The McCain campaign is all set to roll out its message for the last 30 days of the campaign: "We may not be good for your bank account, your mortgage, your health care, or your job security -- but none of that will matter if you are dead. John McCain: If You Want to Live." For the moment, McCain is allowing his high-sticking hockey mom to lead the fear-mongering parade, but Palin's Alaska crude will soon be mixed with McCain's own Maverick mud. At a Colorado town hall last Thursday, McCain was asked, "When are you going to take off the gloves?" His grinning reply: "How about Tuesday night?" So how long into Debate II do you think it will be before McCain brings up Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, or Tony Rezko?
Obama has learned all the wrong lessons from the swift boat debacle. Kerry got spanked in 2004 because he has the personality of the thimble.
One wonders at this point how the various agencies charged with the responsibility of protecting the presidential candidates from violence will respond to this latest tactic from the McCain campaign.
You're not like the others who shill for McCain-Palin. Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly, Ingraham -- they're operatives, easily replaceable. You're a writer, a real one.
Why does Cramer think you should get out now? Because the market could decline 20% from here. That's possibly the worst justification for selling medium-term holdings I've ever heard.
Every politician in America wants you to believe they "support the troops." But actions speak louder than words.
The people with the same rapacious mindset that got us to this dangerous place at huge profit to themselves are now being asked by Paulson to serve themselves up to another helping.
It's all negative all the time now in the TV ad wars. For once, Obama has stolen a march on McCain in the campaign hit parade. And his attack strategy seems to be much more on the axis of decision for this election.
The New York Times should liberate this "fifth columnist" from his contract so that he is free to officially join the Palin campaign.
The Keating Five connections are very troubling for what they mean today -- both on economic philosophy and on McCain's willingness to get cozy with special interests.
The preconditions that the Bush administration have publicly proclaimed in the past were based on the increasingly faulty assumption that the U.S. always has the upper hand. But the world has changed.
Gov. Palin said that she learned about Sen. Obama's ties to The Weather Channel last week "when I was trying hard to read The New York Times."
