A side-effect of the McCain/Palin hatefest? Probably.
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It’s what McCain wants in order to win. Whatever it takes.
The RNC starts running ads for McCain in Florida and North Carolina (both states that went for Bush), as well as trying to snag that wildcard electoral vote in Maine (that won’t matter).
De-fense! De-fense!
Never mind what I said before, it was a smear job, I did nothing wrong. Maverick!
Nearly 20 years of John McCain’s contrition over his role in a 1980s banking scandal vanished this week in 17 minutes and 30 seconds.
It took that long for John Dowd, McCain’s lawyer in the Keating Five investigation, to make the mea culpas disappear in a telephone conference call with reporters.
Dowd said Monday the Arizona senator, now the Republican presidential nominee, was the victim of “a classic political smear job” and a “cheap shot” by Democrats who investigated him. The lawyer said the Democratic chairman of the Senate ethics committee during the investigation was a “stooge” of his leadership.
Fox News needed an anti-Obama voice so badly they picked up an anti-semite and pushed him on air.
Nairobi, Kenya.
McCain: Ayers! Chicago Politician! Black Guy!
When America goes through adversity they need a steady hand at the helm. Part of the reason we’re on such shaky ground is that we are being led by the least popular president since polling began.
Any more of this and there won’t be an America to bail out.
John McCain’s campaign is just George Wallace in this century.
The Washington Times (!) finds that John McCain described the military in the exact same way Barack Obama described the military. But according to McCain, Obama’s remarks were “dishonorable”.
When even the Washington Times realizes you’re a liar, you have problems.
Put aside the crazy attacks coming from Palin intended to whip up terrorist/racist feelings, and simply look at what she does as a political character. What the hell kind of person is this to run for national office? I’m serious. She could be pro-choice and anti-war and I would say Sarah Palin sounds like a ninny. That fake accent (it goes in and out depending on who she’s talking to), the inability to speak properly, the phony down home phrasing. It’s like a bad movie version of a politician, but she’s real.
Republican or Democrat, WTF? Is the right so desperate that they not only look at this sort of person and see her acceptable, but in fact find her so worthy of praise many of them wish she were at the top of the ticket?
You have got to be kidding me. Unacceptable.
Less than a week after the federal government committed $85 billion to bail out AIG, executives of the giant AIG insurance company headed for a week-long retreat at a luxury resort and spa, the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, California, Congressional investigators revealed today.
“Rooms at this resort can cost over $1,000 a night,” Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) said this morning as his committee continued its investigation of Wall Street and its CEOs.
AIG documents obtained by Waxman’s investigators show the company paid more than $440,000 for the retreat, including nearly $200,000 for rooms, $150,000 for meals and $23,000 in spa charges.
“Their getting their pedicures and their manicures and the American people are paying for that,” said Cong. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
Republicans on economics.
The top congressional budget analyst says pension plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months.
Peter Orszag told a House panel on Tuesday that the losses are likely to force many workers to hold off on major purchases and delay their retirements.
A few weeks ago, when the unvetted Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s running mate, I said she was a “base pick”. Some of my readers on the right disagreed with me, arguing that Palin would appeal to independents, and even the McCain campaign seemed to believe that the intellectually uncurious Sarah Palin would appeal to disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters.
As events have played out, it turns out I was right. Sarah Palin exists on the Republican ticket to get conservatives riled up. She acts something like a wind-up version of the Fox News Channel, railing at the “liberal media”, whipping up right-wing radio style frenzies about the scary, strange black world of Barack Obama. Palin is the walking and talking symbol of the 20-something percent of people who still think Bush is a good president.
The upside for Democrats is that Palin is precisely the sort of person who turns off independents and motivates Democrats. If some had been lured into a false sense of security that John McCain would run an honest, moderate campaign as he once promised, Palin tells us that that John McCain died a long time ago. McCain/Palin is a promise that the slash and burn politics of the George Bush era, the era in which the president of the United States has taken an unprecedented role as the divider of the nation, would get worse. For the right Bush/Cheney is now the standard.
Thats a heck of a motivator for the rest of us in normal America.
It’s always a conspiracy with them.
Always a damn conspiracy.
