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Category Archives: The Real McCain

Can’t help myself

Thursday, October 16, 2008

I agree with Atrios that this is unfair, but it’s too funny not to pass on. Probably everyone in the world has seen these already, but like fine wine they get better with age. Click on images to make them bigger. I posted them small to avoid distortion.

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McCain Guilty by Association

Monday, October 13, 2008

John McCain is so eager to latch onto each anti-Obama right wing meme that he doesn’t stop to consider possible boomerang effects. The latest non-issue working the right into the lather is Obama’s association with ACORN, a community organizing group that, among other things, tries to register low-income voters. Unfortunately, the group pays the folks […]

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Permit me to disagree

Sunday, October 12, 2008

I usually agree with Frank Rich, but I must humbly beg to differ with his latest column. He makes the rather obvious observation that McCain’s current campaign tactics are bottomed in racism, though the McCain campaign would never be so tacky as to be explicit about it. Code is sufficient. But this brought me up […]

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McCain’s mortgage plan

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Last night, John McCain pulled something that has now become a bit of a debate trademark with him: announce in vague terms a solution to a major problem. Last time it was a spending freeze, announced and forgotten until last night when he repeated it again. But he added something last night, a proposal that […]

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The Keating Story

Monday, October 6, 2008

Obama is doing what Kerry and Gore never did. Hitting back. He was ready for the attacks and now that McCain has started spreading lies, Obama is spreading truth. What’s great about this is that it resonate so well with what’s going on right now. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY[/youtube] In yet another sign of his total psychological meltdown […]

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For it, before he’s against it.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Via Thinkprogress: Yesterday during an interview with the Denver Post, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed, “I will not and have never supported renegotiating the Colorado River Compact,” an agreement that “governs how seven Western states, including Colorado and Arizona, share the Colorado River“: MCCAIN: And by the way, whatever misinterpretation there may have been, I […]

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The leader

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Great video of McCain and his surrogates taking credit for passing a bill that later failed. When will they turn on a dime and announce that McCain was not involved at all and Obama injected himself into the process and screwed it up. Actually, they started on the latter part right away. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7AagvQA7lc[/youtube]

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Joe Courtney votes against the bailout

Monday, September 29, 2008

Anyone on Joe’s email list, which probably includes most of my readers, knows by now that Joe Courtney voted against the bailout, since he sent an email to announce his vote. You can verify it here, and yes, if you follow the link, the bailout legislation was attached to a bill: To Amend the Internal […]

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Phil Gramm, visionary creator of a coming depression.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

As I pointed out recently, I first wrote about “credit default swaps” in February, after becoming convinced that, though I don’t completely understand them (and maybe nobody does), that they are a bad thing indeed. In the post to which I’ve linked I noted that AIG, the big financial player that is probably going to […]

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Will McCain’s heart keep beating?

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Yet another Robert Greenwald film. I make no apologies for posting all of these, because 1) he invites everyone to do so, and 2) it’s important that this stuff get out. In this day and age, people absorb information through video better than through the written word. I won’t get into whether this is good […]

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