Negative Attacks

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Dear Conservatives: Break Some Liberal Hearts. Vote Obama.

David Quigg | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

No group in America would have more trouble adjusting to an Obama presidency than the Bush Liberals. Yes, there really is such a thing as a Bush Liberal. Let me explain.

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I Am Professor Khalidi (Why John McCain Doesn't Get to Pick My Halloween Costume)

David Quigg | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, John McCain, Columbia University, Barack Obama, Xenophobia, Negative Attacks, Smears, Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Academic Freedom, Israel, Rashid Khalidi, Politics News

Khalidi is a big-time professor. Which is to say that, until quite recently, he was someone most of us had never heard of. But then John McCain picked Professor Khalidi's new Halloween costume.

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If Only Obama Agreed To McCain's "Town Hall" Meetings

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe the Plumber, John McCain Attack Ads, Negative Ads, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Negative Attacks, Negative Campaigning, Politics News

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.

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What the Bottom Falling Out Looks Like in Texas

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas, Obama Negative Attacks, Rural Voters, Attack Ads, Barack Obama, Negative Attacks, Negative Campaigning, Home News

Imagine my surprise yesterday when I received a scanned copy of an attack ad against Democrat Donnie Dippel, featuring a con artist-cropped version of my own copyrighted photo, showing Dippel posing with my Obama license plates.

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Growing Up Right -- Learning Political Lessons From the 'Rents

Bill Hoversten-Davis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Election 2008, Offthebus, Billy Graham, Communism, John Birch Society, Knott's Berry Farm, John McCain, Dirty Politics, Children, Negative Attacks, Raising Children, Barack Obama, Home News

My strict but loving parents instilled notions of religion, ethics, obedience, good citizenship -- and politics. Early on, I learned right was right and left was wrong.

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McCain: Stop Sh**ing; Get Off Pot

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robin Hayes Liberals Hate Real Americans, Opinion Polls, John McCain, Michele Bachmann, Mel Martinez, Barack Obama, Negative Attacks, Robin Hayes, Politics News

The only positive thing that is still within your reach is not victory in the election; it is salvaging your honor and helping your country.

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Country First?

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nationalism, John McCain, 2008 Election, Negative Attacks, Xenophobia, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

"Country first" is precisely the wrong slogan for a twenty-first century political campaign, and one that sends precisely the wrong message to the rest of the world.

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Sarah Palin: A Spiritual Thermometer

Eli Davidson | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Acceptance, Eli Davidson, Negative Attacks, Sarah Palin, The Inner Life, Living News

The hair on the back of my neck stands up straight as a Polar bear looking for her cub anytime I hear Sarah talkin'. So, what if I could use her to become a more compassionate person?

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No Excuse For Dirty Politics

Chuck Lasker | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, John McCain 2008, Negative Attacks, McCain Palin, Cindy McCain, Negative Campaigning, Barack Obama, Dirty Politics Palin, Home News

It is better to lose a presidential campaign than to lose your honor, integrity, dignity, pride and reputation. It's truly an amazing concept, I know, to use these words when talking about a campaign in this post-Rove world.

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Ooh, That Smell: McCain and His Mob Waltz with Death

Pete Cenedella | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Mccain Angry Mob, Negative Attacks, Ohio, Traitor, Rally, Violence, Pennsylvania, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Socialists, Politics News

What's happening at these McCain-Palin rallies is a series of convulsions and spasms no less primordial than those we make at the end of life -- a kind of death dance.

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Going Beyond the Pale-in: (Character) Assassination

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Assassination, John McCain, Lee Atwater, Barack Obama, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, Dirty Politics, Negative Attacks, Palin Winking, McCain Campaign, 2008 Election, Politics News

When does character assassination cross the line and begin to encourage physical assassination?

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Et Tu, Senator McCain?

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, John McCain Attack Ads, Negative Attacks, Bill Ayers, McCain Campaign, Obama Ayers, Mccain Attacks, William Ayers, Obama Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright, 2008 Election, Politics News

What's most troubling about the McCain camp's desperate decision to attack on Sen. Obama is that they understand the nastiness, the pettiness, the just-plain-wrongness of what they're doing.

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Winning (or Losing) Ugly

James Love | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Mccain Attacks, Negative Attacks, John McCain Attacks, Negative Campaigning, Politics News

McCain has a running mate that does not seem to know boundaries. She will go where others won't. Who needs a swiftboating 527 with this VP?

