If he just keeps getting places and things mixed up it will become a Leno joke. That's it. It's already happening, I couldn't believe the phote op with Bush senior riding around in the golf cart. Who the f@#$% thought up that dumb idea.

I like he death by a thousand cuts analogy.

ABC's Jake Tapper asked Obama if he had learned anything on the trip that would change his mind, and the answer basically was "no."

But listen to this stunner:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/ 2008/07/so-what-did-he.html

"In terms of -- look, there are all kinds of things that I learned," Obama said. "I think one of the things that was most eye-opening was the extent to which the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan makes it very difficult for our troops, as good as they are, to decisively defeat the Taliban and the terrorist operations in Afghanistan.

My gawd, he didn't know the border was porous?

And how does he know the "x amount" of troops he'll send will solve that.

The media will never call McCain on his gaffes unless he says something like, "Britney who?"

According to his campaign, McCain does not have gaffes, he "misspeaks."

I want Barack to win so I at least know my candidate understands this reality-based world and doesn't just see what he wants to see.

He's toast the day he refers to the Soviet Union in the present tense.

The McCain campaign never had a chance to begin with. The press is keeping it alive for the sake of having any news to report, so they won't report too much on any major gaffes. But it doesn't matter... this was over before it started.

I think it will be a cumulative effect and we won't really see it until the landslide in November.  The press will do everything they can to head it off, since the ratings go up when the race stays close, but the erosion has already begun.

I loved the photo Chris Mathews used this afternoon of McC getting off his plane in New Hampshire to a press corps of exactly one reporter.

"I think Obama's administration will reflect the youth (relative) of our nation with the gravitas that our immense power requires."

Oh, I agree 110%.

I said to my girlfriend, just the body language of the leaders in Iraq to Obama in those pictures said, this is something different happening here.

The image of "Not another rich white guy" means, I think Obama has actually MORE leverage to make good deals, and these polticians can sell them to the man on the street.

Yeah, I'm an optomist, but after 7 plus years of the Dick Cheney darkness, a flashlight looks like a blazing sun!

I think Bush puking on the Japanese PM's lap was worse than the milk incident, since it made him look like a fool abroad.  That said, his son has lowered the bar so much that I don't know whether it's possible to gaffe oneself out of the presidency (Republicans, anyway) for at least another cycle.  It seems like much of America considers stupidity a virtue nowadays.

Well, if this story (see link below) gets the attention that it deserves, then I think it could be really damaging--since it indicates that McCain doesn't have even an elementary understanding of the surge and its surrounding circumstances.

http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/ 07/22/macfarlandknowsbetterthanmccain/

I saw that Keith covered it tonight, but so far no one else is picking up on it. I think it would help if we push the hell out of it.

in Iraq, and there never will be under a McCain adminstration." will be the type of thing that throws McCain under the bus.