Rachel Maddow is My Hero

She SLAMS McCain, Dana Milbank, AND Patrick Buchanan to the floor!

John McCain: Cheap, Two-Bit Liar, Hannity Style

My my my. It turns out that old Johnny Boy had TWO attack ads ready to go against Barack Obama in regard to his visit to Germany. One if Obama HAD visited the wounded, and one if he HAD NOT. This article from Business Week demonstrates that McCain intends to keep repeating lies about Obama, because the tactic works. Think about that for a second. Right-wing scumbag punk Sean Hannity, who has been vomiting lies about Obama for months, uses the same tactic and is, in fact, completely coordinating with McCain's people.

McCain is a lying, dishonorable crook, and if, somehow, he were to lie his way into the White House, it would be a tragedy of monumental proportions. Please consider donating to my Personal Obama contributions page, on my Favorites list. We need all the help we can get to stop a son of a bitch like McCain.

Republicans to Our Paralyzed Veterans: "Go to Hell"

How long can these right-wing bastards get away with yapping about how they "support the troops" when they do something as filthy as this?

Why Obama "Not Knowing His Place" Matters So Much

This wonderful, brutally honest piece by Paul Jenkins in Huffington is right on the money in every way. Obama is being scrutinized so closely because he "hasn't waited his turn" and he is "challenging his elders". Jenkins points out how urgent the need to challenge those elders really is. It's wonderfully acerbic in its observations of how the candidates' wives are being viewed as well:

Obama's partner in elitism, his wife Michelle, is in extreme tongue-biting mode. This is a shame, but it is inevitable, as she too is under the kind of scrutiny that would make Cindy McCain's face melt back into some approximation of reality. It is widely understood that Obama is more deserving of close examination than McCain because she is more actively involved in her husband's campaign than Cindy is. This of course is a lie: McCain has campaigned extensively for her husband and, were it not for her family fortune and her private jet, he wouldn't even have come close to being nominated. The truth is that Obama is expected to play a certain role: strong, angry, overbearing, and every one of her statements is demeaningly parsed in that light. If every word uttered by McCain were analyzed and reported to fit the stereotype of the rich, spoilt, husband-stealing white woman that she is, all would be fair. But instead, we get adoring glances, little examination of her actual role and an occasional hiccup about Michelle Obama's lack of patriotism

Heh heh heh. Read the whole thing. And be glad that Barack Obama doesn't know his "place".

Help Me Raise $10,000 for Obama

John McCain is getting millions of dollars of unpaid media support, especially from ABC News, Fox "News", and all of his other fans in the corporate media. The Republicans are going to throw about $400,000,000 at Obama as well. The primary battle with Hillary soaked up a lot of Obama's contributions. He needs YOUR HELP! I urge you, my dear friends, to contribute to Obama via my personal contributions page right here. I really do need to feel a part of this great fight to help save America from the disaster of four more years of radical right-wing government. Please give whatever you can. I thank you, and America's Future will thank you as well.

A Frightening UFO

John McCain's Lying, Gutter-Level Campaign

One of the things that just makes me want to puke is the nonsense we hear about John McCain's "integrity" and his "honesty". McCain is a lying, corrupt, dishonest right wing fanatic and he always has been. He has supported the worst president in American history more than 90% of the time, and 95%+ in the last two years. And he is showing his true colors in this year's campaign. He has released an ad that makes the FALSE ACCUSATION that Barack Obama ignored wounded U.S. soldiers in Germany. The truth is that McCain's Pentagon buddies deliberately SABOTAGED Obama's visit with last-minute conditions and objections. Here is the truth of the matter. 

Disgusting. Just f---ing disgusting. Karl Rove couldn't have done it better. McCain is a two-faced, lying SOB. We need to smack him down HARD. May I suggest you use my personal Donate to Obama link right here to let McCain know what you think of his bullshit smear campaign. 

No "Swiftboating" this year, G-d damn it!

How the Republicans Steal, Cheat, and Intimidate Their Way to "Victory"

The disgusting details are here. The right-wing thugs and goons that run the Republican Party use every vicious, dishonest tactic known to prevent millions of Democrats, largely minorities, from voting. But the more Democrats are aware of this Republican bullshit, the better we'll be prepared to stop it.

And by God, we will.

Friends, THIS is What an Eloquent Leader Says

Barack Obama visited Israel's Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem and left this message:

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Won't it be nice to have a president we can be proud of again?

McCain Botches the Most Basic Facts About Iraq

John McCain boasts of his superior "judgment" and his supposed "expertise" in relation to Iraq. But he got the sequence of events related to the period leading up to the "surge: completely wrong in talking to CBS about the issue. (CBS then COVERED FOR McCAIN by creative "editing".) Read the link and be shocked by this man's stunning ignorance and incompetence.

The idea that McCain is some kind of "expert" is a complete farce. He's either bare-faced lying in this matter or a complete buffoon.

Either way he doesn't belong in the presidency.

You Need to See This. Seriously.

The parts where McCain just FLAT OUT LIES are what get me the angriest.

