ABC News blog article on McCain's announcement that he will suspend his campaign in order to focus on the current financial crisis contains the following response from Obama to his request they postpone their first debate, scheduled for this Friday ( Read more... )

It's been said often and again that Sen. John McCain's service during Viet Nam wasn't as honorable as some would like to claim. I myself have repeated the "five crashed planes" statement without having any direct attribution for it. FactCheck, a very useful and reputable website during elections and any other time of year, has researched the five ( Read more... )

So Obama raised the stakes with his acceptance speech last night like it was the last hand at the world poker championships.

McCain's attempt to see his bet by putting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the table looks more like an attempt to hire a cocktail waitress. And I apologize to cocktail waitresses for the analogy.

PS - Yes, VPILF is a real ( Read more... )

I'm amongst the set of people who sympathized somewhat with Hillary Clinton's supporters while finding the rabidness some of them achieved to be highly distasteful. My order of support for the Democratic nomination ran Richardson, Edwards, Obama, *vague cloud*, Clinton, but I'd have voted for her if she'd won without whining about it too much ( Read more... )

The official story of the USS Forrestal fire says the missile that hit the jet fighter that was either manned by John McCain or the one next to him was a surprise malfunction in a missile system with a known track record of issues that nobody had done anything about. Back in the day, though, the press wasn't so sure about thatAs for the other four ( Read more... )

I'm taking no-money bets as of now on who, when, and where the first right-wing commentator on cable or broadcast TV or printed in mainstream newspapers (the bloggers are likely already getting to this one, so they don't count) will slip and use a recognizable racial slur against Barack Obama instead of the code they've been using so far (i.e., ( Read more... )

John McCain failed to answer my prayers and didn't straddle a chopper at Sturgis. Instead, he got caught on video saying he encouraged his wife to enter the Miss Buffalo Chip contest at the rally. Add his calling her a cunt and trollop in public into the mix, and I think we need to stop calling Cindy McCain a trophy wife. People usually treat their ( Read more... )

I beseech you, gods of political maneuvering and wisdom, to continue to cloud the judgment of the John McCain campaign and lead them into temptation that may deliver us from evil. McCain is going to appear at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally next month. I pray that his party machine will decide the best photo op in the world would be to put him in ( Read more... )

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild has so far declined to contribute to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign while having supported Sen. Hillary Clinton's because she considers Obama to be an elitist.

Phil Gramm, senior economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, claimed that the recession is a "mental recession" and that the United States is becoming a nation of ( Read more... )

Buried in this article about Chuck Berry's political preferences, the note is made that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been using ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" as his campaign song. A choral hook that runs,

If you change your mind
On the first in line
Honey, I'm still free
Take a chance on meis what he ( Read more... )