McCain hits Clinton, Obama on judicial philosophy.

I’m still learning the arbitrary John McCain rules of engagement. Questioning Senator Obama on his connection to an anti-American loon like Jeremiah Wright, and by extension questioning Obama’s personal core ideology, is out of bounds…at least according to the future GOP nominee, it is. Apparently, though, hitting him on being an ideologue is fair play. Well, that’s good. I’m glad Senator McCain is “allowing” that. Setting my misgivings about McCain’s consistency aside, the following statement is spot on…

Senators Obama and Clinton have very different ideas from my own. They are both lawyers themselves, and don’t seem to mind at all when fundamental questions of social policy are preemptively decided by judges instead of by the people and their elected representatives. Nor have they raised objections to the unfair treatment of judicial nominees.

More on Engram.

More from Farnsworth on the PI blog…

WORD OF THE DAY
Bobby. As in, Engram – the team’s leading receiver who is skipping this voluntary camp because he wants a new contract.

In a pay-for-play world, Engram deserves more than the $1.7 million he’s scheduled to make. He did, after all, set a franchise record with 94 receptions last season.

But the club says it isn’t going to budge. Engram signed a two-year, $3.4 million deal last year, and the team will not revisit his contract situation until after this season. It also has been pointed out that when Engram missed nine games in 2006 with a thyroid condition, the club didn’t ask for a refund on his $820,000 salary.

It’s a tit-for-tat situation, at best.

Pretty disgraceful for the Seahawks to treat one of their longstanding loyal players this way. For as much as there is to be proud of with this team, this stance toward Bobby Engram is disheartening.

If this remains a holdout situation that disrupts the actual training camp, or, God forbid, the regular season…I will hold the club much more accountable than the player. The owners hold all the leverage over the players, and for the most part I’m under the impression that fans are fine with that. I, for one, am not. I still hope Bobby gets a raise.

Bobby Engram skips mini-camp, unhappy with contract.

The reliable Clare Farnsworth reports:

Bobby Engram’s absence from Monday’s first practice in the Seahawks’ veteran’s camp is related to him being unhappy with his contract.

I got word of this Monday, but couldn’t nail it down from more than one source so I didn’t go with it. But the news already has been reported, so …

Engram is scheduled to make a base salary of $1.7 million this season, as part of the two-year, $3.4 million contract he signed in 2007.

I’m assuming this will put me in the minority among Seahawk fans, but I’m absolutely on Engram’s side here. More after the jump…