Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.

...Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.  “This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don't like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”

Hillary to replace Biden??

Hearing more and more rumors about Obama replacing Biden with Hillary for VP. This could just be wishful thinking on the part of some after Biden's comments this week.

If it turns out to be true, would that be pandering? Nah!

Stay tuned.

3 AM - New McCain ad

You couldn't pay an advertising firm enough money to create what McCain is getting for free from the Democrats.

Rendell: 'MSNBC Official Network of the Obama Campaign'

By Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters.org

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell had some harsh words for members of the media today, especially those associated with the cable network MSNBC. Speaking at a discussion put together by the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, he called the coverage of Barack Obama "embarrassing," and accused MSNBC of being "the official network of the Obama campaign."

This isn't some Republican politician speaking here. This is the Democrat governor of Pennsylvania and the former head of the Democratic National Committee.