Yearly Archives: 2008

Despair sets in,

At his Northern Virginia headquarters, some McCain aides are already speaking of the campaign in the past tense. Morale, even among some of the heartiest and most loyal staffers, has plummeted. And many past and current McCain advisors are warring with each other over who led the candidate astray.

One well-connected Republican in the private sector was shocked to get calls and resumes in the past few days from what he said were senior McCain aides – a breach of custom for even the worst-off campaigns.

But let's bash a little bit just in case,

Friday

• David Sirota, John McCain Is Barack Obama's New Deal Mandate-Maker
• ThinkProgress, Fox VP: Hate crime hoax means McCain’s campaign is ‘over, forever linked to race-baiting.’
• Charles Piller, LA Times, Palin appointed friends and donors to key posts in Alaska, records show
• Kos, McCain Surrogate: War with Iran inevitable
• Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports Obama
• Cenk Uygur, The Ads Obama Should Run Against McCain and Palin
• Palin more forgiving of some kinds of terrorism

Thursday

• Kos, Scott McClellan endorses Obama
• Obama en Espanol

• Sara Palin: Sleeping with the Enemy
• Crooks & Liars, McCain Issues Challenge: Name a Single Issue I've Changed On
  • Is it 44 issues?
  • Or 76 issues?
  • Or 100 issues?
• NYT Editorial, Barack Obama for President
• Joe McCain Called 911 Because He Was Stuck in Traffic!
• Nieman Watchdog, Ten questions to ask Sarah Palin
• Obama Leads in Latest Florida Poll, Q poll: Obama 49, McCain 45
• Political Animal
  • Maybe McCain should stop doing interviews
• Gays for McCain

• Kevin Hayden, McCain Insult Watch

Wednesday

• HuffPo, Chuck Todd On McCain-Palin: No Chemistry, No Trust, Possibly No Chance
• HuffPo, Another GOP Senator Decries Ayers Robocalls
  • Political Animal, McCain's robocall problem isn't going away
• Crooks & Liars, Countdown: McCain's Voter Registration Fraud
• Kos, Total Fail: McCain's Own Aides Can't Defend Palin
• Ilan Goldenberg, Does Palin Know What a Precondition Is?
• HuffPo, Another GOP Senator Decries Ayers Robocalls
• Ann Bartow, Feminist Law Profs, “Feminists for Obama”
• Marc Ambinder, Palin: McCain Supports GOP Abortion, Stem Cell Platform Planks
• Crooks & Liars, Daily Show Flashback: McCain is a “socialist”, too!
• Spencer Ackerman, McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain
  • David Weigel, Reason, al-Qaetch-22
  • TMP, McCain Campaign Attacks Washington Post, Insinuates Terrorists Want Obama Victory
  • ThinkProgress, McCain Camp: When Terrorist Endorses Obama, It's For Real; When One Endorses McCain, It's A Head Fake
  • Political Animal, McCain campaign rattled by al Qaeda admission
• Political Animal, So much for McCain's outreach to women
• Kos, McCain Proud Of Brochure Linking Obama To Islamic Terrorism
• Boston Globe, Alaska paid for Palin daughters to travel
• Politico, RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion
  • Mike Murphy, TIME, Zing the Bling…
  • Joshua Green, The Atlantic, Meet the Republican Party's fashion guru
  • TalkLeft, RNC/Palin Expenditures FollowUp
  • WSJ, Nothing is Certain But … Sarah Palin’s Wardrobe & Taxes?
  • Kos, McCain on Palin's “Slush Fund”
  • Kos, Sarah Palin, freeloader.
  • Political Animal, A wardrobe for the Real America

Tuesday

• Slacktivist, Payroll tax
• TalkLeft, Palin to Give TrooperGate Deposition Friday
• AmericaBlog, BREAKING: McCain campaign disrespects American flag, drags it on the ground
• David Neiwert, The racism comes bubbling up from McCain's dogwhistle campaign
• ThinkProgress, Palin Claims The Vice President Is 'In Charge Of The U.S. Senate'
  • Me fail civics? That's unpossible!
• McCain Banning Journalists Who Ask Questions
  • Matthew Yglesias, The Wages of Wankery
  • Michael Calderone, Why can't Klein get a seat?
  • DeLong, Joe Klein Is a Journalist; John McCain Is Dishonest and Dishonorable
• Political Animal
  • Adelman
  • The money isn't there
  • McCain to push a pro-gridlock message
  • Leading with his chin
  • Pinata politics turns to drug use

Monday

• E&P, 26 Papers That Backed Bush in 2004 Move to Obama

Sunday

• NYT, Former Secretary of State Powell Backs Obama
  • See the video
• NYT, Obama Raises More Than $150 Million in September

Saturday

• Crooks & Liars, The McCain Plan for Health Insecurity
• Karen Tumulty, TIME, When You Know You Are Losing
• Nate Silver, Fivethirtyeight.com, “Real” America Looks Different to Palin, Obama
• The Washington Note, Anger on the Right at McCain
• Political Animal, McCain's economic confusion lingers
• Kos, John McCain Is Proud Of G. Gordon Liddy
• DeLong, Sarah Palin Needs Professional Help
• Crooks & Liars, Daily Show: McCain's losing control of the monster he created
• Political Animal, McCain's robocall problem
  • McCain's Robocalls
  • Crooks & Liars, John McCain Using Same RoboCall Firm That Smeared Him In 2000
• Political Animal, McCain: Middle-class tax cut is 'welfare'

Friday

• HuffPo, Friends Of Israel? Two McCain Aides Are Recent Saudi Lobbyists

[article post date corrected]