Tag: Obama
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The Midnight Hour The words: Senator McCain just doesn’t get it. He doesn’t understand that the storm hitting Wall Street hit Main Street long ago. That’s why his first response to the greatest financial meltdown in generations was a Katrina-like response. Sort of stood there. Said the fundamentals of the economy are strong. That’s why…
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John Nichols in The Nation
Sen. Barack Obama, in this ad, reads the situation right. He should set an alternative path to whatever Bush and McCain are proposing. The plan Bush has and what the crowd in Washington want to do is exactly the kind of plans Obama should run away from: Mr. Nichols reads the situation just right. An…
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Say hi, Vlad
HuffPo Wanda Sykes > SYKES: Well, you know, I watched the convention. you know, watching the Democratic Convention, it felt like America. You know, it looked like America. It was hopeful and it was positive and, you know, everybody holding hands. And then I watched the Republican Convention. It was like watching a meeting in…
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Stone throwers
Should not live in glass houses John McCain was Chuck Keating’s cabana boy How could McCain, a man with his background, try to falsely tie Sen. Barack Obama to former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines? McCain, corrupt and out of his depth, is beginning to show he has no plan, no scruples, and that he…
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Joe Biden @ St. Claire Shores, MI
Biden: The Case for Change Transcript: Eight years ago, a man ran for President who claimed he was different, not a typical Republican. He called himself, you remember, he called himself a reformer. He admitted that his Party, the Republican Party, had been wrong about a number of things in times past. He promised us,…
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John, the tool
McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition By Michael D. Shear, Washington Post Staff Writer, Wednesday, September 17, 2008; A01 A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial…
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An appeal
“Plan for Change” Ad Transcript: In the past few weeks, Wall Street’s been rocked as banks closed and markets tumbled. But for many of you — the people I’ve met in town halls, backyards and diners across America — our troubled economy isn’t news. 600,000 Americans have lost their jobs since January. Paychecks are flat…
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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…