Age has finally become an issue for John McCain. But the problem isn't the candidate's 72 years; it's the antediluvian approach of his campaign. McCain is running a textbook Rovian race: fear-based, smear-based, anything goes. But it isn't working. The glitch in the well-oiled machine? The Internet. Thanks to YouTube and blogging and instant fact-checking and viral e-mails it is getting harder and harder to get away with repeating brazen lies without paying a price. But the McCain campaign hasn't gotten the message, hence the blizzard of racist, alarmist, xenophobic, innuendo-laden accusations being splattered at Obama. And with McCain sliding in the polls, you can expect his campaign to get even uglier. That's what happens when following Rovian politics is your only strategy -- and Rovian politics isn't working.
The truth is that we, the Socialist International Conspiracy, not only saw the crash of the stock market coming, we are the ones who made it happen.
While McCain now lags in all age groups, he retains his strongest support among voters 65 and older.
Considering that it's Bush who has presided over the biggest nationalization of American banking since the 1930s, it must be hard for Kurtz and his ilk to understand the difference between socialism and "social democratic."
Factually, most blacks don't vote for blacks just because they are black. It does not appear as though black America is handing Obama a "he's one of us" vote.
Before John McCain is allowed to resume his position as a popular and respected fixture among the Washington press corps, before he's accepted back into polite society, he really should have to grovel a bit.
The latest in the litany of right wing contrivances calculated to raise doubt among the undecideds only causes further embarrassment to McCain, to Republicans and to their shrinking base.
California's Proposition 8 is anti-American. When in history has this country grown stronger through division, through the premise that stripping away equal rights somehow strengthens us?
Most of the poll workers are elderly, and not particularly adept at using the computers. My agent took almost five minutes to find me in the system and issue me a ballot. One woman who exited the polling place after half an hour was apparently dead, even though she looked quite well.
Years from now when we look back at Powell's endorsement of Obama there may be an even bigger story. It is the story of the end of the Republican foreign policy establishment as we know it.
Compared to offensive remarks against blacks, Hispanics and Jews, cultural affronts on Asians rarely get too high on the food chain. The missed McCain Gook story would seem to bear that out.
Pollsters have to ask the 10% of people who still think the country is headed in the right direction two follow-up questions...
We have a message for our Republican friends: It is time to point fingers. We are pro-finger-pointing. And here's the most important thing about finger-pointing: you have to start early.
