As other commenters have noted, McCain’s new ad — “Painful” — finally corrects (sorta) the income of those families “Obama voted to raised taxes on” that McCain used to talk about. Instead of $32,000 a year, it’s $42,000 a year, which is still a bit off (it should be $41,500) but you can only use round numbers in ads, right?
And I
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The McCain campaign is being ridiculed lately for enticing supporters to post (positive) comments about McCain on blogs to earn points which are then redeemed for exciting John McCain merchandise. Yeah, rewarding supporters with points for being helpful to the campaign is really desperate. And giving people pre-written talking points to …
• I am a bad person for enjoying this exchange.
• I bet you think this song is about you.
• John Dickerson introduces the candidates to lifehacking.
• Women are more scared of dirty old men than tall black guys.
• The “timetables” section is especially amusing.
• Could I have lived my life happily without knowing the
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If you’re worried about Obama hitting back hard enough, look underneath the table. These two ads were put up in Pennsylvania and Ohio (I think.), minus the usual press release announcement.
“Original” is mentioned in the WaPo article, though not the relatively quiet way it was released.
Here’s a fact-check on “Pocket,” which …
My post yesterday about McCain’s hookah-happy donors was based on a WP article that’s now been corrected: Apparently, the couple that owns the Twilight Hookah Lounge donated to Clinton and Giuliani, but not McCain.
So it all makes perfect sense now.
More seriously, the NYT has dug further into the story and found some more …
Ben Smith uncovers this supporter-organized Obama event:
We can’t wait for HRC to see the light on her own, we need to begin praying for her and her supporters now. Please commit to praying for them daily to 1) stop trying to hurt the Obama’s and the Democratic party. 2) Pray God will speak to them all and change their hearts so their
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Perhaps you’ve heard about cable asshat Glenn Beck’s assertion that “The Dark Knight” is a conservative parable endorsing torture and warrantless wiretapping, among other things. The good people of Think Progress took it upon themselves to call Sen. Pat Leahy’s office for a comment, as the liberal senator is apparently a bit of Batman …
I think Rand Beers has the best take on the just-announced Hamdan verdict: “We waited seven years for this?”
Or, in this case, Harry Sargeant:
The bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign on March 12 came from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from D&D Auto Repair in Whittier, the manager of Rite Aid Pharmacy No. 5727, the 30-something owners of the Twilight Hookah Lounge in
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I didn’t even know there was a “Chet Edwards boomlet” until Ezra explained it. His reasoning on why this guy you’ve never heard of (as opposed to some other guy you’ve never heard of) might be Obama’s VP pick:
1) Rep. Artur Davis [has said] …Edwards was the best southern politician in the country.
[snip]
2) Edwards serves a more
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It’s Michael that usually handles the conveying the gist of the enormous amounts of email people on the campaigns’ press lists get every day. But cleaning out my in box this morning, I was struck by the almost absurdist quality the missives can take on, especially when viewed en masse: ICYMI, “Fact check: Broken,” and the wonderfully …
Friend of Swampland, or at least friend of Swampland commenters and my husband, Tom Frank will be reading from his brand-new book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, tonight at Politics and Prose, here in Washington. I can promise from previous experience that he is an extremely entertaining performer, a kind of natural-born …
McCain’s Sturgis trip was supposed to be colorful. I think it was.
Your pool was kept company by a crew of bikers on a balcony above the temporary stores, shouting a host of things (some nice, some not). They threw a few strands of beads our way, encouraging the reporters to perform activity a lá Mardi Gras. (“Do it for Bill
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