LA Times

"Initially, the war in Iraq was one of the hot-button disagreements. Obama made his early opposition to the war a cornerstone of his candidacy; McCain's calling card has been his support for the war and last year's troop increase. But in the course of the campaign, their differences have narrowed over the choices facing the next president.

McCain has repeatedly opposed setting timetables for withdrawing U.S. forces, but more recently he has said he wants most troops out by 2013 -- the first time he has mentioned a specific date.

For some odd reason, the promised continual erosion of anyone's Constitutional protections -- whether by the right wing or the Right Kind of People -- makes me inexplicably irritable, headachey, moody, bloated and gassy.

I realize it's my own fault. I thought that demanding the same privacy men have to repel uninvited, unqualified, unwelcome parties from wandering in and speechifying on one's personal medical and moral life decisions was straightforward enough.

But no.

Perhaps I didn't express my "feelings" on this in a way that Obama could relate to: do you think Leggo My Eggo would get him fighting for my rights as as passionately as he fought for his waffle?

Teh Fauxgressive Army has vowed to redouble THEIR fight for reproductive rights by dumping on NARAL regularly, like a kind of man-period that women can have too if they know the Right Kind of People.

It's the only Special Interest that gets micro-surveilled and castigated by Fauxgressives, as all the other ones aren't slatternly, wantonly getting into unspeakable messes and demanding abortions all over the place.

NARAL embarrasses Fauxgressives in ways too shameful to articulate with the precision and delicacy they'd use on Other Special Interest Groups, were those not operating with such breathtaking administrative efficiency and ethical adherance to mandate that, really, Fauxgressives would need to look long and hard to find something wrong there.

Or even just look.

And perhaps they will, once they whip NARAL into shape!

Imagine an org so slovenly, promiscuous and incapable of keeping its pants on it was responsible not only for failing to endorse Lieberman, but then later endorsing Lieberman and foisting his whiny ass on Fauxgressives!! How many abortions does the group feckin' need, ferchrissakes?

Oh dear, I've run off at the fingers again. The joints are aching, the temples are throbbing and the appetite's a toss-up. AGAIN.

Our allies were attacked in Madrid and in London.

Besides a few shellings, there was no serious retaliation for the Beirut bombing from the Americans.

Thus begins the sequential failures of Saint Ronnie, Cap "the knife" Weinberger, & George "Bechtel" Schulz.

St. Ronnie fostered, trained, & supplied Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

The Reagan administration created, trained & funded, the insane terrorism of the Nicaraguan Contras to oppose the Sandanistas.  This led, directly & in turn, to the Iran-Contra debacle of selling weapons to terrorists in exchange for cash that was used to fund other terrorists.

Looking for the seeds of worldwide terrorism (coming fast on the heels of closing out the anti-communist foreign policy of the Cold War) lands squarely on the ignorance, stupidity, arrogance, & insanity of the "Great Communicator," Mr. Teflon, the alzheimer's poster-boy for the Grand Old Party & his collection of rightwingnutz idealogues in the White House.

Not that she IS a third party candidate, nor would I encourage it, but the way she was treated / ostracized during the primary would make you think she had been one.

Sorry if this is too O/T; It just occurred to me that Hillary has almost as many votes in the primary for her as Ross Perot had in the 1992 General Election: 19.7 Million vs 18.0 Million.

But that FISA vote will stick to him for the rest of the election.