Tag: 2008 Presidential

Leadership involves more than just showing up (or not showing up)

Filed in National by on September 26, 2008 6 Comments

McCain swooped into Washington yesterday in the name of “Country First”.  Now, I’m not sure I’m for the bailout or against it, but guess what?  Neither is McCain.  Seriously, where does he stand on this bailout?  What is his plan? A statement from the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.: “At today’s Cabinet meeting, John […]

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McCain Has Not Suspended His Campaign

Filed in National by on September 25, 2008 2 Comments

And Jeffrey Toobin calls Bullshit on the media nonsense of the day: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVsOpwjY53E[/youtube] Good for him.  I wrote NPR for being bamboozled by this earlier today.  This campaign is not suspended if your VP nominee is campaigning at Ground Zero, if you are appearing at scheduled events in the morning, and showing up on all […]

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I’m curious

Filed in National by on September 25, 2008 7 Comments

If McCain doesn’t attend the debate tomorrow what will he be doing instead?  For that matter, what is he doing tonight?

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National Hug a Republican Day

Filed in National by on September 25, 2008 10 Comments

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, by unanimous decree by me, today is National Hug a Republican Day. It has been a rough two weeks as Senator McCain’s campaign as it spiraled out of control from the “fundamentals of the economy are strong” gaffe to his suspension of the campaign yesterday. We as Democrats need to stay vigilant and […]

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Biden on Fire!

Filed in National by on September 24, 2008 19 Comments

Joe Biden gives one hell of a speech! From TPM: [T]ime and again, on the most critical national security issues of our time, John McCain’s judgment was wrong. Right after the terrorists attacked us on 9-11, John responded by urging that we consider attacking countries other than Afghanistan, including Iraq, Iran and Syria. In the […]

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It’s time to say it. Keating Five.

Filed in National by on September 23, 2008 3 Comments

Last night Jonathan Alter debunked McCain’s whine that the press is picking on him. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTniK95Vfhs[/youtube] So far the press has given McCain a pass on his role in the last financial crisis. It’s time to break the silence. McCain = Keating Five.

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The upside of sexism

Filed in National by on September 21, 2008 20 Comments

Joe Biden will have to debate Sarah Palin with one arm tied behind his back because… well, she’s a girl. The New York Times has the story. At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. […]

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The Senior Vote and Privatizing Social Security

Filed in National by on September 19, 2008 36 Comments

Cafferty sums it up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN00rFIn8ig[/youtube]   If there’s any issue guaranteed to make Seniors sit up and take notice it’s Social Security.  How will the McCain camp spin its way out of this one?  Answer:  They can’t. Troll Warning:  This isn’t a post on the merits of social security.  It’s a post on McCain’s support […]

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Oh, no she didn’t! Palin/McCain

Filed in National by on September 18, 2008 15 Comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZKQDyL5gzc[/youtube] Freudian slip?  I think not.

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McCain’s Royalty Thinks His Voters Are Rednecks

Filed in National by on September 17, 2008 2 Comments

Here ye! Here ye!  McCain surrogate, Her Royal Highness Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, is speaking: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti60li-FwdQ[/youtube] There you have it. Speaking for normal (non-redneck) Americans everywhere, I’m feeling better identified with already.

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Not your Liberal Media

Filed in National by on September 17, 2008 17 Comments

Wick Allison, a conservative with National Review street cred, speaks the truth about his party. But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went […]

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Let’s Compare Obama and McCain’s New Economy Ads

Filed in National by on September 17, 2008 14 Comments

First, let’s take a look at Obama’s ad. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM7148cTyc[/youtube]   Now let’s see what John McCain has to say. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRg8kaKfLXs[/youtube] Whoa, Rambo!  That’s some pretty tough talk.  Got any specifics to back it up?   What exactly is John McCain’s plan for the economy?  Does he even have one?  

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Fiorina Torpedoes the Talking Point

Filed in National by on September 16, 2008 20 Comments

Priceless: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnBXXssj0KY[/youtube] How many times have you listened to repubs drone on about how business experience specifically prepares you to run a government?  And now you have it — here is a business leader (even one run out of their corporations on a rail, like Fiorina) who pulls open the curtain to note that running […]

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