Proving that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, Kristol predicted the Palin pick back in June:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr_LZpMHqA

Of course, he also predicted the pick would cause gas prices to plummet. Anybody want to hold your breath waiting for that to happen?

Proving that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, Kristol predicted the Palin pick back in June:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr_LZpMHqA

Of course, he also predicted the pick would cause gas prices to plummet. Anybody want to hold your breath waiting for that to happen?

I want to speak to anyone who is still on the fence about Obama. You don't have to like him. That's fine. But if you believe in the principles of the Democratic party, if you believe in the Constitution, if you believe in peace and justice, if you believe in the value of life, you must work for his election.

If McCain is elected, there will be more war. He wants to stay in Iraq. He wants to go after Iran. He wants to play war games with Russia. He's all about continuing the macho swagger of the Bush administration and not about the smart diplomacy.

So if McCain is elected, we will have more soldiers in harm's way for unnecessary wars. We will drop more bombs on more villages in more remote places in the world. We will destroy families. We will kill and maim children. That's what war does.

If McCain is elected, he will continue the Bush administrations policies on veterans, so those soldiers he will send off into hell will come back damaged, physically and mentally, and they will not receive the care they need. Many of them will commit suicide, as thousands upon thousands of other veterans have done in the last few years.

If McCain is elected, we will not get meaningful healthcare reform. We will get something that will cater to the insurance companies so people with chronic illnesses or histories of serious diseases will still be denied coverage or priced out of the market. We will have more people uninsured or underinsured, and some of these people will not get needed medical care, and some of them will go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills, and some of them will die from treatable and preventable diseases.

If McCain is elected, he will continue the Bush administration war on reproductive rights. He will appoint Supreme Court justices who will eventually overturn Roe vs. Wade. He will continue policies that make it more difficult to get contraception or even give our teenagers accurate information about the sexuality. The end result will be more unplanned pregnancies and ultimately more illegal abortions. Women - possibly your daughters, sisters, friends or lovers - will die from botched abortions.

These are the stakes. People will die because of a McCain presidency. If you know people are going to die, and you have the ability to prevent it, then you have a moral obligation to act to prevent it. So act. Prevent John McCain from becoming president.

I just saw yet another Hillary delegate being interviewed, and while she wasn't a PUMA, she hemmed and hawed about whether she would vote for McCain. She really wanted to be able to cast her vote for Hillary, and she just doesn't know what she'll do if the roll call is cut short.

She said she was doing this out of "respect for Hillary."

Bullshit.

If respect for Hillary were her primary motivation, then she would be listening to Hillary and doing what Hillary repeatedly asks her to do, which is to support Barack Obama wholeheartedly.

What she's doing has nothing to do with respect for Hillary. It has to do with her own feelings and her own reasons. They may be perfectly valid feelings and reasons, but they are NOT respect for Hillary.

I would have a lot more respect for these people if they would actually own their responses. But trying to push it off on Hillary, claiming they're only doing this out of respect for Hillary, is bullshit.

If they respected her, they would listen to her. This song and dance is disrespectful in the extreme.

I just watched McCain's song and dance with Katie Couric after she asked him about his inability to remember how many homes he owns.

In addition to talking about his POW experience, he brings up his late father-in-law, Jim Hensley and his wealth:

"I am proud and grateful for that, and I think he (Hensley) is a role model to many young Americans who serve in the military and come back and succeed."

Does McCain really want to go there? Offering up Hensley as a role model?

Hensley's start in Arizona's liquor business included being convicted of a felony in 1948 for falsifying liquor records. He received a one year suspended sentence. In 1953, he was charged again, but was acquitted, after being defended by lawyer William Rehnquist - yes, that William Rehnquist.

Now I don't think McCain should be held responsible for his father-in-law's shaky legal path and unsavory connections, and I would be fine with never mentioning it if McCain doesn't bring him up. But if McCain is going to be holding him up as role model?! That's just absurd, and it needs to be explored.