The following photo from a previous trip to Iraq shows McCain walking around a market, wearing a bullet-proof vest, accompanied by 100 American soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships:
But where are the photos from his most recent trip last week? We managed to get ahold of one photo, which we share with our readers:
http://thismodernworld.com/4335
“According to a new poll, Barack Obama is doing particularly well with one important demographic: voters.” –Amy Poehler
“All three presidential candidates appeared on ‘American Idol.’ It was interesting. Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell looked at them and said, ‘Wait, there’s a black guy, a woman and a cranky white guy. You stole our formula!'” –Conan O’Brien
Now that the Democratic party has bent the rules for Clinton and seated the Florida and Michigan delegates, she now only needs 153% of the remaining delegates to win. Prior to the new rules, she needed to pick up 181% of the remaining delegates, so momentum is clearly in her favor!
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22900/26/
This week, McCain claimed that troop levels in Iraq had been “drawn down to pre-surge levels”. He also claimed that Mosul was “quiet”. Unfortunately, neither of these is true. Before the surge, there were 128,569 troops in Iraq, and there are currently around 155,000, and news reports are calling Mosul the “last urban bastion of al-Qaeda”.
But when the Obama campaign pointed out the error, the McCain campaign refused to admit the mistakes. Instead, they unleashed an attack, claiming that the Obama campaign and the media were “nitpicking” about “verb tenses” since the Pentagon has plans to draw down the troops by the end of the year. McCain even denied making the original statement, despite the fact that he clearly said it — during a televised town hall meeting.
So, McCain, while trying to paint an overly rosy picture of the situation in Iraq, lies. When the error is pointed out, his campaign denies that he said what he clearly said, and attacks the person who pointed out the mistake.
Unfortunately, reality still has a liberal bias. Just like Bush’s “Mission Accomplished”, McCain can’t seem to tell the difference between what he wants to be true, and what is actually true (this is sometimes called being “delusional”).
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/05/mccain_the_surge_and_verb_tens.html
Since they don’t seem to be able to dispute any of the facts in (former Bush press secretary) Scott McClellan’s book “What Happened“, the Republicans are employing their standard tricks and attempting to smear McClellan himself. Unwilling to even identify themselves, unnamed sources in the White House called McClellan a “traitor” and “Benedict”. In the National Review, they declared that McClellan was a “Hamas apologist”. Michelle Malkin calls him a “turncoat” and Jennifer Rubin calls him a “hack” and dismisses him as “probably the worst White House press secretary in recent memory”.
Ironically, this is exactly the kind of White House behavior that McClellan wrote about in the book. What better proof of McClellan’s claims.
Even worse, consider who is calling him a “traitor”. Does the White House really want to put that word on the table?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/28/mcclellan-traitor/
According to Treehugger, the FBI is looking for “friendly and personable” types with the perfect “look” to infiltrate vegan potlucks, to “rub shoulders with Republican National Convention protesters, schmoozing their way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.”
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/are-vegans-plotting-to-disrupt-convention.php
The Republicans held a fashion show at the Mall of America to show off the “official” clothing for the party’s national convention this summer in St. Paul, MN.
Reportedly, one of the people in the above photo is a local republican mayor, but I’m not sure which one.
http://www.startribune.com/18900229.html
The next time one of the Clintons try to claim that Hillary is more electable because she is ahead in some random poll, just remember this page from the electoral vote website showing Kerry v. Bush on May 28, 2004, with Kerry ahead 327 to 211 electoral votes.
As Ben Smith at Politico points out, “polls are wrong, and close, and above all — things change”. Or, as August Pollack smirks, you could point out that Obama will be much more electable than Clinton in the general election because his name will be on the ballot.
The utter failure of the mainstream media to do their job and actually report news is leaving a vacuum. Witness the lack of coverage of the “military analyst” story — a story in which the media were certainly complicit — since if you are simply a propaganda arm of the government and corporate establishment, why would you report on it?
Luckily, as the mainstream media continues its march toward irrelevancy, a small army of bloggers is taking up the slack. The latest evidence of this is Karl Rove’s comment about Scott McClellan’s new book, saying that he “sounded like a left-wing blogger”. After all, the mainstream media in this country would never say anything like what was in McClellan’s book. Well, get used to it, Karl.
For more on this, read Glenn Greenwald’s excellent column today on how corporate executives in the major news outlets suppressed and manipulated the news.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/29/yellin/index.html
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