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McCain's Offensive

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Dick Morris, Negative Attacks, John McCain, Negative Campaigning, Politics News

John McCain may, as he often claims, know how to win a war, but he doesn't seem to understand how to win an election.

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The Case for Not Going Negative

Lionel Beehner | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Terrorists, Barack Obama, Obama Clinton, Lobbyists, Negative Attacks, Negative Campaigning, John McCain Attack Ads, Attack Ads, Politics News

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.

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International Bloggers: McCain Must Divert Attention From Economy

John Liebhardt | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Debate, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Barack Obama, Negative Attacks, Economic Crisis, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Election 2008, International, Negative Campaign, Campaign 2008, Home News

At a time of economic crisis, and with wars on several fronts, the American people are looking past the politics of old, the politics of negative spin and sound bites, and want something more.

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John McCain Gets Dirty

John Ridley | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Economy, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Sarah Palin, Bill Ayers, John McCain Attack Ads, Negative Attacks, Smears, Politics News

Mom always told me that if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all. But then, Mom was never a Republican running for president.

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McCain Flack Says Obama's Criticism Of Bush Policy Is Unpatriotic

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Heather Wilson, John McCain, Barack Obama, Negative Attacks, Face the Nation, Politics News

Did you ever think you'd see the day that you'd miss the comparatively reasonable intonations of Carly Fiorina on your teevee, flacking for McCain? I...

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Question for Gov. Palin: Who Would Jesus Smear?

David Quigg | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lee Atwater, Todd Palin, Negative Attacks, Terrorism, Cindy McCain, Negative Campaigning, Smears, Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin, New York Times, William Ayers, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics, Media, 2008 Election, Palin Alaska Independence Party, Alaska Independence Party, Politics News

If Palin won't repent for us and won't repent for America, I hope she'll at least remember Lee Atwater's dying remorse and restrain herself for her own sake.

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Over Two Dozen Lies Refuted About Ayers And Obama

John K. Wilson | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, William Ayers, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Smears, Negative Attacks, Election 2008, Negative Ads, Campaign 2008, Bill Ayers, Hannity's America, Ayers, Obama Ayers, Home News

The gutter politics of the McCain campaign is reaching down once again to denounce Obama for his distant past links to Bill Ayers in an unprecedented guilt-by-association attack for a presidential campaign.

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Obama Campaign Fights Fire With Fire

Edward Rotchford | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Keating 5, John McCain, David Plouffe, Barack Obama, Keatingfive, Negative Ad, Negative Attacks, Sarah Palin, Fox News, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Obama Campaign, Home News

The Obama campaign has finally taken the gloves all the way off. They will make available a documentary explaining how the savings-and-loan collapses in the 80s were connected to McCain and helped cause the current credit crisis.

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William Kristol Grasps at Straws

David Latt | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Bill Kristol, William Kristol, Barack Obama, Negative Attacks, Conservative Attacks, Media News

Both McCain and Palin, according to Kristol, need to be unleashed. But that doesn't mean set free to constructively debate the important issues of the day. No. All Kristol wants is ad hominen vitriol.

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Yeah -- You and Whose Army?

Paul Reiser | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, 2008 Election, Negative Attacks, Barack Obama, Politics News

All the crap being thrown at Obama -- the fear-mongering, the half-truths, the full lies -- all the character assassination hurling Obama's way, is in fact, his own doing.

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Please, Democrats, Attack

Paul Begala | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Dnc, Michelle Obama, Democratic National Convention, Negative Attacks, Mark Warner, Mark Warner Barack Obama, Democrats, 2008 Election, Mark Warner Keynote, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Obama Campaign, Denver, Paul Begala, Politics News

If the Democrats do not spend the remaining days of their convention -- hell, the remaining days of the campaign -- in an all-out assault on the ruinous Bush-McCain policies, they will lose.

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What Obama Needs to Do in Denver

Drew Westen | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Kerry, Democratic Convention, Dnc, Karl Rove, Swift Boat, Negative Attacks, John Kerry, Obama Convention, Obama Denver, 2008 Election, Obama Campaign, Barack Obama, Denver, Politics News

It is time, once and for all, for Democrats to burn the Kerry playbook. It is the same playbook used to guide one losing Democratic campaign after another for decades.

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