Let's take Obama's recent examples:

This confusion about Auschwitz/Buchenwald, uncle/great-uncle. Did he know it was really Buchenwald and slip up or did he not know for sure and conjure a familiar name? Either way, once it comes out, it seems weird he didn't realize it couldn't be right. Auschwitz is in Poland, after all. I don't mean to make a big deal about this--it just seems odd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8oHLJSvrFA&eurl

Please let me know what you think. If you like it, Please double click the video to go to youtube and RATE, COMMENT, mark FAVORITE.

A picture of Clinton as the damsel in distress, helpless, hands tied and laying across the railroad tracks.  Really, Mark?  That didn't strike you as even an eensie weensie bit sexist?  

I suppose it doesn't matter at this point -- when MSNBC-Obamamedia has been doing far worse, I suppose all this just seems like small potatoes.  

We could save a lot of arguments and thread chopping by just making a typography of talking points and their rebuttals, then refer to them by code. eg:
Talking Point #1 It's the ROOLZ
Rebuttal Point #1 (above)

Following the Obama campaign, there's a bit about a shallow, petty media's intention to catch Obama in a gaffe. Presumably to "balance" the previous anti-Clinton bit, here Obama's complaints about media spin and PR are accepted as serious -- righteous, even -- and Rob Riggle thrashes media instead.

First off, I am an academic clinical psychologist who does research on the prevalence of PTSD for a living. Much of it funded by taxpayer dollars (so you know it's good research! /snark).

I saw what Jeralyn posted earlier (yesterday?) about Obama's comments about the increased risk for PTSD among female veterans. This is a complex issue (hey, I'm a psychologist - everything is complex to us!), and probably not well-suited to a one-off line in a political speech, but there is nothing fundamentally factually wrong in his comment.

PTSD is considerably more prevalent among women than men. This is one of the most robust findings in the literature, with samples large, small, and in between, young and old (it's actually true of all anxiety disorders except OCD, but I digress). There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is that sexual assault is one of traumatic events most likely to produce PTSD, and women are many times more likely to experience sexual assault than men.

In addition, prior victimization (probably of any type) makes a person much more likely to develop PTSD following a new traumatic stressor. Women in the military are subject to considerably more non-combat potential traumatic stressors (rape, sexual assualt, extreme sexual harassment from other soldiers etc.) than male soldiers are. Thus these previous experiences may elevate the rates of women versus men who develop PTSD following other military trauma.

So, women in the military are at elevated risk for PTSD. The VA is aware of this problem and is devoting an increasing number of resources to it, including the establishment of a Women's Division within the National Center for PTSD (this has actually been around for a while, but the VA is now throwing $$ at it). Obama was correct, but rather inartful (IMHO) about the way he phrased it, perhaps in part because it was an ad lib comment.

There is plenty not to like about the Obama campaign and the candidate himself, but making well-intentioned, basically accurate comments in support of female veterans on Memorial Day probably isn't one of them.

Andrew Stephen from the NewStatesman
Hating Hillary

MUST READ

"Gloating, unshackled sexism of the ugliest kind has been shamelessly peddled by the US media, which - sooner rather than later, I fear - will have to account for their sins."
----

This author described the last six months as an example of "America going though one of its collectively deranged episodes ...."

Haven't read a better article about this yet and this author seems to know what he is talking about.

Food for Thought:
Will the Peddlers of sexism have to account for their sins sooner or later? He seems to believe so.

I also started re-reading My Life as well.  When I think of what Obama's campaign has done to trash Bill Clinton's legacy makes me physically and emotionally ill.  Those ba5tards.

The racism, the sexism, the HUGE, IMMENSE lying.  I cannot wait to go to DC this weekend to protest the DNC.  I am fighting more for the Clintons more than anything.  I am tired of what so many people are doing to them.  The Democrats are the biggest group of turncoats I have ever witnessed.

But that didn't compare to a second of MSNBC that I saw. During (I think) Hardball, the crawl on the bottom said something like "Is Hillary Clinton in danger of losing her soul?"

CIA watching for al-Qaida `succession crisis'
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is making "a big and continual push" to capture or kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but his demise won't end the organization's menace, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview. The CIA is equally interested in those jockeying to replace bin Laden in what he predicted will be a "succession crisis."

A number of Egyptians are now part of al-Qaida's top echelon
"It will be really interesting to see how that plays out. The organization is a lot more networked than it is ruthlessly hierarchical," Hayden said of the group behind the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. "How do you pick the next overall leader?"
and may struggle for power among themselves. Bin Laden's current No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an Egyptian.

Despite al-Qaida's resilience, taking out bin Laden would be a psychological blow to the organization, Hayden said.