The presumptive Republican CIC is acting like he is in charge. Truth being he doesn't know anything, a Shiite from a Sunni, for instance. If you want to know whats wrong with this picture consider the Kurdish problem, the Kurds in Iraq/Turkey/Iran want independence. George Bush has called them "Enemies", the Turks and the Iranians have conducted joint military exercises against the PKK. Independence? Not with all that oil. Of course Saddams people gassed some Kurds, and we hung him for that. Does it really matter how they kill you?

Evidently Bush is for big government everywhere, including China, where he always speaks of reunification, not democracy when he visits Taiwan. It appears that Reagans brave freedom fighters, are todays terrorists. It was the Reagan people and Bush Sr who concocted the Iran missiles for hostages plan, completely in violation of the fair election process. So how are they going to help their boy this time?

They better be careful, because the Democrats could still impeach Bush, if he provides the McCain campaign with sensitive material, knowledge that would make him seem more Presidential. That's the least they can do, and I mean that in the literal sense.

The only US policy that matters is the Cheney doctrine, missiles aimed at Moscow, the new look of NATO in Eastern Europe. I feel pretty certain that Putin tried speaking to Bush, as one Machivellian to another, and found the US President had a vacuum tube for a soul. The only logical inference was that US policy is largely run by puppet masters. So Putin concluded.

Putin then set up a SHADOW GOVERNMENT, to counter the Bush false store front he had been staring into. Putin seriously overestimated the foundation of American policy. The pictures from Bejing support his feelings of frustration with the US President. The war in Iraq has been run primarily by the Milo Minderbinders, the profiteers, and contractors.

If the Bosnia campaign is the correct poltical template, let's not worry about what Europe is going to do. They will do nothing. The list of countries on the Bush hit list for corporal punishment gets a bit longer; Kurdish rebels, Iranians, and now Russians. The big picture puts the US on a slippery slope.

Bush has also been a nasty embarrassment to the Chinese. One always suspected that his foreign policy was a stick in the eye. Maybe it helps McCain, who can tell. I have so many enemies and I need your help, my opponent has none.

As for Mexico reclaiming territory it lost under Manifest Destiny, that's already happened. The problem has been raised, that if America tried to imprison, or otherwise abuse Mexican American citizens, (see Japanese interncamps, WWII, for how this might happen) would the Mexican government come to their aid? A silly though at present, but fifty years from now, if things continue along this course, entirely possible.

The serious question, is having misjudged his American counterpart, is Putin about to make some bold steps, albiet to counter the missile threat?

In the end will Europe see missiles aimed at Russia as too dear a cost to pay? Will Putin want them to see it that way? Has Bush hung his European allies out to dry?

Asking the question "Is he ready to lead?" is less demonstrative, than saying, "He's not ready to lead.."

The Moses piece actually works in Obama's favor, Heston was a gun control Republican, how could they compare Obama to him, without giving away the mantle of Messianic leadership, from which the Bushes have governed for 12 years?

As for the Vietnam ad, (long whistling sound here) All Obama or his surrogates have to say is, what does John McCain know about winning a war, he fought in Vietnam?

Fortunately for McCain people don't pay much attention to these ads. The loose Nukes ads is probably Obama's best, because he needs more than the standard sound bite. Obama has a certain consistency, to his style of governance, missing under GWB, whose rhetoric is filled with contradictions, and more importantly, whose personal style of speaking is disjointed, punctuated with sarcastic facial expressions, and a denigrating undertone. During the early part of Bush's term it became obvious that the President was his own worst enemy, when everytime he made a public appearance, his popularity dropped.

The Bush weakness is that he demonstrates a complete lack of sincerity. McCain has that famous temper, and being the Senator from AZ maybe they will give him the famous mushroom cloud ad, that Johnson used on Goldwater. They can update it by playing Bomb Bomb Iran over the images. Obama, thoughtful, steady, the kind of leader we need.

Yeah, I would like to be in his position.

Do you secretly love McCain, or what? Mixing Obama and Madonna, would have been the Republican ad, only they are phonics-challenged. (Thank Bush for that). The larger problem is the Femocrats: Hillary, Pelosi, Feinstein. (Girly Congressional types who secretly admire strong men, with flag lapel pins...) They emasculated John Kerry in 2004, it couldn't have been his heiress wife, because McCain seems to have his nads.

This tome is a clear example of how you girls have turned the Democrat party into the Tupperware Party, how trivial can it get?

Is that your point? Well taken, by the way. I submit to you that Madonna picks up poor children in Africa the way you and I pick up stray dogs at the pound. Out of compassion, of course. Somewhere the toughminded among you went bye bye. While that Georgian woman stands holding her child, crying, who is really answering that photo. The boys play politics and the girls cheerlead.

Whats' needed is fresh inspiration?

Bush calls the Kurds "enemies", and given the chance, he or his surrogates would kill as many of them as he could.

Thank god he is fighting them over there. Imagine what he might do to us.