Decide for yourself. Just check out these photos:

from 23/6

We have to wonder how things would have been different if Rush had gone to prison for his illegal drug use, rather than using high-priced lawyers to get out of it:

Limbaugh scoffed at the idea that African Americans are disproportionately arrested on drug charges, and suggested that the solution should be to arrest more white drug users. Of course, once it was his own ass on the line, this white drug user changed his tune pretty quick, and championed rehab for himself.

The only problem is, Obama did vote to condemn the Moveon.org “General Betray-us” ad. But as you can see in the video, this doesn’t stop Fox News from repeating this false accusation.

Lesson: Fox doesn’t actually need a valid reason to attack Obama.

Other Rove associates added to McCain’s campaign include Nicolle Wallace, communications director for the 2004 Bush campaign, as a senior advisor, who will travel with McCain. Greg Jenkins, another Rove veteran, has joined the McCain communications team.

Is it a coincidence that McCain has gone deeply negative in the last few days, attacking not only Obama, but Gen. Wesley Clark and Sen. Jim Webb?  The Times also notes that, under Rove, Schmidt was in charge of the Bush campaign’s “war room” and that “one sign of Mr. Schmidt’s increasing influence in the campaign’s rapid response operation was the quickness with which it seized on a remark by Gen. Wesley K. Clark.”

Consider this a warning that McCain’s campaign is going very very negative. Get ready for the same nasty tactics that were used against McCain himself in Bush’s 2000 primary campaign.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-07-28-mccain_x.htm

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Daily_Show_salutes_Bush_presidential_vacation_0816.html

What’s truly ironic about this is that on Tuesday, White House spokesman Tony Fratto accused the Democrats in the Senate of slacking off, because they left for their Independence day break with unfinished legislation. Hypocritically, the unfinished legislation named by Fratto includes a housing bill, which was delayed by Nevada Republican John Ensign, and a Medicare bill, which the White House themselves asked Republican Arlen Specter to delay.

You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it “simulates” the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning—or, rather, being drowned, albeit slowly and under controlled conditions and at the mercy (or otherwise) of those who are applying the pressure. The “board” is the instrument, not the method. You are not being boarded. You are being watered. This was very rapidly brought home to me when, on top of the hood, which still admitted a few flashes of random and worrying strobe light to my vision, three layers of enveloping towel were added. In this pregnant darkness, head downward, I waited for a while until I abruptly felt a slow cascade of water going up my nose. Determined to resist if only for the honor of my navy ancestors who had so often been in peril on the sea, I held my breath for a while and then had to exhale and—as you might expect—inhale in turn. The inhalation brought the damp cloths tight against my nostrils, as if a huge, wet paw had been suddenly and annihilatingly clamped over my face. Unable to determine whether I was breathing in or out, and flooded more with sheer panic than with mere water, I triggered the pre-arranged signal and felt the unbelievable relief of being pulled upright and having the soaking and stifling layers pulled off me. I find I don’t want to tell you how little time I lasted.

… If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.