River of Opinion: The Nation
Obama reaffirms support for adoption rights for LGBTs
(Click image for the response letter.) McCain didn't even have the decency to respond to the Family Equality Council to show how he would lead regarding family policy and how existing same-sex couple headed families (they are out there, this isn't ...
By pam spaulding, Pam's House Blend, 1 day ago
Muslim outreach director resigns
That didn't take long: Obama's Muslim outreach director resigns because of a short stint on a board that also included a controversial religious leader, which he says he quit when he learned the imam was involved. It's just another mark of the ...
By ben smith, The Politico, 1 day ago
More on Barack Obama's pipe dream on energy
The Wall Street Journal lays out some reality-based information to clarify the impossibility of Obama's supposed energy plan. The Senator calls for $150 billion over 10 years to achieve "energy independence," with elevated subsidies for renewable ...
By betsy newmark, Betsy's Page, 1 day ago
Obama’s holding a pair of gimmicks
And he’s prepared to double down on them. The Washington Post starts its editorial praising Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade proposals, which would cripple American energy production and manufacturing through burdensome quasi-taxation. The essay then ...
By ed morrissey, Hot Air, 1 day ago
John McCain Backs Down on Tire Gauges
Republican John McCain appeared to back down on Tuesday in his dispute with his opponent Barack Obama over tire pressure. The surprise came during a telephone town hall meeting McCain held on Tuesday with voters in Pennsylvania. "Obama said a couple ...
By jonathan singer, MyDD, 1 day ago
Flotsam and Jetsam
This take from Andrew Sullivan seems fair: “So the choice becomes an all-Democratic government, headed by a senator whose newness is still one of the most striking things about him - or an old war horse who ticked off all the right Republicans at one ...
By jennifer rubin, Commentary, 1 day ago
Cities See Changing Demographics as Urban Life Becomes More Desirable
Ehrenhalt is optimistic that the rejuvenation of America's cities will have a positive effect on community life, which many academics and journalists had thought to be in decline. "We will never return—nor would most of us want to return—to the ...
By findingdulcinea, Finding Dulcinea, 1 day ago
Paris Hilton: 'Totally ready to lead'
Lounging on a lawn chair in a leopard print bathing suit, gold high heels and pig-tails, celebrity Paris Hilton presents a presidential campaign-esque advertisement with jokes about Sen. John McCain and a plan to solve the country's energy ...
By katie fretland, Baltimore Sun Blogs, 1 day ago
Obama stalls in public polling
In the two months since Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination, he has hit a ceiling in public opinion, proving unable to make significant gains with any segment of the national electorate. While Obama still leads in most matchups with John ...
By david paul kuhn, The Politico, 1 day ago
AP Headline Asserts VP is 'Unpopular Cheney'
Certainly we can face facts that the liberal press has succeeded in pillorying Vice President Cheney since almost the minute he stepped into the VP Mansion at the United States Naval Observatory. It is, therefore, a fact that Cheney has a low approval ...
By warner todd huston, Newsbusters, 1 day ago
Pundits Begin to Worry About Obama
Former cheerleaders express concern over who the "man behind the curtain" really is. In the aftermath of Barack Obama’s overseas trip, the liberal punditocracy has begun to fret. Certainly there is reason for concern. Obama’s poll numbers are within ...
By jennifer rubin, Pajamas Media, 1 day ago
What Obama doesn't seem to understand about economics
While Obama had fun calling Republicans ignorant, he is demonstrating, as Investors Business Daily writes, that he doesn't understand the effect of taxes on businesses. In an admission that increased supply means lower prices, Barack Obama, in ...
By betsy newmark, Betsy's Page, 1 day ago
Mexican National Executed in Texas
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
By manuel roig-franzia, The Washington Post, 1 day ago
McCain Concedes: Tire Gauges Work
Show your support. Buzz this article up. Republican John McCain appeared to back down on Tuesday in his dispute with his opponent Barack Obama over tire pressure. Last week in St. Louis, Obama told an audience that steps such as inflating ...
By the huffington post news editors, Huffington Post, 1 day ago
Black Gold
The pullback in oil prices, which have fallen nearly 20 percent in under a month, has fanned optimism that the crisis in the commodities markets might have eased, and gasoline prices might soon come down further. ....Among investors, there is a broadly ...
By kevin drum, Political Animal, 1 day ago
Paris Hilton: I’m Ready to Lead
TTLB code goes here "History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." -- Ronald Reagan Just click on the button to be taken to a page where you can sign up with almost every feedreader imaginable! This ...
By gary gross, California Conservative, 1 day ago
This Just In: Obama Is a Secret Agent from the U.N.!
Now, I don't follow the particulars of global anti-poverty policy that closely, so perhaps I'm missing something. (I'll try to do some more checking in the morning.) But it certainly appears that the Republicans are telling a pretty ...
By jonathan cohn, The New Republic, 1 day ago
Paris Hilton does a pro-McCain ad!
