Deadwood

Dropping an octave is far more important than dropping the ball. Al Swearengen has a point. Watching McCain sit at the same table for just a few seconds with the guy who knows this election was scripted months ago was almost torture. The fix is in. McCain can fight his corner, pray, and hope to salvage something for Palin in 2012. Obama sat on his 6 point cushion like it was K2 and he had all the keys to the kingdom.

If voters don't step to the musky wonder things are going to get ugly. Dems are eager to surrender the field to every enemy George Bush has managed to embolden on four continents over the last 8 years. America has squandered immense amounts of capitol pissing the world off. Snake oil will sell your kids future to China to win the world over while Putin and the rest smirk.

Get ready to redraw some maps.

Barack Busted Sabotaging US-Iraqi Settlement

The NY Post is reporting that the Chosen One is trying to keep US troops in Iraq and prevent the signing of a US-Iraqi withdrawal plan.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says.

Republican President John McCain will be remembered as the candidate who stated: 'Winning the war means more than losing the election' and as the individual who risked all to stand by an un-popular President to win victory for America in Iraq. Barack Obama did just the opposite and is now scared to death that peace in Iraq will put a final end to any chance he still has of worming his way into the Oval Office.

The Chosen One opposed the war and then opposed the surge championed by maverick Republican candidate John McCain, whose efforts and support of the surge actually made the US-Iraqi settlement possible. Should US troops start coming home too soon, the candidate of hope might have to concede John McCain is right: America is a country all Americans are proud to serve.

Dems Sharpen Knives for Obama

Sarah Palin makes bacon from Barack Obama and his phony message of change. Jim Pinkerton claims conservative feminism is sweeping the land. Elitism pours forth from the Obama campaign and from his water carriers in the press. The Weekly Standard has the details.

What are Dems going to do with Barack Obama? Clarence Page claims Obama needs a game-changer, and help from the Clintons, btw, right frigging now. At the NYT, Tommy Friedman argues that Republicans are actually trying to make America stupider, Bob Herbert warns dimwittedness may prevail, and Maureen Dowd sneers that Governor Palin is an idiot.

As fascinating as the current panic is, the fight I'm really looking forward will come after the election, when Dem dreams collapse into dust and the media dogs turn circle for full-throated attack on Obama.

Will P. Diddy be wearing his 'Obama or Die' designer shirt? Which media lizards will we find slithering around the candidate and his wife? How long before the serpents sink their fangs? What will analysts be saying about the folks who shoved the most formidable politician in the Democratic Party to the back of the bus; and then lost?

Anyone think the simmering rage over the sexism of the Democratic primary has disappeared? Figure those accused of racism have forgotten? Think Hillary voters and all the Dems who even now face a resurgent Republican party rejuvenated by McCain-Palin at the top of the ticket are going to extend a hand of good-will to the supporters of the candidate whose feckless posturing, faux temple, excellent European vacation, dumb 'presidential' seal, and political meanderings allowed a moribund Republican party to rise from the dead?

Blame it on Hillary? When hasn't blaming a Clinton sounded like a plan? Course, losing the election to a geriatric war-hero and his bubble-gum chewing side-kick will make it a lot harder to blame Hillary for a race she didn't run. Plenty of Dems are sure to try, especially if the alternative is admitting you and your candidate fucked-up a gimme. 18 million Dems warned all along that Obama might not be able to close the deal. Proven right, Hillary supporters are likely to reject any responsibility for the Chosen One's defeat.

A year ago I shared space with a young Democratic activist. I was impressed by his ethics, his intelligence and his energy. Even when we'd disagree on detail or policy, the one point upon which we could both agree was that there was next to no chance whatsoever that a Republican would follow George Bush into the White House.

Sixty days before the election it appears that maverick Republican John McCain and a one-term Republican governor named Sarah Palin will be sworn in as President and Vice-President of the United States.

When President John McCain and Vice-President Sarah Palin take office Democrats will look at each other in disbelief for about sixty seconds: then tear each other to shreds. It'll be hard not to laugh, given all the hoopla Dems have served up about a 'different kind of politics'. The screams and howls will make the primary battles seem like a summer picnic.

I'll bring popcorn.