Ninety Minutes after Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Grant Park in Chicago, 60 Minutes sat down with the senior campaign team for an interview. This is fascinating stuff and a very inside look at the campaign.
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McCain in Virginia — Getty Images
It is not, one supposes, egotistical to note that the story I told you here last Monday (”Holy You Betcha, Batman! It’s the Barracuda!” 20 Oct 2008.) is now confirmed on Saturday, after having become the subject of speculation throughout the bloviating class. To wit:
Palin allies report rising campaign tension
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That headline comes from a communications professional, Kimberly Krautter, publisher of The Body Politic.
“When the chips are down for a candidate, he often cries foul when his opponent airs an ad that challenges his record and turns the candidate’s words or votes against him. Frankly, in the world of advertising and marketing, that’s considered fair [...]
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I’ve been a Communications Director. I’ve been in the back of the room restating my candidates words to best effect. I’m good at it. Sorry. That’s not modest yet I believe it true. I’ve sure had a lot of practice trying to bring voters to my candidates point of view or candidacy either in an [...]
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McCain aide Rick Davis wasn’t too happy today about being called out by the NY Times, on his ties to Fannie & Freddie and particularly the role he “played in helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he served as president of their advocacy group, the Homeownership Alliance, formed in the [...]
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Who knew?
I certainly didn’t… According to McCain’s top economic adviser, John McCain was instrumental in creating the BlackBerry:
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Forget Sarah Palin… The opponent is John McCain and his stance on the issues represents more of the same, not change. That’s the message in Obama’s latest ad that focuses on equal pay for women:
On Monday, in a conference call with female supporters, Barack Obama and his aides outlined a new strategy to target women [...]
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Chief of staff and senior advisor to Michelle Obama, Stephanie Cutter responded today to John McCain’s hypocrisy on the “lipstick on a pig” controversy. Watch Stephanie Cutter here:
The whole thing is one big faux controvesy and McCain is proving once again that’s nothing but a hypocrite. McCain fails on women’s issues and his faux [...]
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The press corps on Joe Biden’s campaign plane decided to have a little fun on Sunday by sticking a cardboard cut-out of mcCain on the plane. David Wade, Biden’s spokesman responded to the joke with this retort “Biden’s campaign plane taxied to the runway, headed for Montana”:
“You realize you could’ve made history,” Wade said. “If [...]
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