Signs of Weakness?

Trying to play Mister Apolitical is taking it’s toll. The WaPo:

Today’s news that Jim Johnson, one of three people charged with vetting potential vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama, is stepping down from his role illustrates the perils ahead

• I see KSM says he’d welcome being a martyr. I would suggest burial…alive… face down down… under a pig farm. Being in a place where the pigs crap on him all day, for years and perhaps decades on end, 

Interesting questions from Victor Davis Hanson, this morning…

Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world

I remarked a while ago:

Clinton is now looking for a scapegoat, and Penn seems a likely enough target. Penn’s job, after all, was putting lipstick on a pig…. Hillary Clinton is a product that is about as popular

Interesting poll from CNN this morning.  It seems that John McCain and Barack Obama are tied in the polling numbers;

In the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted entirely after Obama became the presumptive Democratic nominee, he leads his Republican

Sixteen years ago conservatives were calling the Clintons’ trash, and the media was calling us demented.    It is now the MSM which is is calling the Clintons trash.   Matthew Yglesias, Atlantic, feigns ignorance of sixteen years::

I probably shouldn’t

• Yeah, posting’s been light, today. Been rather busy at work.
• Another Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption contest
• Sister says Bob Dole unloaded on Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a “miserable creature” who greedily betrayed his former

1952, Dwight David Eisenhower:

“I will go to Korea,”

Ike went to Korea.  The fighting stopped.

2008, Barack Hussien Obama, rejects John McCain’s proposal that they both go to Iran, From the BO campaign, via Jim Geraghty, National Review.

As we expected, Obama has rejected McCain’s proposal that they go to Iraq together. Hot Air makes note of this and says:

Even more amusing than Maverick’s savviness in forcing this choice on him is TPM straining to spin it

Mmmfph.

I was afraid of this, though I must say it came sooner than I figured it.

I’ve never been a fan of John McCain. Not only is he not a conservative, he may have done more damage to the

So, John McCain took some time the other day to speak out for lower taxes, and free marketplace?

How much of this gets negotiated away, as he tried to get something through the Democrat Congress, I wonder?

In case you were holding your breath, and your vote, waiting to see what Gore Vidal thinks,

(Is he even able to think? Seems a bit of a stretch at the off, given he apparently lost that ability 40

Our position on Mike Huckabee is simple. He is an idiot.

Mike Huckabee another person too stupid to be allowed to be President.  

Huckabee, the Dope from Hope, has beem rumored to on the top of John Mccain’s short

• Yet another Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest
• It’s time to sign the petition to drill in ANWR.
• Baloney, James. Why would Hamas be heaping praise on Obama if not for Obama representing and promoting a policy favorable to

We know what Mr. Bush said… I posted the quote here yesterday:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush said at