICHRIST?"

Posted by Damozel | cross posted at BN-Politics |  Hey, what do you know?  McCain's ad, "The One,"  portraying Obama as Antichrist (see the ad here) seems to have worked!  In "debunking" the "rumor," CNN actually treated this as a serious question. (cf. The Raw Story)

That such a subject is even speculated about in any but the most backwards, unreconstructed segments of American society -- let alone on a 24-hour cable network -- is a testament (no pun intended) to the depths to which political debate has fallen. But there was the caption on CNN Friday in big bold letters: "OBAMA THE ANTICHRIST?"

Apparently a not-insignificant number of Americans, after viewing John McCain's Web ad The One, with its Messianic overtones -- come away thinking that Barack Obama has been sent from Hell to Earth to turn its citizens against God. For inspiration, some of these people seem to be drawing from the fictional Left Behind series, which posits a dystopian future where the Anti-Christ comes to Earth as a charismatic politician. (The Raw Story)

Chalk one up for McCain!  He did exactly what he wasn't---he assures us---setting out to do. 

The Faulty Reasoning Almanack: Shuster Is Polite To PUMAs....but....

Taylor Marsh, formerly one of Hillary's most stalwart  advocates, has the intelligent and tactful take on this:

Colmes Being Awesome

Posted by Blue Stockings |

I wrote this up last night.  Here's the You Tube.

Wonkette:

John Derbyshire is Alarmed! And Other Things Beginning with 'A'!

by Cockney Robin | You've got to hand it to him for always being able to come up with new ways of being a pillock.  Here is exhibit A (for 'arsehole'), from his comments about the cowardliness of the students who got slaughtered at Virginia Tech, with some reactions from across the spectrum.

First he quotes a discussion of a recent study concerning the disappearance of America's white majority.

"If we don't invest in educating and training African-American kids, immigrants and Latino kids, we won't have a middle class," said Mark Sawyer, the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. "We'll have a very, very poor disposable class that's largely black or brown."[link]

 

Hillary: What, She's Not the Evil Scheming Genius MoDo Would Have Had You Believe?

Posted by Teh Nutroots | At our sister blog, Buck Naked Politics,  Deb Cupples saw off Maureen Dowd's Hillary-based fiction about the Democratic convention in fine style yesterday. (Maureen Dowd Talks out of her ... Ear Again ).   Dowd, as we all know, is wicked envious of just about everyone, so her stock-in-trade is undifferentiated mockery from the sidelines   If she told us the sun was shining, we'd assume she meant, er, out of her "ear."

Here at IDLYE, our credo is:  "Maureen Dowd is always wrong."

Joe Gandelman does a reality check today at The Moderate Voice:

Colmes Fights Back Against Hannity's Double Standard for McCain

Posted by Teh Nutroots | Good for Colmes.  Didn't think he had it in him.  We generally type his name in the manner suggested by Al Franken:  Colmes.   But today he gets him some full-sized letters for talking back (reported by Crooks and Liars).

John Amato says: "The wingnut mentality is a wonder to behold, no?"  Yep.  For example, there's this.

Irony Alert: McCain: "In the 21st Century, Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"

Damozel & Teh Nutroots | Would that he were right. You can see the video (via Think Progress) below.

Not only does John McCain not know any Russian history, he also apparently doesn't remember as far back as 2003 or know what's going on now.

This quote is so free from any sense it's actually a little bit awesome.