Why does McCain want to be president? Those who have followed him for years don't recognize his agenda, his tactics, his positions.
Sarah Palin now asserts that she reads The Economist, at least to Fox News Channel. Well, doggone it, if she does peruse the Oct. 4 issue, she'll find a 20-page report on the presidential election.
If the kind of gotcha journalism that so irritates John McCain and Sarah Palin were more woven into the fabric of our civic life, we might not be in the mess now consuming us.
Surrounded and programmed by the lobbyists he once despised, the man who once effortlessly straddled the aisle and spoke from the heart now carefully hews to a prompter-read, soulless far-right agenda.
Since September, I've gone 100% crazy. Come next year, John McCain and Sarah Palin might be running this country. I can't concentrate at work. I can't hold a normal conversation about anything besides politics.
Governor Palin, in fact, took no leadership role to fight for Darfur divestment; she dismissed pleas for help and only changed her position in 2008.
The bailout is something so complex and has been foisted upon us so suddenly, how could we ever possibly make an intelligent, long range decision?
According to the Washington Post, after the initial defeat of the bailout package in the House, Paulson told Bush "there is no Plan B." Of course this was not true.
I'll put on my Hollywood hat just for a moment so I can lead a chorus of righteous laughter at the colossal failure of the persecuted Hollywood conservatives behind An American Carol.
Rove's tactics did not work as well as people think in 2000 or 2004 and they won't work that well against Obama in 2008.
I had come to work in voter protection expecting that we would be looking for "dirty tricks." Instead I found an old system. The greater the burden (on the citizen), the less likely to participate in the process.
Governor, you have a "close association" with a known former member of a radical, right-wing, well-armed and well-funded political party whose founder damned the United States as virulently as Reverend Wright did.
McCain wants us to talk solely about whether the surge of US troops last year has been successful. But a hole was just blown in that argument -- and blood is rushing through.