No, I’m not talking about the secret plot by George Soros and Warren Buffet to destroy the U.S. economy with the aid of communists, nonprofit groups, the mainstream media and voodoo priests in order to elect Barack Obama. Oh crap, said too much.
No, I’m talking about the fact that the right-wing “comedy” American Carol got absolutely crushed at the box office this weekend and that conservatives are not blaming a movie that’s got a whopping 15% on Rotten Tomatoes (by comparison Beverly Hills Chihuahua has a 42% rating) for the failure. No. It’s the liberal movie theater owner conspiracy. Even worse, the creators of the movie are fanning the flames over this.
You hear the same thing when right-wingers write their latest conservative book club bulk-buying boosted diatribe and then complain about those liberal book store employees doing all sorts of dastardly deeds like hiding their stupid books. I’m a chronic book store patron and it never fails that the latest right-wing screed gets prominent placement at the front of the store in such conservative enclaves as Harvard Square or Dupont Circle.
The invisible hand of the free market has decided, and like the billionaires on Wall Street begging for a bailout it seems conservatives are not real high on the free market in actual practice.
RELATED: Oliver Stone’s “W” is not going to be a fair movie. It is preaching to the converted like me. I would like to see a straightforward movie done on the Bush presidency (and Clinton as well) but the trailer looks funny and I’m probably gonna go see it anyway. On the other hand Frost/Nixon looks really good.
Yes… Yes… Give In To The Dark Side…
Sarah Palin’s been unleashed.
In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
* Earth from Above
Awesome pictures. Awesome.
* Hilarious literal version of A-Ha’s “Take On Me”
* When TV writers just throw computer terms in it produces massive FAIL
* Maverick family rejects John McCain
* Business Cool Toward McCain’s Health Coverage Plan
* “Run on the bank” viral email
A sign of the times
In the last week or so, I’ve seen a repeated mantra on conservative blogs and forums as the poll numbers have shifted more towards Sen. Obama: Kerry led in the polls going into the 2004 election. Now, we all lived through that election and I was pretty damn sure Kerry was behind. I remember staring at the polls, hoping Kerry would get over his deficit. But I checked on the numbers anyway. Here’s what the average of the major polls by RealClearPolitics was:
So, while the final number was off, the majority of the polling saw a win for Bush. In many ways, the current polling chart looks quite similar. But with, you know, good guys in the lead. This sort of throws a monkey wrench in the growing conservative conspiracy theory that the polls are liberally biased (I kid you not, go read a thread on Hot Air or Free Republic in the next few days).
I’m the last one who will admit that I know for sure Sen. Obama is going to win. There are a lot of variables at play. But I feel positive about the likely result. I think Obama has the momentum, money, and support to win.
I have a strong feeling Barack Obama will be our next president. And if that happens, everything… everything changes.
ALSO: I should take this moment and note that there are few things I loathe more than undecided voters. Obama and McCain have been campaigning for this thing for almost two years now. They’ve both participated in debates, advertised all over the country, and been the subject of thousands of news stories. The general election for the most powerful nation in the world is 28 days away and you’re telling me that you’re still unsure? Well then I’m sorry, you don’t get to vote. If only.
John McCain’s campaign is criticizing Barack Obama for his ties to a former radical who engaged in violent acts four decades ago, but McCain himself was closely connected to a private group that supplied aid to rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua during the Iran-Contra affair.
The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.
The council’s founder, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain was launching his political career in Arizona. Singlaub said McCain was a supporter but not an active member in the group.
Geese, gander, etc.
Imagine that, dear.
The FEC sent a letter to Sen. John McCain’s campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about ‘contributions that appear to exceed the limits.’
The letter is accompanied by a nine-page list showing scores of overages from McCain’s August campaign finance report, including nearly $13,000 from Texas rancher Ray R. Barrett Jr.; $9,200 from an Iraqi security consultant, H. Carter Andress; and $5,000 from Joseph F. Davolio, an executive at a major national liquor, beer and wine distributor.
‘Please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and/or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question,’ the letter from the FEC’s senior campaign finance analyst, Leah S. Palmer, says. ‘The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem.’
Funny how we haven’t heard about this until now.
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