I really love this quote from Sarah Palin regarding Barack Obama in the recent New Yorker: Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was pretty neat that Barack Obama was edging ahead of John McCain in her usually solidly [...]
I didn’t write the headline. It was the title of an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. WSJ columnist Daniel Henninger looked at John McCain‘s tax policy and concluded, “This isn’t a flip-flop. It’s a sex-change operation.” What I’m asking is, does John McCain have the mental focus, the intellectual discipline, to avoid being out-slicked [...]
ThinkProgress reported this news yesterday: During an interview with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), CBS Evening News host Katie Couric noted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said recently that “there might have been improved security [in Iraq] even without the surge” and asked McCain, “What’s your response to that?” After first calling Obama’s claim “a false [...]
After hearing Team Obama describe the New Yorker cartoon as “tasteless and offensive,” Jon Stewart of the Daily Show responded with what he wished Barack Obama would have said: Really? You know what your response should’ve been? It’s very easy here, let me put the statement out for you: Barack Obama is in no way [...]
During the last Presidential election, John Kerry was attacked for being a flip-flopper because he changed his mind on too many issues. If changing one’s mind is political poison, then John McCain is truly “dead meat.” Steve Benen documented 61 policy reversals from the Republican nominee. If McCain wants to argue that flip-flops are an [...]
The Onion asks the question “Who Will Be Obama’s Running Mate?” Click here to see who they’ve got in mind. Elsewhere on the Onion, you can view the news story Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency: Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
George Lakoff has some excellent advise for Barack Obama, regarding his perceived shift to the center. I hope he’s paying attention. Basically, Lakoff spells out three reasons why Obama might choose to adopt strategies to embrace ideas typically associated with conservative modes of thinking. Here’s the first reason addressed by the Lakoff, which would categorized [...]
As you probably heard, Barack Obama had a bit of a backlash when he didn’t step up to vote against the telecommunications immunity bill. Some real interesting things happened… Ari Melber filed this report on The Nation blog: Protesters are storming Barack Obama’s website. But they all support Obama. A grassroots group of activists has [...]
Mark Evanier whose NewsFromMe website has provided me with many morsels of information, summarizes the case for John McCain: I just saw a man on MSNBC say he’s going to vote for John McCain because Barack Obama is an “elitist” who doesn’t understand the problems of the average American. This is the same John McCain [...]
Here’s some real interesting news: Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, who has been one of President George W. Bush‘s spiritual advisors since 1996, just created a new website to defend Barack Obama. The website is JamesDobsonDoesntSpeakForMe.com. Here’s a statement from the home page: We are a coalition of pastors and other Christians, led by Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell [...]
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