Today's show will feature a very special reading from Winnie the Pooh that relates to foreign policy (you'll have to listen to find out how) and the Rachel Maddow Show debut of a video made by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) that professes his, um, largeness.

Rachel's guests today are David Bender, host of Air America's Sunday show Politically Direct, and Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

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John McCain's website now has a handy timeline of McCain's leadership on Iraq.  Strangely, it begins 5 months after the war began 

Commies are drilling for oil off the coast of Florida! Actually, they are not.  But that doesn't stop Mean Jean Schmidt