It calls him old. Her plan is Obama's actual plan. It mocks McCain's ad. She has small boobies. The point of McCain's ad was that she's a vacuous little trollop who's done nothing to deserve the fame that she's blundered witlessly into. And her little ...
By ann althouse, Althouse, 1 day ago
The official Paris for President campaign ad; McCain says she's deeper than Obama!
In the unkindest cut of all, McCain's spokesperson Tucker Bounds tells TMZ that on the subject of energy, Paris is deeper than Barack. He says, "Sounds like Paris is taking the 'All of the Above' energy approach that John McCain has advocated -- both ...
By cassy fiano, Wizbang, 1 day ago
Big-Dollar Donors Are Major Force in Obama Campaign
Show your support. Buzz this article up. In an effort to cast himself as independent of the influence of money on politics, Senator Barack Obama often highlights the campaign contributions of $200 or less that have amounted to fully half of ...
By the huffington post news editors, Huffington Post, 1 day ago
McCain, Obama media coverage balances
Republican Sen. John McCain last week drew almost the same amount of media attention as Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama for the first time since early June, according to a report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. McCain was a ...
By katie fretland, Baltimore Sun Blogs, 1 day ago
McCain Tire Gauge Mocking Of Obama Ignores Support From Those On His Side Of The Aisle
Anti-science as the GOP likes to be, I’m sure these facts will go right over their heads: The study indicates that substantial benefits would accrue if car care facilities systematically offered complimentary tire pressure checks with oil changes ...
By nicole belle, Crooks and Liars, 1 day ago
An Obamacon's Advice for Obama
I've read you Blog on maybe we can't elect a black president. But three weeks ago Obama was ahead in Gallup by 4-6 points. Obama was black then too. Then there came his trip to the Middle East, Iraq, Germany. Apparently successful. Now he and McCain ...
By david corn, David Corn, 1 day ago
Republican heckler uses press credentials to disrupt Obama event
You have to wonder about the screening process and Secret Service security detail that allowed this whack job into an Obama event at Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. It was later revealed that -- surprise -- Quinn is a registered Republican. ...
By pam spaulding, Pam's House Blend, 1 day ago
AP/Ipsos: Obama Up 6
Solid margins among women, minorities and young voters have powered Barack Obama to a 6 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a poll released Tuesday. Obama leads by 13 points among women, by 30 points among ...
By todd beeton, MyDD, 1 day ago
Republicans: Taking Pride in Being Ignorant
Obama has hit back at the Republicans who have been distorting Obama’s energy policy by dwelling on his comment on the energy savings from keeping tires properly inflated. This attack on Obama fails because, not only are they misrepresenting Obama’s ...
By ron chusid, Liberal Values Blog, 1 day ago
A guide to 5 key campaign flip-flops
I'd like to see a guide for 5 positions that Obama has consistently held throughout his three-year tenure in the US Congress. The list should exclude plundering corporate profits to buy votes (instead of raising taxes), Reparations and increasing taxes. ...
By kenneth p. vogel, The Politico, 1 day ago
Barack Obama, Jujitsu-Master
I come down somewhere between Mike and Jason on Obama's response to McCain's tire-gauge assault. I don't think it was quite pitch perfect--maybe a touch too eggheady with the mention of "experts." But deriding the GOP for embracing ignorance was a nice ...
By noam scheiber, The New Republic, 1 day ago
Buffoonery
BUFFOONERY....Does John McCain really claim that he's the guy who will "battle big oil"? With a straight face? I guess you have to admire the chutzpah, if nothing else. On the other hand, Barack Obama's light-hearted take on the GOP's weeklong ...
By kevin drum, Political Animal, 1 day ago
Obama: They 'take pride in being ignorant'
More like they tike pride in feeding upon ignorance. This is the Obama i have been waiting for. Go after the GOP for been stupid. The GOP is the party that wants to keep all Americans ignorant. They don't have any idea whatsoever Wrong Obama. They take ...
By ben smith, The Politico, 1 day ago
Paris Hilton Responds To John McCain's Celebrity Ad (VIDEO)
Show your support. Buzz this article up. I've been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses. It is a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to ...
By the huffington post news editors, Huffington Post, 1 day ago
Obama: GOP Takes Pride In Being Ignorant
Want to reply to a comment? Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to What does one expect from folks pushing creationism? Great line - more to ...
By the huffington post news editors, Huffington Post, 1 day ago
Will the High Road Work for Obama?
Obama is taking the wonky high road in response to the GOP's mockery of his tire-pressure advice, saying: "It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." My gut says that, given the way shallow national politics works, Obama will lose this ...
By michael crowley, The New Republic, 1 day ago
Remainders: Checking out the nukes
"Obama voted for a 2005 energy bill backed by President Bush that included billions in subsidies for oil and natural gas production, a measure for which Vice President Dick Cheney played a major role. McCain opposed the bill, saying at the time that it ...
By jonathan martin, The Politico, 1 day ago
Obama praises his woulda-been attacker
I saw Pickens on Larry King last night. He didn't seem anti-Obama & did seem focused on the energy issue. "Obama voted for a 2005 energy bill backed by President Bush that included billions in subsidies for oil and natural gas production, a measure for ...
