DISQUS

On a local level, some volunteer lawyers have been giving the GOP machine fits for their ingrained highly dubious/illegal fund raising methods. There have been a large volume of refunds, and investigations initiated.

I give McCain a tip of the hat for trying to build what the kids today call "street cred". "Turning out" Cindy at a biker rally not only builds "cred", it has caused me to fog my tri-focals. Along the same line his giving speeches in "tongues" while making it hard to know what the hell he's talking about, does wonders with the charismatic voters. I going to align myself with those rascally pundits and ignore Obama totally, and endorse that impish little septuagenarian.

Thanks Bruce. Seems some are missing the point. To them I suggest leaving the island enmasse and swimming for the promised land. It's just over the horizon. You can make it, I know you can.

I met somebody who saw him walk on water once. And he cured my hiccups just by looking at me through those awesome sunglasses. He is the one. Marix IV "the Obamaing"

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Then why are there no military investigations to the numerous capital crimes committed by contractors? Seems the State Dept is making half-hearted swipes at a few, FBI for the outrage by Blackwater, but I no JAG or courts martial. They are not under military code, not policed by the military either. I think the large amount of gang rapes and kidnappings ARE because it is well known they are outside the law in Iraq.
If they would publicize how cost ineffective these GOP militias really are, they would fire all of them and put the system back within the military.

While I am sure there is substance in you post, I can't concentrate on it as I seethe at your call for turning a cheek to the criminal and in my mind treasonous behavior of the Bush regime. To do nothing is to put your imprimatur on their misdeeds.

I personally believe that McCains ability to stay relatively close to Obama this cycle is based on people remembering the quick, sharp McCain of 1999. As voters tune in and see what the decade has done to the maverick, that is turn him in to a disengaged angry codger, his polls will crater ala the China Syndrome.

Being a creationist exorcist might be too big a pill for the national scene. As is the wont of pols, he'll take a few years and refine his image. Then take a run at moving the US back to the dark ages.

This "op-ed" which was a vicious smear of Obama, was never meant to get published. It will spread virally throughout the wingnuttery which is what McCain's writers wanted. It will have much more impact and be more useful than a full page ad in the Sunday Times.

There are few votes for Krusty at the NYT but lots of wary voters to bring into the fold throughout the right wing.

So what percentage of the Clintonista is behind this? After the faction that is supporting McCain in a lemming like rush to political self destruction, and the faction that intends to destroy Obama at the convention how many can be left to force Clinton on the hated Obama? Really.

If Obama loses, It will be entertaining to watch Clinton try to put the pieces back together in a party that will largely blame her for the defeat.

Oh and cornforth, given the choice between a resume of three years of excellence and twenty plus of mediocrity and corruption I choose the excellence.

So what percentage of the Clintonista is behind this? After the faction that is supporting McCain in a lemming like rush to political self destruction, and the faction that intends to destroy Obama at the convention how many can be left to force Clinton on the hated Obama? Really.

If Obama loses, It will be entertaining to watch Clinton try to put the pieces back together in a party that will largely blame her for the defeat.

Oh and cornforth, given the choice between a resume of three years of excellence and twenty plus of mediocrity and corruption I choose the excellence.

See, I heard he was going to change DoD back to the Department of War and appoint himself secretary and leave the presidency vacant as the ultimate Libertarian statement. But you may have better sources than I do.

She ran too long. It demeaned Obama and galvanized her core supporters. While her concession speech was OK, she needs to immediately communicate a strong disapproval of factions moving to McCain because of imagined slights by Obama. I also think she needs to rebuke both McCain and Lieberman for using her name in an attempt to poach pissed off followers.
Fortunately I think Obama will win, but Clinton is telling me she wants a seat on the bench with Lieberman.

As a former Tucsonan, I would be pleased if the vastly overrated McCain got his butt handed to him. I always thought him a hypocrite and would be in despair if he wormed his way into the White House.

