Never Look a Gift Bush in the Mouth

GWB really stepped in it yesterday in giving Barack Obama a reason to attack him and McCain for their foreign policy ineptitude. Obama?s campaign should issue a hearty thank you. For now, no one is talking about Rev. Wright or Michelle?s ?proud? moment.

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Michael Medved Plays To The Lowest Denominator.
Again.

   Pharyngula: Did someone declare this National Flaming Racist Idiot week, and I just didn’t notice until now? You have got to read Michael Medved’s latest foray into pseudoscience: he has declared American superiority to be genetic, encoded in our good old American DNA. Because our ancestors were immigrants, who were risk-takers, who [...]

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Huckabee makes ‘joke’ about Obama
avoiding a gunman.

Speaking before a National Rifle Association convention today, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — and ardent supporter of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign — was interrupted by an “unexpected offstage noise” and commented that perhaps Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was ducking a gunman:

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”

Politico’s Ben Smith notes, “Joking about Obama getting shot at is probably not the fast track to veephood.”

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More "Bang Up Comedy" From Mike Huckabee

The man who once made a ?joke? about taking some razor blades with him to the bathtub (here) and also made similarly stupid remarks about looking emaciated after escaping from a concentration camp run by the ?Democrat? Party (here) is now trying to be funny over the attempted murder of the presumptive nominee against John McCain for the presidential election in November (here).

For a guy who is supposed to be a preacher, Mike Huckabee sure is some kind of screwed up mess of a human being.

Now watch Chuck Norris come and try to kick my ass for saying so.

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A Comedy of Heir-as

The Presidenting Guy: “Hey, brutha, you know why I’m here, right? I gotta keep up the front like I’m doing something to moderate oil prices now that it’s clear some of the little people will settle for a $28-per-summer tax kickback.”The Terror Sponsor Guy: “We can dig it my brother, Carlyle Group be praised. Thank [...]

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Midday Open Thread

• Matt Welch, author of McCain: The Myth of a Maverick -- isn't buying the line about McCain getting the U.S. out of Iraq by 2013, as he parses exactly what the presumptive nominee said in his speech yesterday.
• Gary Hart takes on  John McCain:

  If John McCain seriously believes we are at war with al Qaeda in Iraq, that alone is such a serious error in judgment as to rank him with George W. Bush at his worst and therefore disqualify him from any chance to govern this country.

  This isn't a typical Democrat versus Republican story; Hart and McCain have been tight friends for decades, with Hart serving as an usher at McCain's wedding.

• Alan Keyes is gearing up to start his own third party.
• Chinese bloggers are bucking the state controlled media and breaking the real news in China, thanks to a website hosted by Watson Meng in Durham, NC.

  The site, Boxun.com, relies on a host of bloggers and citizen journalists — mostly in China — to break stories, often faster than state-controlled Chinese media or foreign news services. The site is banned in China, but Chinese people can skirt that Internet censorship through proxy servers hosted in the United States.

  Posting on Boxun (pronounced "bow shwin") is not without risks. Numerous contributors, including three in the past several weeks, have been jailed in China.

  "It's really aggravated the [Chinese] government because it takes stuff outside and puts it on display internationally," said Bob Dietz, of the New York nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists. "For us, the site is required reading."

• In other news from China, it is estimated at five million people are now homeless in Suchuan Province as a result of the earthquake.
• The Georgia bar owner that created the offensive "Curious George" Obama shirts may have received a little more publicity than he would have liked. The numerous reports caught the attention of publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  - who said they are not amused and are considering legal action.

  "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did not nor would we ever authorize or approve this use of the Curious George character, which we find offensive and utterly out of keeping with the values Curious George represents," said Richard Blake, the company's spokesman.

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Obama is giving Republicans southern heartburn

NYT

But in Southern states with large black populations, like Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia, an energized black electorate could create a countervailing force, particularly if conservative white voters choose not to flock to Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, predicts ?the largest black turnout in the history of the United States? this fall if Mr. Obama is the nominee.

To hold these states, Republicans may have to work harder than ever. Already, turnout in Democratic primaries this year has substantially exceeded Republican turnout in states like Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

Some analysts suggest that North Carolina and Virginia may even be within reach for the Democratic nominee, and they point to the surprising result in a Congressional special election in Mississippi this week as an indicator of things to come.

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ASSIGNMENT DESK MEETS CHART OF THE DAY: GAY
MARRIAGE IN CALIFORNIA

Greg asks, "What do you make of Kevin Drum's not-too-encouraging assessment of the likelihood of the gay marriage ruling standing [in California]?" Actually, I'm somewhat less optimistic than Kevin is that the election will be terribly close. I think[...]

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CFR WORKING FOR YOU.

I haven't really dug through them yet, but the shadowy group that runs the world Council of Foreign Relations has released pretty useful profiles of the policy advisers behind Clinton, McCain, and Obama. Useful stuff.[...]

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Edwards For Attorney General

Ever since John Edwards dropped out of the race, there's been speculation about what his role would be in a Democratic administration, if any. VP? No way. My thinking for months has been that he'd never want to go there again but even if he did, he[...]

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