Sometimes I get seriously pissed when I come here to read posts.

Not because I don't expect people to disagree with my viewpoint.  I generally love a good healthy, reasoned debate.  Unfortunately, for some reasoned doesn't come into play.

So let's see.

John McCain:

-Has an ad out blaming Barack Obama for the gas prices.

-Has an ad out saying Barack Obama had time to go to the gym, but not go visit the wounded troops. Even though, hilariously, the footage they use of Obama at the gym is the one in Kuwait.

-Has said Barack Obama would like to lose a war.

Barack Obama:

-Has remained silent.  Except giving a generic, and very disappointing response to McCain's ridiculous assertion of his patriotism.

The guy is barely 5 points ahead of McCain in national polls, and losing ground quickly in swing states.   There are 1.2 billion ways to absolutely obliterate McCain and his campaign, and I have seen ZERO effort to do so thus far.  They are letting themselves be attacked, and attacked, and attacked some more.  The idiots that put GWB in power truly aren't smart enough to see through the bullshit.  Not at all.  Does anyone have any idea about what gives?

This is the second diary I've made about this issue, about Obama not hitting back at all... but the stakes are way higher than before.  John McCain is saying some insane shit. Yet there's nothing coming out from our camp, and there is damn well enough ammo just in the past week to last until November.

But none of it is being used.  I don't get it.  And I'm a bit pissed at them.

Hey Mydd,

I have flipped my Republican dad and am working on flipping my Republican mom into supporting Obama in the fall.  They live in central Ohio and are therefore very important electorally.

Unfortunately, the Republican offshore oil talking points have taken root in their house.  Below is the e-mail I want to send them to win them back on the oil issue.

I would love any advice on editing, more talking points, more sources (they love nonpartisan sources, i.e. MSM).  Do I have any factual errors because I don't want to get trapped in a partisan lie.  

Please help me win Ohio!!!

Yes it's true.  Only one and a half months ago, The National Enquirer published a story entitled "Clinton Mistress Revealed," that gave the name and photograph of Bill Clinton's most recent illicit lover:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrit y/64991

With Obama having sewn up the Democratic Presidential Nomination, this was obviously an attempt to sabotage Hillary Clinton's chances for the Vice-Presidential nomination.  After all, revelations of Bill Clinton continuing to cavort with mistresses would make anyone weary of bringing the Clintons back into the White House.

Now, was this a secret campaign to bring down Obama, by removing one Vice Presidential candidate that could help him get elected President?  Or was it really a secret attack on John Edwards, by first clearing the field and then setting up Edwards for a subsequent attack?

What's going on here?  Enquiring minds want to know!!

UPDATE And I even forgot to mention the National Enquirer Cover Story of July 30, 2000 -- a year after Clinton supporter Altman acquired controlling interest -- titled "Hillary's Gay Affairs: The Shocking Truth" http://tinyurl.com/5ztw8e

...instead of continuing the show of irrational exuberance here in our echo chamber.  Let me say, it's completely understandable why we would be excited about our chances in an election season whose fundamentals are so overwhelmingly in our favor.

But more than a few recommended diaries here make it overwhelmingly clear to me that we are deluding ourselves.

Read on for the simple explanation why.
   

h/t C&L

According to The Havana Note the Junior Senator from Connecticut has promised to seek a pardon for terrorist Eduardo Arocena. http://thehavananote.com/2008/07/lieberm an_to_seek_pardon_for_m.html

"Before addressing a pro-McCain event in Florida on July 20, 2008, Senator Joe Lieberman was recorded on video telling Miriam Arocena, wife of Eduardo Arocena, the Federally-convicted leader of the Cuban-American terrorist group Omega 7, that he will carry back to Washington her request for a Presidential pardon for her husband. Arocena is serving a mandatory life sentence and was convicted on 25 Federal counts in New York and 24 counts in New York."

I urge you to read the entire piece in The Havana Note.

See Author's Credibility Rating (ACR) in the endnotes.

Please place the widget at your blog now.

I don't like to make a big deal out of my military service.  I mention it from time to time, of course.  I'm not ashamed of it.  I spent six years in the US Navy as an electriction - four years on board the USS Saipan.  I made two extended deployments - the first ended with OPERATION: Sharp Edge and the second was a part of the wrap-up of OPERATION: Desert Storm.  Among the awards I received for my service are the Kuwait Liberation Medal and the Southwest Asia Service Medal.

I mention it now because I have become part of the news-cycle in the race for New Jersey's Third Congressional District.  It began last Tuesday when GOP candidate Chris Meyers blasted Democratic State Senator John Adler for describing bloggers as "citizen-soldiers".