The headline story on CNN.com at this moment is a breaking interview with Putin in which he claims that the US instigated the Georgian crisis in order to benefit "one of the presidential candidates" and he has proof of this by way of US citizens on the ground in the war zone as it was happening.

I personally wouldn't be surprised in the least if there is a kernel of truth in this.

BTW, I see that the main bloggers, Greg Sergent, John Marshall, et al. often quote from emails they receive on a certain viewpoint. Being relatively new, can someone direct me how precisely to leave messages for these front pagers?

Posted at August 28, 2008 5:05 PM in response to The Neo-Con on Your Shoulder

I don't understand why Clark was ruled out. Especially, if Biden's being considered for purposes of foreign policy and national security.

Posted at August 18, 2008 5:35 AM in response to VP DECISION HAS BEEN MADE: Not Bayh, Not Daschle, Not Clark

Actually I haven't. I searched for it but could only turn up Moore's RS article on 6 ways to lose this election. If you find it somewhere online, please post it. Thx.

Posted at August 12, 2008 8:09 PM in response to Latest McCain Campaign Claim: Talking About Job Losses Is Exploiting Workers

Sadly, like it or not, The Politico has become a major force that has to be taken seriously in American politics. Even international journalists have acknowledged this.

I've been a member of that site since inception, and it's mind boggling the types of rabid nut jobs that pollute their feedback threads. The hoards of global warming deniers and those pushing the Obama as Anti-Christ meme, quoting the book of Revelations; goes from grotesque to nauseating.

Interestingly, every time an article appears that even remotely paints Obama positively, hundreds of these hacks line up the comments section with accusations that the Politico is on the bandwagon for Obama and is anti-McCain.

Posted at August 12, 2008 7:56 AM in response to The Politico: Rightwing Spin Machine (pt. 3)

I can't help but note one final irony.

All the gushing commentators pushing for an Edwards VP ticket using the argument that Edwards had the advantage of having already been 'fully vetted'. A lot can happen in 4 years.

Posted at August 10, 2008 7:45 PM in response to Edwards: "If You Want To Beat Me Up -- Feel Free"

And one more thing.

At least Mark Warner knew when to fold'em early.

Posted at August 10, 2008 7:43 PM in response to Edwards: "If You Want To Beat Me Up -- Feel Free"

I never bought Saint Edwards new platform when he remade himself from the centrist he was in 2004 to a sudden champion for the poor in his 2008 run.

Anyway, people here keep saying that he made it their business by going public to the press about it and ask why he did this if he wanted to keep it private.

Well, a surrogate of the Obama camp mentioned prior to his public announcement that if he wanted any hope of being part of a future Obama administration this would need to be cleared up.

Unfortunately for Edwards, the damage he did might very well prevent him from any future in politics. Especially if what he's told the public so far is not the whole truth, with the meeting at the hotel with his 'ex' mistress being highly suspect in the eyes of the public.

Posted at August 10, 2008 7:41 PM in response to Edwards: "If You Want To Beat Me Up -- Feel Free"

It's amazing that posters like McCain4Usa can come here at say things like the only reason Obama is the nominee is because he is black and falsities like:

John McCain is correct on all the issues: cutting taxes, energy independence, strong foreign policy, and health care.

After making such statements, McCain4Usa, how can you expect to have any credibility left? You should go to redstate.com so you can find like minded rednecks that actually agree with your racist and highly under informed BS. There's a reason why McCain is resorting to Britney Spears ads, because he knows he can't win when it comes to arguing on the issues. McCain right on health care? Wahahahhahah. That's the biggest stretch I've ever seen. Maintaining tax cuts for the top 1% of America in order to grow the divide between the rich and poor and squeeze a middle class that America built itself on? A middle class that Obama supports tax cuts for? An answer to energy independence by drilling for domestic crude that will have minimal effects on American pocketbooks and has economists across the spectrum deriding it as nothing but a political stunt? An energy policy focused on building more nuclear plants when they are so many more promising energy sources out there that are clean? A foreign policy that includes talking with our enemies as well as the use of force, which is precisely what all presidents have employed until Shrub took office? And now you're attempting to say that a guy that finished 5th from the bottom of his class in HIGH SCHOOL is more qualified than one that finished in the top 1% of his class at Harvard Law School? Who upon his entrance application to Harvard didn't even list his race because he wanted to be accepted on merit? And you're pushing a guy that knows nothing about economics, and his poor grasp of foreign policy is so blatant that he claims multiple times that Al Qaeda is training in Shiite Iran. Who had to be surrounded by aides to correct him when he went to Israel and became befuddled on a reporter's question about settlements? Whereas Obama had one aide along who never had to assist Obama with the interview, as Obama had a strong grasp of the facts and nuances?

McCain's judgment on the war was wrong just as Hillary's judgment was, which was particularly egregious since they had access to senate intelligence reports that revealed how flimsy the case of WMD's was. This was one of the many reasons Hillary lost (outside of poor planning and horribly wasteful campaign) was that she voted to authorize a war without having read through the reports. Senators that DID read through it recognized how light it was and therefore did NOT vote for the war. And you think we'll be safe with a McCain that does not read intelligence reports before voting on something as important as going to war? Obama rightly spoke out against the war despite not having access to such intelligence reports, but knowing that attacking a country that poses no threat to the American people would only damage our country in lost blood and treasure and in itself is morally reprehensible.

Whatever you're smoking must be some pretty good rock, because your claims come across only as outright delusional.

Posted at August 10, 2008 6:28 PM in response to McCain Camp: Obama "Bizarrely In Sync With Moscow"

When I see stuff like this, and the 6 point hike McCain got in the polls recently when asked who would be the better one for our economy (which I can only attribute to the tire gauge stunt) it just makes me want to drop everything I'm doing and become a shadowy democratic operative in the Lee Atwater mode. I'm really regretting not having signed up to raise money and participate in a 527 not associated with Obama that could utterly ridicule McShame with impunity.

That would be fun.

Posted at August 9, 2008 4:28 AM in response to Latest McCain Campaign Claim: Talking About Job Losses Is Exploiting Workers

Yes, they want to tie up loose ends that the next administration will not be dumped with, PLUS it allows Bush to claim that the investigation concluded on his watch.

But of course when desperation acts like this become apparent where they are clearly grasping at straws to pin it on the 'lone scientist' angle, and it was so conveniently leaked first to Faux News since it would provide them initial cover and remove risk of asking tough questions on its accuracy by a real news agency that threw up the instant red flag. Let the story be broken in their narrative so it can be comfortably absorbed and settle in people's minds, and just prior to Olympic and nonstop campaign coverage, maybe the rest of the MSM will fall in lockstep. Problem was, the story WAS questioned in the MSM. Gambit failed.

Posted at August 7, 2008 6:18 AM in response to FBI Identified Source Of Anthrax Years Ago, But Case Remained Unsolved And Ivins Continued Working