Because there is only so much time in the day, and we want to add some more great folks to McCain Blogs, we are looking for 1-2 more writers. Interested? Shoot either myself or one of the Beth’s an email.

H/t to Greta

The ACLU is on the case - Convention cities sued by protesters

The cities hosting the Democratic and Republican conventions also will inevitably host thousands of protesters — and those visitors have already taken Denver and St. Paul to court.

Both cities have been sued by the ACLU and protest groups planning to mobilize at the political confabs. At issue: where and when demonstrations and marches can be held.

Blah blah blah. Standard “hey, look at us” type protests, which, humorously, the Democrats do not even want

In Denver, protest groups say the area designated for them is too far from the Pepsi Center convention site to be within sight and sound of the Democratic convention, being held Aug. 25-28. The anti-war march planned there, scheduled for Aug. 24, does not pass the Pepsi Center nor end at the demonstration area, according to the city-approved route.

“We’re going to be sort of quarantined behind all of the media in the back of a parking lot,” says Zoe¨ Williams, spokeswoman for Code Pink, an anti-war group that is part of the ACLU lawsuit. “Just because a delegate may be able to see the tiptop of someone’s head or one letter on a banner, that’s not sight and sound.”

If you were a Democrat leader, would you want the major nutjobs in your base showing up near the Pepsi Center? Would you want the women in Pink (and some man bag carrying “men”) showing up with their hate the military screeds? Would you want the great unwashed and unhinged being heard unintentionally when reporters are doing their schtick outside the Center?

I wonder if they will be able to top themselves from the 2004 GOP convention, where many smeared feces on themselves so that the cops would not want to arrest them?

Meanwhile, Republicans will, for the most part, go to work and do their jobs during the conventions, while Democrats will blow their jobs off.

Aw, isn’t this cute?

Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton plan to appear together Friday at a rally in Unity, New Hampshire, a town where they tied in the January primary.

The former rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination left Washington together Friday morning for the flight to New Hampshire.

They shared a polite kiss on arrival and sat together on the plane.

I wonder where Billy Jeff was at the time?

Say, did you know that Unity is so tiny that they have a big problem getting people to the town? Matter of fact, they are having to use lots and lots of school buses to get people in. Hey, did you know that school buses get really lousy milage, on aver 8-13 mpg? Wow, lots of CO2 output there, not to mention the real pollutants.

Photoshop time!!!!

Oh, ta heck with it, had to join in with the fun at Michelle’s

Via Six Meat Buffet, this is a real photo from Yahoo News

As Don Surber writes:

 Any time he screws up, the criticism is a distraction from “the real issues,” whatever those are.

Also, any time the issue is one the neophyte Presidential wannabe cannot answer

Obama, who spoke to reporters on his airplane on Wednesday night as he flew home to Chicago, said it’s “not relevant” that he hasn’t been to Iraq since 2006 and that McCain was using the argument as a diversion.

“I don’t think John McCain or the Bush administration have a very strong argument to make about their foreign policy, so they’re going to try to come up with diversions or distractions and not argue the substance,” Obama said.

That would be a #6. Except, this time, he doesn’t want to talk about Iraq.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t visiting Iraq, talking with the troops and commanders, and seeing what is actually happening on the ground in Iraq be, oh, I don’t know, an important issue?

From the campaign spot

At this point, noisy protesters disrupting a McCain speech are basically advertising, “I am incapable of letting those I disagree with express their views in public; I am uncomfortable with free expression and at heart a fascist, as I do not believe opposing viewpoints should be heard.

Where’s the Obamessiah? He should be out there smacking around his peeps, since this kind of behavior is a distraction from having a real dialogue.

Seriously, what is it about elected Republicans that turn them into squishy Democrat apologists and stooges? As soon as a Democrat starts whining and crying (Voinavich usually joins in on that!) and throwing a hissy fit, in other words, acting like a 4 year old, there always seems to be some Republican to side with them and decry what other Republicans and/or Conservatives have done.

Case in point. As I mentioned yesterday at McCain Blogs, Obama whined like a little 4 year old regarding the Tennessee GOP taking shots at his America hating wife. Next up

The office of Senator Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee, has weighed in today, siding with Senator Barack Obama’s objections to the state’s G.O.P. Web campaign against Michelle Obama.

Today, Mr. Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, demanded that his boss’ state party remove the Web ad:

After the Republican National Committee damaged our campaign with their infamous ‘Call Me’ ad — which we immediately denounced — we have strongly encouraged the national party and state parties to absolutely refrain from getting involved in negative personal campaigning, and we have asked the state party to remove their You Tube ad from their Web site.

Republicans will be in much better shape if we spend our time focused on issues like reducing federal spending, lowering the cost of health care and creating a coherent energy policy.

Gone squishy. Can you imagine a Democrat doing that, i.e, calling out their own Party for running what are actually factual ads about the political opponent? I’ll give you a few minutes to stop laughing.

Corker is correct, though, that the GOP should do what he said in the 2nd paragraph of the release. Except, perhaps Corker and Company should worry more about the national GOP getting off their asses, rather then the Tn. State GOP.

Monday! The beginning of the work week. Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, send some kudos fax-blasts. How ’bout a beer?

It must take a lot of beer to forget that Obama said he would run a clean, nice campaign. Or, just be a liberal is enough to forget

(LA Times) Taking aim at his presumed Republican opponent in November even as he faces two more Democratic presidential primaries this week, Barack Obama attacked John McCain on Sunday on Social Security, lobbyists and foreign policy. He said that the Arizona senator would continue what Obama contended were the failed policies of President Bush.

The intensified criticism of McCain came as the Obama campaign signaled that it had shifted its attention to the general election, and that it considered the Illinois senator’s bruising Democratic nomination battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton nearly over.

Mr. Hope and Change said he would not engage in negative campaigning, but, the hope that he wouldn’t change his position ended about 2 minutes afterwards.

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