Overkill? There's so much to bash, but we don't want a sympathy vote here….
Friday
- Obama Ad, It Gets Worse
- Political Animal, Letterman confronts McCain on Liddy
- See the McCain-Letterman Video, Part 1
- McCain-Letterman Video, Part 2
- Washington Post endorses Obama
Thursday
- ThinkProgress, Confirmed: McCain To Appear With Virginia GOP Chairman Who Compared Obama To Osama Bin Laden
- Florida News: TMC, Attack ads backfire against McCain, poll shows
- Obama Ad, 90 Percent
- Kos, Palin's Trooper Complaints Grow Still Crazier
- Debate Reax
- Obama Campaign, John McCain's 26 lies in the debate
- Political Animal, It depends on what you mean by 'focused'
- McCain's bizarre town-hall excuse
- Democracy Corps, Decisive debate win reinforces momentum for Obama
- Amy Sullivan, Swampland, TIME, Undecideds Laughing At, Not With, McCain
- Neil Buchanan, Concurring Opinions, Debate as Debate, the Final Cut: What Now, My Friends?
- Oxdown, Firedoglake, McCain Repeats Debunked 'Born Alive' Attacks in Debate
- Jake Tapper, ABC News, Joe the Plumber Eligible for Obama Tax Cut?
- Joe Klein, Senator Government V. Joe the Plumber
- Digby, No Guts No Glory
Wednesday
- Obama, Barney Smith Ad
- James V. Grimaldi, WashPo, Exclusive: Verizon and AT&T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch
- Karen Tumulty, Swampland: ATTN: Customer Service
- WashPo followup story on Thursday: Permit for McCain Cell Tower Still Active
- Joshua Green, The Atlantic, Did Verizon give John McCain special treatment? This Story Doesn't Cell
- Daniel Cox and Robert P. Jones, Dispatches from the Beltway: God-Gap Flip-Flop
- WSJ Blog, The Branchflower Report: Hints of a Larger Crime Problem in Alaska
- TalkLeft, Why Senior Voters Should Vote Against McCain
- AFL-CIO NOW Blog, McCain & Co.: U.S. Health Care Is Broken. Let’s Make It Worse
- Get Energy Smart! Now!!!, Obama fact sheet too generous to McCain re renewable energy
- David Neiwert, CNN, Sarah Palin, and the LA Times: Giving the far right a pass
- Political Animal, McCain campaign confused about payroll taxes
- This is amazing — Ben Smith, Politico, Voting for Obama anyway
- Commentary at Kos
- In a related story, see also Kevin Drum, Anecdotal Evidence
- Palin for President is fun.
- Via Smashed Frog, VoteForOurFuture, Dear John
- ThinkProgress, Palin: ‘No Abuse Of Power There At All’ In Troopergate Report (Did she read it?)
- Political Animal, Palin's delusions worsen
- Talk to Action, Palin Put Religious War Advocate On Alaska Suicide Prevention Council
- The Buzz, GOP frets about McCain in Fla
- Michael Cooper & Megan Thee, Poll Says McCain Hurts His Bid by Using Attacks
Tuesday
- Political Animal, McCain tries to re-reboot
- David Neiwert, Why does Sarah Palin have such strained relations with minorities?
- Fred Clark, Slacktivist, Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
- Ronald Reagan explains why you should vote for Obama
- Kos, RNC abandoning McCain, looking to bail out Senators
- Kevin Drum, Troopergate II: The Reckoning
- TalkLeft Ethics Investigation of Palin Expanded
- Anchorage Daily News, Editorial, Palin vindicated? Governor offers Orwellian spin
- ThinkProgress, McCain's Plan To 'Avoid An Exodus Of Capital' Encourages An Exodus Of Capital
- HuffPo, Bush Strategist: McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick
- HealthCareForAmerica's focus groups' reaction to McCain's health plan: Unbelievable
- UK Daily Telegraph, Sarah Palin could have been invented by Monty Python, says John Cleese (“John Cleese has accused Sarah Palin of being a 'nice-looking parrot' and said that he and the Monty Python team could have invented her. … 'I used to think Michael Palin was the funniest Palin on Earth.'”)
Monday
- Kos, Anatomy of Erraticism
- David Neiwert, Crooks & Liars, McCain, the GOP base, and race: Succumbing to the Dark Side
- The Buzz, Florida doctors seek more on McCain's health
- Cooks & Liars, Kristol rips McCain campaign: “it's pathetic” Pfotenhauer says: 'He has bought into the Obama campaign’s party line'.
- David Neiwert, What Palin's '90s dalliances tell us now
- Kos, Some Unanswered Troopergate Questions
- Christopher Hitchens, Vote for Obama. McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace.
- Progressive Accountability, McCain same as Hoover same as Bush
- The Hill, Conservatives: McCain alienating base on economy
- Brian Camp, A Brief Analysis of Governor Palin's Tax Returns for 2006 and 2007
- Political Animal
- Fred Grimm, Miami Herald, For Fox News, local nut case a good source
Sunday
- TPM gets snarky, Which Crash is Steeper? Global Finance or John McCain?
- Barry Sussman, Nieman Watchdog, Anybody read the L.A. Times? Rolling Stone?
