100 years in Iraq.

Have you seen the Democrat's ad against McCain?

They play and replay McCain's reply that it would be fine with him if the US stayed in Iraq for 100 years.

The Republican party hates this clip and this ad so much, they're threatening legal action against TV stations that play it.

But if that's not enough, let's bring back the cold war!

I'm looking for the article, but wildernessguru tells me that yesterday McCain suggested Russia should be removed from the European Union G8.

Ah. Found the article on Reuters: McCain would exclude Russia from G8 nations

( Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Monday if elected he would push to exclude Russia from the Group of Eight. )

The New Yorker's "sentator hothead" McCain quiz.

Oh, ha.

The New Yorker's "sentator hothead" McCain quiz.

Sample question:

1. What didRichard Kimball, John McCain’s opponent in his 1986 Senate race, doduring a debate that got McCain so upset that, according to his aideJay Smith, he “wanted to kill” Kimball?

(a) He pointed out that McCain had referred to the retirement community Leisure World as “Seizure World.”

(b) He revealed that McCain was standing on a riser behind his podium.

(c) He said, “I’m not the one who left his disabled first wife so he could marry a rich young beer heiress.”

( A spoiler for that question. )

I officially don't care if Hillary or Obama wins the Democratic nomination, so long as McCain is never president.

In Hillary we have a woman who exudes hyper-competence who was more or less co-president for 8 years. She has a great health care plan and has visited both Afghanistan and Iraq (and knows enough about the situation that she's advocating we pay more attention to Afghanistan). We will have the president who left us with a balanced budget and a surplus as first husband.

In Obama, we will have the most charismatic candidate since JFK, a diplomat, a public speaker whose speech on racism is already being called one of the greatest speeches in American history and is currently being studied in colleges across the country. He's one of the tiny few who voted his principles and voted against our going into Iraq -- a move that gives him a hell of a lot of credibility.

It's an embarrassment of riches to have two great candidates at this time. In 1992, former President Clinton's campaign was already overshadowed with the Jennifer Flowers' sex scandal. Have we ever had two such remarkable Democratic candidates?