As well he should. This was extremely bad form by Wes Clark, especially after 2004.
From CNN:
“As he’s said many times before, Senator Obama honors and respects Senator McCain’s service, and of course he rejects yesterday’s statement by General Clark,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
Here’s what McCain said…
“I know that General Clark is [...]

As opposed to misinterpreting what McCain said about gas prices…this one is crystal clear…
“I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”
As Ambinder notes, this one belongs in “The Better Left Unsaid Department…“

What in the world was Charlie Black thinking? Because not only did he suggest the contents of the title, but he also talked about an assassination helping McCain’s cause too?
Big time error here…
Charlie Black, an adviser already in the spotlight for his past lobbying work, is quoted in the upcoming July 7 edition of Fortune [...]

And this guy would know since he was key in creating one of the most arrogant and secretive administrations since Nixon.
From ABC:
ABC News’ Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as [...]

…after February 20th.
Here’s what she said…:
“I’ve been closing very strongly since Feb. 20,” she said, referring to the day after Mr. Obama won Hawaii and Wisconsin. “I have won more votes and won more states than Senator Obama. All the independent analyses break in my direction. A lot of the key states that we have [...]

Recently, McCain admonished North Carolina Republicans as being “out of touch” for wanting to run this ad…

Now, let’s make one thing clear. Obama was not at church during the “god damn America” sermon and he’s made that clear. The commercial purposefully tries to blur that line and suggest Obama agrees with Wright’s sentiment, and for [...]

So, Barack Obama has kinda, sorta apologized for his comments on voter bitterness. Some did not find the comments offensive, others have been less generous in their interpretation. So, was it a telling gaffe or an innocuous comment that Obama opponents have spun to their advantage?
First, it’s not about the bitterness. Sure, people are bitter, [...]

Check out this article from Newsweek, circa 1995:
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of [...]

I literally can’t believe she’s continuing to go out there, defending her gaffe and trying to spin it as reverse racism. Well, I can believe it if you think she’s trying to inoculate the Clinton campaign from any further charges of injecting race into the campaign. Because if Ferraro can pull off the lie that [...]

Folks, this is apparently a pattern.
From Washington Post, via Politico (note the bolded):
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don’t ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former [...]

As you read this, remember that nobody from the Obama camp accused her of being racist. They accused her of needlessly injecting a comment about Obama’s race into the campaign, and therefore trying to marginalize him because of it. Those are two very different things and the fact Ferraro is trying to confuse them after [...]

She was stumping for Hillary in Texas and I can’t imagine she will be again any time soon. Of course, Hillary’s campaign may be over soon so this may be a complete non issue. At the very least, Hillary should denounce AND reject the following.
From New York Observer:
“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and [...]

This one is a gem…
“Could we possibly have a nominee who hasn’t won any of the significant states — outside of Illinois?” Chief Strategist Mark Penn said. “That raises some serious questions about Sen. Obama.”
At last count, Hill has won 13 states (including Michigan and Florida, which technically shouldn’t count) and Obama has won about [...]

Lately, I’ve been reading a series of AP stories comparing the candidates’ personal habits. Today, it’s unfinished house chores. Again, these probably don’t say very much about where the candidates stand on the issues, but they’re fun nonetheless.
DEMOCRATS:
Delaware Sen. Joe Biden: �Maintaining shrubbery�
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: �Organizing my closets�
Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd: �My [...]

Dear Senator,
So, I see that you tinkering with your campaign after getting reports that you aren’t raising so much money as your GOP rivals. When I heard about this, I had hoped you were going to announce that you would return to your so-called maverick status in 2000. Alas, what I learned was that you [...]

Now, one can say “Woops” in this type of situation, but how in the hell did he say the exact thing that Castro usually says?
Woops…
People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami.
But when he [...]

He was on his bus answering a question about whether our government should spend money to provide condoms in Africa. And then the reporter asked him an excruciatingly simple question.
You will be amazed…
Q: Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?�
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “You’ve stumped me.�
Q: “I mean, I think you’d probably [...]

Meet Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Nice guy, by all accounts quite smart and hard working.
And stunningly ignorant.
Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?
“Al Qaeda, they have both,� Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?�
“Sure,� I said, not knowing what else to say.
“Predominantly � probably Shiite,� he ventured.
He [...]

I know I’ll probably get a ton of mail saying I’m an idiot to believe in John McCain or any Republican for that matter. Whatever. But I am sad that McCain wants the Presidency so bad that he would stoop to this:

To quote Andrew Sullivan, it breaks my heart.

First, Claire McCaskill:
Claire McCaskill’s campaign called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for a “botched joke” he made on Monday.
“[McCaskill] said it’s a dumb thing to say and he should apologize,” said McCaskill spokeswoman Adrainne Marsh.
Then from Harold Ford, Jon Tester and Ben Cardin:
“Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he [...]