And In The End

I spent the day on Sunday in a swing state out canvasing and making calls. The Obama office was a mess, it was chaotic. But the people there were extremely focused and full of energy. These people were going non-stop. When you look at the strength of the campaign effort that has grown up around [...]

McCain: Campaign Is A Big Joke

Well not in so many words. Check out his two appearances on SNL.
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It’s About The Children

The United States doesn’t fair so well in securing the well-being of our children. When you have people like WFTV anchor Barbara West who criticized Joe Biden for trying to turn the US into Sweden. As if that was a bad thing, we should be so lucky. Sweden is at the top of all quality of life [...]

Not a Serious Campaign Effort

When I look at how the McCain campaign has been run, it seems like a half-hearted effort. Even John McCain seems to be uncomfortable or even embarrassed by it at times. 
So the question is, is McCain the disposable candidate the GOP felt they could sacrifice in a year they felt they didn’t have any hope [...]

The Economics of it

When I look at the two candidates and their economic policies, I see two very different strategies. There is nothing that is radically new in each of their plans, but we have seen each of the strategies played out during different times of our nation’s history. Whether you label them Reagonomics, New Deal, Supply Side [...]

Imagine All That Brain Power in One Place

Apparently, Sarah Palin needed some help out on the campaign trail, so in the tradition of John McCain, she picked who she thought represented the best and the brightest…Elizabeth Hasselbeck from the View. Just think of all the talent McCain and Palin administration would surround themselves with.

Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

Leon Wieseltier in the New Republic:
McCain feels with his heart, but he thinks with his base. And when he picked Sarah Palin, he told the United States of America to go fuck itself.

The End of Rovian Politics?

ABC News / Washington Post poll, among likely voters:
On Ayers: 60% say Obama’s connection to him is not a legitimate issue.
On Palin: 52% say McCain’s choice of her for veep weakens their confidence in his judgment.
More challenges for John McCain: Likely voters overwhelmingly reject his effort to make an issue of Barack Obama’s association with [...]

“Nuclear Nonsensense”

From CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Nuclear Nonsense by Neil Steinberg
The most recent nuclear power plant to go online in the United States was the Watts Bar station in Tennessee, which started producing power in 1996, a scant 23 years after construction began.
Thus John McCain’s debate claim that, as president, he would somehow push through the construction of 45, count [...]

Alfred E. Smith Memorial “Roast”

The 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner provided a lot of laughs. The dinner is an event organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York to help children in need.  John McCain and Barack Obama each took turns “roasting” each other. McCain was surprisingly funny and very kind to Obama. I hate to say it but if McCain [...]

It’s The Temperament, Stupid

Georgie Packer on McCain’s change over the course of the election:
The contrast now is so severe that it makes running for President seem like a personal disaster on the scale of a prolonged nervous breakdown leading to physical and psychological ruin. This campaign has done something terrible to McCain. And it’s entirely his own fault. [...]

Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign

Hayden Panettiere PSA: Vote for McCain

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I Bet He’s Glad He Doesn’t Live In Arizona

John McCain might want to take a look at the laws in his home state of Arizona next time He is hanging out with Levi Johnston. Rather than dropping out of school and planning a wedding, he would be on his way to register as a sex offender. In the state of Arizona,
13-1405. Sexual conduct with [...]

Rational and Steady Wins The Debate

Looks like the initial polling gives a big win to Barack Obama in tonight’s debates. McCain seemed to lose ground not only with Independents, but with Republicans too. Five Thirty Eight has some early numbers, as does Daily Kos.
CBS polls say that Obama won 53% to 22% among undecideds.
[Update] Adding in Huffington Post coverage on [...]