fron the NY Times Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California and a McCain supporter, is married to Democrat Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy clan and an Obama supporter. Luckily, there is a tie breaker — of their four children only one is old enough to vote, and she prefers Obama.
Some of you may recall that a week ago McCain challenged Obama to a series of “town hall” meetings with him, the first one to occur in one week. Never mind that McCain does much better in town hall meetings than he does in regular debates (not to mention his abysmal performance giving speeches), and […]
“Al Gore for a while was vice president, and he had the book and the film, ‘Inconvenient Truth,’ which was about climate change. Well, they’re turning that ‘Inconvenient Truth’ into an opera. Al Gore and opera – are you kidding? Cut me a slice of that! Let’s go! But they had some trouble and they have […]
After loosing three congressional seats in traditionally Republican districts, the Republicans are now setting themselves up for more losses, but this time in the Senate. For some reason, Republicans are having a heck of a time finding anyone either qualified or willing to run for the Senate. As a result, some of their proposed candidates […]
The UN authorization that allows US troops in Iraq expires at the end of this year, so the US has three options: Get a new authorization from the UN, which is not very likely. Get the Iraqi government to sign an agreement allowing the US to stay in Iraq. Remove all troops from Iraq (!) […]
On Tuesday, in his now infamous “green backdrop” speech, McCain basically called Obama a liar: You will hear from my opponent’s campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I’m running for President Bush’s third term. You will hear every policy of the President described as the Bush-McCain policy. Why does Senator Obama […]
In discussing McCain’s shabby treatment of his first wife, a question naturally comes up: should private misbehavior hurt someone’s chances of being elected to public office? And should this penalty be especially applied to hypocrites who publicly condemn what later turns out to be their own private behavior? James Poulos says yes: “someone who fails in their private life […]
This is from his own campaign ad: See also http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2008/06/senatorial-shrinkage.html
The website 23/6 has managed to take the entire year and a half Democratic Primary and reduce it to one and a half minutes of video wonderfulness: http://video.236.com/services/link/bcpid1599834811/bctid1599873904 If that isn’t enough, MSNBC has put together a similar video, but 10 minutes long. It is actually worth a watch for some of the more interesting […]
Daniel Kurtzman has compiled a wonderful list of quotes from John McCain, many backed up by video! http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/johnmccain/a/mccainisms.htm Rather than repeat any of them here, just go there and read them all. You’ll be glad you did.
In Stephen Hayes’ 2007 biography of VP Dick Cheney, McCain was asked if Cheney might serve in a McCain administration. McCain’s response? “Hell, Yeah”. In 2004 McCain called Cheney “one of the most capable, experienced, intelligent and steady vice presidents this country has ever had.” Of course, now that he is running for president, McCain […]
