According to The Havana Note the Junior Senator from Connecticut has promised to seek a pardon for terrorist Eduardo Arocena.  (h/t C&L)

Before addressing a pro-McCain event in Florida on July 20, 2008, Senator Joe Lieberman was recorded on video telling Miriam Arocena, wife of Eduardo Arocena, the Federally-convicted leader of the Cuban-American terrorist group Omega 7, that he will carry back to Washington her request for a Presidential pardon for her husband. Arocena is serving a mandatory life sentence and was convicted on 25 Federal counts in New York and 24 counts in New York.

I urge you to read the entire piece in The Havana Note

I'm an avid reader and I belong to a book club.  Our book club chose a book that was so incredible I actually sent some money to the author after reading it.

Unless you've read "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson, you'll have no idea what prompted me to do so. Nicholas Kristof in his op ed piece in Sunday's NY Times discusses this book.

Here's a link to Barack Obama's speech regarding the Iraq war.  Enjoy.  I did and I think everyone here will enjoy it too.  Barack is not opposed to all wars, just stupid wars.  I just wanted to join in the fun.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Obama needs to "understand that his words matter." This is in response to Barack Obama:  "I was a little puzzled by the frenzy that I set off by what I thought was a pretty innocuous statement," he said. "I am absolutely committed to ending the war."  

Bounds' words were without apparent irony.

Some words that do matter:

"Mission Accomplished."  (5/1/03)
"Bring 'em on"  (7/2/03)
"The Army we have"  (12/9/04)
"Last throes"  (5/31/05)
"Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran"  (4/19/07)
"I don't care if we're there 100 years."  (1/4/08)

he's just a man.  (h/t JC Superstar).  As I said in several post responses

It concerns me that we democrats lose a lot of elections -- not because we're the minority party, we're not, but because we frequently refuse to stand behind a candidate unless she/he gives us exactly what we want.  I mean exactly. All the time.  The republicans on the other hand stood by their guy despite the fact that he wasn't able to do everything for everyone.  We don't know why Obama did this FISA turnaround, but he's clearly our candidate, our hope for change, so let's quit whining.

The oil companies have lots of $'s, and they have a lot of influence.  As all of us at dkos know, $'s translate into influence in US politics.  What we may not know (at least I didn't) was which congresspeople took money from "big oil", how much money, and how this may have affected their vote.

Has anyone but me wondered why it was so important to give no-bid contracts to Halliburton/KBR?  I understood that it had something to do with Dick Cheney, but what?  He no longer worked for the company, so no more paychecks to him from them.  Right?  Well not quite. Below the fold: from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

I'm a new blog writer, but I really enjoy reading blogs.  I've known since 2003 that blogs such as dailykos would become the single most important innovation to shape and frame political discourse.  

Crooks and Liars has a great diary about what Rush Limbaugh found this week by googling.  Turns out, he wanted to prove that liberals were a bit nutty and even gleefully explained how grateful he is that he doesn't have a college degree.  It seems, though, he likes to google