Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
If you missed it, be sure to check out Frank Rich’s Sunday column at the NYT. It’s an excellent summation of the election that was. Here are a few key passages:
Our nation was still in the same ditch it had been the day before, but the atmosphere was giddy. We felt good not only because [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Frank Rich, McCain-Palin '08, Michael Stickings, Obama-Biden 08, Opinions
Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been lax in blogging since my cross country move to Maine. Settling in here and unpacking has taken up most of my time, but I did not want to let election day pass without chiming in.
Karl Rove has predicted an Electoral blow out for Barack Obama today:
According to the final 2008 polling map posted on [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, California, Democratic Daily, Democrats, Election '08, General Election, In The News, John McCain '08, Karl Rove, McCain-Palin '08, Obama-Biden 08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
Posted on November 1st, 2008 by Michael Stickings
The latest chant at Palin rallies is this: “Vote McCain, not Hussein!” or “John McCain! Not Hussein!” As NYT’s The Caucus is reporting, the former made an appearance at a rally earlier this week in Pennsylvania, the latter at one this morning in Florida:
After the rally in Florida ended, two of the people leading the [...]
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Filed under: Bigotry, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain-Palin '08, Michael Stickings, Republicans
Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Rolling Stone has published a cover story on John McCain that has the most damning, well documented biography of his life I’ve seen. I thought I knew the deceptions of John McCain. I didn’t know one-tenth of the real story. I won’t try to summarize this lengthy article. There is simply too much data, too [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Congress, Constitution, Election '08, House of Reps, In The News, John McCain '08, McCain-Palin '08, Obama-Biden 08, Senate, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Hart Williams
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
By: [...]
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Filed under: Campaign Spokesman, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, Hart Williams, In The News, McCain-Palin '08, Obama-Biden 08
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
by Walter Brasch
It’s a little more than a week before the presidential election, and I’m worried about what happens afterwards. I’m not worried about the candidates, the people, or the country. I’m worried about the media.
First, I’m worried about the TV ad salespeople. For more than a year they haven’t had to do much other [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, John McCain '08, McCain-Palin '08, News Media, Presidential Election, Walter Brasch
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
So you know that ugly, Fox/Drudge-whipped up story of the young female McCain volunteer who was allegedly mugged and mutilated (with a ‘B’ cut into her face) by a black man at a Pittsburgh-area ATM?
Well — surprise, surprise — it was all a hoax. As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now.
The woman, Ashley Todd, [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Fox News, McCain-Palin '08, Michael Stickings, Racism
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Hart Williams
There are two astonishing liars out there. One of them lasted for 24 hours. The other remains America’s Sweetheart™. And one wonders: what has happened to the old concept of “truthfulness.” (And of “Truth” itself among the self-proclaimed moral mavens of the bloviating class.)
“special” wardrobe needs
Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher (the newspaper industry’s [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, John McCain '08, McCain-Palin '08
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
There are many signs of a Republican revolt. It ranges from wide spread dissatisfaction or outright conversion to the Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Yesterday the was the defection of CC Goldwater and her siblings. Even Neo-Con Ken Adelmann has switched reportedly switched to Obama along with Susan Eisenhower , a former constitutional legal counsel to [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Conservatives, Democratic Daily, Election '08, Endorsements, GOP, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, McCain-Palin '08, News Media, Presidential Election, Republicans, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Hart Williams
It isn’t often that you see Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh flailing wildly, flecks of foam forming around their political pottymouths. But in the last 24 hours, that’s exactly what I’ve witnessed.
The Party of Lincoln™ bears about as much resemblance TO Lincoln as a grubworm does to a supernova. It is all topsy-turvy: voter suppression, [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Campaign Ad, Election '08, George W. Bush, Gov. Sarah Palin, Hart Williams, In The News, McCain-Palin '08
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Michael Stickings
For robocalling on behalf of McCain-Palin:
Hi, this is Rudy Giuliani, and I’m calling for John McCain and the Republican National Committee because you need to know that Barack Obama opposes mandatory prison sentences for sex offenders, drug dealers, and murderers.
That’s right, kids, it’s 1988 all over again, and that foreign-looking liberal wants to let liberal [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, McCain-Palin '08, Michael Stickings, Politics, Rudy Giuliani
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Michael Stickings
Sarah Palin is against robocalls… while doing them herself.
She is also against the “atrocious and unacceptable things” some of her supporters have been yelling out at her rallies, vicious and violent slurs directed at Obama, calling them “unacceptable” (though claiming that she hasn’t actually heard any of them, which hardly seems possible)… while stating, in [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain-Palin '08, Michael Stickings
