The hyperbolic tone was just what jittery markets–and a jittery nation needed–and, according to the New York Times, he got a fair number of his facts wrong and generally misrepresented Obama, or took him out of context, on just about everything.
You know it’s bad for Republicans when…two new polls out of the Old Dominion give the Democratic candidate for president a double digit lead there…when three recent polls show John McCain trailing by double digits in the state that made him a national political figure…and when a new survey of Minnesotans suggests Al Franken could [...]
At around 3:30 p.m. Monday, CNN provided a perfect illustration for the current moment in this presidential race. When John McCain took the stage in Albuquerque, N.M., about two thirds of the screen was consumed by a tight zoom of the big board above the trading floor on Wall Street–giant numbers showing a dramatic collapse [...]
The St. Pete Times reports that Florida’s GOP Chairman is getting a cold shoulder from the McCain campaign, after a meeting last week in which he complained about the quality of its ground operation there: Palin’s high-profile visit, her second to Florida, comes at a pivotal time. Polls show Democrat Barack Obama is now reaping [...]
Tommy Vietor, attack puppy: “On a day when the markets are plunging and the credit crisis is putting millions of jobs at risk, the one truly angry candidate in this race kept up his strategy of ‘turning the page’ on the economy by unleashing another frustrated tirade against Barack Obama. And if John McCain is [...]
McCain’s at an Albequerque event happening as I type; his prepared remarks have him taking his most direct jabs at Obama yet: This is the agenda I have set before my fellow citizens. And the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent. Even at this late hour in the [...]
• “Mistress Johanna, owner of Le Salon DeSade, and her business partner are drafting paperwork to create DomPAC to help lobby lawmakers to rewrite prostitution laws to protect BDSM practices.” [Jezebel] • “‘You let me down. Yes ‘me’–me and everyone else who has ever defended you,’ wrote Cohen–again! Pity poor Richard, who gives so much [...]
Child is father to the man, etc. From TNR’s rather exhaustive look at Palin’s formative years: But Palin compensated for what she lacked in talent (and height) with a freakish intensity. When I asked Elwyn Fischer, another classmate, how Palin got the nickname “barracuda,” he thought it had to do with “that little grin thing [...]
I’m of two minds about how to deal with the McCain campaign’s further descent into ugliness. Their strategy is simple: you throw crap against a wall and then giggle as the media try to analyze the putresence in a way that conveys a sense of balance: “Well, it is bull-pucky, but the splatter pattern is [...]
In case your Monday morning started out too cheerfully: The researchers found most children are aware that women and minorities have been excluded from the U.S. presidency. Although most of the children believed people of all races and genders should be president, they offered surprising answers as to why only white males have held the [...]
