Salon itself has been ground zero for the "Obama is arrogant" and "Obama is nothing but a celebrity" tropes that now dominate the McCain message. If Obama loses, Salon will bear its share of responsibility for promoting these "Rovian" messages, just as the MSM generally killed Gore in 2000 for being a liar and flip-flopper.

What 'high government official' told Cohen to stock up on Cipro? How did others besides Ivins know what was going to happen?

about using multisyllabic words with subtlety. That seems to make Tiberius angry.

There are two things Obama could have achieved by going to Saddleback. As posted above, just making a chunk of the evangelical community to be a bit less scared of him can help dampen the "I've got to get out and vote against the scary black Muslim" voter drive. Secondly, he only needs to persuade a tiny bit more of the evangelical community to vote for him than McCain. He is already doing better than Kerry or Gore amongst that voting block. In a generally 50-50 nation, those little percentages are very important.

then John McCain thinks you're a serial killer. Pass it on.

Are women who use The Pill or IVF killing people?

Should The Pill be banned?

No? So were you lying when you said human life begins at conception or do you think it's OK to murder innocent babies?

But I doubt anyone will ever ask McCain about his position that one of the most common forms of birth control and fertility treatments kill babies, according to his stated belief system. He is on record supporting stem cell research, which is strange because it would seem to imply, for him, that it's OK to kill babies for experimental purposes. Hmm. But I don't doubt that Obama will have to repeatedly explain why he loves "partial birth abortion" so much.

...when people decided that simply pointing out the existence of racism in the US was itself a racist act?

His two bread-and-butter/economy ads have been wall-to-wall during the olympics for the past week and a half.

because he wants to show that even when he thinks people are in favor of the mass-murder of innocent babies (according to his warped belief system), he doesn't really hold that against them. Just different strokes, ya know.

There do seem to be many things you don't understand.

...is that he has been critical of Obama, that's a softball. It's so easy to turn that around to a positive for Obama, that's he's wants someone as VP who's not a yes-man, who will tell him when he's wrong. It takes wisdom and courage to be comfortable with someone who has strengths where you are weak.

Good point. They probably had a good negative Clinton ad ready in case Obama picked her, and didn't want to waste the labor. Yes, it is SO unusual that people had negative things to say about their competitors in the primary. Shocking!

...that such "Clinton supporters" do not support Clinton's policies (which are virtually identical to Obama's) or Clinton herself (who supports Obama), but projections of their own imagined "Clinton" , a fictional saint who was going to rescue them from all the evil in the world. Ironically, this is a pathology typically projected onto Obama supporters.

"acknowledge that they have a reason to be angry, are not delusional"

Even if they don't have a reason to be angry, and are delusional? Isn't that asking a bit much?

that matches Hillary "to my knowledge he is not a muslim" Clinton's deeds, or the OPENLY STATED 'kitchen sink' negative campaign of her staff. They OPENLY and UNAPOLOGETICALLY went after the racist-white vote. The "Obama mistreated Clinton" narrative is the purest fiction spun by those who think the only way Obama should have campaigned was by rolling over and losing. His only, and unforgivable, sin is winning.

She said, "as far as I know," not "to my knowledge." Good catch, there.

If Clinton were the nominee, can anyone think of a similar ad McCain could be running based on things Obama said about her? I can't (though I could be forgetting something), and I think that says a lot about the kinds of campaigns they ran.

...had bought rubber boots, clearly demonstrating their intent and ability to launch a terrorist attack against the United States. I have seen nothing that stated these meth-nazis had recently purchased rubber boots. So they're fine.

...is that Lieberman has a camp.

and he believes human life begins at conception. So, he basically believes it's OK to kill innocent human babies for experimental purposes. I don't know why, but that seems weird to me.

...is a spinmeister fiction that is slowly eroding due to the the slow drip of factual reporting. Supporting the bridge to nowhere (before it was politically expedient to change her mind), completely on board with Sen. Stevens until just a couple months back, the petty vindictiveness of her tenures as mayor and governor, the budget busting, etc. etc. Whats funny is that McCain fell for both that fiction and the fiction that PUMAs would flock to him. Did he forget that his people wrote that fiction themselves? What's it called when you begin to believe the lies you tell yourself? I know there's a word for it.

can the same party celebrate both Lieberman and Palin?

Palin: Creationist, anti-choice extremist, doesn't 'believe' in Global Warming, anti-environmentalist oil freak, anti-union, uninformed/uninterested in Iraq

Lieberman: Pro-choice, environmentalist, pro-union, obsessed with Iraq (when Iraq doesn't really separate the democrats from the White house much anymore ["Withdrawal in 16 months!" "No!! Withdrawal in 18 months!!"])

What does this party stand for? Why did McCain think these two people are equally qualified to be his running mate? Is there any policy he actually cares about?