Greenwald has a play by play. I still have a hard time getting worked up about it, but I agree with Matt:
I’m glad Glenn Greenwald is out there pounding away on these questions and I don’t really think it makes a ton of sense to complain that other people don’t share my exact same set of issue priorities.
"BARACK OBAMA: Europeans are cooler than Americans," – Glenn Reynolds.
I’ve been lambasted for comparing the edicts of religious fundamentalism across faiths. And I’ve always been extremely clear that the one key difference is the recourse to violence and terror. But the similarities exist, as they always will with totalist ideologies. I posted about the Islamist ad touting the veil earlier today. It has a direct American parallel four years ago:
Your body is a wrapped lollipop.
When you have sex with a man, he unwraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but, unfortunately, when he’s done with you, all you have left for your next partner is a poorly wrapped, saliva-fouled sucker.
These words were actually uttered by Darren Washington, an abstinence educator, at the Eighth Annual Abstinence Clearinghouse Conference, an informational three-day trade show for abstinence educators, anti-abortion pregnancy care centers and medical professionals.
Drudge is flashing a Fox News exclusive. I can’t imagine many more positive things to happen to Obama than an onslaught from Jesse.
Bainbridge is worried by the latest murmurs from the Bush administration.
Walking the ecological footprint of Salisbury:
"[The progressive Democrats’ position on Iraq] was and is a craven, reprehensible act of cowardice, mirroring the shameful behavior of the Copperhead Democrats 140 years earlier who wanted to abandon Blacks to slavery in the South to sue for peace in the U.S. Civil War. The Copperheads of today’s Democratic Party color themselves "progressives" for championing the abandonment of a group of people (slightly lighter in skin tone than the last time) to a fate potentially as bad or worse than the slaves of antebellum, and make no mistake: the modern Copperheads care no more about "liberty and justice for all" than did their forebearers. Then as now, it was about their selfish personal desires, hopes of amassing political power, and disdain for a stubborn Republican President. Then as now, they could rely upon their friends in the media to carry forth a call for appeasement and abandonment," – Confederate Yankee.
Yes: Confederate Yankee.
The DNC takes aim at John McCain’s constantly shifting position on when we can leave Iraq. Some of this is unfair: of course he has changed his position on this (as Obama has), as facts and events have shifted. More salient is the resilient confusion over whether McCain would be happy to have the Iraqis ask us to leave and how soon we’d do it. I’m still unsure whether McCain would prefer to have no US troops in Iraq in ten years or not.
Is he now quietly abandoning "cap-and-trade"? Kudlow is almost giddy:
Sure enough, on deep background, this senior McCain advisor told me I was correct: no cap-and-trade. In other words, this central-planning, regulatory, tax-and-spend disaster, which did not appear in Mac’s two recent speeches, has been eradicated entirely — even from the detailed policy document that hardly anybody will ever read.
An out gay Washingtonian stays in touch with the Louisiana he’s from:
All I know for sure is that I’ve run hard and strong down a lot of bad road, taking me far from the world that Shanoe and my friend Chris’ fuck buddies live in—a place of self-hatred, self-medication, hopelessness and self-destruction. I know that I kept on running through my first several years in DC, realizing that the fallout from living more years in mud than in ether takes time to heal, and that the world I left still manifests in the one I found in the culture our pioneers created after they circled the wagons around urban areas.
It never leaves you; but time and love heal.
The Dish 