Dick Cheney crawls out of his undisclosed location to endorse McCain, and Obama pounces:
I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington’s […]
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Darth Vader endorses
November 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Election 2008 · Obama · John McCain · Dick Cheney
Those nutty crowds
November 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Funny. The wingnuts are so wingnutty that McCain can’t even hold town halls anymore:
The town hall format was supposed be the Republican nominee’s favorite campaign forum, highlighting his shoot-from-the-hip style, his broad knowledge on a slew of issues and his irreverent wit. He loved it so much that he challenged Obama to a string of town […]
Tags: John McCain · Wingers
The ‘Factor’ factor
November 1st, 2008 · No Comments
The reason McCain is running behind? Because he didn’t go on Bill O’Reilly’s show.
This is, incidentally, as close to an admission as you’ll get from Bill’O that it’s his job to help Republican candidates.
Tags: Election 2008 · Bill O'Reilly · John McCain
Role modeling
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments
John McCain on Joe the Plumber:
“an American hero, a great citizen of Ohio and my role model.”
Yeah. I’m thinking if Joe the Plumber shows up at one of McCain’s eight houses unannounced, McCain is having security show his “role model” the door.
Also, via Sullivan:
The Onion, calling this shot back in ‘93.
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Deep Thought II
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Keep seeing these McCain commercials in which the main point is that we can’t afford an inexperienced president right now.
That message, of course, is undermined completely by the 72-year-old cancer survivor’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Tags: Election 2008 · John McCain
Jonesing
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments
This would be the dictionary definition, I think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1TT7gt5F0w
Joe? Joe?
Joe’s not here.
This a metaphor for McCain’s campaign if I ever saw one.
But, via Sam Stein, it gets worse, as MSNBC notes:
A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 […]
Tags: Election 2008 · John McCain
Why McCain’s desperate for a friend in Pa.
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Hm. Best/most plausible explanation as to why McCain/Palin are staking the election, it would seem, on the outcome in Pennsylvania:
If McCain wins all the states that President George W. Bush won four years ago, he’ll have the 270-plus electoral votes necessary to take the White House. (Mr. Bush won 286 electoral votes.) But with polls […]
Tags: Election 2008 · John McCain · Pennsylvania
Little help
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments
If only bin Laden would give McCain a hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC5QD-gK5U0
Tags: Election 2008 · John McCain
Note to McCain
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments
He’s making fun of you.
Tags: Obama · John McCain
The Palestinian I funded
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Shorter John McCain:
I demand that the media release a videotape of a guy I gave $448,000 to.
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Game, set, match
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Via Sadly, No!, too good not to share:
Tags: Teh Funny · John McCain
Implosion
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments
The McCain-Palin campaign appears to be coming apart at the seams.
Largely because they remain behind in the polls, of course; winning tends to paper over the cracks rather nicely. But the accusations and counter-accusations here are fascinating; Palin’s camp is claiming that the McCain advisers over-managed and stifled her, which sounds correct to me. She […]
Tags: Sarah Palin · Election 2008 · John McCain
Still on the bus
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s not “Straussburg,” it’s “Straaaaaasburg.” But it is funny.
“We bought him some black licorice and a book of puzzles, and that ought to keep him busy for a while.”
John McCain Accidentally Left On Campaign Bus Overnight
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Good luck with that
October 26th, 2008 · No Comments
McCain invokes Joe Namath, “guarantees” victory.
Unfortunately he’s channeling the kissing-Suzy-Kolbert Namath here, not the one who beat the Colts. I realize Republicans like to see themselves as the upstart Jets, the underdogs. That’s part of the Republican mentality, this idea that they’re always outnumbered, always surrounded, always the underdog.
This year at least - and most […]
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OK, so it WAS the campaign
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Remember what I said about the McCain campaign not being guilty of race-baiting?
Not so much:
John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright […]
Tags: Election 2008 · Racism · John McCain
Al Qaeda hearts ‘Son of Bush’
October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
John Cole delivers the complete smackdown. Suffice to note that when McCain seized upon Hamas’ “support” of Obama, the right-wing chorus immediately swooned.
So how do they react to this?
“Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the […]
Tags: John McCain · Terrorism
Definitely unlike Bush
October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
McCain in Western Pa.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnE-YJ—GI
Notes David Kurtz over at TPM:
You can see the glimmer of recognition of the flub, like he just chased Road Runner off the edge of the cliff. There’s the split-second decision to try to pull off a miracle escape. But his legs stop spinning and gravity takes over and from there it’s […]
Tags: Teh Funny · John McCain
Not enough friends in Pa.
October 21st, 2008 · No Comments
McCain focusing on Pa.:
All the McCain activity is happening in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 1.2 million, double from four years ago; where Obama, flush with cash, is outspending McCain on television by several orders of magnitude; and where the Democrats have an organizational advantage.
Indeed, Obama - who announced last night […]
Tags: Election 2008 · John McCain · Pennsylvania
As if on cue
October 18th, 2008 · No Comments
So via Paul’s liveblog, I see where Palin hit on the “Obama is a socialist” theme at today’s rally at the Clip, echoing McCain’s radio address.
But then she blames the Wall Street mess on greed and predatory lenders. Because she and McCain are apparently going to build a better capitalism, one without greed. And the […]
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Crazy McCain lady
October 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Hilarious. SNL’s doing a prime-time thing on Thursdays these days, it’s only nominally funny (as with the show itself all too often) but last night’s “Weekend Update” featured the Crazy McCain lady.
Just the idea of this cracks me up, because this is now the meta-narrative:
Crazy people come to McCain’s rallies.
If I’m the McCain campaign, I’m […]
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