Posts filed under “2008 Presidential”
Rehashing the “elitist” attack
(1) During the 2008 presidential election, the Clinton campaign, and then later on the McCain Campaign, often characterized Obama as a Harvard-educated elitist who was out of touch with regular working-class Americans. This talking point was enlivened when Obama nonsensically called Western Pennsylvanians “bitter” while trying to sympathize with them over their economic difficulties. For [...]
Gramps McCain Rides Again!
John McCain apparently thinks that Barack Obama is nobody: Asked about whether he’s concerned about anti-incumbency attitudes this year, McCain said, “No, I don’t worry about it. I know that I can out-campaign anybody.” Well, perhaps not “anybody.” (I’ll go ahead and note, before someone else points it out, that I do realize that “John [...]
Sober Reflections On The Sanford Saga
(1) In retrospect, one thing is clear about the 2008 Presidential election. It seems to have forever emboldened adulterers in the Republican party (both admitted and unadmitted) into fancying themselves as perfectly viable candidates. This is perhaps the natural result of seeing admitted serial adulterer John McCain make it all the way to the finals, [...]
IOKIYAR With A Vengeance
When economists were pretty unanimously agreed that running huge deficits was a seriously misguided economic policy, Republican lawmakers went “Up yours!”, and cheerfully embraced huge deficits anyway. Now, when economists are pretty unanimously agreed that running huge deficits is necessary to rescue the economy from the deep and devastating recession that eight years of Republicanomics [...]
John McCain Reaching For His Old Halo?
Yesterday, John McCain surfaced on the Sunday talk shows for the first time since the elections, speaking to ABC‘s “This Week”. Most reports of his appearance focused on his attempt to quietly start reclaiming his earlier persona, the one he put through the shredder when he decided he would say and do whatever he thought [...]
Whipped Cream Bikini
Varsity Blues was on TNT last night, (New Classic?) and I can’t be the only one to notice that Miss Davis, the sex ed teacher who moonlights as a stripper, bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain recent candidate for federal office… Pr0n Secretary, indeed. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with [...]
Loving Lieberman
So it looks like Senate Democrats are poised to rap that pathetic and odious little fake Democrat from Connecticut as gently as possible on the knuckles with the softest feather-duster they were able to conjure up: When Senate Democrats meet Tuesday to decide Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (ID-Conn.) fate, leaders are expected to propose that he [...]
Morning After Suicide Pill
“The Party’s Over” by Zina Saunders Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
The Best Defense…
Palin denounces anonymous critics as ‘cowardly’ …Palin denounced criticism from unidentified McCain campaign aides as “cowardly.” She said she found it frustrating trying to respond to false allegations when she didn’t know who was making them. “It’s ridiculous,” she told reporters. “You guys report based on anonymous sources, so it’s hard to have a defense.” [...]
“History”
Though clearly I don’t share his enthusiasm for Obama, Getty’s Justin Sullivan is an excellent photographer, and a good guy. He was in Grant Park on Tuesday night, and shares his pictures and story here. Check it out. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend