And About What Clark Said

Sully has his comments here, and Kiko takes the other side here. I left some comments under K's post, but basically I wasn't too down with Clark's tone, or even the fact of why he should bring it up in the first place. No, I don't think it's a 'swiftboat' but it's heading in that direction. Is this really where Obama wants to go?

I think Marc is right on this point:

"Critics of McCain have used the same verbiage before, and used it as an insult. Historians and journalists who study the events will first notice that McCain spent five years as a POW; surely, that is the relevant fact, not the way he became a POW. One focuses on the means of his condition only to degrade the subsequent five years, as if to say, yeah, five years of torture was bad, but it was kinda dumb of him to get shot down. Referring to the shoot down strips away the relevant context: McCain was shot down on a daring combat mission whose target, as I recall, was strategically relevant. It wasn’t as if he wandered into Viet Cong airspace and was hit by a stray piece of metal. (By the way – and this is important – McCain admits in both the books he wrote about his Vietnam experience that he wasn’t a great aviator. So why even make the point?)"

But Schwarzenegger Became Governor...

Over at McCain blog, Goldfarb says this about Obama's stance on terrorism:

"Obama wants to take us back to the bad old days of going after terrorists with prosecutors rather than predators."

But I ask, how efficient has the Predator been? Sure, he did ok, in the first movie, but Schwarzenegger not only beat him, but became Governor to California to boot. Then in part 2 after doing us all the favor of cutting Gary Busey in half he was taken out by Danny Glover. Danny Glover! Without Mel Gibson? Come on! Then he didn't even come back out until Aliens Vs. Predator I and II, and to be kind, I'd have to say that they were both draws.

And while prosecutors haven't done too well in movies (though an exception could be made in The Untouchables--no doubt Kevin Costner's finest hour) they have an undeniable winning streak on TV mostly thanks to DA McCoy, who comes out on top week after week. I think the prosecutors have the advantage.

Update: Hot Rod mentions that Ice Cube's the Predator was a pretty good album. Indeed. But Cube's gotten kinda soft, though he does have Middle East experience.

Obama Wants to Give the Poor Money

While McCain wants to make the Rich, richer. Could it be that simple? It just might.

Ezra has more here, original post here. Oh and here's a chart:

The best way I can read this chart is that Obama seems to have bigger bars than McCain, and bigger is better, so there you go.