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Anyone who thinks that the treatment Barack Obama has gotten from the media during this campaign is remotely the same as the treatment John McCain has received just has not been paying much attention. Because this pro-McCain prejudice has been both pervasive and unremarked-upon throughout almost the entire news media during the entire campaign season. McCain has even joked that the media is “his base” of support.

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A booth at this weekend’s Texas Republican convention sold buttons asking, “If Obama Is President…Will We Still Call It The White House?”:

The company that makes the buttons boasts providing “Patriotic and Republican Products.” Another button they sell features a picture of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), with the phrase: “Life’s a b**ch, don’t vote for one.” (HT: AmericaBlog)

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I KNEW this story had legs. This story reveals everything about how we got into this war. Stay tuned!

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McClellan to testify before House in CIA leak case

By LAURIE KELLMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush’s former spokesman, Scott
McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about
whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading
public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s
identity.

McClellan will testify publicly and under oath before the House
Judiciary Committee on June 20 about the White House’s role in the leak
and its response, his attorneys, Michael and Jane Tigar, said on
Monday.

1. McCain doesn’t even know who is in charge in Iran.
2. Iraq/Iran, Sunni/Shia: McCain doesn’t know the difference.
3. McCain still thinks Czechoslovakia (which split into two countries in 1993) exists.
4. McCain wrongly claimed that Baghdad was mostly normal.
5. McCain called Baghdad market safe.
6. McCain can’t even remember how little he knows about the economy.
7. McCain falsely claimed he never requested pork.
8. McCain falsely claimed that tax cuts increased government revenues.
9. McCain’s claim to be untainted by special interest money is false.
10. McCain wrongly claimed he never supported amnesty.

This list showed up on Politico. Seems to me that it’s a big mistake to give away a list like this this early in the game. The Dems have a bad habit of showing their cards far too early. They could use some lessons on how to maintain a poker face.

There’s more, and in my opinion, better ammo against McCain out there. And we’ll get to it…when the time is right. This list is OK. But I’m not sure the average Joe Schmoe Middle America is gonna give two shits about most of it. The Dems better keep old Joe in the center of their target and strategy.

Whether it’s the Vote Different ad that kicked off the primary season’s viral warfare, or a completely loopy set of videos called Barack in 74 that imagine a man who may well be our next president as a resolutely nerdy stoner at Occidental College, this has been the best campaign ever for ads and videos.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also responded during her weekly press conference, saying, “I think that what the president did in that regard was beneath the dignity of the office of president and unworthy of our representation at that observance in Israel.”

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Federal officials say a raid at a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant this week was the largest in U.S. history, in terms of the number of people arrested. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 390 people have been arrested on immigration charges after Monday’s raid at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, the world’s largest kosher meatpacking plant.

Did you hear this on the cable news networks? It seems like it would deserve more coverage. There must be a reason everyone was so quiet. Read story at NewsCloud.