Daily Archives: October 20, 2008 5:09 pm

Holy You Betcha, Batman! It’s the Barracuda!

October 20, 2008 5:09 pm
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Holy You Betcha, Batman! It’s the Barracuda!

Flush from the rash of complimentary — if not to say gushing — reviews of Sarah Barracuda on Saturday Night Live, Wasilla’s Wonder Woman seemingly has made the decision to throw John McCain under the bus. Not that she’s alone in this assessment, if true. Looking at it from her point of view, frankly, WHY does she need McCain now? The GOP that despises him (but of whom he has, of late, tried to emulate) loves her. Joe Scarborough...

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Words of Warning: It Ain’t Over Yet

October 20, 2008 12:30 pm
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From Josh Marshall: If you’re thinking to yourself that there’s little more than two weeks before election day and Obama has a solid lead in the polls, don’t be so sure. Yes, it looks good for the Democrats. But you need to play close attention to the McCain campaign’s final weeks’ strategy under and just above the radar. McCain’s final strategy relies on two pillars. The first is aggressively playing to voters’ fears of electing a black president. Make...

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Pamela’s Wagon Train To Maine: The Saga Begins

October 20, 2008 11:09 am
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Pamela’s Wagon Train To Maine: The Saga Begins

So ok. It’s not a wagon train. It is though a completely stuffed SUV pulling a pretty big Uhaul trailer with a teenager, a cat, a friend driving and Pamela navigating. They are going somewhere the teenager has never been and Pamela left a long time ago. As far as I’m concerned that sounds like an adventure. She called a few moments ago and asked me to bring everyone up to speed. They left  Los Angeles yesterday and just...

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Going Negative is Not a Positive Way to Get Votes

October 20, 2008 2:23 am
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by Walter Brasch During the final debate last week, Barack Obama called John McCain on the negative ads, saying that 100 percent of his radio and TV ads were negative. Not true, replied McCain. True, according to the Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin. Almost every ad in a one-week period before the debate was negative. The nonpartisan analysts determined that between June 4 and October 4, “47 percent of the McCain spots were negative (completely focused on...

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The Blood of Patriots

October 20, 2008 1:37 am
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The Blood of Patriots

At the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, beneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, history was being made Saturday: John McCormick / The Swamp: Obama draws record crowd in St. Louis — ST. LOUIS – Standing under the Gateway Arch, Sen. Barack Obama spoke this afternoon before a crowd his campaign said totaled 100,000, a new U.S. record for his presidential bid. — “All I can say is wow,” Obama said as he took the stage...

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