Let's all just remember who got disrespected in all this, folks. Who's reputation is on the line. Who stood up for truth, justice, and the American way. Sinbad.

An open letter to Sinbad:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/an-open-letter-to-sinbad-your.php

Excellent blog.

That's the sort of basic investigative journalism and fact checking the MSM won't do. It's too clear cut for them. Not enough wiggle room, controversy, and churn to generate ratings. Facts like those don't require pundits to debate them.

A cool addition to the site would be an option to organize the items them by category, such as "FP experience claims" and "Economic bamboozles" etc.

Wright is a non-issue to most voters. It's over, Obama is still more popular than Hillary, get over it already!

Hillary supported the Iraq war up until 2006.

She lies about her foreign experience.

Obama has more legislative experience than Hillary (including his time as Illinois Sen.)

Facts don’t cease to exist simply because they are ignored.

The fact is the Clinton campaign is increasing relying on lies and distortions to trump up her past experience.

In addition to the bold-faced Bosnia lie, her campaign has exaggerated or outright lied about her involvement in the Family and Medical Leave Act, The SCHIP program, the Northern Ireland Peace accords, the opening of borders in Macedonia, and, perhaps worse of all, her opposition to NAFTA.

How is this NOT a legitimate issue?

Calling attention to facts is not a pissing contest, or nonsense, and there is nothing unfair about it.

"When Wright took the pulpit to give his post-9/11 address -- which has since become boiled down to a five second sound bite about "America's chickens coming home to roost" -- he prefaced his remarks as a "faith footnote," an indication that he was deviating from his sermon.

"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday," Wright declared. "He was on Fox News. This is a white man and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true: America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Wright then went on to list more than a few U.S. foreign policy endeavors that, by the tone of his voice and manner of his expression, he viewed as more or less deplorable. This included, as has been demonstrated in the endless loop of clips from his sermon, bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki and nuking "far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye."

"Violence begets violence," Wright said, "hatred begets hatred, and terrorism begets terrorism."

And then he concluded by putting the comments on Peck's shoulders: "A white ambassador said that yall, not a black militant, not a reverend who preaches about racism, an ambassador whose eyes are wide open and is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice... the ambassador said that the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have, but they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them... let me stop my faith footnote right there."

Don Key: If Clinton wasn't under sniper fire in Bosnia, the sniping here more than makes up.

Great line! I'm for Obama and furious at Hillary, but a great line is a great line and we're going to really need to grow a sense of humor before this is over.

I feel the same way. Don't insult my intelligence by telling me such an obvious lie...at least put in the extra effort to come up with a good one.

One of the problems of this lie is that it is a bad lie. You don't lie when someone can pull out a tape and say, no, that's not what happened.

Very true - and yet another example of an unforced error by the Clinton campaign. This kind of thing is why I question her ability to a) beat McCain and b) get anything done if she does.

And that's assuming that her intentions are pure in the first place and that I'm a tin-foil hatter for suspecting that she's a corporate operative.

I used the term Cheney-esque to describe the nature of the lie not the severity.

As we all know Dick Cheney has a penchant for sticking with a line long after it has been revealed to be a lie (eg- Al Quaeda and Sadam, WMD stockpiles).

I think the Clinton camp is doing the same thing here - and for the same reasons Cheney does it.

1) They know the media is pathetically lame and they'll get away with it (which they would have if the video hadn't turned up. Lets face it, even the detailed and devastating March 20th Washington Post article wouldn't have been enough without the CBS video clip. That the reality of the Wolf-Blitzer-era we now find ourselves in)

2) There is a level of "what you gona do about it" bravado to it. It's classic bully stuff. There is something starkly intimidating about a scruple-less opponent; it's a battle principle that both Karl Rove and the Clinton's understand perfectly well and have employed throughout their years in politics.

If there was any real danger they would not have been allowed to travel there, period. Secret Service would not have allowed it.