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Monday, June 30, 2008

Does Obama Need a Bigger Bus?

It seems the presumptive Democratic nominee may be getting off to a shaky start. Progressives, who were not too happy with his FISA comment, are now questioning his comment about MoveOn and his distancing himself from Gen. Wesley Clark.

For more on these two stories:

UPDATED with video: Obama criticizes MoveOn.org in patriotism speech: Wesley Clark hears it too…
by John Amato at Crooks and Liars

... which included this comment: "Can we draft Hillary at the Convention?" Meanwhile, some of the former (and probably would be current) Hillary haters now find they must redirect their, well, hatred.

Wesley Clark and the Mock Military Molehill
by Taylor Marsh

But if you want to read something reprehensible, it's not Clark. Stop over to see Ben Smith's column if you haven't already.

"A lot of people don't know ... that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity," wrote Americablog.com's John Aravosis. "Putting that bit of disloyalty aside, what exactly is McCain's military experience that prepares him for being commander in chief?"

"Getting shot down, tortured and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience," Aravosis wrote in the blog post, titled "Honestly, besides being tortured, what did McCain do to excel in the military?"
Not having Hillary to hate has obviously caused Mr. Americablog's last wheel to come off. Joan Walsh calls it. To add, this is the type of crap that makes people walk away from being Democrats. It asks the wrong question completely, while taking valid points off the table because the track is so unseemly.
The entire post led one commenter to suggest that maybe Obama needs a bigger bus.

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