A truly appalling hit piece on the Biden nod.
Josh put it best

Courtin'

Ron Fournier riding hard on the tire swing.

--Josh Marshall

MoveOn's organizing the blowback

Can you email AP reporter Ron Fournier and CC his boss, Managing Editor Mike Oreskes? Tell them that the public's faith in the 160-year-old AP will be gone if Ron Fournier is allowed to continue his slanted articles against Democrats and for McCain.

Here are their emails:

Michael Oreskes, AP Managing Editor, mOreskes@ap.org
Ron Fournier, AP reporter and Washington D.C. Bureau Chief, rfournier@ap.org

http://pol.moveon.org/emails/ap_fournier.html

From The Politico.com

Brother: Wives handle McCain finances

McCain couldn't answer how many houses he owns because growing up his mother handled the finances.

 

 

McCain Ad: Celebs Don't Worry About Family Budgets

Their wives do!

A warm congratulations to Senator Joe Biden on his VP candidate position on the Democratic ticket!

Sen. Biden called me to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq in April 2004, when there was heavy fighting between the Mahdi Army and the US military. He did so on the basis of a journal article I had written on the Sadr Movement in the Middle East Journal, which he had read. That knocked my socks off. People in Washington don't often read journal articles. It struck me as the sort of thing that should happen in our democracy every day-- you write something in your specialty, and your elected representative calls you to talk about it. No lobbies, think tanks, etc. involved.

So it was a positive impression! And in the hearing he was informed and articulate....

Juan Cole

Jimi Hendrix RARE 67-03-07 Belgium - Hey Joe Tienerklanken

For IRAN
Barack Obama went to Iraq and Maliki found the cover and the spine to dare voice what his people and ours have wanted for years.


Those who believe Iraq had WMD...well who cares about them any more. But I sure wish SOME Democrat would point out the War Party's record of Accomplished Missions:

Wars Fought, Wars Lost
1. Iraq
2. Afghanistan
3. Georgia
4. Somalia
5. Lebanon
6. "Terror"

Add 7...the Iran War that wasn't

Iraq FM: Deal Would Prevent US from Attacking Iran

The Real McSame

“If you pass a resolution…that dictates withdrawal and a time for withdrawal, all you’re doing is telling the enemy, ‘hang on, we’re leaving.’” [March 2007]

– “If you set a date for withdrawal, then the consequences of failure are catastrophic.” [8/20/07]

– “An artificial timetable based on political expediency would have led to disaster and could still turn success into defeat.” [7/19/08]

– “They’ll come home with honor. And it won’t be just at a set timetable.” [7/22/08]

 

(Ha'aretz) Bush Refuses to Sell Refueling Jets to Israel - Fears Strike

For the DNC and the Campaign

The San Francisco Chronicle's Carla Marinucci reports:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama used his own name and heritage to make a point about change at a fundraiser that raised a record $7.8 million for his campaign in San Francisco Sunday.

At Talking Points Memo, the essential blog vigilantly pursuing the McCain revelations often ignored elsewhere, Josh Marshall accurately observes that the Republican candidate is “graded on a curve.”

I'll second that from Frank Rich's vacation return column today.

Keep up the yeoman work guyz!!!