Make sure to watch O’Reilly tonight (MORE: VIDEO/AUDIO ADDED)
Jesse Jackson is in some major hot water:
Against it before he was for it
I happily posted back in May John Edwards’ statement that he was in no uncertain terms not interested in a VP slot alongside Barack Obama. Unfortunately, His Royal Phoniness has backtracked:
Obama on bilingualism
Salon.com has excerpts from a Q&A Barack Obama did with supporters in Powder Springs, GA on Tuesday. On the question of bilingualism, here’s what he had to say:Â
Why does Bob Herbert hate Obama?
I and many other Obama critics in the blogosphere have pointed repeatedly to his double speak on numerous issues and in return have been accused of being “smear, fear, and hate” merchants (or some other variation of the same) for, well, pointing out the obvious.Â
WaPo continues to demonstrate why it’s editorial pages are light years ahead of the NYT’s
1- They’re willing to concede that a too-quick withdrawal from Iraq will erase all of the accomplishments that have been made there and 2 – they’re telling Obama he needs to continue to soften his stance and revise his initial plans regarding Iraq in light of the new conditions on the ground there.
Why John McCain’s experience as a war veteran matters
Since the story of Obama surrogate Wesley Clark’s second dis of John McCain’s military service first broke, there’s been an eruption in commentary within the punditocracy and the blogosphere. The right correctly points out that Clark went beyond just saying being a war veteran doesn’t automatically qualify you to be president and went for the jugular by downplaying what McCain went through (for example, Clark said McCain was “riding” in the aircraft, not piloting it, and also mocked McCain’s getting shot down), while the left is trying to claim that Clark didn’t do any of the latter.