Note: As has happened before, Joe Klein posted on this as I was writing. Don’t miss his take below. In the course of 24-hours, the McCain campaign has gone from coasting towards the GOP nomination to readopting a defensive crouch. The reason: His endorsement yesterday by Texas pastor John Hagee, an influential televangelist with some [...]
John McCain just issued this statement about being endorsed by the extremist nutball preacher John Hagee: “Yesterday, Pastor John Hagee endorsed my candidacy for president in San Antonio, Texas. However, in no way did I intend for his endorsement to suggest that I in turn agree with all of Pastor Hagee’s views, which I obviously [...]
Waco, Texas Some signs that things aren’t going so well: 1. The Red Phone Ad As Karen recounts below, a 24-year-old ad? From Walter Mondale? And easily refutable by Obama–who said, in response, earlier today: “We’ve had a red phone moment in Iraq.” And Clinton voted the wrong way. But the more substantive question is [...]
We’re assuming that Hillary Clinton’s campaign got a discount on this new ad: Considering she got it used and all. This is the one her media consultant Roy Spence did for the Mondale campaign in 1984 (please bear with the intro): The New York Observer’s Steve Kornacki fills us in: The Mondale ad began airing [...]
It’s a Hollywood maxim: If you’ve got a hit, do a sequel. So will.i.am, fresh off his blockbuster “Yes We Can” video for Barack Obama, is back with another. This time he calls it “We Are The Ones.” Like most sequels, it fails to capture the full magic of the original. It has more Hollywood [...]
I’m sure this is simply a coincidence, but the Center for Responsive Politics has discovered that the candidate who gets their support tends to be the one who gave them the most money: For those elected officials who had endorsed a candidate as of Feb. 25, the presidential candidate who gave more money to the [...]
A tour of the ethnic groups: Excellent reporting from the Washington Post on the not very happy members of the Sunni Awakening Councils. The local election law–the most important piece of legislation passed by the Iraqi parliament–is shot down by the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the Shi’ite faction favored by the U.S. Fears that Sadrists [...]
Back when I was a cub reporter at a newspaper bureau in Easthampton, Mass., my colleague and I would play this game: First, come up with an obscure 10-dollar word, then see which one of us could get it past our editors and into the paper. The planning was always more fun than the execution. [...]
