Category Archives: Politics: McCain

I am not real thrilled with the Obama administration this week month semester, but it's good to be reminded just how much worse it could be.

Suppose that a man with a failing, or perhaps cynically selective, memory was President?

America doesn't like a loser. Not perhaps our best trait, but there it is.

Monday

• tech President, Obama Bandwagon Effect on Facebook
• Kos, McCain Aides Admit Winning Would Be A “Miracle”
• Digby, The Scooter Paradigm
• TalkLeft, Karl Rove's Prediction: Obama 338, McCain 200
• TMI a little place to whine, McCain = Socialism
• Political Animal, An object lesson in vetting
• TPM, Her Sleaziest Moment Yet(Saying A Lot)
• Political Animal, Dignified
• The Buzz, Tampa Tampa rally: where is everybody? and Political Ticker, McCain draws small Florida crowd on race’s final day
• The Buzz, McCain's top Gator switches to Obama

Sunday

• Fallows, Proof that John McCain has reached the 'acceptance' stage
• Crooks & Liars & Geographers, If the Whole World Could Vote
• Kos, McCain Gets Confused On FOX News
• Crooks & Liars & Copyeditors, Still Not Ready To Spell
• Sam Stein, HuffPost, McCain Did Not Disclose Keating Business Deal To Investigators
• TPM< Frank Calls Fork
• Fafblog, Fafblog Interviews: JOHN MCCAIN
• NBC, The Trouble With Palin
• Obama Ad, Delighted

• Times (UK), Republicans try to use Oxford don to smear Barack Obama (More details here)

Saturday

• DeLong, Andrew Sullivan Has Turned Me into a Wingnut Conspiracy Theorist: Where Are Sarah Palin's Medical Records?
  • Sullivan, Palin's Medical Records
• TPM Microtargeting? (not)
• Kos, Foreign Policy Is Confusing For Sarah Palin
• Crooks & Liars & Spellers, McCain's Vetting Crew Strikes Out. Again.
• Political Ticker (CNN), McCain's name nowhere to be seen at Palin rally
• Political Animal, A promise made to be broken
• Sarah Palin Got Pranked

  (transcript)

• TPM, Obama On Cheney's McCain Endorsement: Congratulations, John!
• TPM, Breaking the Law for McCain
  • Digby, Springing A Leak
  • TPM, Conyers Writes to Chertoff
• Bruce Wilson, HuffPo, Palin's Movement Urges 'Godly' To 'Plunder' Wealth of The 'Godless'
• Sahil Mahtani, The New Republic, McCain First, Second, And Always

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Vote Early.

Friday

• Political Animal Still waiting (for Palin's medical records)
• TPM,
  • You Need to Know
  • Flashback: McCain's Sleaze-o-rama
• The Buzz, Crowley: Obama will win Florida
• Forbes.com, Harvard Kennedy School – David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care's Ills
• Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment
  • Political Animal, As nasty as she wants to be
• Bruce Wilson, HuffPo, Palin's Spiritual War Network Partners With Homeland Security
• Chris Bowers, Obama Wins!!! (Yes, I Am Serious)
• HuffPo, Eagleburger Blisters Palin: “Of Course” She's Not Ready
• Romenesko, Alt-weeklies endorsements: Obama, 57; McCain, 0
• “Doonesbury” strip for next Wednesday declares Obama the winner

Thursday

• Crooks & Liars, Neil Cavuto on John McCain: 'On economic matters, you have no convictions'
• TPM, McCain's Disgrace
• Political Animal, Of course it's about race
• George F. Will, Call Him John the Careless
  • Political Animal, Will has no use for McCain
  • TalkLeft, Conservatives Dis and Ditch McCain-Palin
• Opinio Juris, Beware of a “Mavericky” America Where Failed Policies are Rewarded, or, Why Francis Fukuyama Endorses Barack Obama
• Crooks & Liars, Chris Shays gets off the Straight Talk Express
• Emergent Chaos: For McCain Palin (some endorsement…)
• WCIV-TV, North Charleston Woman Uses Last Moments In Life to Vote
• Kos, Plumber Joe's Humiliating No Show; John McCain Gets Stood Up By Joe The Plumber
• Kos, NH McCain Leadership Committee member endorses Obama
• Obama Ad, Rearview Mirror

