Imagine the press release needed to explain Barack Obama’s comments in The Atlantic: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg published on The Atlantic’s website, Barack Obama referred to Israel as “this constant sore,” that “does infect all of our foreign policy.” This comment should not be taken out of the context of the entire interview, in which Obama also called himself a “friend” of Israel and that his fondness

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