Jake Tapper of ABC News totes up at least ten cases of Barack Obama publicly blaming his staff for various campaign screw-ups, plus another four adviser flaps.  Those figures are conservative; for example, Obama may yet blame his latest Iran flip-flop on bad staff work.  His chief strategist, David Axelrod blames the extent of damage from the Wright stuff on the staff also.  Oddly enough, after losing the Pennsylvania primary,

Girl group goes splodey over stupid boy. Another happy leftist. Tragedy: China Earthquake Interrupts NPR Reporter’s Interview

Excitable Andy buys into the punditry by anecdote found in a Financial Times article that presents a 67-year-old retired coalminer who “heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” as representative of why Barack Obama is likely going to get creamed in West Virginia tomorrow and in Kentucky next week.  Granted, he did not plumb the depths of dumb reached by Soros hack Oliver Willis or Auguste at Pendagon, but it

but I love McCain’s Bazooka Joe imitation.  Or Popeye, or whatever.  I wish he’d get an eyepatch. In comments, RWS throws down gauntlet, inadvertently breaks toe.

The Washington Post reports on the incoherency of John McCain’s positions on environmental issues.  For example, when it comes to drilling for oil off the shores of California or Florida, he is a federalist.  When it comes to drilling in Alaska, he opposes it as though it was drilling in the Grand Canyon or the Everglades (though the latter is in Florida, last I checked).  Except if it is attached to

The latest campaign dispatch from Newsweek fawns over Barack Obama and smears Republicans enough to provoke a response from John McCain canpaign adviser Mark Salter (an e-mail which the mag chose to reproduce as an Adobe Acrobat document; no bias there): …The characterization of Republican presidential campaigns as nothing more than attack machines that use 527s and other means to smear opponents strikes us as pretty offensive. Is that how Ronald

Evah! Overheard in Athens: Protester: What do you think of abortion? Guy: I’m a guy, I don’t have an opinion. Protester: If you were forced to pick sides? Guy: I’d say late term ones are OK. Protester: How late? Guy: I’d say no later than after they are 20 years old. (Protester’s jaw drop) Guy: You don’t know if they are worth a shit till they are like 18, then

“‘Raw Politics’: Religious right leaning toward Democrats?” is the headline; the reader is then informed: “Raw Politics” on “Anderson Cooper 360” delivers the latest political news with a wry sense of a humor and without spin. The humor part may be true, as the “without spin” part is so laughably false.  The top graphs of the article: For decades, evangelicals have been seen as solid supporters of the Republican Party.

Sunday’s New York Times has a lengthy piece on Barack Obama’s rise in Chicago’s political milieu, filled with hits and misses.  For example, even the caption of the lead photo shows Obama “campaigning for the Illinois State Senate in 1996, a race he easily won,” yet the piece never mentions that he won because he used legal challenges to disqualify all four of his Democratic primary rivals.  The NYT also

Mom reading the Geneva Conventions. Love you, Mom. I’ll think about you. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.” Thanks, Glenn. (h/t Karl) Here’s Sarah W’s beautiful mother, as she’ll always remember her: Thanks for the heads up to happyfeet. Pictures of other moms, present or departed, gladly posted. Darleen’s mom (circa 1954) with Baby Darleen: