It's becoming increasing clear that people's fears & financial worries over their budgets being squeezed by high gas prices are causing many of them to consider forgoing environmental safety in favor of offshore oil drilling.  Not to mention the fact that this oil, even when productive about 10 years down the road will not demonstrably lower the price of gas at the pump.  

Obama needs to hit back hard on this issue or fear will prevail.  In that context, he needs new ads, as many as his team can put together to provide some necessary content and cause for McLiar's switcheroo on drilling.

Here's my contribution.  Please feel free to tweek, comment, etc.

Apologies upfront for this being a fairly short diary but I am sick to death of Andrea Mitchell.

A political campaign, both the primary and the general, take us through the engagement and the first few years of marriage.

We all got engaged to Barack about a year ago and now we're married.  And just like most marriages, the honeymoon phase hopefully lasts a good long time with your hearts going pitter-patter each time you're together.  But at some point you may exchange your Victoria Secrets for flannel pj's during the winter.

Welcome to reality.

Funny that the (un)Democratic version of Red State has now been relegated to the position that they truly deserve.  So vile that when one of Susan's hit pieces on Obama which is linked on Real Clear Politics is almost completely redacted when you follow their link.  Comments and all.  

And wtf is RealClearPolitics doing anyway putting an article from No Quarter under 'Best of the Blogs'.  As if.

This diary will be short & (not so) sweet for John McSame. HT to Crooks & Liars where I found it via YouTube.

Some of Ron Paul's supporters put together a tasty little video about our favorite grumpy nominee.  Whoever these unnamed Paul supporters are they actually did a helluva job and do deserve cake.

The NY Times has a brief history of John McSame up today.  What it shows us is a man who, like Bushie, was desperate to be separate from his father & grandfather, whose viewpoint on handling conflicts is aggression first, maybe questions later, and whose lust for power seems boundless.

or lady, we hardly knew ye.

Here she is on Hannity-Calamity's show calling the superdelegates backboneless, claiming that Hillary has been treated to terrible sexism by the Obama campaign and explaining away Hill's RFK assassination quip to exhaustion & lack of sleep.  

Well I have to say I agree with this statement.  That's because I know who the 'he' is that's being referred to.  And I know who the quote is attributed to as well.

Follow me.

I just caught the end of Amy Goodman's interview of Bill Moyers on Democracy Now.  I happened to pick it up when he was discussing media & politics.  Spot on, I would say.

AMY GOODMAN: Why do you think these candidates, the leading candidates of the Democratic supposedly opposition party, do not call for an immediate end to the war, do not call for single-payer healthcare?

BILL MOYERS: Because the media doesn’t allow complicated thought to be articulated in ways that enlighten instead of misinform people.

(snip)

Can I get an amen, brother?

Zogby is looking better & better.  Who woulda thunk it?

I happened to be checking over at Crooks & Liars & read a reposted (from CNN) article about the slaughtering of bison in and around Yellowstone National Park.  Why did this peak my interest?  Well the first reason is the obvious, the second is that I learned about this practice of shooting bison when I lived in Montana 15+ years ago.

Follow below the fold for some history...

Ptui

Unhappily for me I just caught the last 5 minutes of Timeh.

by China again.

Reason:  greed

Killing our pets, our people, who cares:

Update:  Humble apology...this story was just posted.

I picked this up on TPM.   It appears that our lady of the flag pin was mentioned in a NY Times.com article on April 4th quoting her reason for not wanting to vote for Obama.  Yup, you guessed it.  It's all about the pin, not race.

Check this out...

http://www.nytimes.com/...

and website.  If you go here:

http://abcnews.go.com/...
you will find their poll for who won the debate.  If only we could vote on the moderators performance...

If they can put up headlines like "Obama pressed after rough debate" and a picture of Elizabeth Hasselbeck (the view republican) telling us that Hillary won...well we can do our best to vote them off the internet with our traffic.

Go...before they take it down

When the mealy mouth media spends the first third of the debate asking asinine questions about Avery, Rev Wright, Bosnia, Bittergunchurchgate...

So many of us are sick and tired of our current media giants being labeled the MSM.  There's simply nothing mainstream about them.  They pander, slander, and are about as unbiased in their news coverage as we would be telling people about our children.

I know at least one other diary, that I couldn't locate, was presented on this subject before but at the rate I am receiving these types of emails about Barack, I am truly worried AND disgusted.