Not so fast, Mike. McCain may have paid some lip service to liberal multilateralism but in reality he's George Bush II in his foreign policy. He loves kicking Muslim ass in Iraq and wants to move on Iran.

I hardly feel like Ted Kennedy has been running our foreign policy. Sure the neocon policy has been an utter failure but that didn't stop them from perpetrating the WMD hoax and implementing their policy or continuing to do so or continuing to escalate etc etc. You and I know its a failure but about a third of the country still thinks Hussein had WMD.

Even worse, the neocons have established precedents for a decidedly illiberal unitary executive that the Democrats, in their weakness, have left unchallenged.

The problem with Lind's analysis is it assumes a healthy functioning democracy is in place in which the views of the majority ultimately hold sway. But our democracy has been seriously corrupted. The right doesn't think they need a majority on their side. They only need majority acquiesence -- and maybe not even that. And they can get that often enough simply by use of disinformation with the complicity of the corrupt MSM. They can even take a presidency by Supreme Court decision. They can undermine the fiscal foundation of our entitlements, while funnelling trillions to their rich friends. They can start disastrous wars that last longer than WWII simply by stampeding Congress with despicable hoaxes and unrelenting propaganda.

Things look a lot less rosy from where I sit. Even after the abject failure of George W, here is the doddering McCain, running neck-and-neck with Obama based on a platform of continuing the policies of George Bush.

If this is winning, I'd hate to see what losing is like.

JKP1000 said, "There is such a markedly stronger campaign being executed by Obama this year than Kerry did in 2004 (or Hillary would have done with her 'deep respect' for McCain). I love how Obama is pushing news items like this forward"

I sure hope that's true because Kerry's way too timid campaign cost him the White House and cost the world 4 more years of George Bush. We simply cannot afford to let that happen again. Hell, we couldn't afford it the first time.

But I'm still wary of Obama even though I voted for him over Hillary. Hillary just refused to do or say the right thing about Iraq and about what Bush did on the way to Iraq, so I simply couldn't support her, although she could have easily had my vote if she had.

But I've also been underwhelmed by Obama on this issue even though he was better than Hillary on it. And I'm not sure I'm as impressed as JKP1000 with his spokesman's statement. Was Obama really pushing that story out there or was Charlie Savage? And the actual statement by the Obama spokesman is weak, attacking McCain for lack of clarity rather than on the substance.

This is the choice we face now: is America a democracy or a neocon, Straussian dictatorship?

I'm watching Obama to see how clearly and forcefully he comes out on this issue. My view of Obama will depend on that more than anything else. If he comes out strong, I will be a strong Obama supporter, contributing money and time. If he pussyfoots around on it, I will probably just vote for him.

...they're small redistribution.

Its not a matter of principle, its a matter of personal financial advantage. They dress it up in the elegant robes of "small government" but that way overgeneralizes what they really care about. Republicans care about the money.

End of story.

Dictatorship? Yes. Elected? No.

Remember Florida!

The battle lines are clearly drawn. It is now quite clearly the rule of law under a president vs. a neocon Straussian dictatorship.

There can be no issue more important than this. If Obama has any balls or believes in the most basic American value of all, he will destroy McCain with this.

I'm watching.

Face it: the MSM in our country were willing enablers of the massacre of a million Iraqis. Anyone who didn't know Bushco was full of shit, didn't WANT to know. I figured it out and I don't even have any super secret White House sources.

We can never let the Iraq War supporters forget that they got a million people killed. A million!

Glenn Greenwald vs. Mike Allen = Godzilla vs. Bambi. Allen is simply out of his league arguing about the media with Glenn.