@ 6:35 rkr327? How ever did you do that special backdrop darkening of a '?' mark?

I read the first letter page and your First Letter. Never mind. It looks very difficult.

Why, other than Kristolian, Friedmanic, and Slaughternly self-justification, would the "liberal" media consider John "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran" McCain "serious" about anything?

It seems as though an underhanded conspiracy is afoot in the media to continue to marginalize those who were right about the war, and parade before us those who are sooo wrong that they make the Serious Media look smart. Hence, McCain the Foreign Policy Expert.

Particularly galling is the comment that "if Hillary or Obama had said something like that..." What?! In the minds of these bloodthirsty cretins, no error in favor of violence can ever be wrong, and Obama, for instance, whose preferences regarding Iraq would have meant 4000 dead Americans would be alive today, must be extra careful not to make a boo-boo.

Truly, such demented, sociopathic thinking boggles the mind, and the fact that they proudly admit this on television show that the bubble they live in has become a bunker.

But I always assumed that one of the more important tasks for a potential Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces was keeping who our enemies are straight.

I know that seems like a lot to ask but it does strike me as important for some reason....

The Media will continue with this pattern of fawning and glossing over all of McCain's boners and lies.

The 527s will tell another story. There is a goldmine of video available, ripe for the picking, of :

-McCain kissing Bush

-McCain singing Bomb, bomb Iran (hehheh Jis kiddin' my friends)

-McCain with his hand down Joe Lieberman's pants (OK, maybe that one will be harder to find)

-McCain learning for the first time that Iran is Shia as both Lieberman and Graham whisper in his ear at a live press conference

-McCain touring Bagdhad in a photo-op in his flak jacket with Apache helicopters overhead surrounded by Blackwater guards

-McCain snickering as a constituent asks, 'How do we beat the bitch?'

-McCain stating over and over that 'the surge is working, the surge is working!' as 4000 US soldiers lay dead, millions of Iraqis killed, displaced, and maimed.

-Bush on an aircraft carrier in a codpiece in front of a mission accomplished banner

Ever more material is available, not necessarily on video but quite well-documented, such as:

-McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts before he voted for it

-McCain proudly crowing of his core conservative values as a 'footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution' by seeking to switch parties and sending emissaries to pitch John Kerry to accept McCain as his running-mate in 2004

In the NYT online edition today:

2 McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html

Glen,

You nailed it.

The critical point isn't that McCain might be confused [improbable!], but that his very openly agressive stance towards Iran receives impetus from the particular confusion he has been making. THAT is what our media should raise as a question, and raise insistently.

In the ongoing FISA battles, we have seen that when Democrats step up, identify Republican falsehoods and then speak truth to them, the media are obligated to report on this and actually managed to do a reasonable job of it. Note the good coverage to Pelosi saying "Bush is wrong and he knows it" and before that the coverage of the letter from "Reyes" (I put Reyes in quotes because I think a staffer wrote this letter which is far more effective than Reyes' subsequent speech and actions have been).

What is missing in the John McCain Iran/Al Qaeda story to this point is for a Democrat to do this same thing. How will the press respond when it is not bloggers, but Clinton or Obama who says "McCain did not misspeak. He said at least four times that Iran is training Al Qaeda. We must not allow untruths to lead us into another unjust war."?

We need for the Democratic presidential candidates to take down both McCain and the Media.

They can use the arguments that Glenn puts forward in this piece. Namely, we were led into a war by a compliciant, compliant and cheer leading press, and it is happening again.

This point really has to be driven home with regard to a potential war with Iran.

The candidates should take down McCain and the press and while they are at it, point out that the media is complicit in supporting an attack on Iran.

The Democratic leadership should do this as well.

The Republicans have used a war to win elections in the past and this is one of the few gambits they have left. We can expect the worst from them so this is plausible.

Cheese.

Sharp Cheddar. Aged not enough. Worst than sour butter.

Glenn will run out of scoops, and have to make up false Stories.

Some day we will hear it be said by GG that "trolls" are Limburger lovers.

He may insist neocons are so selfish, incompetent, and lazy. So. GOPS tend goldfish? No.

A Non-conservative would not even feed to a bowl of fish a swatted fly. Ya's can't get more honest?

Ya' tend to tell 'her' like it is.

You need to tend the goldfish.

Needs to run ads with these, interspersed with him talking about his foreign policy expertise and experience.

Make it clear McCain plans to repeat the Iraq war adventure in Iran.

McSame is wrong even when he is "right". He has been wrong on every single aspect of this war and also about Iran-yet his bona fides as a Serious Politician are never questioned. That is the most maddening thing of all.

We don't need a third term of Bush's policies. That's exactly what we'll get with McSame. (Assuming his native born Panamanian status is somehow overcome as an impediment to his candidacy)

why couldn't Hillary and Obama from the beginning get into a competition who better takes down McCain?