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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?

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. 

McCain Yanks Off Bush's Crown; Tries It on For Size

by Teh Nutroots | Riddle me this:  Wasn't it only 2-3 weeks ago that the Republicans were moaning about the presumptuousness of Barack Obama?  If so, how do they explain McCain's sudden accession to an authoritative role in Georgia---so much of one that he is sending his own "envoys" to deal with the situation?

Was it not presumptuous after all?  Or...are they applying the hoary old "it's different when Republicans do it" rule?

All Barack did was make a speech.  John McCain is speaking every day to Georgia's loose cannon-in-chief, his friend "Misha," despite "Misha's" calling him out the other day ('very cheering...Words, not deeds."  Doesn't Bush mind?  F*** me.  I'd mind.  For once I kind of admire Bush's restraint.

I'd be like, "Dude?  Excuse me; I believe I am still president here?"

Consider this:

Two Ads: "Maverick No More" and "The Original"

by Damozel | These should have gone up before now.  It was a response to one in which various Dems praise him for his "maverick" views.  In my opinion, this nails the reason that I've turned against McCain (who I used to think made a decent sort of Republican, for a Republican). 

Colmes Being Awesome

Posted by Blue Stockings |

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

Wonkette:

Troops Give It Up for Obama and, um, Ron Paul?

by Damozel | This piece by Luke Rosiak at Open Secrets is fraught with interest.

Andrew Sullivan on McCain

by Teh Nutroots | As he mulls over his former support for the war in Iraq, provides a summary of McCain's militarism  in a nutshell .

For him, it is always 1938 somewhere; America's duty is to control, occupy or intervene wherever any rival seeks influence and any group does not share our alleged values. And so American power must be brought to bear in Georgia and Iraq and Iran and Burma and Darfur and Bosnia and anyplace else where American interests are threatened or democratic allies seek help. And for militarist American exceptionalists, this all makes sense. This is the higher purpose McCain lives for: the glory of liberation, the thrill of conquest, the adoration of the soldier, the defeat of evil.

I've never understood in the first place why this attitude was ever meant to be "conservative."   The only thing they're conserving is American arrogance at the expense of everything else.

Pelosi on Joe Lieberman

Posted by Teh Nutroots | What do you know.  In an interview with a Bay area talk show host, she actually said something worthy of not of a raspberry, but a tip of the hat.  The sting's in the tail.

Joe Lieberman has said things that are totally irresponsible when it comes to Barack Obama. Here we have a leader for the future, really a great leader for the future and one that comes along only every now and then, and they know it so they have to undermine him. And one of their best weapons, of course, is someone who is considered by some to be a Democrat." (emphasis added)

Huzzah! 

She explains here why Democrats have dealt warily with Lieberman and what Senate Democrats might do about it if he carries on the way he's been doing.

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.