Get the smelling salts:

John McCain has repeatedly stated "I Didn’t Really Love America Until I Was Deprived Of Her Company”

McCain was 31 years old when he was captured. 31.
Far into adulthood when he became a POW

Bottom line:

John McCain, the son and grandson of Navy Admirals, who attended the United States Naval Academy on the public's dime, did not appreciate our great country until well into his adulthood.

Straight-talk express leave it's mark on Houston freeways.
Yes, McDepends was here.

I disagree with the conclusions reached in the third blog, James Buchanan was worse than Bush. Bush is maybe a few percentages of a percentage point higher, but Buchanan's handing the Civil War over to Abe Lincoln still qualifies him as the worst.

I think McCain's rather off-kilter and at times bizarre comments and performances require a closer look. Read more, please. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/08/speaking-unspokenmccains-mental-acuity.html

The "Hillary Trojans" link has been farked.

I think I understand the concept though, I've noticed a bunch of activity on craigslist from two different (or are they?) groups of supposed pro-Hillary/anti-Obama democrats and what seem to be republican operatives (or Heritage Foundation lackeys) posting up a storm of propaganda, smears, lies and general bullshit.

And as usual, any confrontation of their BS, backed up with actual facts, brings on a larger, more fierce attack of lies and accusations calling you the liar. The latest swift boat maneuver I've seen is an accusation that Sen. Obama was not actually born in the U.S. and they're calling for him to produce a birth certificate.

Can you smell the desperation? These crazies are truly out in force.

Chris Thomas @ 9:

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>> Buchanan’s handing the Civil War over to Abe Lincoln still qualifies him as the worst.

In the midst of his five-week vacation in Aug. 2001, the CIA hand-delivered an urgent PDB to Bush that warned that Al Qaeda was planning a terrorist attack on America. Annoyed at having his vacation interrupted, Bush told the CIA people, "OK, now you've covered your ass."

Bush took zero action. He didn't call his advisers. He didn't do a conference call with his national security people. He didn't make a single phone call. In fact, the only thing he did do was go fishing later that day.

This incredible act of incompetence alone makes Bush a worse president than Buchanan, in my opinion.

BTW, did Buchanan do anything like committing treason (by outing covert CIA agents?). Did Buchanan shred the Constitution? Did Buchanan bankrupt the nation and pay billions of our tax dollars to his rich, war-profiteering cronies? Did Buchanan make America the most hated nation on earth? Buchanan was a lousy president. But he's no Bush.

Oh, and by the way, Buchanan was LEGITIMATELY elected president. Many of us progressives will NEVER believe Bush was legitimately elected president.

Yes, he committed treason, he allowed the South to secede. Yes, he shredded the Constitution by allowing the South to secede. He didn't bankrupt the nation but he ensured the ruin and destruction of a good sum of it, plus the emergence of Jim Crow. Buchanan ensured a division of the US that far exceeds anything Bush could possibly have nightmares of creating.

By allowing South Carolina and then the seven other of the first states of the Confederacy to secede, and not even attempting to stop it, thereby setting up the horrors of the 1861-1865 period, he was a traitor. Bush took no action to stop a relative pinprick to the US. Buchanan took no action to stop the relative equivalent of an arm getting cut off, as opposed to a pinprick. Buchanan is worse.

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>>Buchanan is worse.

The fact is, America survived both the Buchanan presidency and the Civil War and went on to greater things. Decades later, the U.S. went on to become the world's leading power.
By contrast, I do not believe America, after the Bush years, is ever going to go on to greater things. Although we as a nation will likely be around for a long time to come--and might even enjoy a degree of prosperity, it's clear that America's greatest days are behind us.
The U.S. is a third-rate power and we are clearly in decline. What "prosperity" we do enjoy these days is a mirage, fueled by oceans of (unsustainable) capital, flowing in from East Asia.
And when historians assess what went wrong and how America went into permanent decline, I think the fiasco of the Bush years will play a big part in that chapter.