Out of despair, McCain now is going for the senior vote. Gee, all the sudden he cares about seniors. He refused to answer a questionnaire from AARP, but now he cares about seniors. He plans on cutting 1.3 trillion from Medicare…but now he cares about seniors. One word……bullshit!

from Think Progress.org
cross posted at Think Progress

This weekend on Washington D.C. ABC affiliate’s Capital Sunday, Center for American Progress Iraq analyst Brian Katulis debated American Enterprise Institute’s military analyst - and Iraq escalation architect - Fred Kagan.

“Right now, Iraq is in civil war. It’s in fact in multiple civil wars,” Katulis said. “And I don-t think that these military tactics that these armchair generals and the academics offer up fundamentally address the core issue - that Iraqis are in a vicious struggle for power.”

Taking issue with Katulis- description of him as an “armchair general,” Kagan complained that “you only get called an armchair general when you actually advocate doing anything.” Speaking as an armchair general, Kagan went on to claim “sectarian killings are way down,” despite an AP report that Iraqi deaths have doubled so far this year.

Be sure to watch the video.

by Jim Swanson
Blue Herald exclusive

I used to have the utmost respect for Mr. Dobbs and his daily (here in the Western Time Zone) CNN newscast. He seemed to be very bi-partisan in his attempt at television journalism. I watched because he was giving honest commentary on things that I really get lathered up over: Immigration, politics in general and the overall “screwing” of the almost-non-existent middle class.

Please keep in mind that I’ve never been a “journalist” or network news “talking head”. But I have had my share of broadcast experience as a reporter, news anchor and disc jockey. And I think I have a pretty darn good “BullSh*t Meter”. Most of the time, I can smell it a mile away and this buzzer goes off and my family runs for cover. But I digress…..

Dobbs has had several chances in weeks past to clear himself of a “distinct odor” on my meter when I’ve caught him, on occasion, contradicting himself. But I’ll let that slide for now. That’s a different opinion article all together.

But Lou’s May 17th interview with Bay Buchanan on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” made big stink in my living room.

Bay is promoting her new book: “The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton.” I have read that the book is VERY anti-Clinton.

Ms. Buchanan, almost immediately after being introduced, made sure it was known immediately that the book is, by all means, non-partisan. Yeah, right. And I am lead tenor at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Bay Buchanan is a long time Republican, the sister of political wishy-washy nutcase Pat Buchanan, and managed Pat’s three campaigns for President of the United States.

So this means we are to believe that Ms. Buchanan has written a non-partisan book, during a Presidential election campaign about a Democratic front runner?

To make matters worse in this interview Dobbs never once mentioned the fact that Bay Buchanan was/is a Republican, or the sister of Pat Buchanan (I guess we’re all supposed to know that), and, by gosh, she now works as a senior adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (CO).

It was only near the end of the interview that on’screen text identified Buchanan as “Rep. Tancredo’s campaign manager,” without identifying Tancredo’s party or the fact that Tancredo is seeking the same office as Hillary Clinton.

Dobbs never once mentioned a word about this during the course of the interview. In my opinion, as a journalist who is not supposed to have any bias, he really screwed up.

Of course, I’ll never get the chance to ask Lou Dobbs about why he never mentioned this in the interview, but I’m beginning to think his answer to my question would be “I don’t recall”, which seems to be the “in vogue” answer to any meaningful question these days.

Shame on you Lou. You let me down…hard.

Fox News Channel’s pillar of truth, Bill O’Reilly has added some spiffy new charts to this story. He’s accusing George Soros of vast left-wing media buying to spread his message about far left politics and smearing the lives and careers of the Righties. (What’s so familiar about this?) Hmm. Could it be the G.O.P.’s smear campaigns during election times? Surely they’re as honest as Saint Teresa.

Check out this video goodness at Crooks and Liars.

It’s damn sad these revelations can’t come to light BEFORE thousands of our troops lives were lost. They seem to only occur during election cycles.

Our current batch of leaders have sold their souls as often as they’ve sold out our country. They no longer represent us.

What’s it going to take to kick these worthless, two-faced politicians out of government and elect in people who genuinely give a damn?

McCain: Rumsfeld was one of the worst

BLUFFTON, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history.

“We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that’s the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war,” the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of more than 800 at a retirement community near Hilton Head Island, S.C. “The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously.”

McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, complained that Rumsfeld never put enough troops on the ground to succeed in Iraq.

“I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history,” McCain said to applause.

Source: Yahoo! News