McCain calls Iran's government and economy "lousy."

Or: 'The League of Democracies'- as McCain proposes.

Ouch! Mac just bit it bad trying to pronounce Ahmedenegian. And just now "para-stroyka."

'No conditions' is not having tea - says Obama.

Wipe it off the map. Dangerous.

Russia. Unacceptable. KGB-aparatchik-run govt. Behave. Ukraine break-down. Resurgent.

9/11 - safer. do better. long way to go (both). threat. al qaeda. greatest. iraq = al qaeda. fragile sacrifice. peace. prison.

applause.


Ken Silverstein at Harper's:

Surely the most penetrating observation of the night came from McCain, when he said in discussing the beleaguered people of one nation currently enmeshed in an economic crisis: they “have a lousy government, so therefore their economy is lousy.” He was talking about Iranians, but I imagine the sentiment rang true for quite a few Americans as well.