The recent war in Georgia, and the US face off with Russia, has given us a excellent preview of John McCain’s foreign policy.
I will say that it is quite apparent that John McCain and Richard Cheney at the very least greatly encouraged President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia to attack Russian troops in South Ossetia. Saakashvili […]

It seems to be a bit of a mystery.
Jim Lobe, who I read regularly, did a search on her and could not find a single statement about Iraq. Wait! Then there was this in the update.
Can anyone out there listen to that and tell me what she is trying to say? Is this McCain’s Veep […]

Obama finally had the moment a lot of America has been waiting for for the past 4 years. He stood up and popped these liars right in the chops. Had Kerry done that to Bush, he’d have won in a walk.
Brian Williams likened Obama’s speech to Aaron Sorkin’s pivotal speech in […]

America’s Hottest Governor, is reported to be John McCain’s pick for a Vice Presidential nominee.
Today John McCain is 73. Sarah Palin, age 44, has been the Governor of Alaska for less than two years. She has no other experience. (There goes the “Obama lacks experience” argument.) She is […]

Amidst the positive reviews of the Obama acceptance speech here at BotB this morning, I’d like to point out one big fault in it: He said nothing about torture. Nothing about illegal surveillance. Nothing about repairing the damage to the Bill of Rights done under Bush. Nothing about reviewing Bush’s executive orders in the name […]

There is some good analysis of the convention out there. I particularly liked this one: a comparison of Barack Obama to Muhammed Ali, not because they are both black, but because both of them are the master of their craft, both “dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee”.
The convention avoided all of my […]

He delivered. With courage, clarity, strength, forcefulness, some long over-due aggitation, and specifics. With wisdom and passion. And he took it to McCain, making him the issue. The fight is on.

Of all the shameful and shameless events of Bushco, Katrina sits right atop my list. Well, sports fans, welcome to Gustav, which if the weather folks are right, is projected to be a Cat 4 hurricane aimed right smack at New Orleans. Interestingly, it will make landfall Monday night, the opening of the […]

Great stuff last night, most of it missed by the pun-nots: Jay Rockefeller pouncing on McCain for not seeing the complextity of terrorism and calling his failure to change courses a disgrace, Harry Reid noting that except for the Clintons years there has been an oil man in the White House or VP House for […]

You may have missed it because of the media’s fixation on Bill Clinton. While I understand the coverage, given the quality of Bill Clinton’s speech noted below, I’m sorry it worked out that way. Kerry’s speech is worth tracking down. (I can’t find it right now.)
Here is the essence of what Kerry did. While Bill […]