I've published snark diaries in the past, but this is ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

In an obscure 2003 book titled "Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes" by Kenneth T. Walsh, there is an incredible anecdote that sums up George W. Bush. Read it and weep:

Another innovation is Bush's interest in the board game Risk, in which players amass armies and try to conquer the world. En route home from Europe in July 2001, Bush supervised a particularly competitive game. The president encouraged each participant to take the biggest risks possible and to attack each other mercilessly. At one point, he goaded his military aide, supposedly an expert on military maneuvers and strategy, to take some chances. When he did so and found his armies annihilated, Bush teased the aide for being the first to lose. Supervising another game, the commander in chief yelled "You're a wimp! Go get 'em."

Risk is just a board game, not real life. But did Bush know the difference?

Look at what John McCain, Mr. Foreign Policy Experience, said today while agreeing with Bush's repulsive remarks in Israel:

"Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,'' Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. "I believe that it's not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn't sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.''

The Obama campaign and we in the liberal blogosphere need to jump on these comments. Once again, McCain has demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge about foreign policy and American history. First he got confused over Sunnis and Shiites, now this.

McCain seems to be forgetting something kind of important that happened during the Reagan administration.

It's called the Iran-Contra Scandal.

(Crossposted at Old Man McCain)

To date, John McCain has not released his medical records. His campaign has recently bowed to pressure and will allow some interviews with his doctors. Sounds like Kabuki Theatre to me.  What are they gonna do, tell the world that their boss is falling apart?

But what's really troubling is that his "doctors" are completely out to lunch on current medicines.  Follow me past the fold for a full breakdown.  Considering how old McCain is, this is a very troubling sign.

(Crossposted at Old Man McCain)

In the past few weeks, John McCain and his Republican sycophants have been trying to push his "100 years" comment into the memory hole. They know this is a devastating attack, that Americans don't want to stay in Iraq forever, and the Republicans are pissed that Barack Obama hits McCain over the head with this every time he makes a speech.

This video by Josh Marshall offers a pretty good rundown. Check it out.

It is absolutely crucial for all of us in the progressive blogosphere to understand this issue, and know how to defend against it. The "100 years" comment is death for McCain's campaign, so we can't let them wash it away.