Posts Tagged ‘McCain’

It’s for real: Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States, putting an end to eight horrible years of neoconservative Republican misrule and giving African Americans a long dreamed of day in the sun.

Republicans in recent weeks have promoted the specter of widespread voter fraud, blaming the ACORN voter-registration group and implying a vast left-wing conspiracy.
Now, a well-done report exposes how hollow the charges are, with help from an experienced elections administrator and member of the McCain-Palin Honest and Open Election Committee, Ronald Michaelson.

“Do we have a documented [...]

What to make of a Florida Republican campaign event featuring Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, where none of the campaign signs even mentioned presidential candidate Sen. John McCain?

The short of David Frum’s Washington Post op ed is that the GOP should abandon McCain and Palin’s botched campaign, concentrating instead on holding enough Senate seats to hobble Democrats.

Sen. John McCain is “amazed” by the fact even fellow Republicans and conservative pundits have a problem with his vice president choice, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Yes, that’s what a bemused and displeased McCain said during a guest shot on Don Imus’ radio show.

New York Times columnist Frank Rich does a valuable service pointing out a key characteristic of Bush’s misleadership in making an equally telling point about Sen. John McCain.

From his sorry excuse for having run a viciously negative and dishonest campaign to possibly alienating most women voters with one callous, dismissive remark, McCain registered more as misfit than maverick. Fittingly, virtually all post-debate polling indicates a solid win for Obama.

In last night’s debate, Sen. John McCain tried for a gotcha by mentioning “Joe the plumber” as an example of small-business people who’d be hurt by Obama’s plans for “spreading the wealth around.” Today, the right-wing noise machine is touting that exchange as a coup for McCain. But others are pointing out things that undermine Wurzelbacher’s standing as an example of tax victimization.

The key to success, as McCain and his people see it, is demagoging Obama’s association with Professor William Ayers, who 40 years ago was an anti-government radical — despite the fact Ayers was never even charged with a crime. CNN debunked this attempt at character assassination, but the McCain campaign seems convinced the big-lie strategy will do Obama in if they just keep at it.

Sen. Barack Obama — “that one,” as Sen. John McCain so dismissively referred to him — solidly outperformed and outclassed his opponent in this evening’s second presidential debate.