There was no way Obama could win this one because the brass were out to make things tough on him. The senate staff/campaign staff conflict was an invented, on the spot, excuse. If it hadn't been that, it would have been something else. This was the same kind of crap as not letting the foreign service staff watch him speak. The administration is stacking the deck against him.

Posted at July 26, 2008 7:52 PM in response to McCain Ad: Obama Isn't There For The Troops Unless Cameras Are Around

I'm not concerned about his health so much as his need for secrecy. 8 years of medical records, to be viewed for a maximum of 3 hours, only by "selected" reporters is not full disclosure. It's the act of a man with something to hide. Same with letting his wife hold all the assets and refusing to release her tax records.

Posted at May 23, 2008 2:23 PM in response to McCain's Doctors, Medical Records Say He Is In Good Health

Double-Talk Express

Posted at February 14, 2008 10:48 AM in response to Today's Must Read

I beg you pardon, Ms. Harmon. This may have been a terrible tragedy in suburban America, but it's just an average day in Baghdad, thanks to you voting to give this president the power to attack a country that had done nothing to us.

Tragic as the deaths of these students are, I'd rather you put your energy into ending the carnage in the middle east - something that it's possible to do - than make use of these deaths to frighten people into begging the government for protection that it cannot and will not provide.

I lost a dear friend when Charles Whitman went on his killing spree in Austin, in the mid 60s, so i'm not cold to the tragedy here. But other than making this country even more of a police state, what would you do? Pass a law against guns? While you're at it, why not pass a law against drugs? That should take care of it.

Posted at April 17, 2007 8:53 PM in response to MY REACTION TO THE TRAGEDY AT VIRGINIA TECH

I just read through this whole thread, and I do hope Mr. Ford will return and address some of the above concerns.

Here's my problem with the DLC:

"(1) Keeping America Safe; (2) Giving Americans the Tools to Compete; (3) Holding Government Accountable for Results; (3) Creating the Hybrid Energy Economy; (5) Making America the Most Pro-Family Country on Earth; and (6) Ending Poverty For All Who Work."

Where the hell is "Restore our Constitutional rights"?

The current administration has done more damage to the rule of law than any other in our history and your six-point, sleep-inducing mission statement makes no mention of it. The administration regards the document that defines us as a problem and an impediment.

Do you think that restoration of habeus corpus might get a mention in there somewhere? Do you think that electing a president who agrees to abide by the law might figure in your mission statement? How are we to take seriously an organization that doesn't seem uncomfortable enough with the imperial presidency to mention it?

Posted at April 3, 2007 5:51 PM in response to In Search of Common Ground