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

Michael Totten: The Bin Ladens of the Balkans - Part 1.

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

Nancy Pelosi is an American foreign policy genius!

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.

@ Volokh Conspiracy: Jesse Helms did not lead “the rise of the modern conservative movement.”

Regretting the American Revolution (or give a leftist a keyboard and you’ll never know what they might type).

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.

What a nice sight to see this morning on Drudge. The 2nd Amendment Lives.

BIG NEWS! Guess what — a Republican administration kept lawyers with Democratic party ties out of the Justice Department. Shocking!

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.

Why won’t we drill?

So some Europeans want to buy Budweiser. This should be up to the shareholders, not some scummy politicians.

Republican Gov. Matt Blunt said Wednesday he opposes the deal, and directed the Missouri Department of Economic Development to see if there was a way to stop it.

“I am strongly opposed to the sale of Anheuser-Busch, and today’s offer to purchase the company is deeply troubling to me,” Blunt said in a statement.

Who does this ass governor think he is? This isn’t his company.

Bizarre arrogance or is it ignorance?

“A totally irrational system of nominating”

Obama walking backwards on Iraq?

Democrats helping the “working class” — you know, the ones with the beach front properties.

“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.”

I’d like to see the new HBO movie on the Florida recount.

Iowahawk: Evolution of a Republican representative

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.

Eurofascists working hard to fill the void

Robert Byrd is distraught over Ted Kennedy

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

Peter Thiel, former CEO of PayPal: “In the long run, there are no good bets against globalization”

61 years old and too old for heart surgery. Welcome to socialized medicine.

Spot-on Hillary Clinton impersonation. Brutal stuff..

White-washing Obama at the NY Times.

h/t Instapundit.

Glenn Reynolds reviews Ron Paul’s new book, Ron Paul Revolution.

Why Hillary will never quit.

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

The Other McCain looks at Chicago’s corruption.

Interesting: Serbia’s pro-West president claims election win

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.

Read this: The Very Big War