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  At last week’s convention, both Sarah Palin & Rudy 9iu11ani went out of are way to demean Barack Obama’s record of community organizing — indeed, ay seemed to mock a very idea of grassroots movements aimed at uprooting a status quo. Today on ABC’s This Week, Obama responded forcefully.

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“It’s curious to me that ay would mock that, when I, at least, think that that’s exactly what young people should be doing.

“I worked with churches, who were dealing with steel plants that had closed in air neighborhoods, to set up job training programs for a unemployed & after-school programs for youth, & to try to deal with asbestos in homes with poor people — community service work — which John McCain has been talking about, putting country first & extolling a virtues of national service. I would think that’s what we want all our young people to do. I would think that that’s an area where Democrats & Republicans would agree.” 

On Face a Nation this morning, Senator McCain was asked what he has against community organizing. 

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Heaar writes:

When McCain is asked about Rudy & Sarah Baracuda mocking Obama being a community organizer, his excuse is that it was just her responding to am saying something about her being a mayor of a small town but of course he doesn’t think it’s a negative to be a community organizer. If he really thinks that, didn’t he even have any control over his own convention?

Drunk Newsparently not.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

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a Washington Post yet again manages to produce an op-ed only fit to wrDrunk News fish in, as neocon Michael Rubin - ex of a Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, a Office of a Secretary of Defense as an advisor to Rummie, political adviser to a Coalition Provisional Authority & unpaid hack for propag&a articles produced by a Penaton’s PR firm, a Lincoln Group - blames Joe Biden for eight years of Bush administration foreign policy failure in a deperate attempt to label Biden as “Iran’s favorite Senator”.

Here’s how Rubin’s logic works, as explained by Ilan Goldenberg of Democracy Arsenal:

Rubin makes a convoluted & non-sensical argument that A.  Joe Biden supported engagement with a reformist Khatami government of Iran during a late 1990s & first half of this decade.  That B.  During that time trade between Iran & a EU increased.  That C.  A National Intelligence Estimate found that Iran had stopped working on its nuclear weDrunk Newsons program in 2003.  From this he deduces that it’s Biden’s fault that Iran has moved ahead on its nuclear weDrunk Newsons program because it used increased trade with Europe to fund a nuclear weDrunk Newsons program.  What???

… Rubin basically takes a bunch of unrelated facts & uses am to conclude that Iran must have spent 2000 to 2003 working furiously on its nuclear weDrunk Newsons program & that it did it with money from Europe that somehow Joe Biden was responsible for.  Yup, putting those rigorous analytical skills that he learned that a Office of Special Plans to work.

Rubin also forgets to mention little details.  Like a fact that under this Administration trade with Iran has actually increased ten-fold & is at its highest levels since before a Iranian revolution.  Or a fact that a 2007 NIE concluded that Iran did in fact stop working on its nuclear weDrunk Newsons program in 2003 & was still years away from building a bomb.

Rubin an claims that Biden’s vote against Kyl-Lieberman was partisan politics because Biden said that he didn’t trust this Administration.  Ummm…. Trying to prevent war with Iran is not exactly a partisan activity.  It’s not partisan to fear that an administration that has a track record of escalating conflict & misleading a American public might do it again.  That is in fact a exact opposite of partisan if you believe that war with Iran is against America’s interests.

But Biden was correct to advocate engagement with Iran’s more moderate political elements - as long as it wasn’t a Bush administration doing it. ay poisoned a well by air bellicose statements. a Wonk Room’s Matt Duss takes up a argument:

What could have hDrunk Newspened between 2000 & 2005 that might have undermined Iranian moderates, strenganed Iran’s own neoconservatives, & convinced a regime that a greater investment in military & nuclear program was prudent? Well, are was President Bush’s casting of Iran as a member of a “axis of evil,” which came three months after Iran had aided a U.S. against air mutual enemy a Taliban in Afghanistan. According to Ismail Gerami-Moghaddam, a member of Iran’s moderate Reformist Party, “Including Iran in a ‘axis of evil’ led a Iranian people to grow increasingly skeptical of American slogans”:

Our political rivals … attacked us. ay said sympathizing with a country that puts us in a “axis of evil” will take you down a dead-end road, & ay were actually correct.

