They're just trying to make it so that if you do a news search on presidential candidate in Berlin, you'll be three times as likely to get McCain. My god, they've figured out The Google!

Posted at July 23, 2008 5:30 PM in response to McCain's Pushback On Timing Flub: The Surge Began Before The Surge

That super-weapon that was used to win WWII with Japan? The atomic bomb was just a cover story, it was really The Surge™.

Posted at July 23, 2008 5:28 PM in response to McCain's Pushback On Timing Flub: The Surge Began Before The Surge

With all this "surge" talk, I bet McCain is angling to get a Viagra contract after his losing presidential bid, just like Bob Dole.

Posted at July 23, 2008 5:26 PM in response to McCain's Pushback On Timing Flub: The Surge Began Before The Surge

McCain appears to believe that the troops are a class of second-graders who all have to win a prize or it'll hurt their self-esteem.

Somehow I doubt being given credit for every remotely positive development in Iraq, whether the facts support it or not, is the top concern of the troops right now.

Posted at July 23, 2008 5:23 PM in response to McCain Surrogate: The Truth About Iraq Undermines Our Troops

Yet more evidence that the McCain campaign is populated by Obama moles...

Posted at July 23, 2008 2:43 PM in response to New RNC Ad Blasts Obama For Not Funding Troops

At this point, is anyone other than hardcore wingnuts buying the old Republican line that anyone who voted against any of their war bills was voting against the troops?

It's not like they've got much else to work with, but it still seems pretty lame.

Posted at July 23, 2008 2:42 PM in response to New RNC Ad Blasts Obama For Not Funding Troops

I dunno, I think he might also need a state Republican Party that's become so ideologically rigid that it's throwing out experienced senior leaders for being insufficiently pure on taxes and abortion, and has responded to successive losses by demanding more purity. And there's no way... oh, wait! Virginia has that, too!

Posted at July 23, 2008 2:31 PM in response to Poll: Obama Narrowly Ahead In Virginia

"Surge" & "Drill"? Has he been getting into Bob Dole's Viagra before strategy meetings again?

Posted at July 23, 2008 2:29 PM in response to Poll: Obama Narrowly Ahead In Virginia

Absolutely! Hiatt's favorite politician, GW Bush, would never be seen "tailoring his public statements for political purposes." He's all manly and resolute and stuff; politics never enters into it!

Posted at July 23, 2008 2:25 PM in response to Washington Post Editorial Falsely Claims Iraqi Political Leaders Don't Support Obama's Withdrawal Plan

Yes, if you disagree with McCain that the troops and only the troops were responsible for everything good that's happened in Iraq since the Surge™ began, you're dishonoring the troops. He seems to think the troops are like a class of third-graders -- they'll be demoralized unless they all win first prize, and saying that's true is more important than making sound decisions based on the real facts on the ground.

Most of this is just the usual phony "support the troops/the Surge is working!" BS, but there's also an element of McCain's weird obsessive need to redeem Vietnam. The wingnut crew will continue to declare the primary importance of "coming home with honor," right up to the point where they accuse Obama of dishonoring the troops when he brings them home (thereby implicitly saying that the troops are dishonored) -- and never grasp the irony of what they're doing.

Posted at July 22, 2008 4:39 PM in response to McCain Falsely Claims That Obama Is Denying The Success Of The Troops