Null,

"The Media Myths of McCain" linK you posted is another must read for Democrats and Independents:

What is truly ironic here is that Dobson is accsuing Obama of wanting to impose his interpretation of the Bible on other people when, in fact, it is Dobson who wants to do that.

Nanc,

Your comment reminds me of the Bible verse about taking the speck out of your own eye before you attempt to take the log out of someone else's. It also reminds me of the verse: Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Liberal Marxist martini drinking angry America-hating, terrorist-loving, Muslim Negro.

By Jove, Null, I think you've got it. If you can work in the word "naked" as Murphy suggests, that sounds like the kitchen sink to me.

Town,

Good points about Liebermann and good points here:

(Another idea might be to put Hagel in charge of reorganizing Homeland Defense, which is a pretty unwieldy FEMA + USCG + Immigration aggregation.) But if the bipartisanship of including GOPs in a DEM ticket is to carry any weight with potential voters, Obama needs to build a pre-election kitchen cabinet of visible and prominent advisers to campaign with him as soon as possible, otherwise the only ones influenced by a bi=partisan cabinet pick will be insiders who are already in Congress or lobbying close by.

and awful associations and liberal Marxist' policies.

Yeah, because we all know how many liberal Marxists hang out at country clubs.

Wow! Good article, Null. Must read for all Dems and Independents. I had forgotten about McCain's reversal: opting into public funding to keep himself afloat and in the race and then opting out of it when it no longer suited him, saying "Big deal." So, why aren't the media mentioning this when they are bashing Obama for opting out of a system he only said he would participate in? Looks like Obama will have to bring this up in the debates.

One advantage in picking Liebermann is that McCain could have Joe around all the time to whisper corrections in his ear.

Here's a question, Town: do you think Leibermann would help McCain with independents? I agree that Joe and John are a better fit than Barack and Chuck. I think Obama should consider Hagel for a position in his cabinet but not put him on the ticket.

If McCain picks Liebermann for VP, I wonder if that would increase the odds of Obama picking Hagel?

So using fear to insight fear--what a novel approach..

I believe the novel you are referring to is "The Repbulican Election Handbook" aka "Fear and Loathing in American Politics for Dummies."

And finally, Greg Sargent notes the irony of Rove's attack.

It should also be noted, of course, that Rove took a man who actually is a country club denizen who makes "snide comments" about others -- that would be George W. Bush -- and turned him into a regular Joe. Meanwhile, the guy who would struggle for admittance to some of these exclusive enclaves -- Obama -- is now "the guy at the country club." Rovian up-is-downism at its finest.

Karl Rove previewed the next GOP attack line on Obama, one that has overtones of "uppity fellow thinks he's better than you,"

Well, at least he didn't say Obama is an uppity Negro, but I suspect that is the subtext Karl hopes to convey. Sad. Even sadder if some voters fall for it. Someone should ask Rove how he knows what goes on at country clubs. Oh, that's right: W and Cindy McCain must have filled him in.

FF for Doc

How about it, Corky, you on board the Obama bandwagon, or have you gone over to the dark side? :-)

People think the Republicans are stronger on terror, because Bush has kept America safe for seven years. A terrorist attack may have the exact opposite effect of the one Black predicts. It could make people think that Bush, and by extension Republicans and McCain, screwed up not only the economy and the war in Iraq but also failed to keep us safe. One of Bush's big selling points has been the war in Iraq has made us safer. A terrorist attack would literally blow that theory to hell. After the attack but before the elections, talking heads would no doubt bring up Black's quote. Somehow I don't think the American people would want to vote for someone whose top political advisor is on the record for viewing a terrorist attack in terms of the political gain it would reap for his candidate.

We can still share the Earth, in other words. But recipes, not ingredients. Ideas, not cargo containers. From the keyboard, not the driver's seat.

In other words, we share the Earth in bits? We've moved from Whitman's:

AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

At the risk of quoting from the AP:

Another of the ministers, the Rev. Robert Knight of Charleston, said the plates cheapen the Christian message.

"As an evangelical Christian, I don't think civil religion enhances the Christian religion. It compromises it," Knight said. "That's the fundamental irony. It's very shallow from a Christian standpoint."

I think the minister has a point. What kind of license plate would Jesus have? "Render unto Casear. . ."

Why do people need "I Believe" licenses plate? Why not just put an "I Believe" bumper sticker on your car?

The AP wants to set its own standards for how bloggers can use its material. That seems fair enough until one realizes every news organization may want to set a different standard. How will bloggers keep them all straight?

Personally, I like to use the title and quote the first few paragraphs of an article I link to as an act of courtesy and not out of a desire to swipe copyrighted material. By providing a link to the original article, I figure I am giving credit where credit is due. I also figure most people will follow the link to read the rest of the article and to see just where the quoted information is coming from, in part to determine whether what I have quoted is from a legitimate source. That's what I do when someone posts a quote and a link.

Maybe the folks at the AP don't have a clear understanding of how the blog world works. Do they realize, for example, that putting something in italics or blockquotes is the equivalent of using quotation marks?