McCain seems intent on proving that it is possible to scorn Americans into voting for him. Consider his latest ad in the context of his "drill, drill, drill" energy policy.
There is a simple fact that has eluded Democrats in every presidential campaign they have lost in the last 40 years: you have to focus first and foremost not on a litany of "issues" but on four stories.
Bush doesn't have to ask Hu Jintao to tear down the Great Wall of China, but the least he can do is to use in public, in China, some of the lovely human rights language he claims he's been saying in private.
It's the Pentagon's job to ensure our troops are protected, and they are failing miserably here. What happened to taking care of our own?
Paris Hilton just made John McCain her bitch. In less than two minutes, she accomplished not one -- but five things McCain himself has been unable to do in two years of campaigning.
These protests will continue to take place because this is precisely the time to bring attention to China's horrendous record on human rights and freedom.
What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way...
Only the wildly hypocritical McCain could have escaped any blowback from the debauchery and female exploitation in Sturgis. And, as an act of collusion, the visual media totally blinked.
Our "reason" for developing an arsenal of biological weapons is that the US needs to learn how to prevent attacks from deranged outsiders. Now we have another reminder that the enemy may be us.
Caution kills when it comes to national elections, and the Obama campaign's caution is allowing the McCain's campaign to define Obama and the terms of the debate.
For those of us interested in measuring the voting habits of large swathes of Americans, examining the correlation between retail preferences and voting preferences can be very enlightening.
McCain has morphed into Dick Cheney's evil twin, hellbent on destroying the possibility of ever having serious energy and climate policy in this country.
