At RCP, Steven Warshawsky argues that John McCain must change his position on Iraq because it is… unpopular!  Polls say so: A Rasmussen Reports poll from January 29, 2008, reported that 59% of Americans want U.S. troops to be brought home from Iraq immediately or within one year, while only 35% want U.S. troops to remain in Iraq “until the mission is complete.” According to this poll, not only do

Clinton advisor Harold Ickes throws Jesse Jackson into the mix again: “We have two really strong and very good candidates. This party has been blessed … to have a woman who, I think will be the next president of the United States [and] to have a powerful spokesman in the form of Sen. Obama and he is, that’s one of the reasons I supported Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988,

The New York Observer’s Politicker blog compares the current campaign to the 1976 election: An unelected president, Ford had barely secured the Republican nomination against a fierce challenge from Ronald Reagan, leaving the party’s conservative base dispirited and even more distrustful of Ford than they already had been. And the stench of Watergate—and Ford’s politically damaging pardon of Richard Nixon—stubbornly hung in the air. After eight years of Republican rule,

Men are supposed to be the bad ones.

to join Allah Pundit.  No word on Bryan. It is with regret that I announce that Bryan Preston has left the company. He has chosen to take a position as a producer with the Laura Ingraham radio show. We thank him for all the time and talent he devoted to making Hot Air a success. Please wish him all the best in his new endeavors. I don’t think Bryan likes

but it seems to me that the less time they have to prepare for them, the less wretched the Oscars are.

Jay Rosen. Public Editor to Bill Keller: “You Haven’t Got it.” Clark Hoyt’s verdict: wrong to run. Mine: “Times editors are extremely smart people prevented by their own codes from thinking politically. Yet those same codes permit intrusions into politics, like the Vicki Iseman story, that require them to think politically or risk terrible missteps.”  The article turns out not to be as bad as all that, though: Jeff [Jarvis]

ABC’s Jake Tapper reports: Appealing to union voters in a dry wall manufacturing plant in this crucial primary state, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sunday afternoon said that even though he has repeatedly said the passage of NAFTA was bad for the country, he would not try to repeal it. *** He argued arguing that because the trade deal had been passed more than a decade ago, it was entrenched in the

Oh, for crying out loud.  Now the NYT is amplifying the Obama assassination watch meme.  Fine. Embrace the macabre: I am announcing the Obama Murder Pool.  When Obama’s assassinated, who will turn out to have killed him?

Unless you’re CNN, in which case you throw up one of those unscientific online polls on the issue. Meanwhile, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father: “A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn