Today's TRMS
Obama's best chance for winning in November might just be John McCain. Or rather, John McCain's campaign, the most poorly managed, embarrassingly outmaneuvered campaigns since Katherine Harris ran for Senate. So on today's show Rachel will be running through the litany of missteps and miscalculations, from the canceled visit to an oil platform during a hurricane to his backward timeline on the surge and the Sunni awakening.
Our first guest is Ilan Goldenberg from the National Security Network. Later John Amato from Crooks and Liars joins Rachel to talk about CBS
news editing out John McCain's mistake on Iraq -- and also about the Blue America pac's campaign against the rightwing "Freedom's Watch"
pac. Learn more about Blue America here.
"Surge"?
What was the "surge" exactly? It is a phenomenon aimed at American airspace, designed to stop talk about exiting Iraq here while escalating the war. Didn't Rachel say that the "surge" troops have all gone home but the net number of troops in Iraq is now greater than during the "surge"? Did I remember that correctly?
The "surge" is now a debate tool in the U.S., and all talk about it is disingenuous. Like "caucus-like democracy," it is one of many Bushisms that works here but cannot be translated into another language because it has no meaning.
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By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 24, 2008 - 12:23pm