It's not about partisanship. It's about truth. We learned that from the Rodney King affair...good people, bad people. Go with the good people, however flawed...

Pained right-wingers ditch Bush for Kerry. While you probably can't expect the folks over at Pat Buchanan's "American Conservative" magazine to offer their unequivocal blessing to the Massachusetts senator for the top job, they've come about as close as they possibly can. Here's how the conflicted staff is handling their official campaign endorsement: [Salon.com]

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Bizarro, indeed...the race card is removed here, since both debaters are black, so we are free to concentrate on the substance of their dispute.

"Sen. Obama, you're no Jesus Christ". Last night's televised debate between Senate candidates Barack Obama and Alan Keyes looks to have provided an entertaining alternative to Illinois residents not interested in baseball. At one point, Keyes charged Obama with being "ignorant" of the Constitution, and Obama promptly reminded him that he teaches constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Obama criticized Keyes for comparing abortion-rights supporters to terrorists, slaveholders and Nazis. And Keyes blasted Obama for "breathtaking naivete" for criticizing the Iraq war. (Earth to Keyes: Obama is not alone on that one.) But the most heated exchange came when Keyes, in classic bizarro fashion, argued that Jesus Christ would oppose Obama because he supports abortion rights. [Salon.com]

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I would vote for a '57 Chevy or a rack of lamb or a slab of steel-reinforced concrete if I thought it could win this election... If you can't vote for anyone else, vote against this clueless imposter...

Weapons of Mass Hilarity. In March, President Bush participated in the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner, a traditional event in Washington where the president provides laughs at the expense of himself and members of the administration.

His choice of comedic material was deeply offensive: a Lettermanesque slide show depicting his futile personal hunt for weapons of mass destruction under tables and desks in the White House. I couldn't believe that he was laughing off a mistake while it was killing or maiming thousands of U.S. troops. Was the Tet Offensive comedy gold for LBJ in 1968?

David Corn, a columnist for The Nation, was present at the event and similarly unamused: "I wondered what the spouse, child or parent of a soldier killed in Iraq would have felt if they had been watching C-SPAN and saw the commander-in-chief mocking the supposed justification for the war that claimed their loved ones."

A new campaign ad from Win Back Respect answers Corn's question. [Workbench] 

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