Incompetent, senile and by far not a leader.

This week McCain Iraq - Pakistan border

There is no border between Iraq and Pakistan. John McCain take a map and few geographic lesson or subscribe national geographic. This is the experienced "Commander" for the largest military. Every Russian General would be send to Sibiria for such unqualified remarks.

McCain offended the Germans - there was not reason to hit against the germans. Obama was in Berlin a 3 Mio City and 200'000 stayed in Central Berlin for this speech - what's here wrong ?

Larry Craig was a story *because* of his personal hypocrisy AND his party's hypocrisy.

GWB & Condi is not a parallel to John Edwards & Wotsername. It's more like Robert Gates & Susie Smith having an affair-&-love child; i.e., well-known, well-respected white male in high position (tho' Edwards isn't in a high position, yet, and now probably won't be) having affair w/ quite unknown white (i think) female.

I'm not certain, of course, but I think you wld probably just move on--*unless* you wanted to destroy Gates' reputation. That's why I didn't pick Chertoff or Mukasey as examples in a parallel situation.

I believe that this is a totally "Rovian" attack. Where are the pictures/proof that Edwards was in the hotel? The National Enquirer says they have video, but they are not using it. Why is that? It is just too suspicious. Edwards is a good person who scares the Republicans because he understands and talks to us - the average, hurting American.

The AARers I associate with mostly wanted Kucinich as the first choice, then Edwards. After these two departed, most got behind Obama.

You should have seen Joe Scarborough this morning on his show. He had this guy on that brought statistics about what the media says about Obama and McCain.

Obama - 72% unfavorable and 28% favorable
McCain - 47% unfavorable and 53% favorable.

Joe has such a hissy fit, he was sitting and shouting a la O'Reilly that it's a lie. Joe said the media constantly bashes McCain but not Obama.

However, if you really listen,

The media goes on and on about "The public knows McCain, but they don't know Obama".

Then there are the unrelenting attacks on Obama's family, his wife, his pastor and everyone he has ever looked at twice.

When has the press mentioned McCain's wife's drug addiction past or her being able to go to rehab instead of prison.

Then there is McCain himself. His five planes he destroyed. Ok, two he blew up on the Aircraft carrier, so they weren't technically crashed. Or that he graduated 5th from the bottom from the Navel Academy (puts him in the top 99.45%) out of 899 Cadets. Or that he voted against increasing GI benefits to equal WWII benefits in 2004,5,6,7,and this year. Never a mention about McCain lobbying the Air Force to send 40,000 hi tech jobs to France on behalf of EADS.
The press barely hit on McCain's constant gaffes at Town Halls.

McCain has been protected by the press. Look at this latest one with McCain blaming Obama for high gas prices and not visiting wounded troops.

The press said nary a word when McCain walked around an Iraqi Market surrounded by 150 US soldiers and 5 Black-Hawks overhead, using them as human shields for a screwy photo op. Not a word. And then McCain said, "See, it's perfectly safe". I talked to the father of one of those soldiers and he was pissed.

Obama is going to need every cent he has to defeat McCain.

McCain in his speech on Friday 7/25 sounded like he was laying the responsibility for the Iraq debacle at the feet of the American people. Something like "presidents don't lose wars, nations lose wars".

I just about puked.

This is outrageous and he should be called out by every journalist over this. It smacks of the "Stab-in-the-back legend" the Nazis used after World War One to explain away German WW I defeat, and is probably what McCain secretly believes (wrongly) about Vietnam.

(Another commenter rightly pointed out yet another similarity on an earlier thread, that "... After Hitler started losing WWII, and before he shot himself in the bunker, he stated that the German people were too weak to accomplish the goals he had set for it,...")

Someone must call him out on this non-sense.

Please David, Rachel, et al., don't let this slide under the rug. This is big enough to still bring up today, Monday, on "Race for the White House".