September 26, 2008 – 03:14 pm
From Sam Stein’s Ex-Adviser: McCain “Blinked,” Campaign “Governed By Tactics, Not Ideology”: “‘[The 'canceled debate' charade] just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology,’ said Republican consultant Craig Shirley, who advised McCain earlier in this cycle. ‘In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The ’steady hand in a storm’ argument [...]
September 26, 2008 – 03:08 pm
From Carl Bernstein’s (as in Woodward and Bernstein) The Palin Pick — The Devolution of McCain: “The issue of Palin’s relative ignorance about international affairs and the larger world beyond America’s shores (compared to previous vice presidential nominees), her attendant arrogance in seeming to revel in it, and McCain’s decision to subject the country to [...]
September 23, 2008 – 12:46 pm
From George Will’s McCain Loses His Head: “It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can [...]
September 22, 2008 – 01:34 pm
Original artwork by David Rosen
Debates:
September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
October 15, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Each debate will [...]
September 22, 2008 – 09:23 am
Make sure you check out Heart’s (as in the band who wrote “Barracuda”’s) Fuck You John Mccain letter. It’s as if they took a page from the writing stylings of our own lovely Dave.
September 19, 2008 – 02:47 pm
From James Moore’s A Nation of Village Idiots: “Let’s just consider the money. The public bailout of insurance giant (becoming a dwarf) AIG is estimated at $85 billion. According to one report, that’s more than the Bush administration spent on Aid to Families with Dependent Children during his entire time in office. That amount of [...]
September 18, 2008 – 03:01 pm
From TIME’s John McCain and the Lying Game: “It’s gotten so intense that we in the media have slipped our normal rules as well. Usually when a candidate tells something less than the truth, we mince words. We use euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy … or, as the Associated Press put it, ‘McCain’s claims skirt [...]
September 16, 2008 – 10:28 pm
From Bob Herbert’s McCain’s Radical Agenda: “A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan. There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much attention because the chatter in [...]
September 16, 2008 – 03:01 am
It’s no secret that I am a supporter of Sen. Obama. I have donated to his campaign and I have unwavering faith that he will be a better president than Sen. John McCain.
It’s also no secret that I support a full withdrawal from Iraq. I once supported a rapid withdrawal, but on most days, I [...]
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