Posts Tagged ‘ Mccain Campaign ’

For quite a while, I actually enjoyed listening to Lou Dobbs on CNN. I religiously followed what I assumed were intelligent discussions of pressing issues, especially when it had to do with capital flight and the so-called war on the middle class, outsourcing and disappearing jobs in America. But the more I listen to...
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Friday October 10, 2008 will go down in history for a number of reasons, but mostly for being the day Americans were hit with the fact that after 200 years of nationhood and after strenuous efforts by our leaders to project an image of maturity, progress and tolerance, we are still a nation searching...
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“Those who have had a chance for four years and could not produce peace should not be given another chance.” – Richard Nixon “No way to deny it. The current Republican party hates intelligence and competence. It’s become a Know Nothing spectacle led by Sarah Palin. I will ignore my own years of neglect of...
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Joe Klein of Time magazine says: I’m of two minds about how to deal with the McCain campaign’s further descent into ugliness. Their strategy is simple: you throw crap against a wall and then giggle as the media try to analyze the putresence in a way that conveys a sense of balance: “Well, it is...
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In the wake of the fiasco that has become the attempt to bailout failed financial institution, one thing that has been a constant is the invisible role of the Bush administration in putting John McCain in a very tight spot. After a full week of a roller-coaster of political activities, we finally came to...
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“In all due respect, people going around and… sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that’s—that’s a person’s position… This is a free country…” – Senator John McCain The more this campaign cycle goes on, the more Americans seem to be getting to know what can aptly be...
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Despite all the hoopla surrounding the position of Henry Kissinger and the disgraceful alacrity with which the supposed elder statesman kowtowed to the pressure from the McCain campaign to recant his own publicly available statements, Obama was right about him at the debate. I watched the CNN program called “The Next President” and Kissinger...
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The presidential debates have begun and we just witnessed the first one. While we will leave it to pundits and spin masters to debate about who won or lost, one thing that was very apparent was that should senator Barack Obama be lucky enough to win this election, he will owe an eternal debt...
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If there was any doubt in the minds of supporters of senator John McCain’s presidential aspirations that the old man has lost it, the recent antics of the very senior senator from Arizona should erase such doubts. After a week of looking listless, confused and almost out of his elements, some of his advisers...
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“He did this,” (holding up his BlackBerry) “Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create, and that’s what he did. He both regulated and de-regulated the industry.” – Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s senior...
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