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Are They All Demented Narcissists?
Eschaton — JMM: There's a lot of this nonsense floating around today by pampered commentators who want to find a new world historical conflict to write bracing commentary about before we're done with the one from last week. This tendency of people to link themselves to events which they have nothing to do with is pretty weird, along with their desire to not clean up the last 5 messes they made. Go read a novel or something. That can be exciting too!

John McCain Revisits Highway 61
Firedoglake — ... Josh Marshall and Kevin Drum have already weighed in today on this unseemly showboating. Says Drum: ...

McCain Dismisses Reason Why We Drove Iraq Out of Kuwait
Angry Bear — Thinkfast listens to John McCain so we don’t have to: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression. Josh Marshall has a real problem with McCain’s personal grandiosity and provides this list: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, followed by the US expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait. Collapse of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars of aggression between successor states. US invasion of Afghanistan. US invasion of Iraq. There are a slew ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for August 18, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Hmm, An insightful analysis of John McCain ! "John McCain might be president in six months. And whether it's his own shaky judgment, temperament or just the desire to find a campaign issue, this loose cannon is a real threat to this country." And some good advice America should take note of! Obviously, I didn't view the same "Faith Forum" that the ...

Biden Echoes McCain: Russia-Georgia Conflict "One Of Most Significant Events Since Fall Of Communism
TalkLeft — John McCain was ridiculed by some (I think it is a ridiculous statement myself) when he said about the Russia-Georgia conflict: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. (Emphasis supplied.) Upon his return from Georgia, the likely Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, Joe Biden said: I left the country convinced that Russia's invasion of Georgia may be the one of the most significant event to occur in Europe since the ...