As has been said multiple times about Republicans- you just can't make this stuff up:

Evidently, this threatening five foot tall librarian was too much of a security risk to allow her to attend the McCain town hall meeting in Denver.
Her crime?
A sign that said "McCain=Bush".
As the librarian says at the end of the video, why would a sign that says "McCain=Bush" be offensive to Republicans that voted for Bush?

Do what you gotta do to get us out of here.

That comes from an unidentified Marine (in Afghanistan) that was just interviewed on NPR. It made me stop and think how important it is to get Obama in the White House and a solid majority in the House and Senate. Not just to us, but to the thousands of soldiers currently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The soldiers interviewed were stationed in Afghanistan and feel detached from the presidential election:

"It really is almost irrelevant, too," he says. "When we get here, you know, you know that war, all it is is old men talking and young men dying. That's all we see. So, it calms down politics a lot of when you're out here."

Like many of the Marines in Garmsir, Cpl. Cody Bazanech was in eighth grade when the Sept. 11 terror attacks took place.

Digby has a great analysis of the latest war of words between Barack Obama and John McCain. It seems Obama made a statement about John McCain failing to appear in the Senate to vote on the GI bill:

I respect Sen. John McCain's service to our country. He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can't understand why he would line up behind the president in his opposition to this GI bill. I can't believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue. There are many issues that lend themselves to partisan posturing, but giving our veterans the chance to go to college should not be one of them.

Now this is a brilliant move by Obama, he's hitting McCain on veteran's issues, one of McCain's talking points.

I don't know how many of you listen to Air America, more than a few judging from the Randi Rhodes dust up a few weeks ago, but now we have a chance to get Sam Seder back on during the week.
For those of you that haven't heard him before, he has guests on like Glenn Greenwald, Digby, Christy Hardin Smith (Fire Dog Lake), Markos Moulitsas and other progressive voices speaking out against the Bush regime.
Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has put up a petition to send to AAR management to ask that Sam take over the 12-3 afternoon slot formerly held by Randi.
Please sign the petition and get this important progressive voice back on during the week!

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35493-give -sam-seder-a-daily-show