Last Time for a While, I Promise

There's another post up from Josh Marshall over at TPM that I find interesting. Josh Marshall (along with Matt Yglesias) is simply the most insightful, sane voice I've found on the blogosphere. He's so consistently cold and intellectual in his analysis that I find this kind of earnest pleading a marked change coming from him.

I don't have a point beyond that, but I do understand his desperation. McCain is an extenuation of Cheney's foreign policy vision, and far too often an extension of George Bush's domestic vision. All of these leftists (some cogent, others not) talking about McCain's "Rovian campaign tactics/message" aren't exaggerating. Look at McCain's new ad. Money quote: "Hot chicks dig Obama." It is not unfair to say that if you disliked the executive vision and tone over the Bush/Cheney years than you're very unlikely to enjoy a McCain presidency.

The stakes are high. If, after eight years of Bush, we cannot substantively repudiate his vision of leadership, then paraphrasing Josh from yesterday, we have gone very far astray.

If You Won't Listen To Me...

Then listen to Josh Marshall over at TPM, as he's saying a lot of the same things. Money quote:

The hawks will say that the example set in Georgia will foreshadow Eastern Europe. But that's a highly, highly questionable leap. We're in the midst of being led very far astray.

Amen to that.

Links to Those Better than I

I'm sure none of you come here to find out what other blog postings I've found particularly insightful on any given day. I'm sure you all come to for my unique and inspiring wit, intelligence, and sass. That said...

These two posts by Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo Media are too good not to pass on.

Post 1
Post 2

McCain Ad Reactions

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo Media had this post talking about MSM response to McCain's most recent ad. Sadly predictable I guess. It's hard to see how it's a good thing when media outlets go out of their way to be fundamentally uninforming.

I should mention that if you're unfamiliar with TPM you really should check it out. When I first began regularly reading political blogs a couple of years ago TPM was among the first ones I read, (on the advice of my friend Van Dorn). I've barely missed a post since then. Josh Marshall is, in my opinion, the most insightful person writing blog commentary anywhere on the web.