This may be the story. The flow is changing to issues. National security as created by an elected president in dialog with a strong Congress and not abdicated to the generals even one as good as Dave Petraeus. There is a realistic understanding of the impact of the surge, short term, and a long term approach to dealing with a mortal enemy elsewhere and regrouping allies that have been insulted and alienated

It would be good to ignore the media insults. Remember John McCain may not have been raised to the same standards. Even his newer supporter, Ben, questioned in an editorial in the NYT whether John McCain had the guts to challenge the conservatives on the irresponsibility of the tax cuts, debt and providing for Social Security, Medicare, Education and security. Why should his approach to National Security be any different?

Barak Obama represented us well.

Guess if a Jew was that close the Christians might have roared.

Think the Christians at Warren's club house might be smarter that we and John McCain give them credit.

Speaking of credit...

Sure holding down taxes might be great but if the organization then funds itself by debt against the future is it really better off.

Wish we would start asking questions about how we managed funding an organization's income requirements ( for a long war in Iraq, tax rebates, home school vouchers, social security and care payments ).

It is with the mix of cash needed though current taxes and longterm debt like bonds and treasury notes. We cry against the former but are strangely silent about gluttony for the later.

Why is that?

Am afraid this community received a very limited perspective on a growingly chaotic world.

No discussion on what our national security should define, how we can move back from an economic abyss and how we re-institute our constitute.

There is more needed to be in our executive than a higher threshold for the rich, close friends in the south and the Army, prisoner experience, short memory and focus capabilities and no desire to protect the holding cabal from accountability.

Even Christians should expect more. There was a time we they were cursed for burying their talents. Maybe a prophet should curse them again.

It was a performance in the heritage of Petain and Von Hindenburg with a little bit of U.S. Grant..John McCain is a Trojan horse with limited honesty and tunnel vision who performs much better for his handlers than they could have envisioned. It is sad to see the decline.

Had he had any courage he'd step aside from this cabal, it would free him from the kowtows which obviously still haunt him and sadden us.

It would be better to hold John McCain against the codes which made his career. He doesn't realize or maybe is incapable of understanding what he has personally discharge to stand as the latest Trojan horse in the line of Bush and, yes, Reagan, to perform on behalf of the current shadow cabal which runs the Republican party.

Where is the Luke to bring him back from the dark side?

John McCain fills a need for those who will not travel in the light of day. This is in the tradition of Generals Petain and Von Hindenburg who fronted for the worst and stood-in following an administration of incompetents (German and French).

We have americanized this situation by making such frontmen appear as a U.S. Grant. This gains appeal for the corrupted members of the GOP who want all up for sale.

A competent and responsible leader would not choose such a vice president; but, cabal that hangs in office would choose such a light weight for rear guard protection to supplement a once hero frontman. It provide a terrier accessory to a Trojan Horse.

This choice is comparable to Rove's W when he was Texas before 2000.

A contempt for the federal government, for people who built their careers on education and or risked their lives on behalf of the constitution is needed to support this.

Bob Herbert of the NYT has it pegged. She is a distraction..best dealt within the party that will place anything in office. It will cause the view to shift away from the mess of the incumbent.

By whatever title Palin is a Potemkin.

Note how she pointed out her son - an infantryman off to Iraq for the "victory in sight".

Note his visible confusion and embarrassment at having "mom" point him out on camera to all the worldwide viewers.

With the pride of her vanity she is posting him off to war in the style of the Salon of the Russian nobility in Tolstoy's War and Peace and she doesn't have a clue about what it all means.

I think this is a very weak pair for DC. It could be that they are the equivalent of Putin's insertion of his toy in Moscow. They especially McCain have no political depth and could once in Washington be easily isolated. With a rudderless Congress and straight and flat line Supreme Court, the ideal of a dead and bankrupt federal government would meet the Reagan objective set forth over 28 years ago. Alaska GOP gets the bonus of Palin's departure to a position of no power with no return phone calls.