Tag: McCain
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Tribune endorsement
FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD Barack Obama for president 2:33 PM CDT, October 17, 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Roanoke, Va. today. (Getty photo by Joe Raedle / October 17, 2008) However this election turns out, it will dramatically advance America’s slow progress toward equality and inclusion. It took Abraham Lincoln’s…
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NYT Editorial-The Acorn Story
In Wednesday night’s debate, John McCain warned that a group called Acorn is “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and “may be destroying the fabric of democracy.” Viewers may have been wondering what Mr. McCain was talking about. So were we. Acorn is a nonprofit group that…
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From Deborah’s blog to God’s . . .
My Facebook friend Deborah White (her blog is called Deborah’s US Liberal Politics Blog) has followed the campaigns, watched all the debates, done the research, and come up with Five Reasons Why McCain Will Lose the ’08 Election, Thursday October 16, 2008 Barack Obama decisively won all three presidential debates because of his many thoughtful…
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‘Joe the Liar’
(Photo: Jim Young/Reuters) Wurzelbacher speaking to Sen. Barack Obama about taxes while the candidate campaigned near Toledo, Ohio, last week. And so “Joe the Plumber” dies a swift, ignominious death. In so doing, he enters the pantheon of fictitious Republican agitprop–such as Reagan’s apocryphal Cadillac-driving welfare queens–that have no basis in reality. “Joe the Plumber,”…
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Debate Reaction
This was by far the worst debate performance for each candidate. Senator Obama was flat and professorial for most of the night. He was clearly in run-out-the-clock mode, wanting to stay cool and avoid any game-changing mistakes. That’s fine as a strategy, but he faltered on execution. Defense does not mean giving long-winded, professorial answers.…
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Joe the plumber is . . . racist
His tone dripping with condescension, the man that Sen. John McCain brought up in the final presidential debate could barely contain his dislike for Sen. Barack Obama, finally, calling him Sammy Davis Jr at the end of the interview. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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It would be Nice if the Final Debate was a True Debate
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: As someone who had the pleasure of coaching and judging competitive debate and forensics, let me begin by saying the previous forums for both presidential and vice presidential debates have been very loose on the rules. It would be so nice if the debate format for…
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That tool, Tavis Smiley
Okay. I went to the 92nd Street Y two Saturday evenings ago to see Tavis Smiley interview Cornel West. I don’t care for Smiley, but I went because I was entertaining a friend’s guest from London (a sister) who wanted to go — real bad. About halfway through the evening, I noticed she was leaning…
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. . . as maverick does
Rolling Stone magazine writer Tim Dickinson takes the cudgel to John McCain carefully (and fraudulently) crafted image as a maverick, straight-talking outsider in Washington. In “Make-Believe Maverick,” Dickinson dug deep and excavated many things the public either does not know about Sen. John McCain, or knows it but venerates the man anyway despite all available…
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Keating 5 ring a bell?
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: Dick Cheney with lipstick in her best wink wink, nod nod, curtsy curtsy, wiggle wiggle, bratty girl whine is really desperate to turn this election around on fear and smear politics. Fact is Obama’s connection to William Ayers has been dissected to death and it comes…