I forgot to mention McCain should also talk about privatizing social security and saving all the Terri Schiavos, if McCain would just embrace the last 8 years he would be leading in all polls.

Can't beleieve I forgot Lieberman, McCain and Lieberman are off the charts when it comes to charisma. Lieberman as VP would probably ensure McCain of winning at least 49 states.

The Iraqi's may not want the US to achieve 'victory', there is even talk that they just want the troops to go home-!

see: Will the Iraqi Government Destroy Half of McCain's Campaign? link

I remember the story about Krauthammer standing up and yelling at the rabbi in the middle of the Yom Kippur service. How embarrassing for his family and friends? I thought he might be rabid then, but this latest advise demonstrates conclusively he is around the bend. Somebody needs to check his meds.

I left the following comment earlier in the hope that Charles might see it:

Mr. Krauthammer - when will there have been enough bloodshed for you? Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed, millions displaced. Trillions wasted on the occupation of a third-rate military power that never attacked us. You, sir, supported this war from the beginning, and have made good money writing and talking about it. Have you sent any of that money to the families of the soldiers and innocent Iraqis you helped kill? Just askin' ....

I gather that somehow, few inside the DC bubble are aware of this, but the fact is that sometime in 2005, the vast majority of Americans out here in the hinterlands gave up on Iraq. Accepted that it was a lost cause. Tuned it out. In the process, tuned out its increasingly despised Decider. Republicans and scaredy-Dems can warble on all they want about the success of the "Surge" and how we're winning, but they've long since decisively lost the battle of public opinion. Most Americans, sick of baby-sitting a distant powder keg that turns American soldiers and Iraqi civilians into hamburger every day, have moved on. They can't be persuaded in the rightness of our purposeless fight. They've made up their minds.

If the violence stays at today's level, if the Iraqi election, whether or not postponed, seems likely to go forward, peacefully, if a US-Iraq agreement gets approved, McCain can pound away and he might just turn out looking like Santa Claus.

And IF I bet on 33 at roulette, and IF the ball doesn't roll onto 1, and IF the ball doesn't roll on 2.....and IF the ball doesnt roll on 32......THEN I WIN!

Damn, so easy! I need to play more roulette.

Hey McCain, we're not "(your) friends" so do us all a favour and go reclaim your spot on the balcony of the muppet show.

It is indeed a winning plank. And a man walking the winning plank needs a special group of friends walking with him. Take at look at this article at truthdig.com by Elliot Cohen --
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_john_mccains_chilling_project_for_america/
Here's the lede:
"John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. Over its two terms, the George W. Bush administration has planted the seeds for this geopolitical master plan, and now appears to be counting on the McCain administration, if one comes to power, to nurture it."

Watch out what you wish for, Rosenberg. You might get it. McCain is a war lover, and war talk energizes him. In a political world of images and brands, a vigorous McCain, running on a promise of victory in the Middle East -- however he can persuade people to understand victory -- could do better than he has any right to expect right now. As Antaeus derived his strength from the earth, McCain derives his strength from war. Better to lift him up out of the war and strangle him with domestic issues.

"The one thing Rosenberg never tells us is what he was doing while Krauthammer was rebuking his Rabbi. I can imagine. It's one thing to take cheap shots at a man here, quite another to confront him in public. That takes guts."

Right on! Personally, I always stand up to air political disagreements with the priest during mass--it's what makes Krauthammer's behavior so completely appropriate!

"If the violence stays at today's level, if the Iraqi election, whether or not postponed, seems likely to go forward, peacefully, if a US-Iraq agreement gets approved, McCain can pound away and he might just turn out looking like Santa Claus.
As usual, MJ's scoping out the rear view mirror and readying himself (and our party) to drive over a cliff."

Totally! This is a totally winning issue, because not hearing anything about Iraq (cause we aren't) and winning in Iraq are the same thing! So all McCain has to do is talk about how great Iraq is going without reminding us of Iraq. So easy, I feel like we can pretty much already declare victory. Mission Accomplished!

If Krauthammer had done it our temple, a few hundred people would have volunteered to wheel him to his car, right then! And I'm not afraid of disagreeing with or yelling at someone in a wheel chair. I had a son in a wheel chair and know that the disability community is full of the same types of good & bad, smart and stupid, conniving and honest, lovable nd repulsive people as the non-disabled. No reason not to yell at someone in a wheel chair if that person's being a jerk (which Krauthammer is pretty much all of the time).

Krauthammer wrote that because he knows about this:

Obama Iraq Advisers Clash at CNAS posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 06/12/2008 @ 11:52am

The Nation -- The battle for Barack Obama's mind on the issue of getting out of Iraq unfolded in public yesterday, as two members of his Iraq advisory task force presented conflicting versions of what to do about the Bush Administration's nation-wrecking program in that country.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/328987

You conveniently leave that news out of the picture, or don't know about it, so why should I trust your opinion on the Obama campaign smarts and potential on this issue? All you seem to do is boosterism, you don't ever seem to honestly analyze anything about Obama's campaign, every move he and they and him is always genius. I don't really believe that kind of approach is going to help him win the presidency, it might even hurt. If you really wanted him to win you'd do more honest criticism, make suggestions.

I am worried he doesn't have his Iraq policy presentation firmed up at this late date. McCain's going to continue with the bold statements and Obama's going to answer with "on the one hand, on the other hand"?

I am worried he doesn't have his Iraq policy presentation firmed up at this late date.

Of course you are worried. I bet you're also concerned.

I agree with the dunce, it's the best plank mcsame has. He should walk it

especially now, when the Iraqis are beginning to make it perfectly clear that we should GET THE FUCK OUT

mcsame should base his campaign on an issue that has less than 30% support in America, and even less support in Iraq

sounds like a good idea to swing some of those down-ticket races

67 votes in the Senate and impeachment for four unfit Supreme Court justices

make it happen, Mcsame

If only, but alas, there is no hope for a happy ending in Iraq. I guess you missed that the Iraqi government said no thanks to McBush about permanent bases in Iraq. The very dumbest thing that McSame has done is to affix his wagon to the Bush disasters of his administration, the economy, the war, and our country's lack of respect from so many nations in the world. Shows how poor the McCain judgment really is. Poor, poor McCain. He has sold his straight talk to the devil for a mess of pottage and he will never recover his good name. A really nice guy gone bad.