These new DNC ads are great!

Money quote from the one and only Patrick J. Buchanan:
Having cheerfully confessed he knows little about economics, John McCain is advancing himself as a foreign-policy president, a “realistic idealist,” he told the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles. But judging from the content of his speech, McCain is no more a realist than he is […]

and tacitly admits to going to strip clubs.

Others note the resemblance:
Democratic Strategist 
Ross Douthat
Related:  McCain = Dole  part 1

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Say it with us now: “4 more years, 4 more years.”
h/t: debased delusions

h/t: Debased Delusions

Speaking of Grandpa and the internets and Bush’s own distaste for computers  - emails, we know why) - we came across this funny old official White House pic that deserved a post.  The caption appears quite fitting for the image.

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The campaign of Sen. John McCain suspended an aide Thursday for distributing a YouTube video linking Sen. Barack Obama with his longtime pastor, whose history of intemperate remarks has roiled the presidential campaign in recent days.The aide, Soren Dayton, used a personal account on Twitter.com to send a link to the two-and-a-half-minute video. –Linkage
Meanwhile Grandpa […]

The Media hints that Grandpa being a crusty old fuck was the casual factor in his confusion of the Sunni/Shia factions yesterday:
McCain, the 71-year-old Arizona senator who touts his national security experience as a main reason why he should be elected, gave Democrats a line of attack to use against him on Tuesday. –Reuters
Meanwhile, Obama […]

H/T to ThinkProgress where they note that yesterday wasn’t the first time Grandpa associated al Qaeda with Iran. He also did in his interview with Hugh Hewitt the night before.

ProgressNowAction had this comment, questioning Grandpa McCain’s self-professed studness on foreign policy:
 This is a little more than just some garden-variety benign misstatement. For all of […]

Greeted by Don Imus himself - Grandpa unleashes his famous temper to kick some jewish ass and bust-up terrorist sunglasses (more Chuck Norris style than Rambo it seems) during his pilgrimage to the Western Wall…while his buddy Joe fends off the fawning women hoping to be the next Vicki Iseman.  Take that Palestine.
Linkage: NYTimes

and not one use of “my friends?”  Grandpa’s speechwriters and column ghost writers need to get on the same page here; and some people think Obama speaks in hopeful phrases?

From Keith Olbermann’s Countdown tonight:

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