By Leonard Doyle

Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein, (the "Anoymous" author of the Clinton era blockbuster Primary Colours) says John McCain's suggestions that Barack Obama is willing to lose a war to win an election were the most outrageous he had ever heard by a major party candidate.

On his blog he slammed the remark saying:

"This is the ninth presidential campaign I've covered. I can't remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency. How sad."

Here's Klein discussing it on CNN:

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By Leonard Doyle

Jesse Jackson's fury at Barack Obama seems to know no bounds. He resents that Obama has eclipsed him in his native Chicago and seethes that the much younger Obama has taken his place in the pantheon of black political leaders.

Last year he complained the Obama wasnt doing enough to speak out about a racially motivated incident in the town of Jena saying  "If I were a candidate, I'd be all over Jena".

Understandably Obama has been careful not to draw him into his inner circle of advisers.

Now Jackson has he has made his resentful feelings known again, this time  in a vulgar tirade  caught by a live mic as Jackson prepared to be interviewed by Fox News in its Chicago studio.

By Leonard Doyle

Obama's got a thing about Abe Lincoln and he's already given thought to getting the White House Lincoln bedroom back in shape - by throwing out the flat screen TV.

At a town hall-style meeting in Fargo, North Dakota he was asked about what makeover plans he had for the Lincoln Bedroom. Obama described visiting the White House soon after he became a U.S. senator:

"You have all these mementos of Abraham Lincoln, but you have this flat-screen TV in there," Obama told the crowd at the outdoor event.

"I thought to myself, 'Now, who stays in the Lincoln Bedroom and watches [ESPN's] 'Sports Center'? You've got your clicker...  That didn't seem to me to be appropriate. So I might take out the TV, I don't know.

"You should read when you're in the Lincoln Bedroom! Reread the Gettysburg Address. Don't watch TV."