Re: McKinnon, what merkw… said at 10. McKinnon was a Dem and Dem consultant, then as he recites it, he saw Bush across a crowded room and fell in love. Truly.

I hope when he looks at the 9/11 victims and the limbless US soldiers and the dead Iraqi babies and lines of flag draped coffins coming home, he’s able to see it all “prettified” in that haze of lovelust.

Litmus tests took the place of ethical conduct and the cart took the horse for one hell of a destructive ride.

Bush said he is making the change since President Raúl Castro ”is allowing Cubans to own mobile phones for the first time.”

”If he is serious about his so-called reforms, he will allow these phones to reach the Cuban people,” Bush said.

Bush urged the Cuban government to loosen restrictions further, saying if Cubans can be allowed to own mobile phones, ”they should be trusted to speak freely in public.”

They should be allowed to watch uncensored movies and have free access to the Internet, he said.

And he called for the government to implement major free-market reforms.

Relations between the United States and Cuba remain tense nearly 50 years after Fidel Castro overthrew the pro-American government in Havana. The United States has maintained an embargo against Cuba for decades.

Cuban officials on Monday accused the top U.S. diplomat in Havana of delivering money from private anti-Castro groups in Florida to dissidents in Cuba.

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that ”the U.S. government has programs to provide humanitarian assistance to people that are essentially forgotten by the Cuban government and that we … do not stand in the way of private groups doing that as well.”

Chuck Hagel is quickly becoming Barack Obama’s answer to Joe Lieberman.

Hey, no need for gratuitous insults.

mcsame’s campaign adviser was lobbying mcsame’s senate staff back in november

John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser lobbied the Arizona senator’s staff on behalf of the republic of Georgia while he was working for the campaign, public records show.

Randy Scheunemann, founder of Orion Strategies, represented the governments of Macedonia, Georgia and Taiwan between 2003 and March 1, according to the firm’s filings with the Justice Department. In its latest semiannual report, the firm disclosed that Scheunemann had a phone conversation in November about Georgia with Richard Fontaine, an aide in McCain’s Senate office.

you really can’t make this stuff up anymore

it’s beyond parody

mccain was lobbying mccain

there’s no other explanation