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Obama Picks Up Seventeen Newspaper Endorsements Over Weekend
Editor and Publisher reports that Barack Obama picked up seventeen newspaper endorsements over the weekend, compared to two for John McCain. Their overall tally has Obama leading McCain in endorseme...
Obama on William Ayers
Barack Obama responded to some of the smears from the McCarthy McCain campaign virtually accusing Obama of being a terrorist for his limited association with William Ayers. The Politico has a portio...
David Brooks on Palin and Obama
David Brooks, in an interview for The Atlantic, has described Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer to the Republican party” and has criticized her Bush-like anti-intellectualism: [Sarah Palin] ...
Sarah Palin’s Debate Flow Chart
Aden Nak has exposed Sarah Palin’s debate strategy in the flow chart above. (Click on flow chart for a larger, more readable version.) Update: The above is presented for its humor, as well as ge...
Bill Kristol Shows Why The Repubicans Are Losing
William Kristol has an op-ed today speculating on How McCain Wins. With all the twists we have seen this year it certainly is not impossible that unexpected events could again change the race, but the...
John McCain’s Desperation Effort To Avoid Debating Barack Obama
First John McCain began avoiding the press. Now he is attempting to avoid debating Barack Obama as planned for Friday–just at a time when it is crucial that voters get a chance to hear from the ...
Yepsen on McCain and Palin
David Yepsen of The Des Moines Register isn’t impressed with the Republican ticket: Last week, Democrats succeeded at wrapping the nation’s economic troubles around McCain, who was trying ...
Jed Bartlett’s Advice to Barack Obama
Maureen Dowd described a meeting between Barack Obama and Jed Bartlett of The West Wing as written by Aaron Sorkin. Bartlett explains to Obama while some Americans might not support him: Because the i...
Sarah Palin Believes She Will See Jesus In Her Lifetime
Steve Lopez, reporter for The Los Angeles Times visited Wasilla and found some very scary things. First he spoke with a fan of Sarah Palin, Glenna Edwards: Edwards said she believes, as does Palin, th...
Latest Right Wing Smear Falls Flat In Tying Obama to Ayers
Conservative columnist Stanley Kurtz has been trying hard to make something out of the rather trivial fact that Barack Obama was a member of a committee which also included 60’s radical William ...
George Will Thinks John McCain Has Lost His Head
It has become commonplace to see centrist columnists who have been favorable to McCain write columns opposing him since he resorted to a dishonest Rove-style campaign. It is less expected to see McCai...
Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism
Sam Harris makes some important points on both the dangers of Sarah Palin’s extremist views and the attacks on elitism which have become common this year: The problem, as far as our political pr...
Nicholas Kristof On The Anti-Obama Smear Campaign
Nicholas Kristof writes about the attempts to “otherize” Obama to attempt to make voters afraid to vote for him. He begins with the attempts to portray Obama as being Muslim despite the fa...
New Information on Troopergate
Two new reports keep Troopergate in the news and further embarrass Sarah Palin. ABC News reports on new evidence contradicting Sarah Palin’s account: An internal governmentdocument obtained by A...
Another Conservative For Obama
Wick Allison, a former publisher of The National Review, has endorsed Barack Obama. He might be incorrect on the definition of liberalism, but at least he realizes which candidate would have a more re...
Joe Klein Exposes John McCain’s Lying Game
One remarkable aspect about the coverage of all the lies coming from John McCain is that many in the media are outright calling them lies. Joe Klein, one of many columnists who has changed his mind ab...
Palin’s Honesty Questioned by Both Factcheckers and Conservative Columnist
Everyone seems to be attacking John McCain for not adequately vetting Sarah Palin. Maybe we misjudged him on this one. Considering how McCain’s campaign is now based upon lying, and repeating th...
You Cannot Afford John McCain in The White House–Especially If You Get Sick
In recent posts on John McCain’s health care plan (here, here, and here) I’ve expressed surprise that there has not been more criticism. While people talk of fictitious tax increases from ...
Even A Member of McCain’s Family Is Shocked By How He Has Changed
Many people have already noticed how much John McCain has changed. Instead of delivering straight talk he has been running a campaign so dishonest that even Karl Rove and Fox News have objected. Previ...
McCain’s Radical Health Care Proposals
I’ve pointed out many times that one of McCain’s greatest potential political liabilities is his health care plan. Not only will it do virtually nothing to assist those who lack adequate c...
John McCain: From Maverick to Liar
John McCain has been so dishonest during this campaign that journalists are increasingly outright saying he is lying. US News has a column by John A. Ferrell entitled John McCain’s Journey from ...
Judicial Appointees–A Far More Important Issue Than You Hear in the Sound Bites
One frustration in watching the presidential campaign play out in sound bites and ads is that neither candidate really gives me much reason to vote for them. Fortunately I know far more about the diff...
John McCain’s Very Bad Day
This has been a very bad day for John McCain. Besides losing his post-convention lead in the polls as they return to a tie within the margin of error, the media has increasingly discussed the dishones...
Media Getting Mad At McCain’s Dishonest Tactics
John McCain has long been a creation of the media. The media created the myth that McCain is a maverick, and a moderate who is different from Bush. Just as the media created teh myth of John McCain, t...
New Tie Found Between Palin And Far Right Extremism
During her acceptance speech Sarah Palin quoted an unnamed writer who write, “”We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” Thomas Frank has track...
New Ad Highlights McCain Dishonesty
Yesterday I discussed an ad which represented a new low for the McCain campaign. The ad distorted the meaning of a bill supported by Obama which was intended to teach boundary lessons to children so t...
Questions For Palin
The Anchorage Daily News (which I had not previously expected to be added to the list of newspapers I regularly follow) writes that, “Sarah Palin has been hiding out from hard questions. It took...
Troopergate Report To Be Moved Up as Palin Stonewalls Investigation
ABC News reports that the report on the Troopergate scandal is being moved up: ABC News has exclusively learned that Alaska Senator Hollis French will announce today that he is moving up the release d...
McCain Has Lost The Media
John McCain has managed to go far in politics due to the press uncritically spreading the myth that he is a straight talker, a maverick, and a moderate. The problem with running as a straight talker i...