• Obama Ad, Something

• McCain Offers Tax Windfall for Cindy the Beer Heiress
• Crooks & Liars, Obama Infomercial: Reviews and Ratings
• Joe Klein, TIME, McCain in the Gutter
  • Political Animal, 'Preconditions'
  • DeLong, John McCain: Dishonest, Dishonorable, Ignorant, and Incompetent (Two Worst Adds Ever Edition)
• Informed Comment, McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue
• Daily Show, Moment of Zen – Two Mavericks & Goin' Rogue

Wednesday

• Campaign for America, Heartbeat Away

• Political Animal, McCain wages war on the Times (the other one)
• Obama Ad, His Choice

• Delong,
  • Circular Firing Squad of Flying Republican Attack Monkeys
  • AND Circular Firing Squad of Flying Republican Attack Monkeys
  • AND ALSO, Circular Firing Squad of Flying Republican Attack Monkeys

Tuesday

• Obama, Feeling a Little Confident?

Monday

• In honor of Senator Stevens's conviction on seven counts: Palin on Ted Stevens: 'I have great respect for him'

• Digby, Rogue Palin
• Political Animal, Radio daze
• Iowa State Daily, Pre-emptive ejection: Audience members removed at McCain rally in Cedar Falls
  • Political Animal, A Bubble Boy for a new generation
• Bob Greiger, Many Newspapers Endorsing Bush In 2004 Now Pick Obama
• Rechavia Berman, Scoop: Obama's online donation dubious. McCain's? Even more
• Political Animal, A mockery of the freedom of the press (Palin's demands before agreeing to talk to medi)

Sunday

• Mudflats, The Lyin’, the Witch and the Wardrobe – An Alaskan Tale.
• DNC, More of the Same

• Anchorage Daily News Endorses Obama
• TPM, Another GOP heavyweight endorses Obama — former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD).
• Financial Times says Obama is the better choice
• Kos, A Marginalized Party:
  

  Despite all predictions, this election is not, in fact, about President Bush. He's a non-entity in it all.

  That's fairly remarkable. Aagainst the odds, the McCain/Palin campaign has managed to suck entirely on its own. Sure, the Democrats wanted to paint McCain (accurately, when it comes to nearly all actual policy positions) as the second coming of Bush. But McCain resisted the label, and instead found ways to suck that were completely independent of his ties to Bush.

Saturday

• DeLong, The Republican Circular Firing Squad of Flying Attack Monkeys Commences!
• Making Light, McCain Gives Up on New Hampshire gives us this photo,
  
• Kos, Brian Williams: McCain Campaign Spread 'B' Hoax To Reporters
  • David Neiwert, 'B'-grade hoax reveals Republicans' inner race-baiter
  • Political Animal, What did the McCain campaign push and when did it push it?
  • TPM, Who Do You Believe? & Time for Answers
• Kevin Drum, Palin-McCain: The Skirmishing Begins
• Kos, No means no. (Troopergate testimony)
• Political Animal, The return of the Mayberry Machiavellis
• Hullabaloo has a video of McCain voters
• South Florida Daily Blog has some Maimi voters
• Berg v. Obama: Dismissed (mentioned here only because some people apparently thought there was something to this frivolous complaint)
• Political Animal, Redefining 'small business'
• The McCain Campaign may not want you to see this

Friday

• Order and Opinion in Berg v. Obama

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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

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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
  • Palin becomes delusional; feels vindicated
• 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
  • Do I Contradict Myself? Very Well Then I Contradict Myself.
• 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,
  • Are spouses off the table or not?
  • Gollum '08
  • Palin reads an imaginary report
  • Republicans snubbing McCain
  • The Troopergate Report
  • Why McCain's Troopergate spin doesn't work
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  • 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

News about the Hate Talk Express.

