OXFORD, Miss. — In the post-debate spin room, McCain campaign honcho Steve Schmidt said this about the recent events in Washington surrounding the bailout: It’s been a remarkable last couple of days. The Democratic leaders in Congress tried to pull a pretty big con job on the American people. You know, this notion that they [...]
For tonight’s debate, we are going to try an experiment of combining somebody who watches a lot of politics (that’s me) with somebody who watches a lot of TV (Tuned In’s Jim Poniewozik) for a liveblog. We will probably get started a few minutes before John McCain and Barack Obama do. So go ahead and [...]
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan Straight from the latest McCain pool report, filed by the LA Times’ Bob Drogin, is this quote from advisor Mark Salter about what McCain hopes to achieve in tonight’s debate: “To do well, against a guy who’s a pretty good debater, show presidential leadership, and be able to speak directly to [...]
Some strategists who have prepared presidential candidates for past debates offer a few predictions, and some advice, in a piece I wrote for Time.com. And if you haven’t already, check out this collection of memorable debate moments from the past. Gerald Ford on Poland is particularly cringe-worthy.
Michael: The question that this statement doesn’t really answer is whether all this intervention by McCain got both sides closer to a deal, or whether it would have been easier to reach one if there wasn’t a presidential candidate in the middle of these very delicate negoatiations. I guess we won’t know until we see [...]
The McCain Campaign releases a statement saying the debate is back on, campaign unsuspended: The difference between Barack Obama and John McCain was apparent during the White House meeting yesterday where Barack Obama’s priority was political posturing in his opening monologue defending the package as it stands. John McCain listened to all sides so he [...]
The New York Times, which according to McCain advisers is 150 percent “in the tank” for Barack Obama, reports today on its front page about the proliferating distortions that Obama has deployed in his advertising. Most of these claims, and their factual problems, have been covered before in Swampland–the Spanish-language immigration ad, the Social Security [...]
There are two of them. Justin Fox has a good analysis here. UPDATE: Politically at least, the Cantor plan has a lot of appeal. By insuring these junky mortgage-backed securities, rather than buying them, the government presumably wouldn’t be spending nearly as much money. In fact, it would be getting money from Wall Street, in [...]
