Eric is a leader with too few followers.

Can we try this again, Eric?

Try again, and again, and again.

Global Warming has suffered a critical data loss: its underlying data have been demonstrated to be incorrect in areas of temperature, sea level, and even the configuration of the polar ice pack due to weather patterns. When you have your data go out from under you, you have no theory, not even a hypothesis.

Strange that when the data is re-examined and the errors in it found (from computational to actual instrument problems), and other data that was 'projected' as 'true' come out to be in the opposite direction from the 'projection', that we now start to hear how the 'theory' is more important than the data. The GW proponents have joined the ranks of Velikovsky and Lysenkoists. Not that science has ever mattered to the political arm of this, of course, they just want power to make others act 'right' as *they purport it to be*.

I plan on voting for only the congress person and in my local election. I'll leave the Presidential vote blank.

Supreme Court Justices. Socialization of everything. Starting a World War centered around the Middle East. With Obama as President for four years of the war.

I understand the impulse, but do you think a World War is wise? Don't we owe it to our military to keep casualties and war fighting minimized? This changed my mind (again).

McCain says:

Senator Obama has said, if elected, he will withdraw Americans from Iraq quickly no matter what the situation on the ground is and no matter what U.S. military commanders advise. But if we withdraw prematurely from Iraq, al Qaeda in Iraq will survive, proclaim victory and continue to provoke sectarian tensions that, while they have been subdued by the success of the surge, still exist, and are ripe for provocation by al Qaeda. Civil war in Iraq could easily descend into genocide, and destabilize the entire region as neighboring powers come to the aid of their favored factions. A reckless and premature withdrawal would be a terrible defeat for our security interests and our values. Iran will view it as a victory, and the biggest state supporter of terrorists, a country with nuclear ambitions and a stated desire to destroy the Sta te of Israel, will see its influence in the Middle East grow significantly.

The consequences of our defeat would threaten us for years, and those who argue for premature withdrawal, as both Senators Obama and Clinton do, are arguing for a course that would eventually draw us into a wider and more difficult war that would entail far greater dangers and sacrifices than we have suffered to date. Thanks to the counterinsurgency instigated by General Petreaus, after four years of terribly costly mistakes, we have a realistic chance to succeed in helping the forces of political reconciliation prevail in Iraq, and the democratically elected Iraqi Government, with a professional and competent Iraqi army, impose its authority throughout the country and defend its borders. We have a realistic chance of denying al Qaeda any sanctuary in Iraq. We have a realistic chance of leaving behind in Iraq a force for stability and peace in the region, and not a cause for a wider and far more dangerous war. I do not argue against withdrawal because I am indifferent to war and the suffering it inflicts on too many American families. I hold my position because I hate war, and I know very well and very personally how grievous its wages are. But I know, too, that we must sometimes pay those wages to avoid paying even higher ones later. I want our soldiers home, too, just as quickly as we can bring them back without risking everything they suffered for, and burdening them with greater sacrifices in the years ahead. That I will not do. I have spent my life in service to my country, and I will never, never, never risk her security for the sake of my own ambitions. I will defend her, and all her freedoms, so help me God. And I ask you to help me in that good cause. Thank you, and God bless you.

He's been sensitive to climate change liberalism for some time. I'm voting McCain because of Iraq.

Love the cartoon, though!

Americanneocon,

I think Bush has thrown a huge monkey wrench into the climate change idiocy with the polar bear listing.

There is a place where any American has standing. A brilliant move.

A Trojan Horse.