Friday

• ArchPundit, Good on LaHood — retiring GOP Congressman slams Palin
  • Bob Geiger, GOP Leaders Abandoning McCain: “Who Is John McCain?”
• HuffPo, Obama Called “Traitor” Again At McCain Rally
  • TPM, Anti-Obama Fury Spills Over Into Down-Ticket Contests: 'Bomb Obama'
• HuffPo, Congressional Republicans Have No Opinion On McCain Mortgage Plan
• Crooks & Liars, This is what the hate from Right wing talk radio, bloggers and FOX News creates
• Political Animal, Hate, fear, and ignorance
• Jonathan Adler, Volokh, “McCain 2 Old”:
• TPM, Which Is It? (Palin's stories on Troopergate)
• Political Animal, They know no limits, they have no shame
  • TPM, Crockodile Tears (from McCain camp about the hate they are whipping up)
  • Joe Klein, Swampland, Better to Be…
• Political Animal, Troopergate endgame
• David Weinberg, Joho the Blog, Obama on McCain on buying up bad mortgages
• Political Animal, Temper, Temper
• knagenga, mlive.com, Former governor Milliken backs away from McCain

Thursday

• David Neiwert, Orcinus, Sarah Palin's dalliances with Wasilla's own extremists
• Boing-boing, If It Walks Like A Duck and Talks Like a Duck Dept: The McCain-Palin Mob
• Serge F. Kovaleski, NYT, In Dozens of Calls, Palins and Aides Pressed for Trooper's Removal
• McCain questioner complains of McCain's condescension
• Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico, McCain didn't report ties to Contra group
• CNN, Poll: 47 percent concerned McCain wouldn't finish first term
• HuffPo, McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama “A Guy Of The Street,” Raises Drug Use
• Greg Sargent, TPM Election Central, McCain Supporter Rants About 'Hooligan' Obama And 'Socialist' Takeover — And McCain Agrees
• ThinkProgress, Keating to McCain in 1986: ‘I’m yours til death do us part.’
• Crooks & Liars, McCain Media's Collective Yawn At McCain's Big “News”
• Romanesko, What NYT's Brooks really thinks about Palin
• Crooks & Liars, The Palin-McCain Mob
• Kevin Drum, Sarah's Airplane & Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Cred
• TPM, The Cowardice Issue
• AFL-CIO NOW Blog, McCain’s Claims on Veterans’ Issues Don’t Match Reality
• The Buzz, Obama ad aims to make McCain look shady
• DeLong, Can't Anybody Play This Game? The McCain Campaign Defies Belief
• Tech for Obama
• TPM Presents a Collection of John McCain's Worst Attacks… McCain's World of Sleaze
• Political Animal,
  • McCain hands Obama a target
  • A lesson in contrasts
  • McCain's mortgage plan draws fire
  • The company they keep
  • Baiting McCain
  • Should Cindy McCain be fair game?
• Crooks & Liars, John McCain lowers himself into the Ayers bathwater with Sean Hannity
• TPM, Real Piece of Work (Todd Palin)
  • TalkLeft, Late Night: Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
• Obama Blog, “The Record,”, McCain’s Disastrous Mortgage Bailout Pulverized Around Nation
  • McCain mortgage plan shifts costs to taxpayers
• Obama Ad, Tested

Wednesday

• Obama Ad, Taketh

• Crooks & Liars, Nina Easton: John McCain Sank the Free Market Republican Ship Last Night
• South Florida Daily Blog, “Off With His Head”
• TPM, Truth in Advertising
• Political Animal, McCain's bin Laden vow
• Political Animal, The measure of mendacity
• Jackie Calmes, NYT, Taxpayers, Not Lenders, Would Bear Costs of McCain’s Mortgage Proposal
  • DeLong, John McCain's New Mortgage Plan Is Worse than I Had Imagined Possibly, Even Given What I Know About John McCain
• Boing-Boing, Note to McCain: Overhead projector is not a planetarium projector
• Mary Jacoby, WSJ, McCain Supporter Had Own Ties to Radical Protesters
• Political Animal, The septuagenarian issue
• Obama TV Ad: 'Country I Believe In'
• Brave New Films, John McCain's Rage is a National Security Concern

• Eric B., Michigan Liberal, State GOP bleeding internally over McCain early pullout
• Political Animal, Again?
• HuffPo, McCain's Trumpets Endorsement From Figure Of Foundation That Established Ayers Board
• Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop: The McCain-isms that Lost the Debate, If Not the Election
• AmericaBlog, McCain taking “energy” supplement also used for Alzheimer's and dementia
• WashPo, New Anti-McCain Spot Appeals to Veterans
• Mary Hershberger, Investigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea
• David Weinberger, Joho the Blog, That one

