Here's an association for ya:

Q:  What do John McCain and Osama Bin Laden have in common?

A:  Both campaigned for George W Bush in 2004  ;)

(pats self on back, moves to couch to watch Heroes)

Oregon Senate candidate Jeff Merkley is most well known for his work in the Oregon House. As Minority Leader, Merkley helped engineer a Democratic takeover of the House and ended sixteen years of Republican rule. Merkley was unanimously elected Speaker of the House, where he led the most progressive, productive, greenest and labor friendly session we've seen in thirty years. But, what people don't know about Merkley is he has extensive experience in national security policy and international relations. Follow me below the fold to learn more about Jeff Merkley.....

Full disclosure, I am the netroots director for OR-Sen candidate Merkley

Police crime labs in both Detroit and Baltimore have recently come under fire for shocking errors discovered in the testing, analysis, and use of forensic evidence.  

Last week the Detroit police crime lab was shut down after an audit in June of the ballistics division revealed a 10% error rate in 200 firearms cases they reviewed.  A fear that this error rate pervaded all divisions was the main reason for the closure of this chronically under-funded and over-worked lab.

The discovery in the ballistics divisions has put the integrity of all forensic evidence testing and analysis in Detroit at risk.  And the ramifications of the lab closure could be far-reaching.  Innocent people may have been wrongfully convicted from flawed forensic evidence leaving dangerous criminals free to commit more crimes.

Right-wing comments on blogs are salivating on this right now.  OBAMA CAMPAIGN PUT THIS FIRE OUT BEFORE IT STARTS!!!  

THESE SLIMEBALLS WILL STOP AT NOTHING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtx NQ

Once again a call to arms. The moral of the story is you do not play nice with thugs. Obama campaign has got the message. Obama is fighting back against the smears with a  very strong and broad based attack on McCain. Now he has to close the deal.

Rasmussen's latest battleground polls are out and the biggest news is the new lead by Obama in Missouri and widening leads in Florida and Colorado!!

If you were watching MSNBC as I was this afternoon, you heard a McCain supporter scream "a terrorist!" when McCain asked the questions, "Who is Obama?"

re-posted from Daily Kos We all know 'that guy'; the one that has Rush Limbaugh playing 24/7 at his desk at work and swears that Bush never lied - not even once. On a recent trip back to my office, I overheard him explaining why the financial crisis happened: Carter, Clinton, Janet Reno (for real), and above all else: MINORITIES.