Can Barack Obama succeed in laying Richard Nixon's ghost to rest? As Obama pledges bipartisanship and reaches across the aisle to John McCain, many of us can't help but hope that we've seen the end of the politics of denigration.
However badly we'd love to flush the karmic toilet, how likely it is the forces that gave us Enron, Jack Abramoff, economic collapse and Blackwater has been humbled into changing their venal ways? Not a chance.
Obama's position is a whole lot better for coal miners than John McCain's, whose big energy solution is not coal, it's nuclear.
The critical point is that it is easier to scare undecideds than uplift and inspire these same voters. The psychobiological study of fear demonstrates this.
It is not enough to report what a candidate says. When he lies, distorts, or smears, he should be held accountable in print or on the air.
With even the red states turning on him, I'm tempted to feel sorry for McCain. But then, I remember that he was the one who chose the path that led him to where he is today.
McCain sticks to his absurd story that it was Obama who forced him to embark on one of the most fiercely negative campaigns in history.
(SYOP News 10/31/08) In an attempt to cover last minute paid ads, the McCain/Palin campaign has resorted to emails sent from untrackable Nigerian URLs...
The Palin/McCain camps have so completely played the press guilt about their personal views in favor of Obama, they can now say just about anything without paying a price.
Is this how you really want to go out? Do you want the following hate-filled gems to be the final symbol of your failed campaign? Is this how you want to be remembered?
This seems like a strange way to start your new attack ad: "Would you get on a plane with a pilot who has never flown?" Is the RNC trying to remind everyone about McCain's flying record?
Yes. I helped pay for that extravagant half-hour Obama commercial. I contribute as much as I can afford.
John McCain is so darn mavericky that's he's put out an ad that says Barack Obama isn't ready....yet. I myself do not have the mavercikish brain to wr...
It's been over a week since Joe Biden said that world events would test Obama in his first six months in office: "Mark my words. It will not be six ...
"Real Americans" from "Real America" give their carefully reasoned and meticulously constructed arguments against an Obama presidency. Behold the GOP base in all its glory.
When the dust settles Tuesday, the lunatic fringe on both sides of the aisle will crawl back into their burrows, and the rest of us will be left to repair the damage done by the Bush Administration.
During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.
Virtually every attack McCain makes against Barack Obama is a projection of his own fear or loathing.
I hope McCain's team of Karl Rove wannabes make 20 or 30 more mistakes in the final days before the election.
It's over. The American people have spoken. If this election was a basketball game, it would be time to clear the benches and let the subs play out the clock.
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
