However, if this is true:

It puts a slightly different spin on it than if it had been a planned & authorized act.

EDIT - btw, when did FARC sign the conventions? ;-)

“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”

I"ve never heard of it but it looks like a pretty anti-McCain, pro-Dem site, and links to itself in the blog post you cited. Do you have a reasonably neutral source to substantiate the claim made in the link? Call me a skeptic until then.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Yankee Stadium will not close its doors for good until at least late September, but--given the uncertain fate of the Yankees themselves this season thanks to the surprising Tampa Bay Rays--the epic All-Star game played tonight and won by the American League 4-3 in the bottom of the 15th inning may well be the final, crowning moment of glory for a sports venue that has seen dozens of world championships in multiple sports in its eighty-six years of existence.

“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”

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How could they not be? If they weren't, then there would not be any.

It's impossible to debate if people simply hold beliefs that have no grounding in reality.

1) Obviously, the copy was updated, but the gist is essentially the same. The new version adds more atta-boys and atta-girls for service people, but the basics of the original remain: the men and women of the military have succeeded in improving the security situation, at some cost, but the political goals are just as far out of reach.

2) The Purge of the site does raise important questions about candidate website editorial policy, especially with respect to the revision of official statements* of policy goals and archive procedures. I am sure I don't know the answer, or even if this is a problem that can be addressed (pols are pols; revising statements and policy positions is what they do). Opposition vigilance is probably the best oversight we can hope for.

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*Make that "quasi-official statements". Candidate websites are marketing vehicles.

used to pay off one time Sunni insurgents has been successful in consolidating the reduction in violence against US troops prompted by the 'awakening'. Flooding Baghdad with US troops tasked with erecting concrete barriers to consolidate the physical separation of ethnic neighborhoods brought about by earlier Shiite on Sunni violence, has had a similar welcoming effect in reducing violence. But neither have had much effect on securing the political reconciliation necessary to solve the underlying problems of Iraq.

So 'the surge' has been somewhat successful in achieving step 1, ending the violence. But not in step 2 - motivating the Iraqis toward meaningful political reconciliation that obviates the need for the kind of heavy internal security, whether US or Iraqi, that prevails under the Bush-McCain plan.

Obama has merely updated his website to reflect that reality and used the opportunity to heap praise on US troops taking part in 'the surge', a no-brainer for any political candidate really. I don't see where Obama would get any mileage out of hating on the troops in Iraq, do you?

GW Bush, leading contender for worst President ever.

My feeling is that John McCain fully expects, and in some sense even wants, to lose the election. He sees this run as his swan song, after which he can retire into comfortable Elder Statesmanhood. It'll just be a bonus for him if things go to pot in Iraq -- as they certainly will -- because he can say "I told you so!"

If he won, he'd have to figure out what the hell to do with the place. Sit down with the Sunnis and Shiites and tell them to "stop the bull***t?" He knows as well as everyone else how that would work out. No, much better to fade into a graceful political twilight, cracking his eyelids now and again to nod along with Sean Hannity while imagining the glorious America that might have been.

The other day I heard that ignorance and apathy are sweeping the country. I didn't know that, but I don't really care.

A flckr account is just perfect, to post here was the only reason I started a Flickr account.

Upload the images, then save them.

Then start your text....when you want an image, go to that image in flickr, but not just the thumbnail, open that puppy up...then right click on the images....view properties at the bottom of the menu...you will see a URL address like this as Location:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2396/2436992014_096a96d36d.jpg?v=0

In front of this address type [img] cut and past the address here, and close the address like this [/img]

You can then type more text and keep repeating the process for different images.

And you should have it down pat. (I only throw up this image as an example because it is recent)

Best Wishes, Traveller

dionysus, I might be getting my screen names and people mixed up, but I can't connect your name to someone I met there.

I think I remember everyone else correctly:
Wagster was wearing a straw hat.
Jay C was wearing the Brandeis t-shirt (or was that you, dionysus?).
Jordan was wearing 3/4 sleeves (or pulled up).
TXG has a beard.
HankP was wearing a Hawaiian party animal shirt and brought two buddies, including Bob Newhart's younger brother.

Where am I screwing up?

I imagine it's yours, and anyway I'll gladly take a ransom for it. :)

Shot you an email, let's arrange a drop.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. -JH

I think Jordan has it, send him an email.

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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.

http://theforvm.org/diary/pranky/open-question-a-mccain-presidency-what-...

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."~Nietzsche

in the linked thread..