Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Biden speaking in Springfield [aka Kath / Flickr]
McCain is now ahead of Obama in the national polls, and one of Joe Biden's new roles -- at least judging by his Springfield speech -- is to play bad cop to counter McCain's recent offensive.
Mary, who lives "in a Blue State, in ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
McCain's dubious new attack mode seems a good intro to several pieces lamenting false rumors and negative campaigning.
Two Chicago comedian bloggers -- John T. Kramer and Aaron Sjoholm -- have created a small video series called "Don't Vote Stupid!" Their aim: disuading people from "voting on stupid stuff (like how ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
While on the topic of negative campaigning, here's another sharp video calling Obama on the way he distorted McCain's willingness to keep Americans in Iraq for 100 years or so. Obama (and, to be fair, Clinton) claimed McCain wanted to continue waging war for 100 years; McCain's comment pretty clearly ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In the last month or so, to inject his campaign with new energy, John McCain promoted several staffers who were part of Karl Rove's hard-hitting re-election bid for Bush in 2004.
Since then, McCain has accused Obama of wanting to lose the Iraq war, insinuated that he's a socialist, and juxtaposed ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Vlogger verticalpolitics believes John McCain has said some stupid things during the campaign that deserve to be taken on. McCain's "100 years in Iraq" comment, however, isn't one of them. That remark, says verticalpolitics, has been twisted and taken deliberately out of context by his Democratic opponents (hat tip to ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
A hilarious send-up of the relevance of Obama's connection to former Weather Underground member William Ayers -- which both Clinton and McCain have tried to highlight. Found, for you, by Sarolta Cump:
Could a candidate get away with wearing any of those?
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Gary R. Welsh, an Indianapolis lawyer, doesn't buy the standard line that Barack Obama floats largely free of the fray of negative campaigning. He recognizes that dirt is part of politics, but he's annoyed that "Obama has been presented with this aura of being above the politics of personal destruction ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Distortion [curson / Flickr]
The blogger Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute highlights an instance of Obama mischaracterizing -- by omission -- something McCain said about the economy. (Found by Ann Raber.) Maguire compares what Obama said McCain said with what McCain actually did say.
Obama: "John McCain went on television and said that ...
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