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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Obama, McCain Meet Without Preconditions

29-Oct-08

John McCain said the campaign would not have gotten so nasty if only Barack Obama had agreed to McCain’s proposal that the two candidates tour the country together and hold ten or more town hall meetings to debate the issues.
No, really.
In a surprise move, Obama proposed a challenge of his own, and McCain accepted. If [...]

The Smart Guy, For A Change

28-Oct-08

It’s hard to believe that the 2008 presidential campaign that began almost two years ago will be over in a week.
I don’t know what I am going to do with all the free time I’ll have when I finally stop flipping between CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC in a futile nightly search for unbiased reporting. [...]

Wassup?

24-Oct-08

This one is courtesy of Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic:

Spreading the Wealth

22-Oct-08

You have heard all this by now:
Politico: RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and [...]

A Different Kind of Endorsement

21-Oct-08

To offset former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, the McCain campaign claims that there are four other former Secretaries of State who have endorsed John McCain. One of them is Henry Kissinger. Another is Lawrence Eagleburger.
Eagleburger, pointing to Obama’s relative lack of foreign policy experience and McCain’s greater experience, maintains that [...]