Posts Tagged ‘McCain’
Pass the popcorn, it’s Republican Fight Week
Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says
“[Palin] is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a damaging [...]
Pew Research: McCain collapses in latest national poll
The latest Pew Research poll shows Obama with his widest margin ever over McCain, 53% to 39%.
Failin’ Palin must have been sleeping during 8th grade civics class because yesterday she said the vice president is “in charge of the United States Senate.”
What a freaking moron.
McCain campaign quandry. Conflicting slime attempts
From the comments on Political Insider’s post about the multiple messages emerging from the erratic McCain campaign.
The reason the McCain campaign has resisted using a Jeremiah Wright attack is simple. Wright is a Christian minister, and the campaign does not want to contradict the Obama Muslim rumours that are being peddled on McCain’s behalf via [...]
Current poll data shows Obama lead
The well-regarded FiveThirtyEight.com Super Tracker projects Obama up by 4.9% on election day.
The Daily Kos tracking poll, which aggregates results from several polls, show a slight bounce for Obama and drop for McCain after three days of McCain gains, this before the Powell endorsement. That outlier Zogby poll of a few days ago has reversed [...]
The angriest man in America
From Margaret and Helen. Margaret does most of the blogging, she’s 82.
Joe the Plumber? Joe Six Pack? The new McCain strategy seems to be banking on a lot of guys named Joe with a beer in one hand and a pipe wrench in the other. Is this a political campaign or a dating service for [...]
John Sidney McCain jumps the tracks
The oracle that is the Internet Anagram Server returns the following for “John Sidney McCain”
John Is Mendicancy
Achy Demonic Jinns
Cosmic Ninny Jehad
Comic Hyena Djinns
All of which makes about as much sense as the McCain campaign these past few days. Let’s see if I have this right. McCain was going to release a major new economic proposal [...]
Watching the McCain campaign self-destruct
Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong [...]
Keating Economics
Here it is. The new Obama campaign video about McCain and the Keating Five, and their part in the scandal that led to the collapse of 1,000 banks – and inexorably to the present day meltdown. You can view and download it from Keating Economics.
Servers are jammed now, even YouTube. Alternate site. BitTorrent.
Obama puts on the brass knuckles. McCain and the Keating Five bank scandal
Keating Economics: John McCain and the makings of a financial scandal goes live Monday Noon EDT with a 13 minute video about John McCain role’s in the Keating Five bank scandal. (This video is a 35 second teaser.)
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Remember, the Keating Five isn’t just another scandal, it’s a financial scandal in which John McCain and [...]
Mr. Grumpy bangs rattle on high chair
McCain says Obama’s lead is growing because “life isn’t fair“
On McCain suspending his campaign
Pelosi: “We have to be able to do a couple of things at once. That’s what leadership requires.”
Barney Frank: “It’s the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys.”
Sen. Schumer: “Just weird…”
Harry Reid: Stay away. “We need leadership; not a campaign photo op.”
David Letterman: “You don’t suspend your campaign. This doesn’t [...]
Headline of the Day: The pain in Spain falls mainly on McCain
A reporter asked McCain whether, if elected, he would receive [Prime Minister of Spain] Zapatero in the White House. McCain answered, “Honestly, I have to analyze our relationships, situations, and priorities, but I can assure you that I will establish closer relationships with our friends, and I will stand up to those who want to [...]
Spread the meme. Republicans are the party that wrecked America
Jim Kunstler on the current financial crisis
So, to begin this process, and to clarify the situation, I urge readers of this blog to identify the Republican Party by its new brand-name: the party that wrecked America. At least, then, we can reinstate one cardinal value into the juddering structure of what we claim to believe: [...]
