Drip, Drip, Drip

Slowly, like a leaky faucet, facts continue to ooze out and spread about Barry.

Obambi had to admit that Tony Rezko had raised substantially more money for his campaigns than was previously avowed, $90,000 of which has not been donated to charity.

Obambi asked Rezko to tour, and assess, the Hyde Park house he bought.

Barry didn't believe the information to be "salient" that's why it wasn't disclosed before.

What is salient is that the Rezko's purchased the adjoining property on the exact same day, at a time when Barry knew that Rezko was involved in controversies.

Barry later bought a piece of Rezko's land and Rezko built a fence that Barry wanted.

Obambi also had to own up to a $1 million pork-barrel spending request made in 2006 for the University of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife served as a vice president at the time.

I'm not getting the feeling of Real Change That We Can Believe In and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Barry's backers better hope that this is the last embarrassing information to leak out and doesn't turn into a Niagara Falls.

Cut & Run Crowd Controls Congress

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) is expected to be Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee in the next Congress.

Levin sounded the retreat signal on ABC's 'This Week'. "First order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy.

....and that, as a matter of fact, we need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months."

Mark Steyn paints a true picture of why last Tuesday was bad for America and the War on Terror.

"The jihad crowd....view of America is roughly that of the British historian Niall Ferguson -- that the Great Satan is the first superpower with ADHD. They reasoned that if you could subject Americans to the drip-drip-drip of remorseless water torture in the deserts of Mesopotamia -- a couple of deaths here, a market bombing there, cars burning, smoke over the city on the evening news, day after day after day, and ratcheted up a notch or two for the weeks before the election -- you could grind down enough of the electorate and persuade them to vote like Spaniards, without even realizing it. And it worked.

...we are all Spaniards now. The incoming speaker says Iraq is not a war to be won but a problem to be solved. The incoming defense secretary belongs to a commission charged with doing just that. A nostalgic boomer columnist in the Boston Globe argues that honor requires the United States to "accept defeat," as it did in Vietnam. Didn't work out so swell for the natives, but to hell with them.

What does it mean when the world's hyperpower, responsible for 40 percent of the planet's military spending, decides that it cannot withstand a guerrilla war with historically low casualties against a ragbag of local insurgents and imported terrorists? You can call it "redeployment" or "exit strategy" or "peace with honor" but, by the time it's announced on al-Jazeera, you can pretty much bet that whatever official euphemism was agreed on back in Washington will have been lost in translation. Likewise, when it's announced on "Good Morning Pyongyang" and the Khartoum Network and, come to that, the BBC.

For the rest of the world, the Iraq war isn't about Iraq; it's about America, and American will...."