On Friday, she was the spunky mother of five, an unconventional reformer poised to shift the election in McCain's favor.

By Monday, she was the scandal-ridden mother of a pregnant teenager, plagued by associations with an indicted U.S. senator, an Alaskan secession group, and Pat Buchanan.

What was he thinking?

McCain may have though Palin would be a good way to siphon off Clinton supporters, but it appears to be having the opposite effect. In today's WaPo, once-bitter Clinton die hard Howard Wolfson comes around and offers an eloquent endorsement of Obama:

Most of us never heard him speak in person. At work 14 hours a day in the war room, we focused on ( Read more... )

From the NYTimes:

The latest good luck for the Democrats is that the McCain campaign was just as bamboozled as the press by the false Hillary narrative. McCain was obviously itching to choose his pal Joe Lieberman as his running mate. A onetime Democrat who breaks with the G.O.P. by supporting abortion rights might have rebooted his lost maverick ( Read more... )

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Fundraising numbers have been released with Obama predictably beating McCain by $51 million to $27 million.

The big news, however, is that the Democratic National Committee has outraised its Republican counterpart for the first time in four years, pulling in $28 million to the Republican National Committee's $26 million.As of now, Obama + the DNC ( Read more... )

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McCain today:

In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.

Barack just can't win with me today.

He's released a new ad wisely tying Iraq to the economy. The problem? My sense is that it unfairly demonizes the Iraqis.



While I agree that withdrawal is in our strategic interest, the fact of the matter is that we owe Iraqis reparations for what we've done to their country.

Via MSNBC:

To the west, Abkahzian separatist forces backed by Russian military might pushed out Georgian troops and even moved into Georgian territory itself, defiantly planting a flag and laughing that retreating Georgians had received "American training in running away."

With the alarmist notion that Russia is trying to 'annex' Georgia now thoroughly debunked, you would think McCain's neocons might shut up for a second. Instead, they've moved on to their next ludicrous claim, this time attacking Obama for having never jet skied with Georgia's president:

The adviser, Randy Scheunemann, also confirmed a report that ( Read more... )