8:10 a.m.: By 7 p.m. tomorrow evening, I will have the living room completely painted. I must have it done by then, or there will be certain disaster. I am confident in my ability to get this done. I steel myself for a weekend of painting. 8:15 a.m.: I race to Amazon.com to check my [...]
Crossposted at Dailykos.com This was inspired by a comment by darthstar on a diary by Nex Horus. Here is the scenario: the campaign plane went down, with no loss of life nor serious injury, in a remote part of the lower 48, maybe, say Wyoming. This is purely fantasy, but I attempt to include talking [...]
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McCain’s New Iran Gaffe: If The ‘Average American’ Thinks Ahmadinejad Is In Control Of Iran, Then So Do I! Yesterday, the Wonk Room’s Matt Duss noted that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) often incorrectly portrays Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as if Ahmadinejad has a significant role in formulating Iranian foreign policy. He doesn’t. Iran’s supreme leader, [...]
John McCain’s national finance co-chairman has stepped down, the latest casualty of a presidential campaign eager to cauterize damage caused by its ties to lobbyists. Not bad for Mr “Double Talk Express”, who keeps insisting he’s completely clean off lobbyists. Yeah, right. Former Texas Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, one of McCain’s key fundraisers, resigned in [...]
The AP reports on Obama’s swift and forceful response to Bush and McCain’s criticism of his foreign policy approach: Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called “naive and irresponsible,” serving notice that he’s ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on [...]