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May 11, 2008

	It's What You Leave Behind - Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 8:05:59 AM
	Those pushing for rapid removal of U.S. troops from Iraq need to read about the legacy we left behind in Laos, where Hmong were abandoned by the U.S. after years of fighting the North Vietnamese Communists. And now it looks like we're compounding the error with the prosecution (set up?) of General Vang Pao. Lesson: Once you're in, the way out is always complex, and you can never account for (or recover from) all the collateral damage you will be responsible for. Posted By: Paul Chesser

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May 10, 2008

	Get Thee to Gitmo - Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 9:05:10 PM
	Daniel McCarthy includes yours truly and Robert Stacy McCain in his short list of "people Dick Cheney would like to see in Gitmo." Posted By: Jeremy Lott

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Mrs. Obama vs. Mrs. Clinton - Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 2:53:53 PM

A Democratic duo dynamic detected by Robert Novak:

Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.
The Democratic front-runner's wife . . . has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

Frankly, I don't think Hillary -- who came into the contest like it was a coronation -- would accept the No. 2 spot if it were offered. She has more power as a senior senator than she would if she joined The Warm Bucket Brigade.

Posted By: Robert Stacy McCain

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	We should have known all along - Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 12:54:37 PM
	"[T]he major networks are run by right-winged conservatives who still see black people as subhuman and portray black people as such." -- church bulletin article, April 15, 2007, Trinity United Church of Christ Posted By: Robert Stacy McCain

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	Amanda Carpenter Nails The WashPost - Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 7:55:25 AM
	In this tour de force, columnist Amanda Carpenter absolutely rips to shreds an incredibly tawdry attempt at "gotcha journalism" by the Washington Post, now joining the NY Times in twisting facts with clever use of innuendo to make perfectly legitimate legislative activities by John McCain look sleazy. This was all predictable, of course: The media darling McCain is going to be in for a bumpy ride now that his opponent is Obama, the media savior who makes the commentariat feel wam tingles run up their legs. The media will throw over a darling for a messiah every time. It is absolutely sickening. As Carpenter shows, McCain did nothing wrong here, and indeed his involvement with the federal land swap at issue clearly made the swap a better one for the public than it was when first proposed. At the rate the establishment media is going, pretty soon it will try to show that even McCain's support for a strong military is due to nothing other than the influence of lobbyists. One can only hope that honest reporters/columnists like Carpenter are able to keep up with all the sleazy journalism, correct it, and somehow get the truth out to a wide enough audience. Posted By: Quin Hillyer

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