It is about judgment stupid. NY Times/CBS News poll finds 45% say efforts to stabilize Iraq are going well but 6 in 10 still think the U.S. should have stayed out in the first place.

Where is the outrage from the wingnuts about the comments from Sen. Phil Gramm, a top economic adviser to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, who referred to the economic slowdown as "a mental recession" and called the United States "a nation of whiners"  

Yes, I hold John Mccain responsible for the conduct of his senior aide. Period

I am not making it up. McCain like all wing nuts is a hypocrite as shown in the video.
         
               

On Monday, Obama cast Prime Minister Maliki's remarks as in line with his own policy on Iraq, which McCain has branded a strategy for defeat.

Yet, McCain the Hypocrite accused the Iraqi Gov’t of waiving the White Flag of Surrender for trying to safeguard thier own Country. Go figure.        

Update I: Yesterday he became Visibly angry, I told you he is dangerous.

McCain became visibly angry when I asked him to explain how his Vietnam experience prepared him for the Presidency.

"Please," he said, recoiling back in his seat in distaste at the very question.

Sen. Cochran went into as much detail yesterday to make the point that Sen. McCain had problems with his temper but he still does. McCain’s temperament and out of control anger disqualifies him from being the Commander in Chief.

The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine," Cochran told the Globe. "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

            Obama said that Clark doesn’t owe McCain an apology

Gone are the day when the Democratic Party played defense to the republicans on National Security. Obama will not let them get away with it anymore. Not this time and not in this election. Video

Barack Obama told reporters today that he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep keep the nation safer from terrorism, rebuking John McCain aides who tried to portray him as naive on the struggle against Al Qaeda, according to the Associated Press.

According to a multi-nation poll released Thursday Obama will change the image of the United States abroad for the better and beat McSame by Landslide.

Foreigners overwhelmingly expect the next American president to change U.S. foreign policy "for the better," but have more confidence in Democratic candidate Barack Obama than Republican rival John McCain.

The annual survey, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, found that if foreigners had a vote in November, they would vote in a landslide for Obama.

To that I will say "Yes We Can". On his return to Chicago on Friday, Senator Obama stopped by and shared a few words with his campaign staff and by extension to all of us especially we Kossacks from the Mayor(Markos) on down

Short because I am excited. It is finally over.

Barack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates.
The tally put Obama over the top Tuesday, ahead of the results from the day's final primaries in Montana and South Dakota. The Illinois senator becomes the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House. Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic contest and now faces Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona for the presidency.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Obama will call Ickes bluff because the

Obama campaign is not worried about the tempest that erupted at a Washington, D.C., hotel on Saturday when top Clinton adviser Harold Ickes threatened to take the fight over Michigan's delegates all the way to the convention.

Mrs. Clinton’s statement to General Petraeus, that his progress report on Iraq required a willing suspension of disbelief properly describes her letter to the superdelegates.

She opens with......

The stakes in this election are so high: with two wars abroad, our economy in crisis here at home, and so many families struggling across America, the need for new leadership has never been greater.

Hillary is barnstorming Puerto Rico including the  bars just like she did in Indiana. So yesterday she went to a Bar and ordered an El Presidente, a Dominican beer, before stopping to groove for a few seconds to the Enrique Iglesias hit "Be With You" with a certain Fox producer.

While there, she ordered an El Presidente, a Dominican beer, drinking a toast with her Puerto Rico advisers. On her way out the door, she advised two traveling TV reporters that they were free to start drinking as well — before stopping to groove for a few seconds to the Enrique Iglesias hit "Be With You" with a certain Fox producer.

Yes, a Fox News Producer. Take that MSNBC.......

McCain released his so called Physical Medical Records today but the other half of his Medical Record - his mental state (Out-Of-Control) and the effect of Aging which really should be the criteria to demonstrate his fitness to be the President of the United States of America were not included in the report.

McCain's out-of control anger shows that he does not have the Temperament to Be President.

As portrayed by the mainstream media, McCain is an engaging war hero, a man of political moderation positioned between the left and the right

But to insiders who know him,

McCain has an irrational, explosive side that make many of them question whether he is fit to serve as president and be commander in chief

A former Senate staffer recalled what happened when McCain asked for support from a fellow Republican senator on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.

"The senator explained that he had already committed to support George Bush," the former Senate staffer said. "McCain said ‘f— you' and never spoke to him again."
"He had very few friends in the Senate," said former Senator Smith, who dealt with McCain almost daily.

"He has a lot of support around the country, but I don't think he has a lot of support from people who know him well."

How Ironic that the two people who single handedly ruined her chances to win the democratic nomination are subjecting her to a public humiliation. How sad
Bill Clinton whose lack of self discipline played a significant role in derailing his wife's campaign and still does to see it, is another sign that the HRC’s Campaign was all about Bill.

However, faced with growing pressure to drop out of the race, Sen. Clinton is getting hit with conflicting advice from within her own camp. Some of her top strategists are warning that she is injuring her political future by staying in. Others -- notably her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and strategist Mark Penn-- are urging her to remain in the race. She has beaten Sen. Barack Obama in key swing states, they argue.

Down ballot and why it was a very good day for the Democratic Party and Barack Obama - here and here and a bad news for Hillary Clinton now or in 2012 or 2016.

Perhaps the most interesting result from Tuesday came not from West Virginia, but from Mississippi. There, Travis Childers, a Democrat, defeated his G.O.P. rival, Greg Davis, in a special election for a House seat in a very conservative district. The Democrat’s win sent "a clear signal of national problems ahead for Republicans in the fall," writes Adam Noissiter of The Times.

Republicans Use Obama as Weapon in House Contest in Mississippi.

Hoping to hang on to a Congressional seat in a tight special election here on Tuesday, Republicans in this mostly white and very conservative district are trying to make the vote more a referendum on Senator Barack Obama than on the candidates themselves.

Also, GOP Takes Anti-Obama Message to Mississippi in New Ad

That was the message coming from national Republicans when it comes to their campaign to link Democratic candidates for the House to Sen. Barack Obama, despite the Saturday loss suffered by a GOP candidate who used similar tactics in a Baton Rouge-based district previously held by Republicans since 1975.

The latest anti-Obama ad comes from Mississippi, where Republican Greg Davis is trying to win a May 13 special election for a House seat that the GOP has easily held for the previous 13 years.

Clyburn asked "Would Clinton Get Only 8 Percent Of the Black Vote? In an interview with National Journal's Linda Douglas, Rep. James Clyburn gives the corollary to the argument that Barack Obama faces a deficit with white working class males.

Powerful Stuff......

When I sat in those jails back in the '60s in South Carolina -- dreaming about growing up, dreaming about becoming an adult, dreaming about having children and grandchildren -- I now have a 14-year-old grandson, and he is very proud of Barack Obama. I'm not going to sit down and watch anybody marginalize my grandson's dreams and aspirations