Juan Cole Destroys McCain's Falsehoods About the "Surge"

Juan Cole, who has forgotten more about the Middle East than John McCain or his toadying supporters in the corporate media have ever learned (especially the infuriating, shameless Andrea Mitchell, otherwise known as Mrs. Alan Greenspan) demolishes one of McCain's "best" arguments right here--namely, that the "Surge" in Iraq (a euphemism for escalation) has been a rousing success. The following excerpts are particularly noteworthy:

Despite all the talk about Iraq being "calm," I'd like to point out that the month just before the last visit Barack Obama made to Iraq (he went in January, 2006), there were 537 civilian and ISF Iraqi casualties. In June of this year, 2008, there were 554 according to AP. These are official statistics gathered passively that probably only capture about 10 percent of the true toll.

That is, the Iraqi death toll is actually still worse now than the last time Obama was in Iraq! (See the bombings and shootings listed below for Sunday). The hype around last year's troop escalation obscures a simple fact: that Obama formed his views about the need for the US to leave Iraq at a time when its security situation was very similar to what it is now! Why a return to the bad situation in late 05 and early 06 should be greeted by the GOP as the veritable coming of the Messiah is beyond me. You have people like Joe Lieberman saying silly things like if it weren't for the troop escalation, Obama wouldn't be able to visit Iraq. Uh, he visited it before the troop escalation, just fine.

The troop escalation, which actually allowed the ethnic cleansing of the Sunnis of Baghdad and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis from the country, has largely been pushed as propaganda by the White House and the AEI.

As they say in the Blog Biz, Read the Whole Thing. You will be enlightened.

And you won't fall for McCain's BS. Or Andrea Mitchell's for that matter.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Supports Obama's Iraq Policy

In a stunning rebuke to Neocon Warhawk Pseudo-Expert John McCain, the Iraqi PM has endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's Iraq proposals:

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months.

In an interview with Der Spiegel released on Saturday, Maliki said he wanted U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible.

"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."

It is the first time he has backed the withdrawal timetable put forward by Obama, who is visiting Afghanistan and us set to go to Iraq as part of a tour of Europe and the Middle East.

Obama has called for a shift away from a "single-minded" focus on Iraq and wants to pull out troops within 16 months, instead adding U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan.

Asked if he supported Obama's ideas more than those of John McCain, Republican presidential hopeful, Maliki said he did not want to recommend who people should vote for.

"Whoever is thinking about the shorter term is closer to reality. Artificially extending the stay of U.S. troops would cause problems."

I would say that McCain just got picked up by the ankles and body slammed. One of McCain's BS arguments is that he understands the "situation on the ground" better than Obama. Now, the person who is in the best position to know the situation on the ground says he agrees with Obama.

Ha! That's gotta hurt. Poor John. Guess he isn't such an "expert" after all.

Again: McCain the All-Time Flip Flopper

Davefromqueens has the list here. The overview is startling. McCain has changed his positions on all the following issues:

Privatizing Social Security, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Tax Cuts, Judges, Torture, Negotiating With Hamas, Bush Third Term, Agents Of Intolerance, 527s, Gramm's Whiner Comments, Economic Expertise, Illegal Wiretapping, Habeas Corpus, Everglades Restoration, Gay Couple Legal Contracts, GI Bill, Military Service Exploitation, Roe v. Wade, States Rights On Abortion, ANWR, Offshore Drilling, Role of States in Drilling, MLK Holiday, Windfall Profits Tax, Filibustering of Judges, Confederate Flag, Civil Unions, Constitutional Ban On Gay Marriage, Yucca Mountain, Undue Lobbyist Influence, Abortion Exceptions, Defense Cuts, Waterboarding , Mandatory Caps, Citizenship for Immigrants, Flying the Confederate Flag, Bush Tax Policies, South African Divestment, Alternative Minimum Tax, Estate Tax Repeal, North Korea Negotiations, Iraq + Stay The Course, Creationism, Time of Offshore Drilling, Campaign Finance Reform, Immigration Act, Fidel Castro, Pakistan, Bush's Pioneers, Occupying Muslim Lands, Russia, Law of the Sea Treaty, Ease of Iraq Conflict, Withdrawal from Iraq, NRA Influence, Arizona earmarks, ethanol, Balanced Budgets, Economic Times, Litmus Tests, Hagee, Wyly Brothers, Grover Norquist, Syria, Global Warming, Cigarette Taxes, Katrina Investigations, Surrogates, Equal Pay For Women.

But other than that, he's been perfectly consistent!

McCain is RAVENOUS for power and will say or do ANYTHING to win. Maybe some people trust a person like that, but I don't--and I hope you don't either.

McCain Flat Out LYING About His Record With Veterans Groups

What, Mr. Straight Talk himself? A bald-faced, outright liar? Why, yes as a matter of fact. Check out the record, and tell me this guy isn't as phony as a $3 bill.

BTW, he also took credit for the GI Bill THAT HE OPPOSED. What a straight-talkin' maverick! The Washington Media told me so.

Any Other Candidate's Campaign Would Be Dead--But No McCain's

Democratic Underground has the story here on McCain's catastrophically bad week.

Any other candidate would be finished politically after such a week. But not McCain.

Why?

HIS FRIENDS IN THE MEDIA ARE COVERING AND MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIM.

That's why. Right-wing hack Mark Halperin, a Republican operative pretending to be a journalist for Time, even said that his good buddy John won the week. He ignored everything negative about his dear friend. Wouldn't want to embarrass poor John now, would we?

Can you imagine?? How in the hell can the Democrats EVER get a fair shake when the media covers McCain's ass for him--that is, when they're not kissing it?