By jonathan martin, The Politico, 1 day ago
Obama fires back at GOP
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli and NBC's Mark Murray BEREA, OH -- For the last few days, Republicans have ridiculed Obama for saying -- in passing -- that if drivers inflated their tires to proper levels, they'd save as much oil as offshore drilling would ...
By mark murray, MSNBC, 1 day ago
More energy back and forth
From NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy NEWPORT, Mich. -- After touring the Enrico Fermi Nuclear facility here this afternoon, McCain stood in the shadows of the plant’s cooling towers and gave a brief statement on the need to expand nuclear power. But first ...
By domenico montanaro, MSNBC, 1 day ago
Bush Administration: Obama’s Right About Tire Inflation.
Does it count that I try to keep the tires on my 30-year old bicycle properly inflated? Is the GOP trying to turn the tire gauge into the flip-flop or purple-heart-bandaid from 2004? Waving them around at folks in line at Obama rallies makes no sense. ...
By phoenix woman, Firedoglake, 1 day ago
Offshore Drilling Vs. Tire-Gauge & Tune-Up
The Bush Administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 bbl. per day by 2030. We use about 20 million bbl. per day, so that would meet about 1% of our demand two decades from now. This entry was ...
By justin gardner, DonklePhant, 1 day ago
Freedom in China
As the world media get ready to focus on China for two weeks, there’s lots of discussion of human rights. Will Beijing censor the media and the athletes? Should President Bush attend? Should he meet with Chinese dissidents? Should he raise human rights ...
By david boaz, Cato@Liberty, 1 day ago
Again, Obama mocks process
Barack, keep going after the little old dunce McFossil's so-called "strengths": his bullshiit 'maverick' status, his bullshiit 'experience' argument (McShame's 'experince' is what got us into Iraq in the first place), and his dangerously right-wing, ...
By jonathan martin, The Politico, 1 day ago
Sen. McCain slammed Sen. Obama at a press conference held in the shadow of a nuclear energy plant.
NEWPORT, Michigan (CNN) – A day after Barack Obama released a television ad that accuses John McCain of seeking tax breaks for big oil, McCain struck back Tuesday, calling Obama “a little bit confused” because of their divergent votes on the 2005 ...
By martina stewart, CNN, 1 day ago
CNN Poll of Polls update: Obama leads McCain by five points
(CNN) - The CNN Poll of Polls has been updated to reflect a new AP-IPSOS poll. Sen. Obama now holds a five-point lead over Sen. McCain - 48 percent to 43 percent - with 9 percent of registered voters remaining unsure about their choice for ...
By martina stewart, CNN, 1 day ago
On Democrats Reshaping Themselves As Republicans
I was thinking about how Obama squandered the enthusiasm and good faith of the activist "base" when he decided to "move to the right" to "appeal to the center." I am not quoting the Obama campaign, I am describing what happened to so many Democrats ...
By dave johnson, Seeing the Forest, 1 day ago
Obama: GOP's 'pride in being ignorant'
The great tire gauge debate has gotten over-inflated. But at least Barack Obama is having as much fun with it as John McCain is. First McCain and the Republicans ridiculed Obama for suggesting that people can save oil by adding some air to their ...
By mark silva, The Swamp, 1 day ago
Obama signs up lawyers
In 2004, those with legal expertise -- people like you -- were critical to the voter protection effort. Lawyers and legal professionals made sure that registered voters made it on the rolls and were able to vote. They made sure that ballots were ...
By ben smith, The Politico, 1 day ago
Obama responds: 'It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant"
More like they tike pride in feeding upon ignorance. This is the Obama i have been waiting for. Go after the GOP for been stupid. The GOP is the party that wants to keep all Americans ignorant. They don't have any idea whatsoever Wrong Obama. They take ...
By ben smith, The Politico, 1 day ago
The MSM, AWOL: Reason # 2,347
Isn’t the problem — well, one of the many, many problems — with our awful president the fact that he never changes his mind about anything no matter how strong the evidence? Isn’t one of the problems with the new John McCain the fact that he keeps ...
By jet netwal, Bring It On, 1 day ago
New poll: Gender not a big VP factor
From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann and NBC's Alex Wall For all the chatter about the pros and cons of picking a female vice president, a new poll commissioned by Lifetime finds that women are not particularly likely to be influenced by the selection of a lady VP. ...
By mark murray, MSNBC, 1 day ago
More Obama
MORE OBAMA....In response to my prediction of a 6-8 point Obama win in November, commenter John Wilheim asks: "When are we going to stop paying attention entirely to the national poll numbers?....What matters are the numbers in the individual states, ...
By kevin drum, Political Animal, 1 day ago
Breaking: Judge Refuses to Change Instructions: Hamdan Has Some POW-Like Status, At Least For Now??
The lawyers can explain this one to me, but the judge in the Hamdan case has declined to change his ruling that evidence that Hamdan transported missiles to be used against US soldiers, as opposed to civilians or other protected persons, would not be ...