Haha, I never in a million years would have thought it was, but thanks anyway.

I'll eat meat if it's free.  And will go to waste otherwise.  If these were "last chance before we toss these out the back" cheeseburgers then I'd be on them like white on rice.

Did you ever imagine, back when you were an Iraq War apologist, that you'd rediscover your anti-war roots?

What war am I being an apologist for?

There are plenty enough reasons to oppose the war in Afghanistan, Jerome.  You don't have to invent new ones.

Well you have to pick one or the other.  You want jobs jobs jobs jobs, you need more federal spending.

Because in three way races, sometimes front runners take each other out by training their guns too hard on each other?  It's sort of a version of what a lot of Democrats were worried about with the extended primary in 2008 possibly allowing McCain to slip in.  Incredibly wrongly worrying about it, as it turned out, but it's been known to happen.

I mean I don't know I'm just saying.

I'm not sure either, but that stat sounds a lot like "No democrat was lost West Virginia and won the White House since 1918".

This is slightly off topic but in the article the GOP operative was boasting that he could run ads that say "so-and-so SAYS he's independant, but he's voted with NANCY PELOSI 97% of the time."

I thought Speakers didn't vote?

Yeah, I thought about that.  Except that pushing the questionable stat that the Baucus bill will cost the average family 1100 more dollars a year sounds like playing for keeps to me.

And yeah, the 'teleprompter' attack was retarded when it was new, now it's a cliche on top of it.

I think no matter what the President's intentions are, the left should be pushing their agenda the same way.  If Obama's goals are perfectly aligned with the progressive movement we lose nothing, and if they're not we move them in a constructive way.

Besides, making it known that there's a large and active part of the population that wants things like GLBT equality and real healthcare reform helps the people in power who are already with us.

I think there's way too much talk about whether or not the President is 'on our side'.  The people primarily interested in that are mostly seeing politics as a soap opera or want to establish their moral superiority, instead of actually doing constructive things.

For that matter, there's that recent piece by Anne Kornblut where she basically pulled a Judith Miller.

Didn't realize that was such a hot talking point until you trotted it out.  I had only heard Imus and Joe Scarborough joking about it.

Oh, and it's Jessie.  Jesse is a dude's name.

Off topic, at best.

Your memory can't possibly be that selective.  He was ridiculed in the REPUBLICAN primary - just to show how far back it goes - by Mitt Romney for "being Jane Fonda[Iraq] one minute and Doctor Strangelove[Afghanistan and Pakistan] the next".  The whole thing about cross-border attacks at hot targets in Pakistan was called naive by both John McCain and Hillary Clinton.  I'm sure if I checked the blog history I can even find a diary by you agreeing with her, since you always did.

He ran on escalating the Afghanistan war, period.