Youtube: Republicans and Military Men on John McCain

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It's not necessarily relevant, but it is funny.

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I am going to genuinely try to keep this blog from being an ObamaFest but I can't help it - each day he makes me feel like I'm backing the right guy:

By banning federal lobbyist and PAC money from the DNC, Obama sought to avoid an inconsistency with his own campaign's fundraising policy. The ban applies to future fundraising, meaning the party won't have to return money it has already raised from lobbyists and PACs.

"Today as the Democratic nominee for president, I am announcing that going forward, the Democratic National Committee will uphold the same standard - we will not take a dime from Washington lobbyists," Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Bristol, Va.

It's another step in the right direction. Read more here.

(Obama post hiatus begins NOW)

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John Hodgman, known popularly as the PC guy in those Mac ads, is actually a great writer who makes some great points re: Clinton's refusal to exit gracefully from the race. Sadly, Bill and Hillary Clinton have come to embody everything I distrusted and disliked about the Republican (or any other major) Party. They are overly aggressive, dishonest and ruthless. Those videos floating around of Hillary supporters vowing to vote for McCain only solidify the choice I made many months ago.

IT IS NOT THAT I DIDN'T expect her to be tenacious. But I think anyone who gives it real and measured thought must conclude that she overplayed her hand.

TO VIGOROUSLY OPPOSE and even undermine your Democratic opponent in the heat of a hard fought primary contest is one thing.

...TO WITHHOLD her support, as she did last night, and indeed to actually undermine his legitimacy in public is pretty poor form in itself.

BUT IF SHE REALLY IS SEEKING TO LEVERAGE HER VOTERS against a VP slot, or some other prize, how is openly blackmailing her own party's nominee going to help her?

...IRONICALLY, (actually ironically), if she had held her cards a bit longer--if she had conceded and congratulated and endorsed Obama last night, she would have looked great. She could have easily conducted the same negotiations behind the scenes in private, and arguably from a much stronger position.

AS SUSANNAH MEADOWS knows all too well from my rantings yesterday in the park, as of 24 hours ago, I was even feeling that, should Clinton make a graceful exit, adding her to the ticket would be unavoidable, appropriate, and smart.

NOW, HOWEVER, I think caving to her open bullying would be disastrous to an Obama campaign and presidency.

Read the rest of the article here. It is well-written and 100% correct.

I realize that Obama is not the antithesis of modern politics as we know it. That the two party system is inherently undemocratic and corrupt. But he is the first viable alternative to the status quo that we've had available to us in a long time and I'm happy to support this step forward.

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This should pretty much sum things up for people who've been living under a rock for the past year: isbarackobamamuslim.com.

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Keith Olbermann does well to vocalize what a lot of us have been feeling lately. This video is 12 minutes long but worth watching until the end.

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RJ Matson really hits the nail on the head here.

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First Lady Laura Bush was on the Today Show the other day. She wanted to clarify that the primary victims of the war in Iraq are not the soldiers, their families, or the Iraqi people.

You should know that nobody suffers from the Iraq war like the President and his wife. In a response to a question regarding the suffering of the American people:

MRS. BUSH: Oh, I know that very much. And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way.

MS. CURRY: What do you think the American public need to know about your husband?

MRS. BUSH: Well, I hope they do know the burden, the worry that's on his shoulders every single day for our troops. And I think they do. I mean, I think if they don't, they're not seeing what the real responsibilities of our president are.

I guess she's right.

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