"The fact he's my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue. So I understand that." - Barack Obama.

So where in this statement is Obama giving McCain permission to attack him? If McCain had any integrity left (assuming he had it in the first place), he wouldn't even take a free shot. The fact is that McCain has to play dirty because like all Republicans, he can't win on policy.

Posted at April 28, 2008 1:13 PM in response to McCain: Obama Said It's Okay To Hit Him On Wright

I'm not sure I can add anything to that. I think you pegged King George perfectly. One wonders how he can always be smiling when everything that he puts his hand to, goes belly up.

But it's either a demonstration of how insulated he is from the reality around him, or he's confident knowing that some right wing historian do a biography, and thus, create his legend like they did with Reagan.

The sad thing is, that conservatives will try to push this mythology, as they did with Reagan, into the mainstream, and twenty years from now, people will be talking about what a wonderful president George Bush was, without remembering what an incompetent he was.

Posted at April 22, 2008 10:56 AM in response to Bush: Our Lowest Common Denominator in Chief

Glad to see Idiotic back! THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS! FOR TPM READERS!

Posted at April 14, 2008 11:58 AM in response to Money Managers Betting On Obama

Bill's right, it's the media's fault. The vicious truthmongers!

Posted at April 11, 2008 11:30 AM in response to Bill Clinton: Media Acted Like Hillary Was "Just Making Up All This Stuff" On Bosnia

Merlot, I think you meant 1992, but I understand what you're saying. Clinton supporters think elect her will bring back the economic boom of the 90s, but that's not going to happen. It's going to take fiscal discipline and a rollback of tax cuts to fix the budget mess we have and to do that, is going take a president who can sell the idea to congressional Republicans. Two things that make Clinton a bad choice in this regard:

1.)The Republicans in congress this time around are a very different breed than the ones Bill dealt with. These are not fiscal conservatives.

2.) It will take a real salesman to work with the GOP to get the federal government back in the black.

3.) Hillary is no salesman.

Posted at April 11, 2008 10:43 AM in response to New Obama Ad In Pennsylvania Attacks Hillary Ad That Attacked Obama Ad

And that is why they call him Dick.

Posted at April 11, 2008 9:34 AM in response to Cheney Plays The Jeremiah Wright Card

I agree that neither Obama nor his staff should speak out this. But some third party needs to make sure that the people of Pennsylvania know that the candidate who claims to be pro union and labor is being consulted by a sleaze who's playing both sides of the street. The hard working people of this country have been lied to and screwed over long enough.

The people have the right to know. The Founders had a great deal of respect for the common man's ability to make intelligent decisions based on relevant and factual information in their voting choices. Hillary can not be allowed to con the people of Pennsylvania like she did the people of Ohio.

Posted at April 5, 2008 9:40 AM in response to Penn: "I Am Sorry" For Meeting With Colombian Ambassador

It is to laugh.

After winning 11 states in a row,it's a good thing for the Clinton campaign that the amateurs are running the Obama campaign. If they were professionals Hillary would've been forced to concede defeat by now.

Posted at March 22, 2008 11:49 AM in response to Hillary Spokesperson Describes Obama Campaign As "Amateur Hour"

Given that the news directors and editors apparently don't have a much longer attention span than the general public, it's laughable that this issued would have any effect on Obama in a general election.

Given that the Democratic nomination is still up for grabs (thanks in larger part to the Clinton campaign's willingness to crawl through the mud to get to the White House) and the party's convention is in August, that's five months for this thing to sit and gather dust. If the Right Wing pulls it out, the effect will be minimal. People will have forgotten and think, "so?". And even if certain people buy into it, they were not likely to vote for Obama anyway.

Posted at March 19, 2008 2:37 PM in response to GOP Strategists Still See Opportunity To Hit Obama On Wright

I think the only 3 a.m. call Hillary has ever gotten is one where someone is telling her where Bill really is.

Posted at March 10, 2008 11:31 AM in response to Hillary: Barack isn't ready to be Commander in Chief, Clinton's: Former military advisors, "We think so."