Letters to the Editor
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I'd Rank It
Right up there with Bush's pledge of no nation building.
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What may be happening ...
What be happening is that the McCain campaign can't directly criticize Obama on this topic, as it would involve a risk -- however slight -- that folks might start to pay attention to the unsavory moments of some of the religious folks McCain hangs with. So there's some self-interest involved.
Of course, the high-mindedness is the official policy. Unofficially, who knows?
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QOTD
I'd Rank It Right up there with Bush's pledge of no nation building.
That is the quote of the day!
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MCain's campaign can afford to take the high ground because...
..he has enough allies on the right to all the necessary dirty work for him.
If you want the template for this, just look at the Rev. Wright Bruhaha. MCain's campaign wasn't involved in any of it. (Except, of course, to deplore the whole situation.) Yet it's done the most damage to Obama's chances so far -- especially with voters otherwise most likely to vote for white male McCain.
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Just wait
The Republican party will engage in the worst form of character assassination, as soon as it's sure to whom it should be directed.
No point wasting too much energy on either of the Democrats, yet.
Obama knows this. If you watched Larry King Live last night, he made a point of holding McCain to the high standard that he espoused.
He's setting the stage to deplore their dirty tricks.
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Hmmm... Richardson Endorsed Obama twelve hours ago...
Think Salon might get to that today, seeing as Clinton and Obama were after his endorsement so badly both of them were practically drooling? No rush or anything.
Oh, I see. Obama got it. If HRC had gotten it, it'd be your lead story.
Joan's next column (of air): Is Richardson's Nomination Enough? And what'd Obama mean by calling his grandmother "typical"? I mean, I don't endorse either candidate, as you all know, but ewww...blahblahblahblahClintonblahblahblahblahexperienceblahblah.
I'm just uneasy about Obama. Love, Joan.
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blondeone
Old enough now to change your name? When so many love you is it the same? It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
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Has anyone mentioned that Huckabee defended Obama - and Wright?
According to HUffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/19/huckabee-defends-rev-jer_n_92346.html), citing a Politico post (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Huck_defends_Wright.html), which referred to a Daily Kos post (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/19/72716/0494/229/479797):
An assist from an unexpected quarter:
"[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do," Huckabee says. "It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what ... Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say 'Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that.'"
Later, he defended Wright's anger, too:
"As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say 'That's a terrible statement!' ... I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names..."
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Obama
Could beat Huckabee in a general.
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@blondeone
Scroll down.
Richardson's endorsement is in War Room in full.
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@notorious w.e.s.(te of time)
Am I the woman of your dreams? Truly, this is not what it seems.
And I ain't no cowgirl, in the sand or otherwise. No horses in Chicago. Or at least very few. Bombs away, baby.
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Same old Song and Dance
He's just taking a note from Shrub: it's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission. It's the MO of addicts everywhere and it seems to be working for them...
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@heyjude
Thanks for the heads up. I had looked 3 stories down and concluded it wasn't there, as War Room's missed some big stories lately and I'd already passed the passport breaches, including Obama's, which happened yesterday. Cynical of me, I know. So, sorry, War Room and thanks, Jude.
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Oh, they intend to play both sides of the fence
Quoted on the Blog Report page today is some Townhall.com twit named Patrick Ruffini, who says:
If they [McCain campaign] go further with this civility routine, they risk alienating conservatives in talk radio and the blogosphere who are doing the necessary work of defining Obama and rendering him just as radioactive with the base as Hillary. [my emphasis]
It's worth your while reading the whole post, as an example of wingnut electoral strategery, and a preview of what's coming. Basically, you needs yer Swift Boaters, and you needs yer plausible deniability.
Oh, and I've been seeing a few responses similar to Huckabee's from other RW fundies: "Lay off Obama--hey, shit happens when you're preachifyin'." (OK, not in exactly those terms.) I did not see this reaction coming at all, but hey, I'll take it.
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apropos quote
There's a story in today's Guardian (UK) about McCain's visit to the UK and his claim to be descended from Robert the Bruce. Various historians think it's a preposterous, unprovable claim; one historian was quoted thus:
Some of the claims made in the family memoir about McCain's Scottish roots, he added, read like "some historical novel". "It's a load of baloney - it's a bit like the mixing of history and it's not accurate. A lot of Scots of Irish descent tend to say 'we're related to so and so' - people say Robert the Bruce quite often. William Wallace is another one, as you can imagine."
Durie added that despite his romantic reputation, Robert the Bruce was "an absolute scoundrel".
"The first thing he did after taking power was destroy Stirling castle and he was a self-serving, vainglorious opportunist who was determined to be king at any cost," he said.
Hmm. Maybe it's not such a far-fetched claim after all?