JHC. You mean for all those homes? JHC! And get this, only the rich need apply for the subsidies!

I hope he's wrong, this time.

Excerpt: It was Barack Obama, vets and military family members said, who had fought to repair the scandalously decrepit facilities at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and pushed legislation to help an estimated 200,000 homeless vets. Now, Democratic vets, say it’s the non-veteran Obama – not the revered war hero McCain – whom they can trust to help veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress and combat brain injuries and military families strained by the pressure of four or five combat tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Krugman shows that Republicans and their hate radio enablers smeared John Kerry in 2004 with class warfare charges of having a Sugar Daddy relationship with his wife, but are downplaying the same type of unbalanced between John and Cindy McCain. Dirty pool apparently rules American politics and so does shadow financed hate radio.

Excerpt: For a non-partisan think tank, though, the Reform Institute sure attracts a striking array of big-time contributors and bundlers for McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. Of the 74 individuals, corporations, and foundations that donated more than $500 to the Institute, more than half of them — 42 — contributed to at least one of McCain’s “other pockets”: his presidential campaign, his Straight Talk America PAC, or the Republican National Committee. The year after McCain resigned from his post as honorary chair of the Institute, he announced his presidential campaign’s exploratory committee. At the same time the Institute expanded its areas of interest to include energy and climate stewardship, homeland security, immigration reform, and economic policy — all key planks of McCain’s platform.

WP's Michael Dobbs hosted at Truthout gives a great basic explanation free from the posturing that so many politicians and even news venues are basting their analysis in.

More Reich than Rubin, but definitely centrist. Build alternative energy sources and restore infrastructure to put the left behind working class to work (because they can't all become nurses). Create affordable health insurance programs that are good enough to entice the uninsured. Obama is new, but has the great Team Obama behind him with hundreds of years experience to help. And he's shown he will listen to the best minds, even ours.

Now watch as the "handful of companies" mentioned in the report I posted on the other day who had cornered the oil speculation market start wailing for handouts and help from the US federal government.

I agree with Mr. Bergman. Maybe they should give John McCain a radio talk show where he can rant the day away instead of letting him run for the position of actually leading the free world. His confused hyperbolic foreign policy would be a lot more dangerous in the White House than on the air waves.

I wonder which is the one he couldn't remember. Let the Post introduce you to the many homes of John McCain.

The other ways we really don't know John McCain (and he doesn't seem to know himself). (Robinson also reminds us of the time when McCain's camp told reporters that the candidate doesn't speak for the campaign--in so many words). Obviously the Pillsbury Doughboy is just a figurehead for the rabid right wing neocons running his campaign.

Believe me. It's not a puff piece.

(Sending a message.... That was just a way of making a spiffy headline. Hallmark says that what it wants to do is to serve everyone according to the article.)

Yes, he wrote one for the Post a week ago, but things have changed and he has more to talk about this time anyway. I recommend that we hear him out.

Well, you have to wonder.

The experts of the Clinton and Bush administrations got the whole Post Soviet period wrong by trying to cram NATO down the throat of Russia, and thinking we would never actually have to risk anything by actually having to protect our new allies. Plus Friedman has advice for US and Russia leaders going forward.

My Thoughts: The sad part is, apparently the man had money given to the workers so that they could contribute, apparently from his car dealership, ie from himself. If he had given his campaign the money himself, I believe it would have been as legal as Diet Soda, but from what I learned reading about the Romney campaign, it donating to your own campaign makes a good news story about how you can't attract outside money. (Except in CA where you can loan your gubenatorial campaign millions and take money after you're elected from the Indian and prison guard unions you promised not to take money from before you were elected and the great mainstream press never says a word -- if you're a Republican prince of Hollywood.)

Excerpt: Most Americans still don’t know, as Marshall writes, that on the campaign trail “McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries’ names wrong, forgets things he’s said only hours or days before and is frequently just confused.” Most Americans still don’t know it is precisely for this reason that the McCain campaign has now shut down the press’s previously unfettered access to the candidate on the Straight Talk Express.

The man is a lunatic warhead. Obviously, he wouldn't have used overwhelming force in Iraq because he would be going into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran all at the same time, once he got his dander up. There will be crises in every administration. Apparently the solution to crises according to John McCain is to go out and kill thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, and destroy nations. Aren't we already carrying enough burden from the glory hungry president (and his puppet) that we have now? Article also shows that McCain actually decided on his current path of hyper international antagonism when he and advisers were planning his presidential run in 2000 and wanted to appeal more to conservatives.

Those evil Russians had plans and conducted military exercises they might need if the people of Ossetia were attacked by Georgia. This article screams outrage as it presents the Bush administration talking points on the Russia Georgia war.

Excerpt: Forget the moderate image, promoted by an admiring media. Forget the so-called straight talk and independence. With the Russian-Georgian war winding down, McCain has firmly established himself as an old-fashioned Cold Warrior and a supporter of the huge oil companies that have a big stake in Georgia and the rest of the Caucasus.

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Are the Ossetians immigrants to the area or the real natives as they claim? This site predates the current flare up and seems to have a balanced report on the history of South Ossetia and it's relations with Georgia. The Ossetians mostly share the same religion with Georgians, but are of darker, Persian stock.

The report says that 30 men lifted a bus off an off duty traffic cop who had been hit and was under a city bus. The men were able to lift the vehicle enough to pull the woman, who was 6 months pregnant, out. She was rushed to the hospital where the baby was born by caesarian section before the mortally injured woman died. Okay, You guys are tough. We get it. Too bad about the woman though.

We've heard a lot of this, but Brooks put it together the best I've ever heard.

As early as January 2006 CFR reported: The bloom is off the Rose Revolution. Saakashvili’s accomplishments have been undercut by the excessive concentration of power in his own hands—what the intelligentsia calls the “Putinization” of Georgia. Saakashvili combines his lust for power with a blustery patriotism, a particularly troubling mix. He vows to restore Georgia’s territorial unity by defeating separatist movements in South Ossetia as well as Abkhazia, and he has backed up the confrontational rhetoric with a major increase in military spending. And concluded: As in other countries in the midst of political transition—such as Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt—the Bush administration’s freedom march has focused too much on democratic elections and not enough on what comes next. Much more at the link.

Blogger Anti-McCain has a video of last years pageant. Warning Parts of pageant get pretty offensive. John's anti-women campaign continues.

Excerpt: Public officials should be disabusing the electorate of its delusions, not encouraging them. The widespread mistaken notions about the potential impact of offshore drilling on gasoline prices reminds me of the large percentages of Americans who were encouraged to believe, and did believe — erroneously — that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had something to do with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

New York Daily News article tells you how to sign up. Ignore the cheesy Valley Girl rap about it.