The Dish

Hewitt rounds up the hate. You know what to do tomorrow.

We’re exposed elsewhere – with insufficient ground troops if an emergency were to appear in another region or country.

A brief history lesson.

Jeff Jarvis recommends Ana Marie Cox’s tweeting. For those for whom blogs are too long-form. Some nice ones:

The McCain campaign’s hate for Romney is so pure that you could cure sick children with it.

Traffic jam. I blame the Ron Paul people.

Who gave Fred Thompson a Red Bull?

Hat tip: Kottke.

Obama takes it:

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have historically been on the right side of civil rights issues. They care about the African American community… That is something I am convinced of. I want Americans to know that is my assessment.

Robert A. George has some advice for Obama on the racial spats in the race.

This is one thing many bloggers tend to agree on:

People like Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant are some of the most pernicious commentators around. But equally pernicious, at least, are those who advocate laws that would proscribe and punish political expression, and those who exploit those laws to try use the power of the State to impose penalties on those expressing "offensive" or "insulting" or "wrong" political ideas. The mere existence of the "investigation," interrogation, and proceeding itself is a grotesque affront to every basic liberty.

As long as Mike Kelly is not around, there are my readers:

Look, Yglesias and Marshall are quite busy not readying themselves to own up to the fact that one of their main candidates is using surrogates (in this case, a black surrogate, a fiendishly clever move) to peddle the charge of cocaine use to scare off the white women. Period. That’s what she’s doing.

She’s peddling black stereotypes of the Dangerous Black Man against a guy who lectured at the University of Chicago School of Law, dammit. I graduated from the College at UC, so I know what she’s doing is monstrous.

She can afford to lose some of the chablis and brie crowd, but she can’t let Barack start arguing economic populism and start getting into the working class or the Hispanics.

The Clintons are banking on the fact that Black Voters won’t vote for Romney or Huckabee in November. They’re willing to burn their bridges now, because black voters have nowhere to go. They won’t even vote for McCain.

We knew the Clintons would eventually pull this bullshit because of what Barack would do to their black base: coopt it, then own it. We’re Republicans. We know these people. There is nothing they will not do to regain the Presidency.