McCain/Obama Colorado ground game

So I’ve read a couple of things about McCain volunteers in Colorado. Here’s one from CNN today. Usa Today says that Aurora, the place I’m working out of for Obama, is the new bell weather for the election.
Aurora is a suburb of Denver. On my first day we were visiting Obama supporters making sure they [...]

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McCain in Why We Fight

I saw the enlightening film Why We Fight when it came out a few years ago. In this article filmmaker Eugene Jarecki describes his unsettling experience with McCain. The whole article including video from the film is worth a look.
John McCain was featured prominently in my documentary film Why We Fight, which premiered at Sundance [...]

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Are you trying to lose the election for McCain?

McCain supporters ask this question to the guy giving out Obama/Islam bumper stickers.

The strategy is not working guys. You’re going to have to talk about the issues.

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Andrew Sullivan’s amazing respect for women

I had to laugh at this:
He is the Alpha Male on this stage, and McCain the bristling teen – aged 72. No wonder women seem to be so disproportionately pro-Obama.
Yeah, women don’t care anything about issues.

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Exonerating Bush

And now the Conservative pundits are jumping ship. There’s no question that McCain is responsible for his lackluster campaign. There’s no question that a seventy-two-year-old man should have selected a more viable vice-presidential candidate. A McCain presidency scares the begeezus out of me.
Yet let’s be honest here. What was McCain given to work with? How [...]

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John Lewis’ statement

Rep. John Lewis Responds To Increasing Hostility Of McCain-Palin Campaign10/11/2008
“As one who was a victim of violence and hate during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, I am deeply disturbed by the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign. What I am seeing today reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. [...]

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Palinex – We all make mistakes

Getting rid of your Vice Presidential candidate was never so easy.

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Another gadget comparison

As with the trains, this is via DailyKos.

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More in rail travel

Via DailyKos.

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McCain is grumpy

He makes Dick Cheney look quite cheerful.

Via Americablog.

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A realization about McCain

I’ve always assumed that the reason why the Republican base didn’t like John McCain was because of his so-called maverick tendencies, but then the last eight years have shown McCain not to be a maverick at all and as this election wears on I’m more inclined to call it pure folklore.
But what if that was [...]

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What to think of the Palin interview

Glenn Greenwald changes his opinion on Sarah Palin:
But Sarah Palin’s performance in the tiny vignettes of unscripted dialogue in which we’ve been allowed to see her has been nothing short of frightening — really, as I said, pity-inducing. And I say that as someone who has thought from the start that the criticisms of her [...]

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David Lettermen gets back at McCain

Everyone’s posting it so why not me?

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John McCain caught on tape

Call me juvenile but I found this fake caught-on-tape interview with John McCain rather funny.

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Spain schmain

Can a man running for president of the United States really not know that Spain is in Europe? I mean prior to the Madrid attacks, they were an ally in the “war on terror”.
This conversation reminds me of the many conversations I’ve had with people when I tell them I’m from Thailand. Oh, you’re Taiwanese, [...]

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Did Jill Greenberg go to far?

Jill Greenberg was hired by The Atlantic to photograph John McCain for a publication of the magazine. She did produce a photograph which The Atlantic will use; however, she also took photographs from the shoot for her own artistic exhibition which she shows on her web site.

I was interested in this wordpress blog which approaches [...]

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Alaskan local news sets the record street

In America, local news is pretty unreliable when talking about any “controversial” issues. What constitutes a controversial issue? Well I can tell you it’s not a fire, crime or a weather story (unless climate change is involved.)  And certainly not something that portrays any one political party in a bad light. Yet here an Alaskan [...]

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Triumph the wonder dog at the RNC Convention

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The problem with narratives

So let me first get this out of the way: I apologize for referencing Britney Spears in this post. Now that that is done…
Lynne Spears has just written a tell-book that reveals that Britney Spears lost her virginity at age 13 to some high school football player. Why do I care? Because from 1997 when [...]

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Unity a problem for Republicans?

Sure sounds like Mitt Romney was a bit miffed about being passed over for Vice President since he’s already talking about his own presidential run should McCain fail.
“I saw my dad serve in the Cabinet, and I learned something from that experience,” the former Massachusetts governor said Tuesday. “He felt he was kind of soldiered [...]

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McCain’s 12 Houses

The GOP is so much better at capitalizing on gaffes like this. I’ll admit; I don’t like it. On the other hand, does it take a gaffe like this for people to realize that this is not the guy you would be having beers with in the bar?
Photo via DailyKos.

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Georgian President has McCain’s Number

Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday called for John McCain and other American leaders to do more for Georgia in their response to the conflict in his country.
“Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, ‘We are all Georgians now,’” Saakashvili said on CNN’s American Morning. “Well, very nice, you know, very cheering for us to hear [...]

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Lieberman as Vice President

Via TalkingPointsMemo I found this piece from the Financial Times:
Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee who has endorsed John McCain, is being vetted as a potential running mate for the Republican presidential hopeful, according to an adviser to Mr McCain’s ­campaign.
Mr Lieberman, who has campaigned for the Arizona senator, has long been ­considered an [...]

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John McCain on SNL

I was watching Verdict last night on msnbc when I caught this absolutely disturbing Saturday Night Live skit with John McCain. I guess the really disturbing part is that he is quite good as stalker. I always thought Bill Clinton was quite a thespian, but John McCain has one on him. McCain’s performance is a [...]

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What is the race card?

I really don’t get McCain these days. To him the following statement is playing the race card.
“So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” he told voters in Springfield. “You know, he’s [...]

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