MoveOn.org has decided that they're tired of these jingoistic, unilateral cowboy national elections--they want to build a coalition and involve the international community.

While I hardly sympathize with much of what they want, it's an obvious way around the constraints of raising money from the portion of the American electorate that typically supports them, which is not the most numerous or prosperous. The risk to be managed, of course, is the resulting public perception of Canadian and European money being used to influence US elections. I wonder if they'll have trouble with McCain/Feingold and the FEC in general?

Looks like GWB's plan is working... first we draw all the Jihad imbeciles to Iraq, then we funnel all the worlds nutcase money to the 2004 election... Bring em on!

Latest word is that they're backing off -- the closest thing to foreign money they're taking is donations from holders of green cards in the US.

Uh-huh.

No doubt run through a nice Buddhist temple or two?

After all, Al "I was in the bathroom from all that ice tea" Gore is on-board w/ Moveon.org. He might have some ideas about how to avoid those nasty little "controlling legal authorities."

I had the 'good fortune' to actually catch a MoveOn advert even though I almost never watch TV. The one I saw was pretty much guaranteed to annoy anyone not part of the loony fringes, so as far as I'm concerned they can waste the money of whomever they like. At the end of the day, a well-organized group of idiots are still just idiots.