Lies, Smears and Tears

Note to Dick and George An "exhaustive" study by the Pentagon, including the examination of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after the 2003 invasion, shows there were no operational links between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. McClatchy reporter Warren P. Strobel points out that in September 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claimed that the United States had "bulletproof" evidence of cooperation between the terrorist group and Hussein's government. It's time to call Rumsfeld to congress to testify about just what exactly that evidence was.

It's a black thing According to Clinton surrogate and former Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, Barack Obama wouldn't be poised to take the Democratic nomination if he weren't a black man. She has deduced that the country is just into that right now. This is yet another attempt by the Hillaroids to inject the issue of race into this campaign. At this point, it isn't surprising. It's just way past old; and that kind of gutter politics should be beneath both Clinton and Ferraro.

Say What? The revelation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's alleged involvement in a prostitution ring was a stunner. Based on his his crime-busting history and Elliot Ness image, he's the last guy in New York I would have thought would be involved in such activities. Still, I'm not inclined to join the rush to judgement about the situation until some curious questions can be answered. Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake points out that some things in this case don't pass the smell test. Read it here.