Having fun wish you were here.  And all TPM and the rest of this country can think about are the Olympics and John Edwards

Pray for the poor Georgian suckers who surged for Bush's Beruit Spring


President George W. Bush poses with U.S. Women's Beach Volleyball team player Misty May-Treanor (L) and Kerri Walsh while visiting the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Grounds at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing August 9, 2008

The Limits of Love (NyT).



there were signs that Mr. Saakashvili was feeling the limits of how much American help he could expect after signing up as an ally in Iraq.

McMorons Attack O!'s "elite education"

Those idiots are making it easier to run against the Grand Old Plutocracy every day

Obama's elite schooling may prove a risky topic for McCain, who attended St. Stephen’s, an exclusive school in Alexandria, Va., and then Episcopal High, a private boarding school in the same city, in the 1950s. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, he ended up at the Naval Academy, where, as he often reminds voters, he finished near the bottom of his graduating class.

The Russian 58th Army is taking care of that.  Meanwhile it is timely to consider two, and only two possibilities:

1. Saakashvili told the Idiot Bush in advance

2. He didn't even bother



Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili banked on Russia not having will to fight
Times UK

It looks, in retrospect, like a ruse that went badly wrong. After days of heavy skirmishing between Georgian troops and Russian-backed separatist militias in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, Mikhail Saakashvili, the Georgian President, went on television on Thursday evening to announce that he had ordered an immediate unilateral ceasefire.

How McCain threw Ohio workers under his bus - Los Angeles Times

DHL Deal Gone Sour Haunts McCain in Ohio
The firm may close its hub, imperiling nine county economies. A campaign aide lobbied for its parent company.

Wilmington, Ohio - Finally given a chance to address Sen. John McCain, Mary Houghtaling choked up Thursday and began to cry.

Good question

War in the Caucasus?
By Anatol Lieven, New America Foundation
Newsweek International | October 16, 2006

The Princeton Election Consortium Meta-Analysis

A snapshot simulation of the latest polls called the Electoral College on the money in 2004.

Move over Nate Silver, Dr. Wang is back in town