I'll buy the women block, its size undetermined. But the working class whites not so much. I worked for months canvassing in a rust belt state. At best those people are very soft on their attachment to Clinton.
Personally until I see otherwise I will assume her "power bloc" to be a smallish angry retro-feminist group thats been enlarged by media hyperbole. I do not want to diminish her accomplishments, but if feminist issues were important to her, they weren't articulated in her communication. With the exception of some posts on her web site, there was nothing in her stump speeches.
And as to becoming a master of the senate? Seniority might be handy, a lot of it.

Evidently they(Stearns) are indeed symptomatic. By correct accounting standards all the major banks are insolvent. Bankrupt to you and me. Even as they were being wheeled to the morgue they managed to pass around the remaining cash as bonuses. An extension of the bushco policy of reverse Robin Hood to coin a phrase. Stearns was one of the worse. I knew a lot of traders at Bear Stearns. The place had the feel and energy of a gambling parlor.
Personally I think Jimmy Cayne(I know him) and his ilk need to be stripped of a large portion of their wealth. It is looted money, allowed by obscene deregulation by the idiot that pretends to govern.

I'm not sure whats worse, having to read Rand drivel or listen to cultist republicans prattle about her. Thanks Bruce, I enjoyed your satire and enjoyed the Randians discomfit. Not surprising most found this unamusing, it requires a sense of humor.

Funny. She's beginning to make the squirrel fryer look dignified.

I'll concede that Hillary can emerge the nominee. She can continue her assault on Obama, playing to the racist vote(that will turn sexist in the fall) and hardball 70% of the remaining SDs to go her way. She'll be standing on the ashes of what once was the Democratic Party. If someone can explain to me how the fact that she has picked up only a handful of SDs since the race actually started isn't a rejection of her as a candidate? It is clear the party wants no part of the Clinton entity. They were narcissistic poor party leaders in the nineties. She is not wanted, her dog-whistle racist politics are abhorrent. And we haven't even got into the Limbaugh democrats propping up one of the worst campaign machines in modern history.

"That Doan managed to stay in office..."

It just shows how much bush appreciated lickspittle incompetents. In my mind she gives fredo a run as the poster child of the bush nightmare. The slip by Goodling that she took an oath to bush when we all know it was the constitution tells all for these criminals.

His ascension will be short lived. Assuming a democratic president, he will be allowed to retire very quickly. He is not popular with the brass, and showing up your superiors, kissing ass to a criminal president will end your options moments after he is gone. A year at most.

I live in one of those Pa towns. Nobody but Clinton staffers are making anything of this. As far as November, If this is the best the GOP can do, Obama in a landslide.
The media by trying to inflate this story are the elitists. The essence of his statement is true, nothing was said to be derogatory. Next crisis please.

Keith Gargus   I worked construction years ago in Vail.  It was clear that the builders/hotel staff were considered riff-raff even back then.  Day trippers were undeard of.
  Vail is a sterile pretend village that markets to GOP types from the flatlands of mid-America.

  If this new ticket changes that, then it is a step in the right direction.

Kind of generous to McCain giving him NJ. I doubt that could happen. Like all the pundits talked about Giulianis strength there...Too blue, even for a fake moderate like the geezer.
Also kind of generous even talking of HRC's prospects.

With goalposts of victory moving at the speed of light, who knows what constitutes success now. But by the original definition the escalation was a total failure. As will the next lame idea, and the next...;
Sy Hersh was spot on when he said the best thing we can do is get out- today. The second best is to get out tomorrow.

The bush attempt to sneak in an infinite defense accord is laughable. First the government of Iraq doesn't look like it will last very long. It would seem reasonable to call Iraq a failed state. Second the new president will feel no obligation to honor any accord on the books through subterfuge by the criminals of bushco without appropriate congressional approval. I think the only Iraqis that want the US military to stay is Maliki and his party. He views us as his militia.