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McCain is showing the signs of being too old for the gig, and his recent history of forgetting things (whether simple details like the number of houses he owns, or more complicated facts like Sunni vs. Shia) ought to be the source of some serious panic inside the Republican loop.
Earlier this year when I was recording "American Prayer," a song I co-wrote with Bono, the words seemed to take on a whole new resonance, given the inspirational candidacy of Barack Obama.
A look at our nation's democracy in action, as seen through the lens of Hollywood, might help put us all in the electoral spirit.
Now that Condi has negotiated a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, all the Republican rhetorical crap of the post-Mission Accomplished era, which was masquerading as statesmanship, is now inoperative.
Outside of the U.S., the utterances of Bush and McCain on Georgia are greeted with laughter, for they betoken a hypocrisy so ingrained it suggests insanity. The U.S. looks in the mirror and what do we see? Russia.
Hey, John McCain can't remember how many houses he has! It's not his fault, though. He had the number written down but he left it in his other plane.
McCain justified not knowing how many houses he has by saying he was a POW in Vietnam, four decades ago. I have some things to say about this.
It's time for America's most athletically dexterous mutants to stash their red white and blue togs and head home as the national spotlight turns to the political conventions featuring our most ethically dexterous mutants.
One of the clumsy arguments the McCain camp tried to make in hopes of slowing down the media freight train over not knowing how many homes he owns was that Obama is also a rich guy who lives in a mansion himself.
For those who keep asking a variant of "why, with all the federal billions sent down there, is New Orlean's recovery so slow?", an authoritative answer is now available.
The Edwards story is a watershed moment; the point when mainstream media's relevancy developed irreparable cracks, when an army of bloggers overran the stodgy elitist guard.
There has been an amazing confluence of events, and If McCain survives the last 24 hours, I'm not sure what it will take to stop him.
