It's hard to stay on top of Pat McCrory's lies, but when he claimed to NBC-17 that he was going to continue running a positive campaign I knew he was lying. I was going to dig up some examples, but the NCDP saved me the trouble. The following is a sampling of McCrory's "positive" campaign:

Just After the Primary: AP: McCrory “Slammed” Perdue in His “First Attack of the General Election;” But “Perdue Has the Same Opinion as McCrory.” “Republican governor's candidate Pat McCrory, in his first attack of the general election, slammed his Democratic rival Friday for supporting a policy that allows illegal immigrants to attend the state's community colleges. There's only one problem: Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue has the same opinion as McCrory on the issue.” [AP, “McCrory Slams Perdue on Immigration View She Doesn't Hold,” 5/9/08; AP, “Race for governor gets first attack, 5/9/08]

Found at LA Times via Reddit: This isn't going to go away any time soon. McCain can't sell himself as a Washington "reformer" if he continues to play the game by the old rules.

This is really, really sad. I can't believe the Charlotte Observer actually posted this as a news piece. Cindy McCain gets her hand squeezed a bit too enthusiastically by a supporter and this is news? Gee, how's her menstrual flow? Why don't you folks chat her up and find out how bad her cramps were this month. While you're at it, check to see if she has any hang nails or split ends.

I realize it is an AP piece, but seriously.....you think this deserves any ink?

Is Elizabeth Hanford Dole a qualified registered voter with a permanent residence in North Carolina or is Elizabeth Dole's permanent primary residence at the Watergate in our nation's capital?

The Watergate is much more than the name of a famous hotel where an even more famous burglary took place in the early 70’s.

"Watergate is a cooperative apartment complex located in North West Washington, D.C.. The complex includes three apartment buildings (East, West & South), two office buildings, a hotel, and a shopping mall.
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The Watergate has been described as a “city within a city.” Most apartments are extravagant and have a price tag to match with many two-bedroom units going for well over $2 million. Winston and Winston Real Estate have several listings at 700 New Hampshire Avenue NW offering virtual tours. There are even a few listed that are down the hall from some of the Watergate’s most famous residents, Bob and Elizabeth Hanford Dole.

The Doles have been residents of The Watergate since their marriage in 1975. Bob Dole has owned apartment #112 – a first-floor, one-bedroom since before the Republicans burglarized the Watergate Hotel in 1972.

More than a quarter century later, the Doles found themselves neighbors with Monica Lewinsky and her mother during the famous blow job and blue dress scandal. After the Lewinsky duo vacated their apartment, the Doles purchased it to enlarge their living quarters.

The rest of the story......

This coming weekend Kay Hagan is doing something Elizabeth Dole hasn't done since she visited with some sheriffs in the state to shoot her commercial on location - Kay Hagan is visiting real voters in North Carolina. You can keep up with her schedule to find out if she's going to be in your neck of the woods by visiting her web site, KayHagan.com.

Think Progress has the story.

The New York Times has a piece out on Barack Obama's years as a professor at The University of Chicago Law School. It showed me a side of Obama I hadn't seen before.

Mr. Obama, now the junior senator from Illinois and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, spent 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School. Most aspiring politicians do not dwell in the halls of academia, and few promising young legal thinkers toil in state legislatures. Mr. Obama planted a foot in each, splitting his weeks between an elite law school and the far less rarefied atmosphere of the Illinois Senate.

Cross-posted from BlueNC

I must admit I read Republican Congressman Robin Hayes' whine-fest in the Fayetteville Observer yesterday and my jaw hit the floor. Could the man sound any more like he knows he is losing? Wow.

Let's break it down:

Robin Hayes says the No. 1 issue this election is not Iraq. It’s the skyrocketing cost of gasoline.

The Republican from Concord says one way to begin lowering energy costs is to open more areas in the U.S. to drilling. The five-term incumbent agrees with President Bush and this year’s presumptive GOP nominee, John McCain, who are calling for more drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Nice to know that somebody gets irony. If they really wanted to get vicious the Atlantic would have put Cindy McCain in a skimpy nurse's outfit and painted her to look like a trollop.

The best post I've read on The New Yorker cover was at Achenblog.

This is pretty sweet. My husband is buying me a tractor - a Kubota B2320 with a belly mower and a front-end loader - and we needed to sell our riding mower to make room in the garage. He had four emails within a couple of hours after putting the mower on Craig's list. He called what seemed to be the most serious of the buyers and they came out and bought it within an hour of the call. Paid cash.

I just hope my tractor gets here this week. Nothing says love like a tractor. :D