It’s summertime and the season is silly.

A new Associated Press poll released Wednesday finds that more Americans would rather have Barack Obama than John McCain come to their Independence Day barbecue:

While many are still deciding who should be president, by 52 percent to 45 percent they would prefer having Obama than McCain to their summer […]

Last week we noted that John McCain had managed to complete a full 180-degree reversal on his position on offshore drilling in a mere 18-day period. Now he’s topped that record by reversing a stated position within a single news cycle. Traveling in Colombia, he told reporters that he wouldn’t criticize Obama while he was […]

Dear Dr. Democrat:
Is retired Gen. Wesley Clark going to go to hell for trashing John McCain’s military record on TV?
Martial Problems
Dear Martial:
This controversy is not about what Clark said. It’s really about polls showing Obama ahead of McCain by double digits. Those numbers put the McCain team on the offensive, seeking out an opening, any […]

Remember when John McCain admitted, as is his straight-talkin’ maverick-elicious wont, months ago that he’s not really up on the economy? Well so does everybody else. And now he’s backpedaling like Lance Armstrong.
McCain has tried previously to deny that he ever claimed ignorance of economic matters, but that quote won’t go away
The original remark…slipped out […]

Of all John McCain’s reversals of longheld positions — his 180s on taxes, offshore drilling, intolerant Christians and even torture, to name just a few — nothing is sadder or more disgraceful than his flipflop on Swiftboating, a practice he decried when it was used in 2004 to defame the Democratic presidential nominee, his former […]

This Q&A on “Face the Nation” on Sunday between retired Gen. Wesley Clark and host Bob Shieffer has caused quite a stir:
Much to the dismay of Democrats who took Obama at his word that he would bring a gun to the Republicans’ knife fight, less than 24 hours after Clark’s appearance on “Face the Nation,” […]

Who is behind the recent vandalism of 60 city-owned cars in Orlando — spray-painted with anti-Obama and anti-McCain messages — is an interesting question. On the one hand, they could really be, as they claim, from a Hillary Clinton supporter.

Business-card-sized notes signed by “CR” were found that disparaged Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama on […]

A New Low in Republican Hypocrisy Has Been Reached
This is not a joke. A pair of Republican U.S. senators who disgraced themselves with extramarital affairs have signed on as sponsors of the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would prohibit same sex marriage anywhere in the United States.
The senators are David Vitter of Louisiana, who admitted […]

In an interview posted on the website of the London Telegraph last week, John Bolton, one of the most belligerent of the neocon war hawks, predicted that Israel will attack Iran sometime after the U.S. presidential elections November 4 and January 21, the day George Bush and Dick Cheney leave office.
“An Obama victory would […]