Whatever Happened to Hope, And Change? It’s been Replaced with Reality.

When pols power is under threat, all that crap goes away to be replaced by sleeze and attack. I note a story this morning at MSNBC, which reports on the comments from Barrack Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe, who

Why do I get the feeling that there’s desperation where McCain is concerned? The New York Times, this monring:

WASHINGTON – The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare

• Next time you hear from anyone about how the Democrats are uniting America, show them this.
• Or this.
• Or, this.
• On the other hand, there is some coming together on this issue.
• Seems to me this is a sure sign

The NY Observer, yesterday:

The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton

I note Patrick Healy giving some notice to the building falling down around Hillary Clinton.

Morale is low. After 13 months of dawn-to-dark seven-day weeks, the staff is exhausted. Some have taken to going home early – 9 p.m. –

By way of fellow Swamp Stomper, the Dread Pundit Bluto, And Breitbart, we see AFP offering up:

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain Friday said he hoped Fidel Castro’s resignation would be followed by his speedy demise, and rapped

McQ makes an excellent point about the Democrat debate the other night, and a line that Obama offered up:

In last night’s debate, Barack Obama, apparently wanting to get in the swing of sounding like the Commander-in-Chief, threw this little

• I’m going to have to post a really good quip someday. Meanwhile, your humble webmaster got himself another Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest.
• I said it last night; I had my doubts that Sadr was going to break

Ironic story of the day, Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

Helicopters carrying three senior U.S. senators made emergency landings Thursday in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.

Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard

“Xerox” isn’t a noun.

Addendum: (David L)

How can do many media sources get a one line quote so wrong?  Lots of practice I quess, via CNN:

And, you know, lifting whole passages from someone else’s speeches is not

Bluto observes:

From the Timesonline:

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects – comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.

Phil Woolas, an

Look, gang… in the end, David Shuster called it like it is.. he told the truth of the matter.

That, in fact is what has the Clinton camp so riled.  Well, of course that and if they act angry enough,

The debate, ladies before gentlemen;

Agan, Laure Ingraham, via Allah Pundit, Hot Air,.

Fer Tom Colburn, via Allah Pundit, Hot Air fer:

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My two cents:   

As to Laura, I love what she said.   Draft  Ingraham – 2012 

• You can call it what you want to, David, and I suppose Romney and his comments this afternoon there were worth some consideration, with regards to the questions I was asking this morning.  That said, I am immediately suspicious whenever

Fox News:

Mitt Romney told a conservative group briefly stunned silent by the news that he is suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.During his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Romney said if he prolonged