John McCain
October 16, 2008
- The most interesting analysis following last night’s third and final debate did not come from the spin doctors. CNN’s coverage showed a U.S. state map depicting Electoral College vote projections based on current polls. The situation looks grim for the McCain camp. Even if the McCain-Palin ticket captures all the “battleground” states, the Democrats will still move into the White ...
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October 16, 2008
- Ah, Joe the Plumber. You got all the attention last night, pal. However, as Frank Coniff pointed out, what about Josephine the plumber?What, Gentle Readers? You've never heard of Josephine the Plumber? Dear, dear. Let's chat about this ground breaker.Ah, Josephine. She was a tough cookie in a man's world back in the sixties, when plumbers were a male field. But did that stop her? No sir! She went ...
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October 15, 2008
- I don’t feel bad for John McCain anymore. Now I feel angry. Over the course of tonight’s debate I saw a man who was petty and angry and completely without honor. Spouting off falsehoods and continuing to attack Obama with lies while trying to play the victim and get him to “repudiate” John Lewis. Obama, again to his credit, did not rise to the bait. You could see the frustration ...
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October 15, 2008
- Flanked by Cindy and Sarah, who've been programmed to smile and nod in coordination with each of John McCain's boasts, promises and wild accusations, the threesome reminds me less of a viable political team than a nightclub act. Which of us wouldn't flock to Vegas to see, "John McCain and the Attendants?" McCain's crankiness could be played for laughs by casting him as diva-like, sure ...
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October 15, 2008
- Flanked by Cindy and Sarah, who've been programmed to smile and nod in coordination with each of John McCain's boasts, promises and wild accusations, the threesome reminds me less of a viable political team than a nightclub act. Which of us wouldn't flock to Vegas to see, "John McCain and the Attendants?" McCain's crankiness could be played for laughs by casting him as diva-like, sure ...
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October 15, 2008
- Every four years, presidential candidates try to convince us that the next election is the most critical in U.S. history. “Our nation is at a crossroads” the politicians are fond of intoning. This year, however, that tattered cliché is actually true.A win by John McCain would elect our first female vice president. Few feminist who fought for the rights of women during the 1960s ever dreamed ...
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October 10, 2008
- It’s not the freakish, shrill non-answers she gives in the few not-quite interviews by not even close to journalists. It’s not the hard core fundamentalism, sugar-coated to create an illusion that she supported her unmarried teenage daughter’s “choice” to carry her fetus to term, when she would have insisted on it regardless -- even if the father was her husband, who had raped her. ...
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October 7, 2008
- I felt bad for John McCain tonight. Not so bad that I would ever consider voting for him but bad nonetheless. He looked far less like a life-long politician and statesman than a confused man who realizes he has thrown away his legacy to finish second. I can’t remember another bona fide American hero that has so tarnished his own legacy. What’s worse is that it almost appears to be ...
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October 6, 2008
- It's not as though I've been going out of my way to find analogies between the 2008 election and soaps. But some have been hard to miss. Peggy Noonan let one loose on Meet the Press: While discussing the operatives of both campaigns she said, "I have the sense sometimes lately that these guys on the plane think history is their plaything." Of course, Noonan was talking about the ...
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October 5, 2008
- As the election finally comes to a grinding three year close and the debates switch from stuff that mean nothing to an election to "Mean Stuff" that means nothing to an election, Aren't you still glad that we have gotten to know over these years the real inner workings of both Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama? The real issues that are of major national economic, ...
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