If Hillary is really able to pull off the so-called "Nuclear Option" to win the nomination, she will be perceived forever to have done so by underhanded, duplicitous cheating. She will prove to America what many of us have come to suspect based on the way she has conducted her campaign in the last couple of months: that she will literally say or do anything to win, party and country be damned. As the great blogger Oliver Willis puts it, "There is still no scenario beyond the destruction of the Democratic party that leads to a Clinton nomination."

With all the noise about Reverend Wright, why has the media been so reluctant to talk about John Mcain's holy man, the apocalypse-loving, hatemongering wackjob who has proclaimed that Hurricane Katrina was God's revenge upon New Orleans for planning to hold a gay pride parade? Not only has McCain not rebuked him, he actively sought his endorsement and has praised him on many occasions. Listen to a bit of what John Hagee has to say, if you can stomach it. . .

Speaking of John McCain, Arianna Huffinton, who was once a big fan of his like many on both the political left and right, has a great column here that totally demolishes the image he once had of a straight-talker and a maverick within his own party. As she illustrates, he's lost virtually all his credibility by selling out those principles we all used to really respect. Sad, really. Oh, and apparently he and his wife told her in 2000 that they didn't vote for Bush!

There is, however, this example of accidental McCain straight talk: he let slip the other day that the Iraq War really is about oil. See for yourself.

And a U.S. Government study has predicted the possibility that suicides among veterans may eventually exceed the number of combat deaths in Iraq (you read that right) because the men and women who volunteered to risk their lives in service to their country are not getting adequate care. Slap on all the yellow ribbon magnetic stickers you want, but can we please work on really "supporting the troops?"



-jw