Tuesday

• Bob Geiger, Vets Group Gives McCain Failing Grade On Supporting Troops
• HuffPo, Palin Attacks Biden While He's At Mother-In-Law's Funeral
• Jack Turner, Jack & Jill, Palin Supporters Hurl Obscenities At Media. Tell Black Sound Man, “Sit down, boy!” McCain-Palin, Unfit To Lead
  • When Their Supporters Call Obama A Terrorist And Demand His Assassination, McCain And Palin Remain Silent
• David Neiwert, Sarah Palin And The AIP: Not So Fast With The Exonerations, Please
• The Company He Keeps
  • Huffington Post: Why McCain's Time With Council Of World Freedom Matters
  • AP: McCain linked to private group in Iran-Contra case
  • Politico: Dems hope Singlaub is McCain's Ayers
• Obama Ad, The Subject

• Political Animal, Crushing an invaluable brand
• wasillaproject, Sarah Palin: The rape kit controversy

• Reuters, Maverick family to McCain: No way are you one of us!

Monday

• Joe Klein, Swampland (TIME), Embarracuda
• Firedoglake, Sarah Palin and the incredible disappearing accent
• TalkLeft, Palin Ignores Supporter Who Yells “Kill Him” After She Insults Obama
  • (Tue) HuffPo, Obama Hatred On Display Again At Palin Rally, Supporter Screams “Treason!”
• James Fallows, The Atlantic, Our capacity for self-government
• nhavey, The McSame Trillogy
  • McSame Burger

  • Designer McSame

  • McSame Frame

• FactCheck, McCain-Palin ad distorts Obama's remark on Afghanistan and support for troop-funding bills.
• Kathryn Lofton, John McCain: No God But Country
• Crooks & Liars, McCain’s Macaca Moment
• Political Animal, Touchy and angry]
  • Talkleft, McCain: Erratic, Angry And Desperate
  • Political Animal, McCain inexplicably blames Obama for market fall
  • John Aravosis, AmericaBlog, McCain does nothing as supporter calls Obama a “terrorist”. Video

• TPM, Who They Are, What They're About
• Kos, Mocha
• Political Animal, Context matters
• TMP, Appealing to Our Lesser Selves
• Campaign Silo, Obama Has Double-Digit Lead In Virginia
• Talk to Action, Palin's Churches and the Third Wave series
  • Links to Information and Documentaries on Palin's Churches
• McCain reneges on his confession of guilt in the Keating 5 scandal
  • Kos, John McCain Lies About Keating Five
  • Poltico, Engaging on Keating bensmith/1008/Engaging_on_ Keating.html
  • TPM, Flashback: Lawyer Defending McCain On Keating Five: 'We Lost The McCain I Knew'
  • Crooks & Liars, Campaign Now Claims McCain's Admitted Keating Five Wrongdoing a Smear
  • HuffPo, McCain Counsel Calls Keating Investigation A Political Hit Job
  • Tim Dickinson, Rollng Stone, McCain on Keating
  • HuffPo, Flashback: McCain's Presidential Ambitions Raised In Keating Hearing
• Emptywheel, New Proof On Longtime McCain Lie About Threatening Official
• Orcinus, Palling with extremists, indeed
• Politico, Taxes show Palins' Joe Six-Pack lifestyle (“The Palins passed up the opportunity to direct $12 from their 2006 and 2007 taxes to the presidential public financing system through which the McCain-Palin campaign received $84.1 million for the general election”)
• WSJ, McCain Plans Federal Health Cuts (“John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid”)
• Political Animal, The company that he keeps & Guilt by guilt
• AFL-CIO NOW Blog, Republican Dirty Tricks, Secret Purges Aimed at Suppressing Votes
• Have you visited KeatingEconomics.com?
• Retired Generals of the Israeli Defense Forces and high-ranking Mossad officials on Barack Obama…
  
  
• LAT, Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator
  

  McCain was on his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam when a surface-to-air missile struck his A-4 attack jet. He was flying 3,000 feet above Hanoi.

