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McCain Has Bad Judgment
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Judgment? McCain Says He'd Have Picked Cheney, Rumsfeld - The Jed Report: John McCain says this election is about judgment.... But as this video shows, John McCain has bad judgment.... [I]f he'd been elected president, he would have chosen Dick Cheney as his vice president and nominated Donald Rumsfeld to be his Secretary of Defense... the "strongest" national security team we've ever had... ...

Thursday Morning Open Thread
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Good morning. Didn't get my text message overnight so no V.P. announcement yet. The suspense is building, huh? The clock is ticking. And, while we're on the subject of V.P., McCain said he would have chosen Cheney, too -- and Jed has the video: McCain will give us four more years of Bush. Now, we know he'd want four more years of Cheney, too. Start threading... ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Special POW edition. Out by 2011. Will McSame accuse Bush and Rice of surrender? Be very afraid: McSame wants a two-term presidency. Maverick! Video of McSame saying he would've picked Cheney and Rumsfeld if he'd been elected in 2000. Will we get the veep choice today? Obama's in Virginia while Gramps takes the day off. The latest "OMG, Obama's totally gonna pick this guy" prediction. And another. For all this talk about how awesome McSame is doing, ...

Did McCain Push Rumsfeld For More Troops In Iraq? Rumsfeld’s Notes Suggest He Didn’t.
Think Progress — ... secretaries of defense in history.” Yesterday, however, The Jed Report unearthed a 2001 Larry King interview with McCain saying he would have hired Rumsfeld had he been elected President in 2000. McCain said Bush assembled the “strongest” national security team in history. Watch it: ...

The Cheney Factor
Matthew Yglesias — ... Meanwhile, John McCain says that if he’d won the 2000 election, he would have made Dick Cheney vice president and Don Rumsfeld secretary of defense. ...