Plunderbund

So John McCain’s new “Truth Squad” has a swiftboater on board. Nice. I wonder why Bud Day doesn’t demand that John McCain sign an SF-180 and release his military records. I’m sure that was his opinion of John Kerry back when his non-swiftboat ass was smearing the presidential candidate all over with […]

Auto-replace is no friend to wingnut christofascists i guess. This one is hilarious:
In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the […]

John McCain is a supposed “straight talker”. He even has a “Straight Talk Express” (bus and plane). When it comes to his military record, he’s neither straight talker or straight shooter it seems. The questions that his campaign doesn’t want to answer, let alone be asked, could easily be dismissed.
All […]

What a fucking laughingstock. How McCain garners any foreign policy cred is well beyond me:
KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants killed more U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq for the second straight month, a grim milestone capping a run of headline-grabbing insurgent attacks that analysts say underscore the Taliban’s growing strength.
Nice […]

Read this first (sorry, but you have to)
Then view this:
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It turns out Paul Begala actually has some balls.
First he writes the following about the Republican President’s Dinner in a fundraising email sent out by the DCCC:

“You should have seen the joint: wall to wall fat-cats. The limos were lined up around the block. If you’d stood in the middle of the ballroom and yelled, […]

This can kiss my ass.
Because of this:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama talked by phone Monday morning, the Obama campaign and a Clinton spokesman said.
Clinton said he is prepared to campaign for Obama after the hard-fought primary campaign between Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Obama campaign said.
Obama “had a terrific conversation […]

Airing in eighteen states, “Dignity” highlights Senator Obama’s decision to bypass big money jobs and help lift neighborhoods stung by job loss. The ad illustrates Senator Obama’s record of working hard to move people from welfare to work, passing tax cuts for workers and providing healthcare for children.

The DCCC’s doing a big ($100K+) ad buy trying to link 13 incumbent Republicans to high gas prices.
And they’ve hired a Bush impersonator for the job.
Here’s the Schmidt ad:

Update 2: Full speech:
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Update: Full speech video coming. Text can be found here.
Watch it live now:

My guess is it’s not all about serving in the military…

When are the smear merchants gonna learn that we are going to be doing more than just blogging righteous indignation this time around? We’re going to hold them accountable this time and fight back. How? By posting their emails, phone numbers, addresses and asking them to back up their lies and their […]

It took 700 pages? Really??
File this under Duh!
DENVER (AP) — A nearly 700-page study released Sunday by the Army found that “in the euphoria of early 2003,” U.S.-based commanders prematurely believed their goals in Iraq had been reached and did not send enough troops to handle the occupation.
President George W. Bush’s statement on May […]

Someone was bound to. Wes Clark was the one:
“I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t […]

Recently while speaking near my hometown in Louisville, Kentucky Senator McCain said:
“And I know this country, which I love more than almost anything…
What, Senator? What do you love more than your country? Why almost? Is this the first time you’ve felt this way?

I grew up in the Cleveland area- so I kind of took lightning bugs (aka fireflies) for granted.
The glowing-ass of these insects was just another part of summertime fun like the ice cream man and the trucks that went around spraying poison in the air to kill mosquitoes.
But then I spent a lot of time […]