  A then-secret report issued in 1967 by McCain's squadron said the aviators had learned to stay at an altitude of 4,000 to 10,000 feet in heavy surface-to-air missile environments and look for approaching missiles.

Sunday

• Jon Meacham, NewsWeek, The Palin Problem
• DNC Web Ad, Negative Attack Ads
• Zappatero, Square State, A Few Questions For Sarah Palin
• This issue has legs. Jack Bogdanski, There's no debate: Palins owe thousands in back taxes
  • MyDD, Tax Profs: Palin Owes Thousands in Back Taxes
  • NYT, Caucus Blog Questions Linger About Palin Taxes
  • WSJ, Reimbursements Raise Tax Issues for Palin
• Ari Sunday, Remember How Sarah Palin Supported Divestment From Sudan?

Saturday

• Obama Ad, Keating Economics: John McCain and a Financial Crisis
  • There's also the 13 minute version
• Kos, Polls,
  
• Political Animal, Yes, Palin can get worse & Cheney's heir
• Eye on Miami, Palin/ Tillerson 2012 … by gimleteye
• TalkLeft, McCain and Palin: Palin Is the Greater Threat
• South Florida Daily Blog, McCain's Latin Experience
• Legendary Bluegrass Artist Ralph Stanley Endorses Barack Obama

• Political Animal, Obama tackles McCain's 'radical' healthcare plan
• TPM, Desperate
  • Political Animal, Troopergate desperation
• Obama Ad, Job Loss: The Price of More of the Same

• WashPo details upcoming McCain Mud-throwing campaign
• Saturday Cartoons

Friday

• HuffPo, Palin Smears Obama With Year-Old Discredited Attack
• Top Ten McClain clips of last week from the Issue Alliance.
  • McSexist Says Town Hall 'Emotional' Because It's All Women (Town Hall; Denver, CO 10/02/08)
  • McCain: ‘We Need A President Who Will Always Tell The American People The Truth’ (Rally; Columbus, OH 09/29/08)
  • Psst, Who's Gonna Tell McCain Hugo Chavez Isn't A Middle Eastern Leader? (Roundtable; Des Moines, IA 09/30/08)
  • McCain Praises Truman For ‘Stay[ing] The Course’ (Speech; Independence, MO 10/01/08)
  • McCain: There Will Be ‘New Rules’ To ‘Shrink, Sell And Clean House At Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac’ (Speech; Independence, MO 10/01/08)
  • McCain Blames Financial Crisis On ‘Failure Of Oversight’ (Town Hall Meeting; Denver, CO 10/02/08)
  • But McCain Says People Are Rightly Cynical Because ‘We Want Government Least Involved In Our Lives’ (Town Hall; Denver, CO 10/02/08)
  • On Day of Bailout Vote in House, McCain Says A Leader Shouldn't ‘Phone It In’ (Rally; Columbus, OH 09/29/08)
  • McCain Bashes The Media vs. McCain Lets The Media Off The Hook (Town Hall; Denver, CO 10/02/08) vs. (Town Hall; Denver, CO 10/02/08)
• Obama (Web-only) Ad, 477

• TPM, Palin Out Of The Loop On Decision To Pull Out Of Michigan
• From Patriotboy:
  
• Crooks & Liars, Will McCain hide Palin from the media for the rest of the race?
• TalkLeft, McCain Abandons Promise to Run Respectful Campaign
  • TMP, McCain Campaign's Ad Spending Now Nearly 100 Percent Devoted To Attack Ads
• Jack Balkin, Balkinization, Palin becomes irrelevant; McCain prepares his endgame
• Crooks & Liars, Does John McCain’s Campaign Own VotefortheMILF.com?
• Dave Neiwert, Orcinus, Sarah's scary answer to that question
• Political Animal, All negative, all the time
• David Post, Vokokh Conspiracy, The Debate
• Crooks & Liars, VP Debate: The night’s most powerful moment
• Political Animal, Pre-surge levels
• Obama Ad, Can't Explain

• Gary Farber, Amygdalag, THEIR MOVIE CHOICES SAY IT
• Sarah Palin Winks At America

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  • Kitty Burns Florey, Slate, Diagramming Sarah