by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

In a quote to the AP, John McCain's rapid response man delivered the campaign's first reaction to the news that the Arizona Republican bungled the...

by DemFromCT [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Reflecting on the last 24 hours' worth of media coverage of the Obama World Tour, what seems clear is that there are two clashing world views that are competing for attention.

On the one hand, there are the McCain supporters, including many reporters like David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell, who accept as gospel that the Surge Is Working®, that questioning of either the surge or General Petraeus is heresy, and that Obama's biggest sin is that he, as Commander in Chief, has the audacity to think he should be telling the Generals what to do and not the other way around. They are stunned that Obama doesn't agree, and offended at some core level whenever this narrative is challenged. A sputtering John McCain in NH:

He was wrong then, he's wrong now, and he still fails to acknowledge--he still fails to acknowledge that the surge succeeded. Remarkable.  Remarkable," McCain said.  "He's just received his first briefing ever from Gen. Petraeus.  And he declared his policy towards Iraq before he left, before he left."

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by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Despite rumblings that his advocacy for John McCain could lead to his ouster from the Democratic Party, Joseph Lieberman continued on Tuesday to take broad...

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

My post below, re the surge, has set off squeals of outrage over at Contentions, the Commentary magazine blog. This is to be expected, but...

by Glenn Hurowitz [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

McCain's speech the other night was brilliant, frightening and 100% Nixon. But successful Nixon. How do you beat a Nixon? Be like Kennedy

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Paging General Petraeus! Here's a little bit of news that you may have missed. Via McClatchy comes a report from John McCreary, "a former senior...

by BarbinMD [courtesy of Daily Kos]

And the Straight Talk Express^TM keeps rolling.  

With McCain aides dropping like flies over their lobbyist and special interest ties, a new zero tolerance policy was put in place by the McCain campaign. The new policy prohibits lobbyists (except his top advisors) and participants in 527’s from any involvement in his campaign.  And while the policy did force Senators Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman to step down from their advisory roles with a rightwing 527, Vets for Freedom, for some reason Wade Zirkle, a McCain "leadership team member," and Max Boot, an outside foreign policy advisor, are still lending their expertise to both the McCain campaign and to that very same 527...and it shows.  

John McCain:

Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once. A little over two years ago, he went and he has never seized the opportunity except in a hearing to meet with General Petraeus. This is about leadership and learning.

Vets for Freedom ad:

The last time Barack Obama visited Iraq was in January 2006...Because he hasn't been there in over two years. Senator Obama, when will you go back to Iraq to see the progress firsthand. And when will you finally decide to meet one on one, unconditionally, with General Petraeus.

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by Attaturk [courtesy of Firedoglake]

There are gaffes, and then there is straight out BS. The man who has been singing the praises of whatever re-imaginings of actual reality he can manage to shove down the throats of the press corp slathered in gallon jugs of Kirkland-brand barbecue sauce is on a new theme.

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

John McCain has gleefully pounded Barack Obama in recent days for having traveled to Iraq only once since he entered Congress. But his arguments virtually...