I want to take this opportunity to speak directly to those of you who oppose my decision to support the FISA compromise.

Chill on the constitutional arguments against immunity, they are baseless, and stand in opposition to a centuries worth of law. We indemnify government workers all the time — we indemnify agents working for the government all the time…

After looking at some polls, it’s going to be interesting to see just how this 50 state battle for votes is going to pan out.

He has no intention of winning in very red states.? He knows that he cannot win in them, but is going to spend money anyways.? By doing this, John McCain will have to spend money in those states as well.? The less money that McCain has for…

It’s summer, and while some people are cooling themselves off in malls or working on their tans at the beach, surely the majority, the people who are moderately intelligent and who care about their livelihoods, have some idea of what’s going on in national politics, right?

I'm submitting this to digg tomorrow… Pretty good article.

Wesley Clark argued that getting shot down is [not] a qualification to be President.? The McCain campaign issued a statement condemning Clarks remarks. But during an interview with National Journal in 2003, John McCain said that he ‘absolutely don’t believe’ that military service was necessary for the presidency, echoing Clarks comments.

Barfly, I can see you want to change the subject to Ronald Regan, likely because you can’t find any reason to defend the utter lack of any experience at all in Barry Obama. I can see how that could be embarrassing. We’re…

There is a large reservoir of discontent among Republicans who are dissatisfied with John McCain as the GOP nominee. These votes, and those of other Republicans now disenchanted are ripe for the picking this fall - IF you know how to make the case to these people.

In general, Republican voters dont have the same priorities as Democrats. The reasons YOU support Sen. Obama are most likely NOT the factors on which your Republican associates will make their voting decisions. Dont assume that your 'hot…

A new poll of the state of Virginia was released recently by Survey USA, and it reveals a tight race between Barack Obama and John McCain. Obama holds a slight two point lead, 49%-47%. Thus far, the state is starkly split along gender lines. McCain leads with men 58%-40% and Obama with women, 58%-36%.

Interestingly, the poll also showed that Jim Webb would only add two points to Obamas lead over McCain, no matter who the Republican chose as his running mate. An Obama/Webb ticket tops out at 49% in the state. Virginia has the look of a…

Yet, likely because of those same values, McCain maintains a strict code of silence about his sons’ military service, no matter how legitimate his pride or politically useful their military status…
…and with as great an opportunity to set the record straight and tell the world about the heroics of being an adoptive father…

It's pretty amazing when you think about it. War hero John McCain has been in the public eye almost his entire adult life. He's run numerous campaigns, served in Congress for 25 years, and is in his second run for the presidency. Yet,…

Some bloke named Andy Martin has been named as the source of the now viral “Obama is a Muslim,” email that has been passed around the net for months. The Washington Post has the story.
What a scumbag

Allen scanned his postings on Free Republic, she noticed that Beckwith repeated several phrases that also surface in the e-mail. Beckwith called Obama “an apostate Muslim, educated in madrassas.” And when Beckwith later repudiated…

When John Edwards got a $400 haircut, that fact alone was used as a shorthand to describe his entire campaign. But when John McCain, who has inveighed against Barack Obama as an elitist, has a tax default on one of his ten (or more) properties, total, complete silence. Talk about a double standard.

''I go and I keep friends with Mr. Rosenthal at The New York Times and people of that sort, you know,'' he told Mr. Nixon, referring to A. M. Rosenthal, then the newspaper's executive editor. ''And all — I…

Wesley Clark was on Face the Nation today, and he took aim at the idea that McCain’s Vietnam War experience makes him more qualified to be president. I dont think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.? With one swoop, Clark attacked the entire basis for the McCain presidential campaign.

McCain spokesman Brian Roberts tried to use Clarks statement to paint Obama as a typical politician, If Barack Obamas campaign wants to question John McCains military service, thats their right. But lets please drop the pretense…

Here is a list of the top five John McCain flip-flops of the 2008 election so far. McCain has shown that his strongest trait as a candidate is his ability to change his position and contradict himself at any time. What is most amazing is McCain’s flip-flopping knows no limits.

John McCain used to support amnesty for illegal immigrants. May 29, 2003 interview: “Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay…

After months of struggling to overcome a considerable deficit favor of John McCain in Michigan, Barack Obama has stormed back to retake command of the lead in the race to secure Michigan’s seventeen electoral votes in the general election.

Over the following months, support for the Republican nominee in Michigan grew steadily, so that by late May, McCain had established a four-point buffer between he and his Democratic rival, confirmed by surveys from two separate polling firms:…

EPIC GOP FAIL

http://www.surveyusa.com/clien… Rasmussen Texas? McCain leads 48-39 http://www.rasmussenreports.co… Rasmussen Kentucky? McCain leads 51-35 http://www.rasmussenreports.co… by: conspiracy @ Fri Jun 27, 2008 at 15:14:08 PM CDT by: you @…

Revealing graphics show the trends of income equality and marginal top tax rates since 1917. No surprise that the numbers are indicating a return to the Gilded Age.

The data on what taxpayers in 1944 who made at least $1 million (in 2005 dollars) actually paid in federal income tax comes from the IRS article “Individual Income Tax Shares and Average Tax Rates, Tax Years 1916-1950,” by…

A newly released AP/Yahoo! poll suggests that the Democratic Party constituents are not nearly as torn as some media outlets would like to insinuate. The poll found that 53% of those who backed Hillary Clinton before Obama captured nomination now support Obama.

A newly released AP/Yahoo! poll suggests that the Democratic Party constituents are not nearly as torn as some media outlets would like to insinuate. The poll found that 53% of those who backed Hillary Clinton before Obama captured nomination…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, for the first time in the nation’s history, that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the nation’s capital……>>

“I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms,” Obama said, “but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that…

Today on his radio show, CNN host Glenn Beck expressed his disdain of the recent Supreme Court ruling granting terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts, exclaiming that if he were President, he would do away with detaining and prosecuting terrorism suspects altogether.

Let me try to be perfectly clear. The calling for the slaughter of innocent citizens who happened to be collected in a mass group (many simply rounded up because of bounties on anybody), along with presumed/alleged combatants…

You sure about that? Backwards luddite and GOP nominee McCain admits to not knowing how to use a computer, but one of his staffers assures the Personal Democracy Forum that he is “aware” of the internet only to be slaughtered by John Edwards’ former internet director.

Had you asked me to predict the future of technology when I was a child, never would I have imagined a device no longer than my hand that would carry 7,000 songs–my entire music collection–with me wherever I go or that a friend…

Mark Soohoo, McCain’s deputy e-campaign director, “drew guffaws” at the Personal Democracy Forum after saying You dont necessarily have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country.”

mccain should treat this as an opportunity to talk about education or jobs or family or something positive like that. this is an opportunity to say, hey, look, i am successful, but that doesn’t mean i’m perfect. i need training…

Scott Ritter is speaking out about what he sees as history repeating itself regarding U.S. policy toward Iran and the inevitability of a U.S.-led attack on the country, which he believes will happen prior to a new president being sworn into office in January 2009.
Were going to see some military activity before the new administration is sworn in.

Ritter had some tough words for Washington lawmakers for continuously failing to put any obstacles into place to block the Bush administration from even attempting to attack Iran without first consulting Congress. We see not only has Congress…