We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went to the polls to approve a constitution. It’s their government’s choice. If they were to say leave, we would leave. –George W. Bush, 24 May 2007 So now that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has asked […]
And if that weren’t enough, how about this spoof — it is 3AM and McCain can’t read his email: http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/its-3am-and-joh.html
Nancy Reagan always had something of an undeserved reputation as a dutiful but meek wife, probably because of the way she looked adoringly at Ronnie whenever they appeared in public together. But on Friday, Reagan showed that she can still be dutiful while also making it clear how she really feels. She appeared with McCain […]
The McCain and Obama campaigns finally agree on something — this upcoming cover of The New Yorker magazine is “tasteless and offensive”: via Politico full size image The artist defends his cover art Personally, I find the cover funny, although I’m not sure if everyone will get the humor. The bottom line is that The […]
Wolf Blitzer asks South Carolina’s Republican Governor Mark Sanford if there are any “significant economic differences” between McCain and Bush. His response: For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of — I’m drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television. Take, for instance the contrast on NAFTA. […]
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© Mike Luckovich I have to add that it would have been worse if today’s media had presided during Watergate. Would Woodward or Bernstein be able to publish their exposé of Watergate today? UPDATE: See also Glenn Greenwald’s column that discusses this cartoon. UPDATE 2: Another column, this time in the Daily Kos, that is […]
Who is Phil Gramm? You might have heard his recent statement that America is a “nation of whiners” about the economy. He is a co-chair of McCain’s presidential campaign and arguably his main economic advisor — McCain once called Gramm his “financial guru”. So let’s look at Gramm’s economics: Gramm was responsible for the “Commodity […]
The International Red Cross “warned that the abuse constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. Government in jeopardy of being prosecuted.”
If you think this is only a joke, read Naomi Wolf “Fascist America, in 10 easy steps”.
On McCain’s website, they feature this quote from him about the Iranian missile tests: It’s my understanding that this missile test was conducted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. This is the same organization that I voted to condemn as a terrorist organization when an amendment was on the floor of the United States Senate. Senator […]
On Thursday, Ted Kennedy, who is suffering from a brain tumor that needs daily treatment, flew from Boston to DC in order to cast a vote on a Medicare bill. With this one vote — the only vote he has cast since he was diagnosed on May 20 — he now has voted more often […]
The election statistics site FiveThirtyEight has a new (and wonderful) set of statistics. They have collected the number of times that Obama has been compared strongly to other politicians. For example, there are two articles about how Obama is the new Bush (that would be the current president Bush — there are three articles on […]
