Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated - washingtonpost.com

VENCERE
George Bush Too and Fidel Castro both claim that history will absolve them. (Fidel actually wrote a book by that title.)As the door begins to close on his tenure, Too is increasingly drawing on selected events of the past to argue that history will vindicate him. Unfortunately Bush, many historians have already reached a conclusion. In an informal survey of scholars this spring, just two out of 109 historians said Bush would be judged a success; a majority deemed him the "worst president ever."
(WASHINGTON POST)

'Diverse' GOP Convention Speakers Revealed | PEEK | AlterNet

ONE BIG WINNEBAGO
In announcing the speakers for the Republican Convention, its handlers are touting the GOP's "diversity". No, really! It's a regular Rainbow Coalition, a People's Park all over again. Can't wait to see the GOP Diversity Parade: Bush, Cheney, Arnold and Giuliani. Yippee!!!!
(ALTERNET)

OBAMA'S MEDIA SKILLS
I'm not sure what Howard Kurtz's message is in this piece, but it's a nice distillation of articles about both candidates. I especially liked this New Republic quote:

"Do you remember when conservatives used to speak warmly, and sometimes rapturously, about Barack Obama? That was back when they were certain that the Clinton voodoo magic would make Hillary the nominee, and Obama her sympathetic roadkill. Since then, the right has made the horrifying discoveries that Obama is, successively, a left-wing ideologue, a coddler of anti- Americanism, a wine-sipping elitist, and, now, a shameless flip-flopper. The man will say anything, discard any position, in order to win the election.
If such a tragic tarnishing of the reputation could happen to a fresh-faced reformer like Obama, it could happen to anybody. And, in fact, it has--at least to anybody who has happened to attain the Democratic presidential nomination at any point over the last five election cycles."
(WASHINGTON POST)

BUSH REFLUX
While Barrack Obama attempts to portray John McCain as just Bush-warmed-over, this article sees McCain as someone who was actually on the right and in front of Bush when it came to promoting the idea of “national greatness” conservatism. "It was during the Balkan wars that Mr. McCain and his advisers read a 1997 article on the Wall Street Journal editorial page by William Kristol and David Brooks of The Weekly Standard," the article says. These neocons "won them over to a more activist agenda at home and a more muscular role in the world." Scary stuff.
For a scathing attack on McCain check out
THIS NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE BY FRANK RICH.(NEW YORK TIMES and TRUTHOUT)