New Planned Parenthood Ad

Obama made a huge mistake by cutting the 527s out of the ad process. He's finally figured that out, and they're riding in to his rescue.

He's got 53 days to figure out that John McCain is lying when he says he's going to run a respectful campaign. Republicans never play fair. Realpolitik is their MO. Obama's got 53 days to get up off the mat and fight.

If you don't fight, you will never win. There is a difference between nonviolence and passivity.

The Marques of Queensbury rules don't apply. They never did. Get dirty and win.

Four More Years of the Same Old Tune

New Obama ad, that made me laugh out loud:

Politics 8/25/08

McCain = Bush
Busy today so a linky-linky post.

Uncle Ted, my favorite senator, is going to be at the Democratic convention.

Despite McCain's noun, verb, POW claim that his military record qualifies him to be President, the fact remains that John McCain was a lousy soldier. The man lost five planes, for crying out loud. That's a qualification? Kind of like Bush's record of driving businesses into the ground, and we all know how that worked out.

Back in the 1990s Cindy McCain just claimed to have adopted a baby from an orphanage in Calcutta. In 2007 she suddenly started claiming that Mother Theresa had asked her to adopt the baby. When those claims were called into question, the McCain website was scrubbed. Lies you might believe in: McCain 2008.

No time to read all the papers? You should be reading the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup, daily at dailykos.

Margaret Thatcher has dementia, as did her old pal Ronald Reagan.

New Political Ad: Moveon.org

What do you think? It's good, but I would have mentioned Exxon's record profits AND the fact that the oil companies already own the rights to drill on over 40 million acres of public land that they aren't drilling on.

Corporate Media Misleading

Third World Traveler

I've briefly summarized these posts about the horrible media coverage of politics we get here in the old U S of A. Click on the links and read the entire articles because I'm just giving you a flavor of these pieces.

Here's something you'd only read from the international press: Obama impresses a reporter for the Jerusalem Post; while McCain & Bush are surrounded by aides when interviewed, Obama goes solo and understands the nuances of Middle East issues.

Devastating critique of the media by Digby; these two passages are my favorite:

After watching them have a mass four year orgasm over George W. Bush standing on a pile of rubble with a bullhorn saying "Ah hear you. And the people who did this are gonna hear from us real soon! yuk, yuk" like he was reciting Shakespeare's Henry V St Crispin's day speech, it's a little bit hard for me to take seriously the idea that they have anything but a bias toward cheap, shallow ignorance (which naturally favors movement conservatism.)

The problem with our media isn't that they like or dislike a politician that we also like or don't like. It's that they treat politics like a celebrity game show and it makes it very difficult for the people to even know what their interests are, much less who best represents them.

In a ridiculous article spammed out to all the media outlets who use AP, two "journalists" declared that the U.S. is winning the war in Iraq. JurassicPork at Brilliant at Breakfast let's 'em have it:

I read the news today, oh boy. The Yankee army has just won the war.

Imagine my surprise when I clicked on this article entitled “Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost” that began with this breathtakingly ballsy sentence: “The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.” Well, gee, there are very few people who would like to believe that more than yours truly. Still, I wanted to see who’d drawn up this analysis but after several paragraphs it was obvious that this “analysis” was cooked up by the same two guys who wrote this article, Robert Reid and Robert Burns.

Indeed, the breezily optimistic opening line was immediately deflated with the next sentence: “Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years.” Considering that our involvement in World War II lasted just over four years against two awesome war machines across two continents, it would seem to me that this 5½ year-old war isn’t close to being over if we have several more years of terrorist and insurgent activity to look forward to.

Yet, to Burns and Reid, the insurgency is (let’s all say it together, people, with feeling and harmony) in its last throes. So how have we beaten or won over the insurgency that we’d created by disbanding the Iraqi Army?

They launched the insurgency five years ago. They now are either sidelined or have switched sides to cooperate with the Americans in return for money and political support.

So we’re buying their loyalty with cold hard American taxpayer dollars and political favoritism. Yeah, that’s certainly a firm foundation for a lasting, peaceful alliance.