Tag: McCain
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A sucker . . . born every minute
First came the looting of savings and loans across the nation, which, by the standard of today’s economic failures, was a quaint little hold-up. It still gave us this delicious title: The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One by William K. Black. Have you heard of a better title for anything?…
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“K-e-a-t-i-n-g-5”
AP News Dispatch: McCain: Greed created Wall Street’s problems, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Filed at 12:52 p.m. ET TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain says Wall Street’s financial turmoil is the result of unchecked corporate greed.The Republican says government must protect the public from investment schemes too complex for people to understand…
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In jest, maybe
Alright, this piece by New Yorker magazine’s Hendrik Hertzberg is funny, I think: PALINOPSIA A neurologist friend, Dr. Richard Ransohoff, has drawn our attention to an early contribution to the suddenly burgeoning field of palinological studies. It is hoped that this paper, published, in 1989, in the Swiss-based journalEuropean Neurology (Vol. 29, No. 6) may…
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Hollow man
John McCain, King of Lies If, unlike me, you don’t believe John McCain is a bad man, you have to be saddened by what has become of his campaign for the presidency. McCain, at least at one time, gave lip service to high ideals and some principles. He talked about decency. But that was then,…
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Now this is more like it!
Obama spokesperson Bill Burton today released the following statement: “We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern Presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office he…
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“Respect” and other words
There’s this new political advertisement out from the McCain-Palin presidential campaign that again tries to stoke the anger of those Hillary Clinton supporters, you know, “white,” “working-class” and “women” voters still mad at Sen. Barack Obama about the alleged disrespectful treatment of Mrs. Clinton during the primaries. In the McCain campaign’s calculation, Gov. Sarah Palin…
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More McCain lies
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Bridge over ethics
Ethics Adviser Warned Palin About Trooper Issue Letter Described Situation as ‘Grave,’ Called for Apology By JIM CARLTON, Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2008; Page A8 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An informal adviser who has counseled Gov. Sarah Palin on ethics issues urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of the state’s public…
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McCain caught lying
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Lies, lies, lies, never ending lies
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