Speaking truth to bluster: Thanks to the Jed Report.
In the last two days, two Republican governors who are often mentioned as potential running mates for McCain have come out with high praise for Obama. First, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin praised Obama’s energy plan, despite the fact that McCain is trying to hammer Obama on this issue. About Obama’s plan to complete the Alaska […]
McCain is trying to make energy the centerpiece of his campaign, but his efforts seem to be a little clumsy. First he did a complete about-face on offshore oil drilling and decided to support it, despite voting against it in the past. Then he tried to blame Obama for high gas prices, running an ad […]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
At a campaign rally in South Dakota, McCain yelled “When I’m president of the United States, I’m not going to let them [Congress] go on vacation!” — referring to the fact that Congress is currently taking their August break. And in Eastern Pennsylvania yesterday, McCain called for Congress to come back to work “Congress should […]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
UPDATE: Was it the shock of learning they had acquired an Obama bumper sticker? The Straight Talk Express bus crashed into a minivan in Miami today. Does this mean they will take away McCain’s driver’s license? UPDATE 2: US News & World Report has a hilarious report on the bus accident in (of all places) […]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The Justice Department’s Inspector General has just issued its report on politicization at the Justice Department, which it found was “serious, significant, and systemic”. For example, the Bush administration put Esther Slater McDonald, a junior attorney who had been in the Justice Department for less than a month, in charge of hiring new law school […]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
© Steve Greenberg Here are the hard facts about the deficit for the last 11 presidents. In 2007, we paid $430 billion of our tax money just in interest payments on the national debt. That’s around $1.2 billion a day. To put this in perspective, thats three times more than the annual budgets for NASA, […]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Or the “Insane McCain Train”. © Steve Sack
First Obama responds to McCain’s attacks: Choice quote: “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.” Then Paris Hilton responds to McCain’s attacks: from Funny or Die Choice quote: “I’ll see you at the debates, bitches.” UPDATE: As pointed out on the Huffington Post, in two minutes Paris Hilton managed to do five things […]
© CartoonArts International
23/6 has a brilliant comparison and critique of the attack ads coming from the McCain and Obama campaigns. Here are two examples: Obama ad says that McCain = high gas prices McCain ad says that Obama = Britney Spears (and picks an image of Spears when she was still hot) Obama ad associates McCain […]
“Have you seen the new commercial? The McCain campaign compares Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. And today the Obama campaign released an ad comparing John McCain to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Bea Arthur.” -Jay Leno “McCain campaign is running that commercial where they’re comparing Barack Obama to various Hollywood celebrities. And as […]
