So two days ago, McCain says that Obama is a "decent family man" (much more than he can say for himself, now that I think about it) on the same day that his campaign releases yet another ad trying to link Obama to terrorism ( Read more... )

The McCain campaign has had some remarkable blunders this summer and fall, with, most memorably, the campaign staff once saying on the record that John McCain does not speak for the McCain campaign. The lack of coherence between the candidate, his veep, and the campaign staff has been an ominous indicator of what the West Wing would look like if ( Read more... )

Sarah Palin likes to sing a song of six-packs, but she doesn't do so without criticism. The aptly named copperwise has responded here:

Sarah Palin et al. like to call us "Joe Six-Pack," and they think we like it too. They think it sounds folksy and homey and cute ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's the day after the second presidential debate, which McCain lost by double-digits, say the snap polls. Today is the day after John McCain introduced a "new idea" (about buying out mortgages and readjusting the principal) which the pundits are pointing out is already in the bailout bill and not new at all.

Biden gave a speech this ( Read more... )

I was looking for something else when I ran across this at Heather Mallick's website. Mallick, a Canadian journalist whose columns are rarely seen outside Canada, has been getting battered by Faux News, the imps and minions of which are enchanted with her facetious aside in a recent piece asserting that Republican men are "sexual inadequates" - ( Read more... )

Oh, please. Chris Cilizza of the Washington Post brings to our attention an ad which appeared in the Wall Street Journal's online edition this morning - not only before the debate, but before McCain blinked and agreed to come. Seein' as to how Ole Miss had spent five-and-a-half million dollars to prepare, the least he could do is show up, even if ( Read more... )

What makes the McCain campaign think that these excuses help them?

"I can't walk and chew gum at the same time" - a paraphrase of McCain's attempt to get out of Friday's debate by claiming he really needs to concentrate on the Fannie-Freddie bailout, though by Tuesday, he still hadn't read the White House's three-page proposal and though he is not ( Read more... )

I've already posted two of these, this one on white privilege and the other on more general issues. Here now is a third from the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof:

Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated ( Read more... )

From Drew Western in the Huffington Post:

The failure to state a clear position on hot-button issues has been a standard Democratic error for decades. Republicans never make this mistake. They've been running on a position on abortion that's at 30% in the polls for years-that life begins at conception, and there's no room for compromise-and this ( Read more... )

Versions of this are floating around as email netlore. The piece makes its own points, without repeating those found here.

Now I understand McCain and Palin

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight...(I hope I'm not offending anyone...)


• If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
• If you grow ( Read more... )