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As we speak Ben is out getting shit faced with Mike Gravel (again!) at the Yearly Kos Netroots Nation convention in Austin. While he is away it has fallen on me to keep you, our loyal readers, up to date on the latest news. Here is a look back at some of the things we forgot to blog about this week.

• Obama World Tour Dates Announced!
Next week Obama is going on a world tour that will take him to Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. The tour will end with two rockin’ nights at Madison Square Garden with Elvis Costello slated as the opening act. No word yet if Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland will be reuniting with Obama for the final leg of the tour.

• Obama is a commie extremist and the new George W. Bush.
John McCain is now depicting Barack Obama’s record as that of an “extremist” and saying that Obama is even to the left of pinko-commie-socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont. (We should be so lucky.)

On the flip side, the McCain camp is also moving to frame Obama as the new George W. Bush. In their tortured advanced interrogated logic Obama’s stubborn insistence on an Iraq timetable is, like, totally the same as Bush’s stubborn insistence that we were winning the war in Iraq… when we weren’t… but we are now… so… fuck you!

Which brings me to my next point.

• Change comes early!
The White House now plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran, presumably to initiate tough, disciplined and direct diplomacy with Iran. They are also now talking about a plan for troop withdraw “a general time horizon for meeting aspirational goals” in Iraq. Last month they even began thawing out their icy relationship with North Korea. This is odd since terrorist appeaser Barack Obama doesn’t officially take office until next year.

• McCain surrogate Bud Day: “Muslims” are going to “kill us”!!

Well, duh!

The Muslims have said either we kneel or they’re going to kill us… I don’t intend to kneel and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.

So we are supposed to, like, let “the Muslims” kill us? I didn’t see you lay out a third option Bud. Because if those are my only two options…

Anything we missed? Let us know in the comments section.

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