Assertions have been made against John McCain that, if true, could persuade many people that he is unqualified to be president. The charges go to his judgment, character and honesty. They deal with his time in the military before, during and after the 5-1/2 years he was a prisoner in Vietnam.
The charges have not been sufficiently aired in the press. Indeed, they have been mentioned so rarely that most Americans aren’t aware of them. In fact, instead of airing the charges, one could well conclude that the press has been withholding them—hiding them. Almost all the leading news organizations, instead of reporting or following up on stories which by themselves could swing the election, are running away from them.
- ABC News, Palin Makes Troopergate Assertions that Are Flatly False
- Juan Cole, Balloon Juice, Even By Today’s Diminished Standards
- TIME, What the Troopergate Report Really Says
- Crooks & Liars, McCain's Supposed Adviser John Lewis Calls Him Out
- Kos, Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition: Sarah Palin's Extremist Ties
- Down With Tyranny, McCain Having Buyer's Remorse Over Palin Already?
- citing the not-utterly-reliable Times of London's McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality
- Organized hate
- Huff Po, McCain Chief Uses POW Card To Defend Rally Rhetoric
- Raising Kaine, Jeff Frederick Compares Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden
- Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop: McCain Volunteers Taught to Accuse Obama of Terrorism
- Political Animal
- Frank Rich, NYT Op-ed, The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama
Saturday
- Kos, This Has To Stop
- Hilzoy, Obsidian Wings, The Palin Report
- Crooks & Liars, Sarah Palin's Email: A Crime Used To Expose A Crime?
- DeLong, John McCain: Desperate, Despicable, Dishonest, Dishonorable, and without the Character We Need in a President – Steven Waldman
- Washington Monthly, McCain-Palin First Ticket in U.S. History With Both Candidates Cited for Abuse of Power
- TalkLeft, McCain Campaign Attacks Obama For Speaking Out Against Anger and Division
- Political Animal,
- Crooks & Liars, McCain's Lobbyists — And His Judgment
Friday
- Obama Knew It Was Coming All Along
- TPM, Weird. Sad. Surreal
- He says it has to be the headline: Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley’s Son Says He Is Pro-Obama.
- Which gets him fired: Christopher Buckley, Buckley Bows Out of National Review
- TPM, George Wallace McCain
- Boingboing, Panel finds Palin abused power; Judge orders email from her private accounts be preserved
- Crooks & Liars, McCain booed by rabid supporters for defending Obama as a “decent person”
- Talkleft, Newseek: Palin May Cost McCain a Win in Florida
- YouTube – Who is John McCain?
- TPM, McCain Campaign Now Attacks Michelle Obama Over Ayers
- HuffPo, 'Economists For McCain' Trash McCain's New Mortgage Plan
- Va. Doctors Urge McCain to Release Medical Records
- Salon, Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals
- AFL-CIO NOW Blog, McCain Would Slash Medicare
McCain’s decision to play around with the moderator and stick his tongue out like that is just bizarre. It is just a very minor point, but seriously, what was he thinking?
First of all, it wasn’t exactly an appropriate situation. We usually don’t consider the class clown to be a suitable type for President.
Secondly, of course that image is going to be all over the interwebs within minutes. It makes McCain look bad, plain and simple.
Again, very, very minor point. But it was a dumb and clueless thing to do, by any stretch of the imagination, and furthers the ‘erratic’ meme that has only gained strength over the past several weeks.
Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is the best future leader for this nation, not Senator Barak Obama. Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is also would be better at leading our nation in the future after a McCain Presidency than Senator Barak Obama would be in leading our nation in the future starting in January 2009. There are great reasons our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin would be a better future leader than Senator Barak Obama. The greatest reason for our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin’s is ideology. Our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is conservative in that she is pro life, marriage, guns, low taxes, low government spending, small government, unintrosive government, traditional and judeo Christian values, Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, and military spending. Senator Barak Obama is a liberal who is anti every thing that I have described that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is pro about or for. A second reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of experience. As a governor she has two years of executive administrative governing experience that Senator Barak Obama does not have. A final reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of political accomplishments. When our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin came to office she accomplished 3 major things which are as follows: she showed great leadership in the 3 following areas: government reform, the state budget and the economy, and wise use of natural resources. She reformed government by standing up to the big oil companies by breaking up the monopoly on power and resources. She insisted on competition and basic fairness which ended the control that the oil companies had on the state, and thereby returning control of the state back to the people. She also stood up to the special interest and lobbyist, and produced major ethics reform. She lead well in the state budget by generating a surplus which came about by vetoing a half billion dollars of wasteful spending, ending the abuses of earmark spending by congress, and by getting rid of the private jet, the chef, and the chuffer. Economically under her leadership she brought about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. She also suspended the state fuel tax, and when oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, she sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged – directly to the people of Alaska . On natural resources she has shown great leadership by beginning a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. When the last section of the pipeline is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart. Senator Barak Obama has done nothing, so please vote John McCain for President and give to our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin the opportunity that she deserves leading the nation into the future after a John McCain presidency. When our soon to be Vice President does lead the nation as President after a John McCain presidency,she will be the greatest President that we have ever had. Finally she is smarter than Senator Barak Obama
Thank You
John Warren