The reality of France's aggressive nuclear power push
By Mycle Schneider
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
3 June 2008

Posted at August 19, 2008 12:45 AM in response to McCain's Nuclear Meltdown

But but but I read on teh innertubes that they were evil geniuses.

A new improved CIA my ass; Larry Moe & Curly is more like it. I was just thinking, I bet some of the related classified docs use the spelling NATOE....

Posted at August 19, 2008 12:36 AM in response to Asleep at the Wheel, and the Real Liberal Media

Sheesh, I read this, and I find another post just a few posts down! What is wrong with you people?! Don't you know anything about Obama's own background? Don't you know Obama has half-siblings in Africa that he'd really like to maintain a lot of distance from?! Quit dragging this shit into the campaign, it's the last thing he wants. You're not helping, you're hurting; play this up and he's going to have to deal with stuff worse than Billy Carter/Roger Clinton type shit.

Posted at August 19, 2008 12:24 AM in response to McCain Family Values: Sister? I Don't Have No Stinkin' Sister!

Unless you have a much bigger story behind this to support your title, I hate to burst the bubble, but I have to point out that Cindy McCain's father would not be genetically related to the McCain family.

If you want to do a "runs in the family," maybe the Kennedys might prove more fruitful?

And I should be kind and point out to you that a right winger responding to your post might be tempted to bring up Obama's father, who, as is recorded in Dreams from My Father, had a wife and children he left in Africa when he married Obama's mother. And when he left and divorced Obama's mother, he took a third wife at Harvard and took her back to Africa.

So any politicians or other leaders out there have a family history that meets with your moral approval? It could be argued that ever since Henry VIII, it's been kind of tough on the lifetime fidelity front.

Posted at August 18, 2008 11:49 PM in response to The McCain Family And The Culture of Cheating

In the process, he’s aligning himself with George Bush

Though I don't agree with the linkage you draw to the ads, I agree that to date, he hasn't done well at all with this serious problem. Let's see what his campaign does with the GOP convention, there's the real rub. It's going to be an amazing feat if he can come out of that with an "I'm change from George Bush" image. Nearly impossible, but you never know.

Posted at August 12, 2008 2:11 PM in response to Biding His Time Before the Uppercut

I notice on the front page Tapper is counting the number of white women in the last ad. I'd be counting the number of ordinary looking Americans older than 45 or 50. Silent majority? Insiders? Not sure how to characterize them. It's the people who aren't in the ad that the ad is aimed at.

Spot on comment in mho. Reminded me of the "invisible Americans" in the recently released Mark Penn memoes.

Posted at August 12, 2008 2:05 PM in response to Biding His Time Before the Uppercut

...we...ourselves...

Are you officially a part of Obama's campaign? You write like you are. If you're not, if you're just another voter like most others commenting on this site, it comes off as sort of presumptuous to this reader. Either that, or it gives off the impression that you have some kind of club going on here between commenters that has to be decoded before one can enter into commenting.

Posted at August 12, 2008 1:58 PM in response to Biding His Time Before the Uppercut

You might wanna go over and talk with some of the folks on this thread: "Stop dancing around the white elephant!" Several of them seem to think Obama = youth is a sure sell.

Posted at August 3, 2008 11:52 PM in response to Barack Obama is not a “Young Man”

You mistake me for a Reagan fan. I was just pointing out that this argument is not a persuasive one campaign-wise. Reagan won, ya know. That's how it worked out, badly in my opinion. Pointing out that he was old did not work out as to him losing. People are not as ageist as one would think, they consider health instead. Pound on McCain's health, maybe you'll get somewhere; age-I just don't think so, not at least to anyone it doesn't already turn off. Your preaching to choir by emphasizing age alone, it's easily dismissed.

Posted at August 3, 2008 9:49 PM in response to Stop dancing around the white elephant!

Been there, done that, easily countered:

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience"--Ronald Reagan in debate with Walter Mondale. Mondale was forced to laugh along with the audience lest he look like a constipated pill without a sense of humor.

Posted at August 3, 2008 2:58 PM in response to Stop dancing around the white elephant!