Just an idiot and a bad journalist.

She's quite frankly one of the reasons I don't watch much CNN.  Between her, Dobbs, and Blitzer, I get a bad head-buzz of sanctimony and incompetance that won't stop until I turn on Verdict with Dan Abrams.

It's probably going to be a huge triumph and the Republicans know it that's why the noise machine has gone into action accusing him presumptuousness, naivete, having the wrong colored luggage, etc etc.  

Obama's Europe trip is shaping up to be a huge success. The Europeans are in love with Barack, just like they are with Gore. He will be treated like royalty by most of Europe. There will be a backlash at home, because of the positive press he will get there.

Expect the MSM to obsess over every little thing that can be twisted to cast a negative spin on Obama. When they aren't spinning things, they will be ignoring it as much as possible. They are going to have to do that in order to keep the race close, because this trip will be a huge benefit for Obama. Even the most unsophisticated voter will understand what 'soft power' means and how Obama becoming president will affect that.

She is another that I consider a smarmy pundit.  She lost her journalistic creds a long time ago, in my book.

But diaries like this are important simply because she continues to receive the air time of a reporter.  We need to constantly point out contradictions like this and not only for the historical record but for the evidence they provide that the press is indeed biased.

I quit watching CNN some time ago. Dobbs is nothing more than an over-the-top blowhard entertainer and Blitzer is a dim-wit. Candy Crowley is either clueless or guileless. Whichever it is, she can't be trusted to report straight news.

I've always found Candy Crowley to be a reliable purveyor of GOP talking points.  She is not on our side.

From a European perspective, let me tell you all - the diarist is completely right. Wait to you see the reaction Obama gets. He excites more Europeans than any presidential candidate since Kennedy (and yes I can dimly remember the assassination, I was three years old).

If the world got a vote, Obama would win by a landslide.

In the meantime, we'll just have to rely on the American people - who seem to be about to make up for the fiasco of two Bush terms.

Just sayin'

I hope he plays Free Bird.

Rock on Senator!

Rock on!

They're all concern trolls.

I wish someone, anyone would show some concern over what McCain is and is not doing.  He's getting away with murder right now, but instead, everyone is "concerned" about what Obama is doing.

She's worried about Obama and his inexperience abroad?

I would like to remind her of this cringe-worthy moment from our current idiot in chief:

"Concern troll" is about the nicest thing you could say about that woman. I'd get flamed to death for mentioning some more accurate descriptions.

Starting to think that McCain is getting a free pass on such issues because he is old and the media considers it unsurprising. And frankly, I can't imagine anything more dangerous to gloss over.

I'd like to see someone put McCain in front of a map of Europe and ask him to point out Czechoslovakia, since he's mentioned it several times. Can you imagine what would have happened if McCain had said "Czechoslovakia" in the presence of a real reporter, like Cronkite, or Huntley/Brinkley, or Murrow? They would have corrected him on the spot, questioned his grasp of the geopolitics.

I understand that the anchors of all the major networks are going to accompany Obama on this trip. Barack should take the opportunity to make an off-hand remark to someone where you know you're being taped, but kinda pretend it's a private conversation, to the effect of, "Yeah, they're waiting for me to slip up -- like I might confuse Sunni with Shia, or keep referring to a country that hasn't existed for over 5 years."

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1. html?39

Can we be a little MORE thin-skinned?

of Kerry in 2004? At least she doesn't sneer when she's talking about Obama.

"And she was blabbing on about "how high risk it was" and "he couldn't afford to stumble" with his relative inexperience on the international scene."

It's disgustingly embarassing to our human specie how none of the deep thinking pundimwits and journaliticians who repeat this talking point (no doubt put forward by the GOP) seem to realize how stupid it is in the face of them giving McSenile a free pass on his foreign policy blunders and gaffes (even while overseas) because they have declaimed him to be experienced.

A non-starter, given that none other then Sam Nunn made the same misstatement while with Obama, no less.

WASHINGTON - What is it about Czechoslovakia and people with strong national security backgrounds?

First Republican presidential candidate John McCain referred to the country twice in as many days, even though it has not existed since 1993, when it split into the separate nations of Slovakia and the Czech Republic following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Now comes former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, who mentioned Czechoslovakia while joining Democratic presidential Barack Obama on the campaign trail in Indiana.

This being covered?
Not so much..

http://www.alternet.org/election08/90956 /

Guys, Obama gets so much favorable coverage the public is actually starting to get sick of it. It can backfire.