The panel on Hardball (Andrea Mitchell and Roger Simon) is now discussing that John McCain is merely being misled by his staff, and that’s why he’s saying all sorts of stupid, dishonest things about Obama. Also, McCain has a Sense of Honor, and we all know it. So, either a…
So, when you use overt Christian and Jewish references to attack a politician, does that make you a steely-eyed maverick or a charming, irrepressible scamp? The weird thing is, this feels more like a Scientology video than the obvious megachurch amp-it-up video it’s supposed to be. Is John McCain a…
FireDogLake’s Swopa, for this: John McCain Orders Up an Acme Self-Hoisting Petard With all the shakeups since he entered the presidential race, it’s been hard to know who’s running John McCain’s campaign… but I’m gradually becoming convinced that it’s Wile E. Coyote. The whole thing is good, and calls attention…
We’ve all had the job – the one where the manager buys into some cockeyed theory about supervising that makes their obvious failings the double-secret-reverse method of improving the workplace. They aren’t obsessively checking your computer logs because they’re a prying dick who doesn’t trust you, they’re doing it because…
John McCain “lacks interest” in cultural issues like same-sex adoption and his own position on affirmative action. That’s nice-ese for “the pungent stench of John McCain’s own fail may one day force us to buy an air freshener”. Today, however, is not that day.…
If you haven’t read this article by Kate Sheppard about John McCain’s bone-deep loathing of women, please do. I think, for a lot of us, it’s easy to write off Republican pandering to sexism as a vote-getting ploy, an attempt to please the American Taliban. But that’s a failure of…
Although much attention has been paid to John McCain’s manufacturing a new surge timeline in Iraq, let us not forget that he’s also manufacturing the psychology of the oil market. Bush recently lifted the executive order banning offshore drilling that his father put in place in 1990. He also asked…
So, we’re about three weeks into the new McCain campaign, which gives us about another two weeks before he’s got to go and revamp the entire failed operation all over again. First, let’s start with the stupid surrogates, namely Rep. Heather Wilson. Yesterday, she made this statement: The McCain campaign…
Not that I’m saying that we should judge John McCain’s ability to govern based on his relationship with his wife, but if we were, they sure are a couple of creepy liars. She told the well-worn story of how they both fudged their ages when they met, she making herself…