Right on! The Democrats need to stop dancing around the issue and deliver some straight talk to the American people. Feingold just took the first step to winning the Democratic primary in 2007.

It will be interesting to see if the Biden-Feinstein-Clinton- Lieberman apparatchiks attack Feingold or join him in attacking Bush and his failure as a President and as a human being.

Wes Clark's guest spot at TPM Cafe later this month could very well be a watershed moment in the Democratic party. It should be very interesting and Feingold has just thrown down the gauntlet.

I just read that Rep. Rep. Reynolds of NY, the chair of the Republican congressional campaign caucus, said that in 15 months, the war won't matter in congressional elections, that people will be concerned about what "is important in the district".  The Democrats should be jumping all over that!  This guy is basically saying the war, and the troops, is not important.  How does that sound to the guys (and gals) getting limbs blown off, losing their lives, and putting on shoddy body armor in Iraq and Afghanistan! We should be calling his office, and the office of the RCCC, in droves to complain.

if deadlines are important for the iraqis....they are important for us.

I think we found him.

For those interested, the Feingold 08 blogging community launched a draft feingold petition for 08, and we would appreciate the signature of anyone who supports an 08 run by Feingold. http://www.petitiononline.com/feing08/

Public opinion is turning strongly against the war. Bush's poll numbers are dropping like a rock. The insurgents are getting better at making car bomb that are more leathal. A grieving mother is camped out in front of Bush's "ranch" for the duration of his 5-week vacation while he gets on with his life.

Yet Feingold's the first Dem to notice not only the need for such a position from the Democrats, but the political advantage of doing so?

Sigh. As long as the Democrats keep trying to defend their vote for this war and trying to out tough the GOP by demanding we "stay the course" we play into the Republican's strong suit.

Why can't the Dems take a lesson from Rove and the GOP and attack their opponent's strength. Bush is/was strong on the war. Yet he's change his reasons, moved the goal posts, and come across as pretty calous toward a grieving mother. Surely there is something to attack there.

The total lack of a plan for withdrawl from the country is staggeringly obvious. Is Feingold the only one who sees this? Is he the only one who sees the political advantage for the Democrats to provide answers that Bush has refused to provide to the American people?

When are we leaving, Mr. President? How many more soldiers are going to have to die, Mr. Preisdent? What is the noble cause they are dying for Mr. President?

I'm just some blogger and I can understand the advantage. Why can't the party?

I see this playing out as Feingold playing bad cop to somebody else's (Wes Clark?) good cop.

Feingold will be positioned as the radical one so that the "moderate" can win.