Wow,  I just noticed that Wasilla is in Matanuska!  When P)alin smoked she should have had access to the best!

Is she in it for America or Alaska?  The most damning thing she says in this video that has played allover the net is not that she does not know what a VP does but that she said, "We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans."  After her involvement with AIP her patriotism is in doubt.

McCain - Never met a country he did not want to be at war with.

What will be the deadender's criticism now that he has put this out?

Approval Ratings: The Public v. McCain

On Youtube or embeded on my blog for those who cannot view the youtube at work.

President George W Bush (The Learning Disabled Commander In Chief) is even stupider than I thought. He is trying to start a war with Russia. Putin is trying to help him. The peoples of both nations are now hostages of our idiot leaders who are playing chicken with WWIII. You thought the cold war was over. Psych! They have started it back up in just a couple of days and are trying to make it a hot one. Each of them is more afraid of looking weak than they are of war. That is what we get for electing cowards to run our countries.


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Josh has a post on the front page pointing to an Andrew Sullivan's embed of this video.  It is Republicans talking about McCain and war.  Every voter need to see it.


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Nikki Tinker's racist ads in the closing days of the primary lost her votes.  Rep Cohen won by 80%.  In his victory speach he said her ads were inefective but he was wrong.  They were efective in increasing hi margin of victory.

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exxonmccain.com


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I fervently hope that sen Obama chooses someone not on the shortlists for his VP. Surprise us and make some news please Sen Obama.

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Lieberman just refered to "Al Qaeda in Iran" on Meet The Press. 

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I just watched the speech for the second time. I watched it live during my lunch today. I watched it again with my daughter just now. I was spell bound even upon the second viewing. This speech laid out Sen Obama's vision for our place in the world and it is a grand vision. He is the kind of leader who can sell that grand vision to the world. He will get us more cooperation from the other nations in securing our future by making it clear that it is their future as well. If you doubt what he will do - - - watch him tell you.

... over Sen. Kerry's use of the term 'tar-baby'. You will note that I did not say false outrage. I do not think that Renee over at Womanist Musings is being disingenuous when she claims to be outraged. She is outraged. But she is outraged in error. She has the video posted on her blog so you can watch it there to judge for yourself.

She is acting like he called someone a 'tar-baby'. He did not. He used the word in its original meaning - a sticky problem that only entangles you more them harder you struggle. What he did was not like calling a black man a 'spade'. What he did is like using the word 'spade' to refer to the black card suit with pips shaped like spear heads. This is an argument that will likely turn out to be a tar-baby for me but we must stop running from the difficult topic of race. People of good will must speak about these things in the effort to increase understanding across the color line for so long as it exists.
In her post and comments she argues that the common vernacular meaning of the word is the racist word. I cannot argue with that because I am not a part of her vernacular community. Neither is the Senator. He has probably spent less time in his life around openly racist people who use racial insults than I have. And I do not recall hearing this term used as a racial insult, even though I have been exposed to an amazing variety of these terms. I have encountered people who refer to it as one but not heard it myself. I have also not heard it used in its original meaning very often. It is rapidly falling out of use all together.

She also argues in the comments,

BTW what I deem to be racist against WOC is far more accurate than your determination simply because I inhabit the body that I do. This is one of those times Larry when you listen to views of POC and put aside your inclinations.

This is the sort of argument that by design is racist and shuts down the discussion rather than opens it up. She may be able to more accurately say what a WOC finds offensive than I am, but she does not have any special insight into the way that Sen Kerry and his peers use language and that is at least as central to this argument as how she feels about it. It is obvious from the context that the over-educated elite white male was ignorant of the racial implications of the word he used. He used it in a clearly non-racial context in its original meaning. He is likely to issue an apology because of the controversy that his ignorant choice of words caused but that firestorm has only served to distract from the actual content of what he was saying. He was defending Sen Obama from a scurrilous attack and no one will note his defense of our candidate because we had to digress into the language of personal affront.

There has been much discussion of late about what makes a person a troll or a comment trollish. It is my opinion that the essence of what constitutes trolishness is the dishonest insult. If a person hurls hurtful invective that they know to not be true then they are a troll.

Sen McCain gave an excellent example of this behavior this week. He chose to try to gain political points by saying that Sen Obama wants to lose in Iraq. Sen McCain knows that this is not true. He knows that Sen Obama wishes for us to succeed in Iraq. He has a policy difference with Sen Obama. He thinks that Sen Obama's policy will lead to failure. Saying that is an honest critique of Sen Obama's positions. But he chose not to make a principled attack on Sen Obama's position. He instead claimed that if you disagree with his policy positions the you are in favor of losing. That is how he became a troll for a day.

We all make trollish comments from time to time. What makes a troll is consistently making trollish comments. I will be watching to see which personality wins. Will we see the campaign of the straight shooter McCain, or will we be treated to three months of Troll McBush?


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the time for Obama's speach tomorrow in Berlin?