The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, told the Senate today that waterboarding is inhumane and a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer …
Radio talk show host Bill Cunningham told listeners today that Mike DeWine, John McCain’s Ohio campaign chairman, and county prosecutor Joe Deters asked him over lunch last week to speak at the McCain rally.
They wanted him âto throw some red meat to the crowd⦠To get the crowd on their feet and get them happy,â he said.
DeWine is a former U.S. senator and Deters used to run the Republican party in Hamilton County. Deters spoke at the rally.
Cunningham called Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama a “hack Chicago-style Daley politician” and used Obama’s middle name — Hussein — twice. Cunningham also mocked the foreign policy in an Obama presidency.
The comments were subsquently repudiated by McCain, who said his campaign would not denigrate Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Can we ignore Sen. Obama’s silence about Muammar Kaddafi?
We know that Louis Farrakhan has said positive things about Barack Obama. And he’s not the only one. This is the same Louis Farrakhan who has travelled to Libya to meet with and say positive things about Kaddafi, who has long-standing ties to terrorism. And that’s not all. The former pastor at Obama’s church, Jeremiah Wright, has not only said positive things about Farrakhan. In the 1980s, he went on a trip with Farrakhan to … you guessed it, Libya, to meet with Kaddafi.
With all of Obama’s ties to Kaddafi and all Kaddafi’s ties to terrorism, not to mention a lot of Muslims and Arabs and blacks, how much longer can Obama stay silent on his relationship to Kaddafi? Does he support Kaddafi? Has he met with him? Will he denounce Kaddafi, notwithstanding that nuclear deal we have with him now?
These questions won’t go away.
And I don’t think even denouncing is going to be enough. He’ll have to reject.
(ed.note: A distressingly large number of readers weren’t clear that this post was satire. But as long as we inhabit the same universe as Tim Russert, can we blame them?)
Greg Sargent takes an in-depth look at the state of play of the Democratic race in Texas, at TPM Election Central.
Is Hillary’s ‘media’s against me’ offensive getting results? CNN goes long on the Obama-Israel-Scary-Muslim front.
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) discusses his decision to switch his support from Hillary to Obama:
Danger Room: “The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word “blog” in its web address.” (via Think Progess)