White House '08
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face,” Barack Obama said yesterday. “So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on [...]
Powell for Obama? It doesn’t add up
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Ever since the National Journal reported July 1 that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had met privately with Barack Obama at Powell’s Alexandria office, the mainstream news media and the blogosphere alike have speculated that Powell might be on the verge of deserting the Republican Party to endorse Obama for the presidency.
His office denied [...]
Say what, Politico?
Monday, July 28th, 2008Politico’s lead story this afternoon is entitled: “McCain takes aim at Obama’s character.” I don’t have a problem with the article itself, except I think the characterization that McCain is “attacking Obama’s character” rather than his platform is questionable. McCain’s earlier charges that Obama is among the most liberal members of the Senate and a [...]
Huck, Lieberman lead VP poll
Monday, July 28th, 2008Rasmussen today released a poll (conducted July 25-27) of 1,000 people on their VP preference for John McCain. The top vote-getters? Surprisingly (perhaps), former GOP candidate Mike Huckabee — who has become an also-ran in the veepstakes — garnered a 47% favorability rating . . . slightly ahead of Democrat-turned-independent-(but still caucusing with the Demmies) [...]
Shunning the troops: Seeking truth in politically-charged atmosphere
Sunday, July 27th, 2008He didn’t do it because he couldn’t take his media entourage along. Bush cronies in the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to visit. He didn’t want to make a political situation out of troops’ injuries. A camel in Afghanistan ate his itinerary and he forgot he had a hospital visit scheduled.
The reason for Barack Obama’s cancelled [...]
All signs now point to Romney
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Kavon Nikrad blogged yesterday that several sources were reporting that Mitt Romney would be John McCain’s veep selection.
Marc Ambinder seems sold on the probability, opining that McCain will not announce his veep selection this week because . . . Mitt Romney is out of the country.
But as quickly as rumors began flaring in GOP [...]
Do signs point to an Obama blowout?
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Some pundits — primarily left-minded ones — believe the 2008 presidential election will be a blow-out, with Barack Obama handedly defeating John McCain. Reporters say “nonsense . . . look at the national polls.” And the national polls, of course, have the 2 candidates neck-and-neck; Saturday’s daily tracking poll from Rasmussen showed McCain and Obama [...]
Fundraising revisited
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Remember that speculation about Barack Obama’s fundraising? Forget about it.
After a lackluster May that saw Obama raise just $22 million — which was just $1 million higher than John McCain — Obama rebounded in a big way, netting $52 million in June. McCain raised $22 million in June. That’s his best of the year, [...]
The thin-skinned Obama
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Right-minded comedian Dennis Miller has Barack Obama pegged: “I don’t ever notice the color of [Obama's] skin,” Miller said in an appearance with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, “But I do notice the thinness of it.”
Throughout the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama has taken exceptional offense to, well, just about everything. While partisans on the left [...]
Obama: McCain flip-flops more
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Politico’s Jonathan Martin has this exerpt from an Obama appearance scheduled for PBS tonight:
[I]f you compare sort of my shift in emphasis on issues that I’ve been proposing for years, like say, faith-based initiatives, which have raised questions in the press, … if you compare that to John McCain’s complete reversal on oil drilling, complete [...]
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