General Clark speaks

General (ret) Wesley Clark on John McCain:

"The truth is that, in national security terms, he is largely untested and untried. He's never been responsible for policy formulation. He's never had leadership in a crisis, or in anything larger than his own element on an aircraft carrier or in managing his own congressional staff. It's not clear that this is going to be the strong suit that he thinks it is. McCain's weakness is that he's always been for the use of force, force and more force. In my experience the only time to use force is as a last resort. When he talks about throwing Russia out of the G8 or makes ditties about bombing Iran, he betrays a disrespect for the office of the presidency."

Public Financing

LINK:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11242.html

LINK:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91724104

It's unfortunate for his campaign that Obama made a pledge on this issue and has now retracted it, but this won't be an issue at all in 2 to 3 weeks, I believe. The only reason McCain doesn't reject public financing is because he knows he can't raise more cash than public financing would give him...whereas Obama is set to raise $500 million. At least twenty of those will be mine.

Widget

LINK:
http://www.270towin.com/

Well, in the past few weeks HRC has been dropped and the general has started. Thought I'd add this widget that you can play with to the links section. Let's you manipulate swing states and electoral votes. Cool example?: Obama can win w/o Florida or Ohio if he picks up Colorado and Virginia, two states in which he leads in the polls at the moment. The widget should become even more entertaining come Oct/Nov.