Steve's contributions to the War Room have been excellent. I am looking forward to more of the same.....

and let's not even get into the opportunity costs of this foolish war...

....to wake up a Senator?

still counting.....

...that "if (favorite Dem candidate's name here) doesn't win, I'll vote for McCain!"

McCain's moderation is such a fantasy that even the MSM cannot avoid it through November. On issue after issue -- even the ones he is supposedly "moderate" on, such as immigration -- he has either assumed conservative stances from day one, or he has slithered his way out of the "center" to the shady fringes of the right.

Kristol is displaying a rapidly declining marginal utility in these NYT op-eds, which is saying something given how bad they have been. Each one has been more asinine than the last, and today's, with that most condescending of closing lines, makes me begin to wonder how much longer he will grace the NYT backpage.

Personally, I'd say that Obama's list of of accomplishments makes his more qualified than a man known for killing universal health care, running failed campaigns of such luminaries as Alan Keyes, and cheerleading the biggest foreign policy disaster of the last 100 years.

for proving Obama's point in this whole "bitter" comment maelstrom. And who decided to let this guy in on the classified national security exercise?

...for the last 8 years, you are probably one bitter sonofabitch. And if you're not, I call you don't get to vote in November.

Just for a little sanity, try Bob Herbert:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/opinion/15herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

You're right, they have no intention of paying it back themselves; China will come calling in a couple of decades and every American currently under 40 will be forced to pay back Bush's economic and military blunders.

...giving WES false hope. Tsk, tsk.

Those damn Democrats, always undermining the troops and our military by supporting their education.

are you talking about the same Obama news outlets that have incredibly equated a poor choice of words by Obama to outright lies by HRC and to repeated gaffes by McCain on the economy and Iraq?

they nailed this one, right down to the old fashioned TV with knobs. this is exactly what needs to be running constantly through november.

for someone to be a woman AND be easily disliked?

The question put to Michelle Obama, I believe, was one in which she was asked if she would actively campaign for a Democratic nominee other than her husband. That's very different from merely "supporting" another candidate.

if you're going to produce and post videos, let's try to proper camera angles, lighting, a clean-shaven subject, etc. the same problems occur with joan walsh's videos. i understand that you don't have hordes of makeup artists and lighting experts at your beck and call, but a little production value goes a long way. i felt like i has a small child looking up at and listening to alex koppelman in that last video.

All we hear is the dirtiest tripe about Obama and Clinton, while McCain gaffes his way through the rest of the Democratic primary season -- gaffes that go totally unreported my the MSM. I'd say he is getting the best coverage he has since he announced, and he looks absolutely peachy compared to the lying Clinton and the I-hate-average-Joes Obama.

McCain is a polished turd, in other words. One that will soon lose its luster.

McCain was better than Bush before he was the same as Bush? I could have sworn the Clintons were running around town telling everyone that McCain was a better candidate than Obama just a couple of weeks ago. Is this part of the kitchen sink strategy? Say whatever it takes, even if that means totally contradicting yourself? Ladies and gentlemen, meet the woman trying to replace the worse president ever by running the worse campaign ever.

its about policies. for many, many others, its about appearances, inlkings, personalities, personal histories, and other campaign detritus that shouldn't matter nearly enough as it does. was it really policies that brought down gore and kerry?

That's a nice playbook. You got a crowbar I can whack out a few kneecaps with?

Thanks for your insightful, timely, and thought-provoking posts, Steve.

we give abstinence-only advocates an STD. nothing serious; i am thinking a mild case of the clap. then, we can ask them if they'd like to get rid of it, and hand them some antibiotics. after that, we can ask them if they'd like to ever have avoided it in the first place, and we give them a condom. if they refuse the condom? we give them herpes.

simple.

I'm hoping your comments are satirical. Otherwise, I am surprised that one can so easily obfuscate attacks on black churches with attacks on one self-obsessed black church leader. Was he unfairly treated by the press and did he actually have legitimate concerns? I think so. But this traveling circus of bizarre statements is only marginalizing the man further, when he could have made a clear and compelling case without tossing out the urban myths, Farrakhan praising, and JFK/LBJ (huh?) bashing.

Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, Rev. Wright.

there are no merits of such a plan. that is why it is pivotal that HRC switched to thinking the gas tax holiday is a good idea, and obama realized that its foolish, intelligence-insulting pandering.