September 4, 2008 – 11:19 am
From Sam Stein’s GOP Convention Drawing Far Fewer Viewers Than Dems: “According to the Nielsen ratings, 14.2 million people viewed the second day (technically the first) of the GOP convention — a full 4.3 million less than watched the Democrats last Tuesday. The majority of viewers were 55 years or older…”
September 3, 2008 – 10:23 pm
Republicans! It’s not about commitment to America! We all understand that McCain is committed to America. It’s not about that! It’s about making wise decisions.
Of course, your argument — or I should say, Guiliani’s argument — about Obama’s votes of “present,” and how executives aren’t allowed to vote “present.” That’s a fair argument.
But the [...]
September 2, 2008 – 10:41 pm
I’m listening to former senator Fred Thompson’s speech right now, and as you would expect from a professional actor, it sounds pretty good. But here’s the thing. Along with the rest of the Republicans, he’s trying to make this election about “character,” with Sen. McCain’s P.O.W. experience as the ultimate benchmark of any question of [...]
August 29, 2008 – 01:34 pm
From the NY Times’ McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate: “In a surprise move, Senator John McCain announced here Friday that he had chosen Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate, shaking up the political world at a time when his campaign has been trying to attract women, especially disaffected supporters of Senator [...]
August 21, 2008 – 11:16 am
[Hat tip to the Jed Report for the video]
In case you’re watching the video and not catching it, Sen. McCain is saying that he’d have nominated Cheney as his vice-president in 2000. He’s also saying that Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Powell are the strongest national security team we’ve ever had.
And this is not a knee-jerk supporting-the-president-in-the-wake-of-9/11 [...]
August 15, 2008 – 10:35 am
From Rolling Stone’s Candidates for Sale: “The truth is that the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain are being inundated with cash from more or less exactly the same gorgons of the corporate scene. From Wall Street to the Big Oil powerhouses to the military-industrial complex, America’s fat-cat business leaders know that the [...]
August 8, 2008 – 12:19 pm
From Paul Krugman’s Know-Nothing Politics: “Know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: ‘Real men don’t think things through.’”
This guy can piss me off like no other.
Take a look at an excerpt from Bill Kristol’s recent Op-Ed What Obama Left Out, which is about Sen. Obama’s commencement speech at Wesleyan this weekend:
“Obama chooses to introduce the notion of public service…but there’s one obvious path of service Obama doesn’t recommend — or even mention: [...]
From The New Republic’s Rotten On The Inside: “In a remarkably open rebellion, Republican members of Congress and party strategists decried Bush’s role in bringing down the Republican ‘brand,’ the party’s failure to offer new policies, and the futility of campaigns rooted in the 1980s and ’90s. Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, who is retiring, [...]
March 25, 2008 – 10:38 am
From Huffington Post’s A McCain Moment: Do You Want Four More Years of This?: “Yes, John McCain is a war hero, and yes, we’re all grateful for his service during the Vietnam war. But as McCain’s embarrassing foreign fact-finding fiascos make clear: having acted heroically in a foreign war does not magically translate into foreign [...]
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