Cliff Schecter

Wow, it only took five months! Here is how the AP came to their conclusion:Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.

A cheery guy, that Phil Gramm. According to Newsweek, he brought his zest for life into his work as a banking industry lobbyist, and no, we’re not just talking about the subprime mess and tax evasion he and UBS pioneered.

Am I crazy, or did we already do what McCain is proposing to do almost 60 years ago?

Talk of investigations has resurfaced now that McLellan has corroborated, in his new book, accounts of the Bush Administration’s utilization of “propaganda” to sell the Iraq War to the American public along with a compliant media. Yet, here is the thing. As Jon Perr points out with his typical brilliance, on many occasions John McCain proffered the very same line of bull in strikingly similar language. So do we need to investigate a man who may be our next president, for helping “catapult the propaganda,” to quote the inartful George W. Bush?

Does it bother anyone else that these people are making foreign policy decisions when they are clearly ignorant? This is from KFQD with conservative talk show host Dan Fagan: We expect Al Qaeda to come out some time today with a new manifesto where they ought to be using weapons of mass destruction against the United States. That means that they’re realizing they can’t win in Iraq. I think they’re going to change their way of doing business. And I think we have to be on the alert. These people are all over the world. Al Qaeda’s not just in Iraq. They’re in Iran.

Meet Randy Altschuler, another member of that rag-tag team of McCain bundlers just trying to scrape by while making things just a bit better for those seeking gainful employment in these United States.

2007, however, was a particularly “mavericky”" year, as he only supported President Bush 19 out of every 20 times (95%). Therefore, if you subtract 5% from 82% (or the % who think things are headed in the wrong direction), McCain was only taking us in the wrong direction about 78% of the time in 2007.

On the heels of Democratic House wins in crimson districts in Louisiana and Mississippi, and polls showing Sen. Liddy Dole in a dogfight in North Carolina and Democrats competitive in the senate race inKansas, a new poll shows Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell trailing by 5 points in Kentucky!

How exactly will this affect the race? Well, he obviously has serious name recognition among conservatives in Georgia, his home state, and with a large turnout among African Americans throughout the state, one can see a scenario where he helps Obama pick off Georgia.

Yes, McCain actually said this a few days ago at a campaign event in Florida, and only the AFL-CIO was good enough to notice …