Common cause?

Apparently Islamist regimes and Republicans have gathered around a common enemy: Barack Obama.

The AP reports that:

"Republican senators criticized President Barack Obama on Sunday for not taking a tougher public stand"

and Al Jazeera reports that Ahmadinejad:

"has told the US [...] to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs"

So, believing both the Iranian regime and the GOP, the Obama administration is oxymoronically "timidly" and "passively" interfering in the domestic affairs of Iran.

Straw Man Argument

Melanie Phillips goes ballistic on American Jews and their support of Obama saying he is preparing "to throw Israel under the bus."

Almost eighty per cent of American Jews voted for Obama despite the clear and present danger he posed to Israel. They did so because their liberal self-image was and is more important to them than the Jewish state whose existence and security cannot be allowed to jeopardise their standing with America’s elite.

I wonder what evidence Phillips has to explain how American Jews are not a great part of America's elite.

Name change.

In honor of Jeff Strabone's landmark decision, the name of this blog has changed.

Audiences

This ability to have the presence to schedule time with these two audiences and use ideas/products of each to form progressive, intelligent policies differentiates Obama from McCain and/or the GOP.

The Naders and Kucinichs that criticize the second meeting clearly have their heads up their asses.

Tracy Morgan commenary on SNL

In response to Tina Fey's commentary that "bitch was the new black."

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Catching flak

Hotline's On Call has carried the story of a war of words between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. After McCain criticized Sens. Hillary Clinton and Obama about their vote for the Iraq war funding supplemental, Obama responded:

“And if there ever was a reflection of that it's the fact that Senator McCain required a flack jacket, ten armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles by his side to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago."

McCain jumped on the apparent misspelling in subsequent the press release, noting that:

"By the way, Senator Obama, it's a 'flak' jacket, not a 'flack' jacket."

FWIW, spell check in Microsoft Word for the sentences, "I am wearing a flack jacket" and "I am wearing a flak jacket" both escape without need for correction.

Interestingly, the word "flak" is an acronym from German. If Obama deems the criticism worth responding to in the future, I hope it's just as smarmy.

Nomination options

Training in St. Charles has delayed any updates, but here we go.

RealClearPolitics shows a composite graphic displaying the results of at least 7 different recent polls for the Republican nomination. Rudy Giuliani leads John McCain with anywhere from 4 to 24 points.

Newt Gingrich is polling better than Mitt Romney. What if the GOP nominees for President and Vice president were Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich?

What if the Democratic nominees were Barack Obama and Bill Richardson. If that's the case, I see a Republican victory in 2008.

Press conference question

A freebie for Democratic presidential primary reporters who can't come up with good material:

"Senator Obama, you sided with the senior senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, on voting against the Iraq War authorization, but voted to confirm Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, unlike Sen. Durbin. What circumstances caused you to agree and disagree with him on those occasions, and how should 2008 Democratic primary voters weigh those votes against your current position and future plans for the Iraq War?"

Too much of a good thing

What about Hil-bam-ward-son?

Barack Obama

2004 Democratic National Convention speech:

Part 1

and

Part 2