Yesterday at the one and only NC Democratic Primary Debate for Senate, Kay Hagan had to be reminded twice, once by opponent Jim Neal and again by the moderator, that the election had not happened yet as she continued to say that she was "running against Dole". Then she basically guarantees victory a week before primary. I thought it was quite presumptuous for her to single handedly declare herself the winner before people have even voted. Everybody knows she is the DSCC choice, but you don't have to be arrogant about it. Geez!

Gen. Tony McPeak (USAF, RET.) served his country honorably and is a highly decorated combat veteran. With serious credentials.  

No one can dispute that. He is currently an adviser for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign and lends his considerable credence as a distinguished officer and leader. However, a recent statement he made about Sen. Clinton seriously made me wonder if he harbors past animosities or sour grapes toward Sen. Clinton.
Why would I ask that? Perhaps  this statement from the LA Times may help you understand why that thought crossed my mind. (And to Sen. Obama's campaign's credit, they disavowed his remarks.)

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The advisor, retired Gen. Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak, said in a telephone interview that Obama has "real gravitas, not artificially created, focus-grouped, poll-directed, rehearsed gravitas."

He also said Obama "doesn't go on television and have crying fits; he isn't discovering his voice at the age of 60" -- references to Clinton's much-publicized show of emotion during the New Hampshire primary campaign and her speech after winning the contest in which she declared that she had "found my voice."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la- na-iraqpol2feb02,0,1272905.story
 

I've never paid much attention to Elizabeth Dole, even with her role as NRSC Chair and my penchant for electoral politics. But having just watched her appearance on Meet The Press I have to ask, has she always been this way? This verbally pugnacious, desperately stubborn megaphone of a woman behaving at best as the diplomatic equivalent of a child firmly cupping hands over ears and loudly chanting `I can't hear you' over and over and over again.

I was cringing just watching her, having that sort of embarrassment you sometimes feel for people on the TV who have absolutely nothing to do with your real life. But her Mehlman-like filibustering was a little surprising to me, going well beyond staying on message all the way into simply talking loudly over her opponent's criticism. The lede from the show was Elizabeth Dole's comment that Democrats seem content to lose in Iraq, but it was her wing nut diatribe that followed, purpose built to drown out Rham Emanuel's attempt to respond to her outrageous comment, which she carried all the way to commercial break to the obvious frustration of even the nearly unflappable Russert that really impressed me.