"I'm gonna tell you something, folks, when it comes to global warming and the hoax and the fixes for this hoax, the solution, we do not have one of the three presidential candidates who differs from each other.  We are cooked.  Our goose is cooked on this.  It doesn't matter who you vote for, for president, we're going to get a liberal Democrat approach to fixing something that doesn't exist. 

... I have not faced this situation before.  I have not faced a situation where a major Republican presidential candidate sounds just like a liberal Democrat and I know of no other thing to do here than to tell you the truth about this.  This is embarrassing, and it is frightening."

"The Obama poster has spread Fairey's fame, but is the image good for the candidate? Like the photograph-turned-icon of Che Guevara -- which graces the T-shirts of countless hipsters who barely know who the guy is -- Fairey's Obama poster is rooted in the graphic style of agitprop. There's an unequivocal sense of idol worship about the image, a half-artsy, half-creepy genuflection that suggests the subject is (a) a Third World dictator whose rule is enmeshed in a seductive cult of personality; (b) a controversial American figure who's been assassinated; or (c) one of those people from a Warhol silk-screen that you don't recognize but assume to be important in an abstruse way.

This cannot be the Obama campaign's idea of good public relations, I find myself thinking as I stare at one of the ubiquitous Fairey posters while waiting for my soy chai latte. It's just too bohemian and too vulnerable to misinterpretation, too much the visual equivalent of your parents smelling incense and thinking it must be pot."

"I still hear some dogs barking,' Carville said, according to The State newspaper. 'I'm for Senator Clinton, but I think the great likelihood is that Obama will be the nominee."

"As soon as I determine when that is, I'll send him a check,' he added."

(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Conservatives seem to be snickering over the latest Susan B. Anthony List update.  ... SBA’s No. 1 goal is to end abortion in this country.

This is why some find it highly interesting that the two new co-chairs of the SBA List are former Mitt Romney folk: Barbara Comstock and Cesar Conda. (Conda works at Navigators, the baby of GOP Svengali Mike Murphy, while Comstock has her own shop.)

Still, heads are shaking at the news — especially considering Romney’s abortion-rights past. And, even better: SBA is also holding a fundraiser ($500 a head) with who as its highlighted star of the night? Mitt Romney. “Having Romney headline a SBA event doesn’t pass the laugh test in town among real conservatives,” snickered one self-described “real conservative” who went on to ask: “Two senior Romney people in charge of the SBA? Are they trying to kill the institution?”

"Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and defeated contender for the GOP presidential nomination, is currently at the top of John McCain's short list for a running mate. At least that's the word from a top McCain fundraiser and longtime Republican moneyman who has spoken to McCain's inner circle."

"... let the 'anonymous' sources either show the courage to stand up and be accountable for their comments or shut up and leave commentary to people who aren’t afraid of their own shadow."

"It's a deliberate strategy by the Obama campaign to try to rule issues in-bounds and out-of-bounds and try to rule out-of-bounds every issue where he's vulnerable. They hope the media will abet them, and they have every reason to be optimistic," in light of the Newsweek story. Finally, he said of the story, "For everyone who works in the profession of journalism, it should make them cringe—it's an embarrassment."

"The founders of Paulville recently announced the purchase of the first 50 acres in West Texas on which they plan to build one of their 'gated communities containing 100 percent Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty'.”

As Stein notes, McCain voted against the 2005 energy bill.  Obama supported it.  I think it's worth reiterating that that bill was not well-received by environmentalists, and that it was also regarded as pork-laden.  It also promoted a vast increase in the use of ethanol -- a product Obama has strongly supported -- in spite of its apparent negative environmental and third-world hunger-related effects.  

It also wasn't popular in Oregon.  The Oregonian had this to say about it: "Congress stages a depressing retreat, ditching the most meaningful conservation measures and embracing old-fashioned subsidies that fail to reverse U.S. dependence on foreign oil."  (From a July 2005 editorial.)

Oregon voters should consider Obama's support of this bill -- which pleased neither conservatives nor environmental extremists -- when casting their votes.