Filed at 6:46 pm, Thursday July 31st 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Cindy McCain, May 8th, 2008:
“My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.”
John McCain, April 21st, 2008:
“I have respectfully treated my friends on the other side of the aisle… I’m gonna promise you I will wage a respectful campaign.”
It’s becoming increasingly clear that since George Bush’s policies are not popular enough to campaign […]
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Filed at 10:05 am, Wednesday July 30th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
The Times reports that some in the GOP are worried about the increasingly negative tone from the McCain campaign (see, these people do exist!):
In recent days Senator John McCain has charged that Senator Barack Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign,” tarred him as “Dr. No” on energy policy […]
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Filed at 9:20 pm, Tuesday July 29th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
On Saturday, I wrote about Obama’s promise to review Bush’s executive orders to see how many were unconstitutional and repeal them. The AP brings us more details today from a private meeting between Barack and Democratic House legislators:
Barack Obama told House Democrats on Tuesday that as president he would order his attorney general to scour […]
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Filed at 1:32 pm, Tuesday July 29th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
It’s been long-suspected that Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens was corrupt as this investigation has been ongoing for years now, but it looks like it’s finally coming to a head:
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting […]
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Filed at 8:09 pm, Monday July 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
USA Today/Gallup has the first poll we’ve seen in months (at least since the end of the primary) that shows McCain beating Obama:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among “likely” voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama among that group in the latest USA […]
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Filed at 9:56 am, Monday July 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Color me unsurprised at this:
In a year when polls show an easy victory for a generic Democratic candidate, McCain has until now been loathe to employ the tack many strategists see as essential and which anonymous e-mailers and commenters with no apparent links to his campaign have been practicing since last summer: hitting Obama not […]
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Filed at 10:32 am, Saturday July 26th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Yes please:
The proposal for a Church Committee-style investigation emerged from talks between civil liberties advocates and aides to Democratic leaders in Congress, according to sources involved. (Pelosi’s and Conyers’ offices both declined to comment.) Looking forward to 2009, when both Congress and the White House may well be controlled by Democrats, the idea is to […]
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Filed at 9:59 am, Friday July 25th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
I mentioned this earlier here.
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Filed at 3:03 pm, Thursday July 24th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Wow. One minute he’s attacking Obama for not having physically been in Afghanistan, the next minute he’s forgotten about all the loss of life that’s happened there.
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Filed at 2:23 pm, Thursday July 24th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
20,000 showed up for President Regan’s speech to Berlin in 1987.
120,000 showed up for President Kennedy’s speech to Berlin in 1963.
“At least” 200,000 showed up for Candidate Obama’s speech to Berlin today, according to local police estimates (the largest is campaign has drawn domestically is about 75K).
“Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate […]
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Filed at 12:55 pm, Thursday July 24th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
So, how big was the crowd that met Obama in Berlin at his speech today?
German media predicted as much as 1 million people, a number that Obama flatly dismissed, saying “I doubt we’re gonna have a million screaming Germans.”
Images broadcast on CNN however indicate that the crowd was large enough to reach all the way […]
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Filed at 11:08 am, Thursday July 24th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
I got a call last night from my New Hampshire area-coded cell phone from the Obama campaign asking for money. The call was also from the 603 area code, like mine.
According to the official script the volunteer or staffer was reading, McCain is “pulling ahead in the money race.” Interesting framing, although it doesn’t go […]
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Filed at 10:41 am, Wednesday July 23rd 2008
by Arlen Parsa
The HuffPo:
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama’s commitment to preventing a future genocide was not sincere, attacking the Democratic candidate during his appearance at the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem.
In an early morning press release, entitled “Obama on Genocide,” McCain aide Tucker Bounds emailed reporters a quote from Obama’s appearance in which […]
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Filed at 7:44 pm, Tuesday July 22nd 2008
by Arlen Parsa
John McCain today:
“It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.”
Really?
Did he just say that out loud while Obama is abroad meeting with foreign leaders and discussing Iraq as a Senator and a representative of the United States of America? Talk about heinous… I wonder if […]
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Filed at 3:35 pm, Tuesday July 22nd 2008
by Arlen Parsa
…CNN, for publishing this.
Update: ThinkProgres takes on the CNN article on substance here.
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