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Questions Remain on Transparency of Candidates' Campaign Financin…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 30th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Deb Cupples can follow up on this, but this article from Open Secrets makes it clear that the Obama campaign is holding back on providing full information about donors---though McCain has been more cooperative than Obama. read more
Cockney Robin is Afraid of Bill Kristol
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 28th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Cockney Robin | Somebody hold me. Mr. William (Bill) Kristol is at it again (in an op-ed disturbingly entitled 'Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid'). He is striking fear into my guileless British heart by his claim to have been frightened into an attack of read more
Put Out (More Big Red) Flags!: The Right React to the Obama Spee…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 25th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Cockney Robin | Damozel already covered the Berlin speech, but a quick review shows that right-wing bloggers are under-represented. With the help of the indispensable Memeorandum, I thought I'd spend a little time gauging the reaction on the right read more
McCain's Foreign Policy Cred Is Down the Latrine
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
Teh Nutroots | Yep, more on McCain. Damozel already posted something on this. The real moral is getting lost in all the quibbling over details. The REAL point is that McCain's military experience doesn't translate into superior understanding of forei read more
Obama Claims Credit for the Wrong Thing; Meanwhile, McCain Demons…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 24th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Obama's getting called out for embellishing because of a misstatement to the Israeli Prime Minister. Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill read more
McCain Channels the Rove Within
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 23rd 2008 by Cockney Robin
By Damozel | Here's what McCain said: This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order read more
McCain on the Surge: Deliberate Distortion, Memory Failure, or R…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 23rd 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Yesterday, Elrod commented at TMV on misstatements by John McCain which he made during his interview with Katie Couric. ‘Mysteriously,’ these were not aired. This misstatement isn’t another amusing gaffe by a crusty old maverick; t read more
Oil Executives Approve McCain's Awesome Drilling Plans
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 22nd 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Here's John McCain's energy policy: Via D-Day: My friends, we have to drill off shore. We have to do it. It's out there and we can do it. And we can do that. The oil executives say within a couple of years we could be seeing results from read more
Obama: Currently Winning the Iraq Argument
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 22nd 2008 by Cockney Robin
Posted by Damozel | Shaun Mullen discusses the ramifications for McCain’s of McCain’s argument here. Michael Stickings rounds up commentary by bloggers here; This piece rounds up related quotes and commentary, including a couple of fairly lame co read more
John McCain: He's So Well Seasoned!
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 22nd 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Politico sez (to sum up): McCain's frequent verbal mistakes remind voters he's an old guy. Republicans would like to make the case that McCain is seasoned and Obama is a callow newcomer to the public stage. But that’ll be harder if he read more
The Difference Between Obama & McCain on Iraq: When Can Withdraw…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 20th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel: Here's the difference as I understand it between Obama's Iraq commitment and McCain's: Obama thinks that most conditions have been met for us to begin troop withdrawals and believes that withdrawals should progress as quickly as 'conditio read more
Jon Stewart on the Consistency of the Bush Administration; the Pa…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 20th 2008 by Cockney Robin
Lou Dobbs: Pinata-American? read more
McCain's Economy Illustrated
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 20th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | In re: the Gramm resignation and via Silent Patriot at Crooks and Liars, this reminder from Move On: Because: 'McCain’s campaign co-chair Phil Gramm had to step down because of controversy over his comment that we were in the middle of read more
Maliki Tries to Unsay What We All Know He Said: A Buck Naked Blo…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 20th 2008 by Cockney Robin
Posted by Damozel | Re: The value to Obama of Maliki's statement (discussed here), Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars says; 'Ooh, that’s gotta leave a mark when you make your campaign all about your foreign policy expertise.' But Josh Marshall wonder read more
Iraqi PM Endorses Obama's 16-Month Withdrawal Plan
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 19th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Here's the piece in Reuters. Certainly Maliki made it clear before now that his government wants us out. Here's what he has said about the 16-month time frame: When asked in and interview with SPIEGEL when he thinks US troops should leav read more
Media Narrative vs. the Real Campaign, part 2: uniting the party
