I'm getting really tired of politicians falling all over themselves trying to keep people in unaffordable homes.  The most recent example is John McCain's call during the debate last night for the federal government to take over bad mortgages.  I am not attacking just McCain's plan - both parties are guilty of this - but it happens to be the one ( Read more... )

Town hall style debates blow.  The two candidates need to be able to talk to each other.  My ability to gauge who "won" the debates is still at about zero, though.  This time I thought John McCain won easily, not because I agree with his statements but because he offered less rambling answers than Obama, but all of the post-debate punditry are ( Read more... )

Wow, the sh*t is just piling up on the John McCain campaign today.  First, he did the about face and will debate Barack Obama tonight (which shouldn't be surprising to anyone, especially since the bailout negotiations disintegrated just when McCain stepped into the fray).  Now a bunch of big name conservative commentators, including George Will, ( Read more... )

So John McCain wants to call a time out on the presidential campaign to deal with the economic crisis?  Does he think we should postpone the election in November too?  Maybe keep Bush in office because of how well he has handled things so far?  We held presidential elections during the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Iraq ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that the Democratic Party has not settled on its nominee yet, the party has started launching attacks on John McCain (one more reason to dislike McCain is that my fingers still want to type "John McClane," which is irritating because I feel bad comparing the badass Die Hard hero to Bush III).  Here the party lets McCain debate ( Read more... )

The endorphin-ridden, post-exercise thought in my last post has been affirmed by none other than Karl Rove in today's Wall Street Journal:

A long Democratic battle doesn't automatically help the Republicans. In fact, it hurts the Republicans in certain ways. Mr. McCain becomes less interesting to the media. Stories about him move off page one and ( Read more... )