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Obama’s Keating Attack Goes Live

By | 10.06.08 | 1:25 pm

We’ll do it live, as they say.

The Obama campaign is aggressively pushing its new video attacking Sen. John McCain on the Keating Five. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton blasted reporters with a terse, dramatic note this afternoon: “Keating-McCain documentary is now live.”

Obama’s George Costanza Tactic on Ayers

By | 10.06.08 | 1:08 pm

Modern presidential campaigns don’t just work the refs. They obsess over the media.

Gov. Sarah Palin can’t seem to finish a rally without riffing on her (rare) interactions with the “mainstream media.”

Since the conventions, the Obama campaign has consistently hammered reporters for how they cover McCain’s falsehoods.

The styles More…

McCain Will Cut Medicare and Medicaid to Fund Health Plan

By | 10.06.08 | 11:55 am

While the McCain campaign’s attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers will likely dominate today’s news cycle, the Wall Street Journal is out with a story this morning with far larger implications for millions of Americans.

According to the newspaper:

Obama Claps Back With Keating Five

By | 10.06.08 | 11:38 am

When the McCain campaign announced this weekend that it would start attacking Sen. Barack Obama via guilt by association, peddling smears about people he barely knows, I thought the tack would lead to the Keating Five.  But I didn’t know it would happen this quickly.

The Torch Is Passed

By | 10.03.08 | 6:26 pm

Gov. Sarah Palin (WDCpix)
Gov. Sarah Palin (WDCpix)

No question, Sarah Palin is a trip. We have all been watching her and arguing about her since she appeared on the national scene. For women she is an More…

A Joe Six-Pack Family?

By | 10.03.08 | 5:53 pm

Today’s the big day.

What day is that, you ask?  Why, today’s the day the Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, released their much-awaited financial records — and they are quite revealing.

From the McCain campaign Website:

Compared to Quayle, Palin Got Off Easy

By | 10.03.08 | 2:08 pm

Amid all the reactions to last night’s vice presidential debate, one thing seems clear: moderator Gwen Ifill went pretty easy on Sarah Palin.

Ifill may have had her legs pulled out from under her when the pundits of the right raised concerns over her impartiality following revelations that she More…

Palin Bummed About Michigan Pullout

By | 10.03.08 | 1:30 pm

More from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with Fox News’ Carl Cameron…

Palin says she wishes the McCain campaign hadn’t made the decision to pull its staff and resources out of Michigan.

Fox News Snags Palin’s First Post-Debate Interview

By | 10.03.08 | 11:37 am

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised some eyebrows during Thursday’s debate when she said would like to do more forums “without the filter of the mainstream media telling viewers what they have just heard.”

Some took this as an indication that the she intends to abandon the high-profile interviews that have More…

A Soldier’s Unnecessary Retreat

By | 10.03.08 | 6:30 am

BIRMINGHAM, Mich.– Battleground no more.

For the past several months, the Republican and Democratic nominees for president have targeted this fading center of the Rust Belt, with its 17 electoral votes, as a winnable state — part of each party’s electoral strategy to take the White House.

Now, that plan More…