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 18th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Adam | As I mentioned in part 1, the media has a strong incentive to create issues where McCain seems to "beat" Obama, because this helps create the impression that McCain and Obama are locked in a tight race, despite strong evidence otherwise. In read more
JibJab's Newest: 'It's Time for Some Campaignin' (Bonus Nostalgi…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 18th 2008 by Cockney Robin
...to the Tune of 'The Times They Are A-Changin'.' Obama's riff on change is my favorite bit. Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! read more
Hillary & Obama, Fund-Raising (and The Amazing Interactive Map),…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 18th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | This is an AP article saying that Bill Clinton is ready and willing to do whatever Obama asks of him, including (maybe) speaking on his behalf at the convention. I won't quote from it, but I'm thinking it's bad news for PUMAs who want to read more
Attention, 'McCain Democrats': Two Federal Court Detainee Decisi…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 16th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | I am going to say it again: If you are a Democrat, think hard about presidential powers before you vote for John McCain. Appointing federal judges --- and I don't just mean to the Supreme Court --- is a biggie. Federal judges are appoint read more
A Quadruple Score on the Sick Joke Scale: McCain's Ape Joke
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 16th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Wow. Even at the time, his campaign said the discussion was a politically motivated sideshow. That, as we all know, is the defense of last resort. From Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: His Chelsea Clinton joke was as tasteless as it goes. A read more
Obama & the Miffening* of Dem Insiders...
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 16th 2008 by Cockney Robin
By Damozel | According to The Politico (via Alegre). relations between Obama and Capitol Hill are a leetle strained. Apparently, some Dems aren't feeling so much Obamamania anymore. The article describes them as 'miffed.' *Please don't email me. I kn read more
Jon Swift and Others on Satire-Gate (Obama's New Yorker Cover)
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 15th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | I admit it. I am afraid I thought the infamous cover was hilarious. It didn’t occur to me till the condemnation started rolling in that it could be detrimental to Obama in the wrong hands. I can’t imagine that anyone with a sense of read more
Joe Lieberman and the Democratic Party
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 14th 2008 by Cockney Robin
By Teh Nutroots | What should Dems do about Lieberman? “I think most people in his caucus expected Joe’s views on national security, but I think the extent of his embrace of McCain has surprised some people,” said Senator Susan Collins, Republi read more
Obama: It's Time to Begin to End the War
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 14th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | The New York Times has published an op-ed by Barack Obama. It’s good news, isn’t it, he pointedly notes, that our troops’ sacrifices have got the Iraqis to a point when their government might actually be about ready to take off the read more
Shut Up Whining About the Imaginary Recession, You Whiners!
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 10th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Even John McCain knows more about economic reality than Phil Gramm, who told The Washington Times: “You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession. ... We have sort of become a nation of whiners." “You just hear this c read more
Senator Clinton's Statement on FISA
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 10th 2008 by Cockney Robin
She voted against the bill, Obama voted for it, and McCain didn't vote, but supported it. Her speech follows. I disagree with her that it is a 'difficult issue,' but we all know why she said it. Here's her statement. One of the great challenges befor read more
You Jest: 300 Economists 'Enthusiastically Support' McCain's Eco…
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 9th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | The Politico has the story on those 300 economists' 'enthusiastic endorsement' of his economic plan --- or as he put it, 'a whole lot of economists, including Nobel laureates.' The endorsement could hardly have been stronger. On Monday, read more
An Eloquent Critic of the Obama Campaign
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 8th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Among many bloggers who remain critical of Obama and the Obama campaign, one of those I find most powerful and persuasive is Anglachel, who writes both eloquently and intelligently about the divide in the Hillary campaign. Here are a cou read more
GOP Senate Outlook Not Looking So Good
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 7th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Here's a trend that should give some comfort to Democrats who are still recovering, or who haven't yet recovered, from the painful battle for the presidential nomination. Democrats are running strong Senate campaigns in states such as Mi read more
Building a Better Conservatism
Cockney Robin at Buck Naked Politics | July 7th 2008 by Cockney Robin
by Damozel | Conservative columnist Steven Greenhut writes: Syndicated columnist Bob Novak, writing about the surprising number of conservatives who are backing Democrat Barack Obama rather than Republican John McCain for the presidency, captured the read more
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