The Media's Mancrush David Petraeus Loves Progress

This kind:

More than 900 people have been killed in clashes between militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Sadr City that broke out last month, a senior Iraqi official told reporters on Wednesday.

"There were 925 martyrs in Sadr City and 2,605 others have been wounded," in the firefights that began on March 25 and are still continuing, said Tehseen Sheikhly, a spokesman for the government's Baghdad security plan.

Thank you all for continuing to enable this.

The Wright Stuff

Can we make it stop now? Please?

I know this will only hurt Obama, so can we please get back to policy and things that matter? We're electing Obama, not wright.

Great, now I have a 80s song running through my head. Quick, to the glorious legends of funk!

Complainer in Chief

He's at it again:

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday the U.S. economy was facing a "tough time" because of rising food and energy prices and a weak housing market, and faulted Congress for inaction.

"Many Americans are understandably anxious about issues affecting their pocketbook, from gas and food prices to mortgage and tuition bills," Bush told a press conference.

"They're looking to their elected leaders in Congress for action. Unfortunately, on many of these issues, all they're getting is delay," he added.

I had 6 years of a Republican presidency and Congress and all I got is this crappy economy? Never mind their appalling lack of leadership that got us into this mess in the first place. Never mind the White House's attempts to stop the Frank-Dodd bill or the Treasury's bailout of Bear Stearns. Never mind that he has done nothing to help fix our economy. Just blame everyone else.

Supporting Human Rights

Eat it, ivory tower, liberal hawks. Just because the invasion of Iraq had some trappings of your pony plan, you never should have deluded yourself for one second into thinking that it would become reality, which turned out like this:

He also said that his superiors saw no problem with using confessions obtained through torture, including waterboarding. Everything is "fair game," he says he was told, "let the judge sort it out."

End the war now.

Pick the Democrat

Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Barack Obama on Monday for opposing proposals to suspend federal gas taxes this summer, a plan she and Republican John McCain have endorsed. Obama didn't take the bait. He ignored Clinton and focused on McCain.

"My opponent, Senator Obama, opposes giving consumers a break," Clinton said at a firehouse. "I understand the American people need some relief," she added, implying that Obama doesn't get it.

That was easy.

Update: I make a point.

War?

Oh yeah, that war:

Fierce clashes between Shiite militiamen and US and Iraqi forces in east Baghdad killed at least 38 people, the American military said on Monday, amid new political efforts to end the bloodletting.

Sunday's heaviest fighting in weeks came on a day when militiamen blasted Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone with rockets and mortars, taking advantage of a blinding dust storm that grounded US attack helicopters.

Sounds like freedom is on the march.

Obama to Take on Fox

Yes.

McCain Gets Another Free Ride from the Press

Katrina-style:

Senator John McCain took direct aim at the Bush administration on Thursday as he stood in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and declared that “never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled.’’

Mr. McCain, who was on the fourth day of a tour of America’s “forgotten places” to try to prove that he is a kinder, gentler Republican, ticked off a long list of mistakes: “There was unqualified people in charge, there was a total misreading of the dimensions of the disaster, there was a failure of communications.’’

Lest we forget exactly what McCain was doing when Katrina hit.

Gonna be a long election.

Where's the Outrage?

Imagine if this had been any other country:

An 84-year-old former Army engineer in New Jersey was charged on Tuesday with leaking dozens of secret documents about nuclear arms, missiles and fighter jets to the Israeli government during the early 1980s, federal prosecutors said.

The engineer, Ben-Ami Kadish of Monroe Township, could face life in prison or possibly the death penalty if convicted on the most serious charge, prosecutors said.

I'm sure the same people who regularly call for us to nuke Iran are busy getting their act together.

Clintonball

Hunter has a rant.

After PA, Clinton now needs 71% of all remaining pledged delegates. Good luck.

And, despite the spin coming out of the campaign about a win, she's back exactly where she started.

The score is oogy to boogy.