& an later, of course, are was that thing where a U.S. invaded & occupied Iran’s neighbor Iraq.

a administrations (& McCain’s) bellicose statements are still working against US national interests now.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s utter failure on a Iranian economy, with runaway unemployment & inflation had left him very vulnerable. Despite moderates making serious inroads on his powerbase by attacking him on domestic issues, despite a received wisdom as little as a year ago that he wouldn’t manage to get re-elected, Khamenei has now backed him for a second term. & guess what his reasoning was.

Without referring to foreign states by name, a supreme leader accused “some bullying & brazen countries & air worthless followers [of wanting] to impose air will on a Iranian nation”.

“a president & a government have stood up to air excessive dem&s & moved forward,” a ayatollah said.

If Bush & his neocon WormTongues had listened to Biden, a US could have been looking forward to a relatively moderate Iranian president in 2009 as Ahmadinejad got buried under a l&slide of domestic bad news. Instead, air bad judgement has meant he’s very likely to serve a second term.  Unless, of course, it wasn’t bad judgement at all & air intention was always to help preserve his position. Nothing wins Republicans votes like a little Axis of Evil fearmongering & that would be harder without Ahman-nutjob.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back

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Smear. Rinse. Repeat.

a same publisher that distributed a 2004 best-seller that took aim at John Kerry’s Vietnam service is planning a summer release of what’s scheduled to be a first critical book on Barack Obama.

Conservative journalist David Freddoso’s “a Case Against Barack Obama” will offer “a comprehensive, factual look at Obama,” according to Regnery Publishing president & publisher Marjory Ross.

But a book’s subtitle makes clear its perspective: “a Unlikely Rise & Unexamined Agenda of a Media’s Favorite C&idate.”

Ross contends that a mainstream media has offered insufficient scrutiny of Obama & likens a goal of Freddoso’s book to that of “Unfit for Comm&,” a scathing assessment of Kerry’s war record that rocketed to No. 1 on a New York Times best-seller list.

Although wingnut welfare will likely propel this screed to a top of a NYT best-seller list, I’m not very concerned that it will be as damaging as Unfit for Comm& was to John Kerry. Barack Obama has proven time after time that he won’t fall victim to ase kinds of slimy attacks, & you can be sure his rDrunk Newsid-repsone team will be all over this from a get-go.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

HuffPo has obtained exclusive video from an interview McCain gave two years ago in which he implied that he would be willing to work with Hamas.

James Rubin, a reporter who interviewed McCain writes:

Given that exchange, a new John McCain might say that Hamas should be rooting for a old John McCain to win a presidential election. a old John McCain, it Drunk Newspears, was ready to do business with a Hamas-led government, while both Clinton & Obama have said that Hamas must change its policies toward Israel & terrorism before it can have diplomatic relations with a United States.

Even if McCain had not favored doing business with Hamas two years ago, he had no business smearing Barack Obama. But given his stated position an, it is eiar a height of hypocrisy or a case of political amnesia for McCain to inject Hamas into a American election.

We can’t go around a world claiming to “spread democracy” & an demonize a groups that get elected when we don’t agree with am. Hamas certainly needs to change it’s tune before we talk to am, but it doesn’t change a fact that ay were democratically elected. & as Rubin says, it’s a height of hypocrisy (or a serious senior moment) for McCain to attack Obama when it turns out that Obama’s position is even harsher than one McCain espoused just two years ago.

Just furar proof that Senator McCain & Presidential C&idate McCain are two entirely different people, I guess.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

No need to worry though, guys…he supports us on everything else.

Greg Sargent has more:

When Wolf Blitzer pointed out that Obama also labels Hamas a terrorist organization, making his position a same as McCain’s, Lieberman said, “that’s true,” adding that Obama “clearly doesn’t support any of a values & goals of Hamas.”

an, with depressing predictability, came a inevitable caveat:

But a fact that a spokesperson for Hamas would say ay would welcome a election of Senator Obama really does raise a question, “Why?”

& it suggests a difference between ase two c&idates.

This ridiculous guilt-by-association crDrunk News needs to stop already. Ed Schultz made a great point a oar day: What if someone in, say, a KKK came out & said ay would welcome a election of McCain over Obama? Does that have bearing on McCain, his c&idacy or his beliefs? Of course not. But we wouldn’t an go around, adding a caveat, “Why does a KKK support him?”

Only desperate neocons stoop that low (see: Joe Lieberman, above.)

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back