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Whoa, mama. The boys over at the DNC have manned up and released two ass-stomping ads against John McCain this week. They’ve sent out an email today encouraging friends and family to forward them to one another. I’ve got to be honest; these are really, really good ads. The first is, of course, an ad that is certainly just the beginning of a long-term strategy to sink McCain on his “100 years” in Iraq quote.
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We’ve officially entered exam week now. Until Friday afternoon, updates will be almost non-existent. Use this time to tell your friends about this super-awesome blog. It’s like “Lost” going on hiatus. Now’s the time to catch up with the plot before the new posts begin.

Elizabeth Edwards lays down some major whup-ass in a New York Times Op-ed:

For the last month, news media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its Democratic primary. Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn?

Well, the rancor of the campaign was covered. The amount of money spent was covered. But in Pennsylvania, as in the rest of the country this political season, the information about the candidates’ priorities, policies and principles — information that voters will need to choose the next president — too often did not make the cut. After having spent more than a year on the campaign trail with my husband, John Edwards, I’m not surprised.
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A week or two back, I wondered how anyone would find Hillary downing a shot in a bar as anything other than ridiculous (given its context within the “Bittergate” story). Now I see that some people are swayed by such obvious posturing and now I know who they are: conservatives.
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So, first my cousin, Jon, moves out to Utah and gets engaged within six months (or some similarly crazy time-frame). And now, my cousin Katie is also engaged after having moved west last fall. It’s like there’s something in the water out there. Is anyone in Utah not engaged?
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The difference between talking straight and talking shit seems to be a very fine line these days. From the mouth of John McCain:

I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others. I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas’s worst nightmare….If senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly.
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And this is why Obama’s my guy:

Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday called a proposal by Sen. John McCain for a federal gas tax holiday the “latest scheme” from the likely Republican presidential nominee.

The Illinois Democrat suggested such a tax break would weaken the nation’s funding stream for highway and bridge infrastructure, potentially putting lives at risk.
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Neither of those numbers are particularly great. Nonetheless, anytime two or more zeros line up together it’s customary to mention it. So this is my three-hundredth post (with some help from sometimes guest blogger Raylan Givens). And we passed 5,000 hits a day or two ago. I forgot to keep track, so I guess this is like sending a late Mother’s Day card (which I’ll be doing in about two weeks when I forget Mother’s Day).

Dear God, please no! No more debates, no more pointless questions and no more explaining for umpteenth time the difference between “rejecting” and “renouncing” someone’s support/statement. That said, I’ll give Clinton credit for proposing a Lincoln-Douglas style debate (no moderator). As far as I’m concerned, that’s how debates should nearly always be run (or at least a solid portion of any given debate). Obama says there won’t be anymore debates between now and the NC and IN primaries, which makes sense, given that talking directly to voters is at least marginally more informative than the forum for soundbytes that most debates take. I trust a regular Indiana voter to ask more relevant questions than anyone in the news media.
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Via Think Progress. There’s something kinda sad about the fact that the most prescient view I’ll ever have in politics was my view that this war made no sense. How did we get into this mess a year-and-a-half after 9/11? Hadn’t we all had time to cool down by then?
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