politburo diktat 2.0

Attacking your opponent for being willingly complicit in genocide, while he’s at Yad Vashem:

John McCain 2008 - Obama on Genocide

Obama today at Yad Vashem:
“Let our children come here and know this history so they can add their voices to proclaim ‘never again.’ And may we remember those who perished, not only […]

Can something that happened in 2007 be the cause of something that occurred in 2006?
Hilzoy has it all on McCain’s latest confusion (or lie or stupidity or hackery):
In an interview on CBS News:
“Couric: Senator McCain, Sen. Obama says, while the increased number of U.S. troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also […]

Joe Klein: McCain Meltdown
John McCain said this today in Rochester, New Hampshire:
This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a […]

I just got this email from the McCain campaign:

McCain Team -
It’s pretty obvious that the media has a bizarre fascination with Barack Obama. Some may even say it’s a love affair. We want you to be the judge. We’ve compiled two videos of the more outrageous moments of this not so secret love affair. […]

But the cart is mis-labelled. It should read “Property of #43.”
I know John Cole doesn’t like the ‘old’ stuff, but sheeshh. McCain and Bush 41, rolling off into the sunset
in their golf cart. Like “The Political Bucket List.”

If he meant the “Iran-Pakistan” border, I wouldn’t have bothered to linked it.
But he’s talking about the “Afghanistan-Pakistan” border.

The American Spectator - Obama’s Tank Ride
Barack Obama’s handlers had obviously wanted the candidate’s appearance in Germany to invoke comparisons to presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
Yet their original choice of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate — venue of Reagan’s historic 1987 “tear down this wall” speech — was rejected by Germans who noted that Obama […]

Iraq official says US troops could leave by 2010
Iraq’s government spokesman is hopeful that U.S. combat forces could be out of the country by 2010.
Ali al-Dabbagh made the comments following a meeting in Baghdad on Monday between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama, who arrived in Iraq earlier in the […]

Comment Stings Maliki as Obama Arrives in Baghdad - NYTimes.com
Last time we checked, a particularly humorous, and vaque denial was being touted by the right wing bloggers:

“Unfortunately, Der Spiegel was not accurate,” Mr. Dabbagh said Sunday by telephone [from inside the American Embassy]. “I have the recording of the voice of Mr. Maliki. We even […]

Photo from Barack Obama - Yahoo! News Photos1
I do not think that the troops hate Obama. And I am certainly not displaying this image to claim that they all support him.
Rather, this post is in the manner of a prediction. Here goes …
Over the next week Obama will be photographed about 10,000 times, many times […]

Ben Smith’s Blog: Political News about Democrats and the 2008 Election - Politico.com
So while there’s been some suggestion that Maliki was playing domestic politics, this seems like the opposite. (Who plays domestic politics in the pages of Spiegel?) Maliki is playing international politics, American politics even. While some may object to that, it may be […]

EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
Fundamentally, Maliki’s comment is evidence of what the Iraqi government sees as the primary impediment to their government attaining real legitimacy: Us. The American occupation is hugely unpopular, and if Iraq is to truly stabilize, its government needs to be seen as independent from the occupiers and opposed to their […]

“Obama leaks word of McCain Iraq trip - complicating security concerns.”
Ben Smith’s Blog: McCain breaks embargo on Obama’s schedule
Obama, you may have noticed, doesn’t have a public schedule today. The press generally respects campaigns’ and officials’ security concerns, when voiced.
So Josh Marshall is probably right to raise an eyebrow that John McCain — of all […]

A ‘general time horizon’ for withdrawal? - First Read - msnbc.com
You can’t make this up… NBC’s John Yang reports President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have agreed that a new agreement setting the parameters for US-Iraqi relations after the current UN mandate expires at the end of the year should include non-binding language–”a […]