Andrea Mitchell looks pretty pissed: “He didn’t have reporters with him, he didn’t have a press pool, he didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq.”

Rasmussen Reports: Belief Growing That Reporters are Trying to Help Obama Win

I’ve been saying it for the past year — The Onion is back.  God damn, this is funny.

What a stupid quote.  Why not just say — good for them and we are looking forward to the campaign ahead?

Matt Burns, communications director of the Republican National Convention, responded: “Not surprisingly, Senator Obama and his fellow Democrats are more focused on stagecraft and theatrics than providing real solutions to the challenges facing our nation. A change of venue for a political speech isn’t the kind of change the American people deserve or expect.“

Huh?

Frank Rich is a sad and miserable human being - as evidenced by his review of WALL-E.  Are all baby-boomers this apocolyptic and unhappy?

“That position has not changed. I have not equivocated on that position. I have not searched for maneuvering room with respect to that position,” he said.

Don Surber:

It is interesting how the votes he never cast are always perfect, while his judgment when it comes to associates and influences is perfectly flawed.

Strange stuff going on with Obama’s birth certificate.  I’m not quite sure what to make of any of this — but some people sure are up in arms over it.

An Iraq clarification from Barack Obama:

Let me be crystal clear: if elected president, my first act will be to call for the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq. I have always been consistent and forthright in this position, and I want to reassure my supporters that my recent statement backtracking from it was just some bullshit my staff came up with to tack to the center for the general election. To win this election, it will be critical to appeal to the dwindling but stubborn group of idiots who cling to fantasies of American “victory” in this tragic disaster.

Reading about Chicago politics makes me sick to the stomach.  Kudos for the Boston Globe for showing how Obama served as a willing cog in the dirty scene. Absolutely disgusting — the whole lot of it.

Some nice Sunday morning propaganda:

CBS: McCain Takes Gitmo Ruling Personally

So, whether or not McCain really believes what he says, it is good politics (read: inaccurate and unfair).

CBS says opposition to the ruling is strictly politics.  In their skewered world-view, there can’t be any actual reason other than that.

ABC: Michelle Obama in for ‘Very Ugly Stuff’

Google “Michelle Obama” and the term “whitey” and you’ll find conservative bloggers claiming a video shows her using the racially tinged term at Trinity Church.

Sure thing ABC.  Never mind the fact that it was known Hillary operative Larry Johnson (also a HuffPo blogger) that pushed this story out there.

If you are a democrat and you laugh at this video, then you are probably border-line retarded.

Bizarre arrogance or is it ignorance?

“A totally irrational system of nominating”

Obama walking backwards on Iraq?

“There are a number of mini-stories within the Father Pfleger controversy.“

McCain vs the Media

Obama spoke to graduates at Wesleyan this week.  Sounds like it was a disgusting speech.  Adam Brodsky was all over it.

This went well past the standard graduation calls for community service and voluntarism. The senator chided those who seek life’s material rewards: “Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs,” he insisted, “betrays a poverty of ambition.”

In fact, Obama himself was betraying a poverty of understanding US history.

After all, it’s not too many Americans pursuing their dreams that threatens the nation’s greatness - it’s too few.

The Gipper.

The Gaffer.

Is Barack Obama must the most gaffe-prone politician in memory?

Update: ANOTHER

McCain goes on the attack:

“He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added. “If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.”

Baltimore Sun:

Kantor talked with Jewish voters in South Florida, many of them liberal Democrats, and found real skepticism about Obama, some of it based on a lack of familiarity with him, some of it on misinformation and some of it on plain old-fashioned racism.

She didn’t find anyone who felt uncomfortable because of his stated positions calling Israel a sore or his willingness to meet face-to-face with Iran’s leadership who want to wipe Israel off the map.  I guess those positions are just kosher with every informed, non-racist Jew.  Funny how that works.

Seething mad over Hillary’s big white win in WV.

Spot-on Hillary Clinton impersonation. Brutal stuff..

White-washing Obama at the NY Times.

h/t Instapundit.

Why Hillary will never quit.

Truthers promise to deep-six the libertarian party in 2008.

Hillary’s evil plan?

At Michael Totten:

Obama’s language is derived from those corners of the left that claim Hezbollah is only interested in winning the Shia a larger share of the political process. Never mind the guns, it’s essentially a social welfare movement, with schools and clinics! – and its own foreign policy, intelligence services and terror apparatus, used at the regional, international and now domestic level. But the solution, says, Obama, channeling the man he fired for talking to Hamas, is diplomacy.

Jacking up capital gains and the Obama effect

Hillary’s long goodbye.

Obama flip-flops on his pledge to meet with rouge leaders unconditionally…and the NY Times is there with the expected spin wash.

Over at ACE - there are now 57 states in the Union

S. 2433 sponsored by Barack Obama:

This is just in from Sen. Coburn’s office. Obama has authored a bill, and it is now in the Senate, to give the UN .7% of our GNP to be used to feed hungry 3rd worlders, AND to use UN force to disarm you and me and all gun owners.

Obama did not choose Trinity despite Wright’s extremism but because of it.

Obama under siege?  No, not really.

Then what do the other 42% believe it was?

A poll on Saturday found 58 per cent of voters believe his de-nunciation of the Rev Wright was merely an act of political expediency.

Drudge is a mean bastard — but a funny one. Top link of the day - Hillary vs. the Coffee Maker.

Sowell rips him up.  “A living lie.”

No business like race business.

Obama invoking the genius of Bill Clinton: “I never had sexual relations with that pastor.”

Andrew Sullivan is a complete joke.

Behold the spin: “Obama’s Prescient Judgment Again”

A comprehensive Jeremiah Wright roundup at Instapundit.  Every link in the roundup is worth reading.

Bill Moyers = Obama PR agent? Of course he was.

Reality Infection Program (codename Obama)

Prematurely adopting the mantle of inevitability?

Furious at Terry McAuliffe.

Scary drones are not afraid!

Obama shooting hoops. He’s not half bad. The guy announcing is embarrassing though.

Meanwhile, Hillary is playing baseball?

Someone needs to ask.

What Did Obama Know about Wright and When Did He Know It?