Perhaps we should put things in terms they’d understand: Wrecking your pickup doesn’t qualify you to administer the NASCAR program.

Digby is usually correct. The post you linked to, however, is credited to Dday. There’s a link to a Digby post, however.

Who will be the first Democrat to drive a knife into Clark’s back? So many of them seem to live for approval by the cocktail weenie set, it will only be a matter of time (if it hasn’t happened already).

If McCain wasn’t such a lousy pilot we would never have heard his name. The guy has been a hot-head, a gambler, and not very bright his whole life. Being locked up in North Vietnam for five years doesn’t necessarily qualify a person for anything. It’s all the other stuff too, and McCain comes up short on most of the other stuff.

His war buddies call him Ace McCain. An ace is a pilot that downed 5+ enemy aircraft. McCain is a reverse ace. He crashed/wrecked 5 US planes.
Shit, without his daddy, he would never have been an officer.

Not too surprising? I’d say it’s predictable. Meanwhile, B-2 Bob Dornan offers his cries into the wilderness, and nary a peep is heard…

B-2 Bob Dornan? Did he get an upgrade?

“The guy has been a hot-head, a gambler, and not very bright his whole life.”
There was a study of the whole defection/brain-washing thing after the Korean War.
They found there was one group that never co-operated with the North Koreans at all. That would be people who never accepted authority from anybody, whether it was the U.S, Army, the Commies, or anybody else. Sounds like our boy.

Could it be…the return of Five Brothers’ Blogging?

McCain sources tell Politico that they believe Romney could raise $50 million in 60 days.
Photo: AP

Surprising many Republican insiders, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is at the top of the vice presidential prospect list for John McCain. But lack of personal chemistry could derail the pick.

“Romney as favorite” is the hot buzz in Republican circles, and top party advisers said the case is compelling.

Campaign insiders say McCain plans to name his running mate very shortly after Barack Obama does, as part of what one campaign planner called a “bounce-mitigation strategy.”

The Democratic convention is in late August, a week ahead of the Republican convention. That means McCain can size up the opposing ticket before locking in his own.

This is so the best idea eveah.

I’ve always felt Dornan was schitzophrenic, hence the doubling…

His military jacket is at best ordinary. Rene’s right, he neither gets in nor graduates the academy without 2 generations of admirals shoving him. A poor pilot and no skills ever shown in leadership, he got the fourth stripe as a good bye present. His claim that he turned down a star to run for office is a lie. He was never offered one and none was in the pipeline.

Alas, one of the first would appear to be obama himself. Sporting his new GOP-and-pundit approved flag lapel pin, he was quick to throw clark under the “change you really want to believe in, but probably should wait and see” bus, where clark joins the netroots and other unsavory elements of the reality-based environment.

“[…] in a statement, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, “As he’s said many times before, Senator Obama honors and respects Senator McCain’s service, and of course he rejects yesterday’s statement by General Clark. […]”

Suck. On. That.

Obama would still very much like us to pay Hillary’s debt, however, and he wants us to know that while he apparently won’t stand up for things like the Constitution and the rule of the law, big changes are a’coming. No. Really. I want to believe, I really want to believe in change. But more than a black man in the White House, I really want to see a change in policy. No FISA. No more patriotic “you dis the war, you dis the troops” bullshit — and yet, lately, Obama is sounding more like another stuffed suit than a real change agent.

Looks like it’s Barack. Look, I know the guy’s a politician, and I never bought his rhetoric completely, but I did expect somewhat better. Oh, well, another vote against the Republican, not for the Democrat.

Yes, I’m with thingwarbler, I’m so sick of this shit already.

aimai

Alas, one of the first would appear to be obama himself

… and Rahmbo is high-fiving from the sidelines.

But let’s please drop the pretense that Barack Obama stands for a new type of politics. The reality is he’s proving to be a typical politician who is willing to say anything to get elected, including allowing his campaign surrogates to demean and attack John McCain’s military service record.

Oh horrors. Same old politics; better grammar and syntax; better tan; MO’ MONEY!. Get over it, wingnuts.

“His claim that he turned down a star to run for office is a lie.”

McCain’s less than stellar military record is only the tip of the iceberg. His political acumen may extend no further than pressing enough flesh to insure that beer wasn’t condemned as a “gateway drug” during the ill-fated “Just say no!” campaign.

I want them to pay for that moment, so, so badly.

Imagine if a Democrat had tried pulling that bullshit. Republicans would still be thrashing around and punished anyone who had a “D” by their name. Man..they so deserve to lose.