NBC, Fox didn't challenge McCain's false claim
that Obama was community organizer when Palin was in office

post from Media Matters for America on 01 September 2008 06:08:25 PM. © Media Matters for America

During an interview on the August 31 edition of NBC's Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams didnot challenge Sen. JohnMcCain's false claim that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "was in electedoffice when Senator [Barack] Obama was still a, quote, 'communityorganizer.' "Similarly, during the August 31 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace didnot challenge McCain'sfalse claim that "when she [Palin] was in government, he [Obama] was acommunity organizer." Neither Williams nor[...]

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Is John McCain Mentally Fit To Be President

post from uncomfortably numb on 01 September 2008 06:07:44 PM. © uncomfortably numb

Forgetting countries names, what he said hours before, and key elements of his policies is John McCain mentally fit to be president? Now, he has shown utter lack of judgement in his choice of VP.read more | digg story

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How the GOP Is Counting on Hurricane Gustav for
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As the storm bears down on the Gulf Coast, the Republicans see an opportunity to help salvage their brand.read more | digg story

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VIDEO: Howard Dean at the 2008 DNC Convention in
Denver

post from Acropolis Review on 01 September 2008 06:02:00 PM. © Acropolis Review

Chairman Howard Dean spoke on behalf of the Democratic Party and the Obama-Biden ticket. He also...

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Call her General Palin

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 01 September 2008 05:50:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Weird new talking point from the McCain campaign. They're now saying that Sarah Palin, or perhaps we should now be calling her General Palin, is "Commander in Chief" of the Alaska National Guard that is fighting in Iraq. I'm sure the governor is the de jure chief of the state's national guard, but to imply that she's somehow the equivalent of the Commander in Chief of the US military, direct Alaska's forces in the fight against Al Qaeda, running through war plans and launching rocket attacks, is just laughable. Don't take it from me. Take it from the general who runs the Alaska National Guard:

Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard... said he and Palin play no role in national defense activities, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is not briefed on situations.

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This interview, below, is simply astounding. CNN's Campbell Brown just obliterates McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds who simply refuses to answer, is unable to answer, the simple question as to what foreign policy experience Palin has. He couldn't name one decision she made as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard. Watch the video below or via this link.

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Bush may speak via satellite to convention
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post from DemConWatch on 01 September 2008 05:49:00 PM. © DemConWatch

NBC is reporting that President Bush may speak to the Republican convention tomorrow night, at 10:00, in ET. So the first view the country will have of the Republican convention is Bush. We can live with that.

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Gustav turns into political stunt

post from Cotton Mouth on 01 September 2008 05:48:00 PM. © Cotton Mouth

Thankfully, Gustav has turned out to not be another Katrina for the Mississippi Coast. Our thoughts are most definitely with the folks in Louisiana who took the direct hit. The last I heard is that some levees were breaking in parishes outside of New Orleans, but the president of the parish was cut off by Wolf Blitzer because First Lady Laura Bush was beginning her speech at the RNC convention.

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However successful Mississippi may have been in it's coordination of the evacuation, and hopefully, rebuilding, our Governor still managed to turn it in to a political stunt.
From the Clarion-Ledger:

McCain's campaign said the senator, wife Cindy and Palin visited out of concern for the region devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita three years ago.
Gov. Haley Barbour invited McCain and Palin to Mississippi to see the planning efforts as the storm spirals toward the coast of central Louisiana. Barbour assured the GOP candidates that the state has done extensive planning, such as initiating contraflow on two interstates Sunday and opening dozens of shelters statewide.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who does not plan to travel to the Gulf Coast before the storm hits, said he respects McCain's decision to travel to Mississippi but worries about the resources that are expended, such as the use of Secret Service agents and local police officers and firefighters.
"The thing that I always am concerned about in the middle of the storm is whether we are drawing resources away from folks on the ground," Obama said Sunday in a statement. "We are going to try to stay clear of the area until things have settled down, and then we will probably try to figure out how we can be as helpful as possible."

Though commentators have said McCain was very critical of the Bush administration's handling of Katrina, I'm not sure how him coming down here yesterday helped anyone.

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Was McCain's VP Pick Ever An AIP Member

post from Daily Kos on 01 September 2008 05:45:24 PM. © Daily Kos

As detailed here and here, questions are arising as to whether McCain's candidate for vice-president was a member of or was in any way associated with the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). The AIP is a political party whose aim, among other things, is to receive a vote on the secession of Alaska from the United States of America.

In this video, dated October of 2007, the Vice Chairman of the AIP claims that McCain's VP pick "was an AIP member":

"Our current governor who I mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected . . . .and there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as mayor . . . "

Was McCain's VP pick truly a "member of the AIP," as the video claims? It could simply be a fringe organization trying to take credit for an electoral success. But if it isn't, and McCain's VP pick was ever a member of such a radical political party, then that is something that voters deserve to know.

As information about the AIP mounts, McCain's pick should clear the air. For example, if she was truly "a member" of the AIP before she was mayor, did she continue to be "a member" during her tenure as mayor? Did she attend the 2000 AIP Convention? Here's a resolution that was presented at that convention:

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING THE DISSOLUTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OCCUR

Those "conditions" include, among others, that the dissolution process should begin "if any federal order attempts to make it unlawful for individual Americans to own firearms or to confiscate firearms." The resolution also states that the federal government "has, for decades, violated [the Constitution] in both word and spirit" by "disposing of federal property without the approval of Congress [and] usurping jurisdiction from the states in such matters as abortion and firearms rights."

Even if the claim that McCan's VP pick was a member turns out to be false, why did McCain's VP pick record a message for this group's 2008 convention?

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And leaving aside the question of her judgment recording a message for such a group, what does it say about McCain's judgment that he picked a person who would apparently affiliate herself with such an organization?