This guy is sick. I actually thought that Obama’s visit to his ailing, perhaps mortally, grandmother would be sacrosanct. Not so apparently. More damage control for the GOP.
Tag: Obama
Opie has a Happy Day
Ron Howard’s Call To Action from Ron Howard and Henry Winkler:
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(Via Funny or Die.)
Happy Days.
Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama | Monday October 20 | ColbertNation.com
What Will Wall Street Look Like in the Fall of 2009? — New York Magazine
What Will Wall Street Look Like in the Fall of 2009? — New York Magazine:
“And while any president will be an improvement over the current one, there is a growing belief on Wall Street that Barack Obama has the capacity to lead us out of this wilderness while John McCain does not. I’ll go a step further: Obama is a recession. McCain is a depression.
Wall Street usually favors Republicans when it comes to managing the economy, but this time around the financial community is skeptical. John McCain has done everything he can to avoid talking about the economy, lest he be tarred with the brush of George Bush’s ineptitude. And when McCain has attempted to step into the fray, he’s been far from reassuring. First, he insisted that the fundamentals of the economy were sound; then he turned around and told us it was the end of the economic world as we know it, and suspended his campaign to scramble back to Washington and save the day on the bailout bill—only to have little visible effect. For all his talk of being a maverick, McCain looks an awful lot like President Bush on the credit crisis: He doesn’t seem to understand Wall Street or Main Street, he is dogmatically anti-regulation, and his economic team is a joke. “
(Via New York Magazine.)
Boo yah!!!
Powell Drops a Bomb
What Kind of Red are We Talking About?
Incoherence – Swampland – TIME:
“John McCain had a fabulously loony weekend, flipping out charges and attacks like a mud tornado. The truly remarkable thing about McCain’s attacks, especially on Obama’s economic policies, is that McCain, in each case, is ‘guilty’ of supporting some version of the policies he’s attacking”
(Via Swampland – TIME.)
In these cynical times, it’s easy to expect hypocrisy from our politicians. It’s a bona fide occupational hazard. But there are times when even a politician has broken faith. This is a great piece slamming some of McCain’s more egregious hypocrisies of late.
Obama revels in Powell endorsement and cash mountain – Yahoo! News
Obama revels in Powell endorsement and cash mountain – Yahoo! News:
“His backing came as the Obama campaign announced a fundraising take of more than 150 million dollars last month, demolishing its previous record of 66 million set in August.”
(Via yahoo! News.)
The market has spoken and Powell along with it.
YouTube – John ‘Deer in Headlights’ McCain Stunned – Here’s Your Fine, Joe The Plumber : $0
PolitiFact | Not a radical group, and Ayers didn’t run it
PolitiFact | Not a radical group, and Ayers didn’t run it:
“This attack is false, but it’s more than that – it’s malicious. It unfairly tars not just Obama, but all the other prominent, well-respected Chicagoans who also volunteered their time to the foundation. They came from all walks of life and all political backgrounds, and there’s ample evidence their mission was nothing more than improving ailing public schools in Chicago. Yet in the heat of a political campaign they have been accused of financing radicalism. That’s Pants on Fire wrong.”
(Via Politifact.com.)
Still bald faced lying. Truly desperate.
Dealing with the Devil
YouTube – McCain Booed For Calling Obama A “Decent Man”:
(Via YouTube.)
After about a week of letting Palin make outrageous attacks against Obama and getting into the game himself, it looks like chickens coming home to roost for John McCain. You can’t make a deal with the devil and get off scott free. His campaign now employs Charlie Condon, the same guy from Bush’s 2000 campaign who made disgusting racial smears against McCain. And we know how that turned out. McCain sold his soul to the devil, and is now trying to reverse course after he’s starting to take heat for some of the worst hateful speech we’ve seen in campaigns in quite some time. I’m willing to believe that McCain’s change is more a matter of principle than political expediency, but it’s too little, too late. The train has left the station. McCain is now the candidate who is supported by racists and xenophobes. Sure it’s but a small sliver of his base, but that’s not how it looks. And in this game, looks matter. I feel bad for him but this is the price you pay for dealing with the Devil.