So Bush is so stupid he sets it up for Obama vs. Bush

[Turn CO Blue]

which leaves McCain out trying to find relevance! Bwahahahahaha!

I love this point made by Ben Smith today:

I'm struck by how politically foolish this assault appears to be. Bush attacking Obama, and Obama counter-attacking Bush, while John McCain sits on the sidelines, is a disastrous dynamic for the GOP. The more Obama can frame this race as him vs. the most unpopular president in modern history, the easier a time he'll have in the fall.

And the faux pas happens on the day that McCain delivered his momentous, brilliant, awe-inspiring, fantastic (as in it's all a great big fantasy) 2013 speech, and it is a time when he's desperately trying to get some airtime and attention because our two candidates have sucked all the oxygen out of the universe...and now McSame is relegated to snippets right before commercial.

More importantly, Bush gave us such a gift! Now the dichotomy is set up for more and more rounds of Bush versus Obama (just where we all want it!! w00t!) - which left McCain pathetically trying to make himself relevant. And McCain had a hell of a choice before him, to go with Bush or to condemn the statement. Either choice puts him in the hotseat with a large group of people. He chose Bush. Bad choice.

So now it's Bush and McCain (and nobody else) versus Obama and Jimmy Carter and the entire Democratic Party... ha ha ha!

I hope they're all pissing their pants tonight - this debacle right after the MS-01 seat victory. Bwahahaha! I am grinning today.

edited: typing

[TexasObserver]

1. Bush's ego is going to screw it up for McCain

Bush is one of those guys who can't attend weddings because he has to be the bride.

He cannot stand being irrelevant, so he has to try to make himself a player. Like Bill Clinton, he resents this upstart who is catching everyone's eye. He wants to assert himself as still meaningful.

[Crazy Dave]

2. I noticed that listening to a Bill Clinton speech for....Hillary?

For fifteen minutes or so he talked about how good jobs were while he was president, how high wages were when he was president, how many new jobs were created when he was president, how affordable health care was while he was president, yadda, yadda, and then came the that's why we need to vote for Hillary at the end

[Turn CO Blue]

5. They'd call it Narcissistic Personality Disorder, except

that he'd have to have a personality...he suffers so from dementia, that I fear there's not much left.

[Turn CO Blue]

6. .

[Solomon]

3. I love the ground this campaign will be fought on. Lovely ground.

Obama's gonna slice and dice them on their stupid policy of blowing people up instead of meeting with them.

[Turn CO Blue]

4. Yep. Cowboy diplomacy versus actual foreign relations

we can claim this ground back from the wingnuts.