McCain Wins!

Alright, apparently we can all save the jet fuel and skip flying to Mississippi. John McCain won the debate.

Who says Thomas Dewey has a lock on premature celebration? There's another idiotic Republican in town Tom and he's looking to make you look like a friggin' genius.

They were brilliant enough to run the ad on the Washington Post. THIS MORNING! You know, when we were still playing the 'Doe's John McCain even know how to get to Mississippi' game? Wow.

Is it just me, or are you all looking for someone that resembles either Robert De Niro or Dustin Hoffman when looking at campaign pictures too. You know, just lurking around the edge, not being conspicuous.

Nah. I'm just paranoid. Of course, if McCain starts muttering anything about 'Old Shoe' while he's up there tonight, well, I might just need a drink.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

It's got electoral votes. It's what politicians crave.

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Race card? Not.

Karen Tumulty thinks this John McCain ad "played the race card":



Andrew Sullivan disagrees.

I wasn't sure about this claim. After all I don't particularly think that Barack Obama and Franklin Raines look 'sinister' as Tumulty comments. Michael Goldfarb has a rebuttal, albeit tinged with some hysteria, that makes some sense. I'd really like it if someone had a timeline for when the following video, the Jim Johnson ad, was posted, because I swear this video wasn't out until people started ripping into the Raines ad. It appears to have been posted several hours later, not at the same time (and, no, I am not insinuating that Goldfarb said it was the same time).



Either way, I think the "Fact Check" commercial had more racial overtones, as I stated at the time. (Although I still want to know why on earth they would bring up wolves with her record on that, lord only knows.) Here is that video, just for good measure:



Let's just stop looking for the race card. If and when it is played it will not be something we need to work on discerning.

I think it is just stupid that they used Franklin Raines. Listen to their justification on this (from Michael Goldfarb's post):

So we contacted Ms. Tumulty and told her of the multiple sources that tie Raines to Obama, including three separate instances in the Washington Post, none of which was ever challenged by Raines or the Obama campaign until yesterday.

Are any of those sources not the Washington Post? If so, would you mind informing the rest of the world. Beyond that, since when do you have to deny every minute untrue detail that is printed in every paper in order to make sure you are not associated with something.

You mean, if I slip an ad in the Classified section of the WaPo saying that John McCain has a standing invitation for Kim Jong Il to visit Sedona, print it three times over the course of a couple of months, and you guys don't deny it, it's true! Cool!!

Before that, he actually had the balls to say this:

Tumulty also takes Obama’s response, signed by Mr. Raines, at face value.

We are supposed to assume they are lying? How about you? Your campaign hasn't earned any 'truth' awards lately.

This is just like those crappy reporters who can't be bothered to pick up a phone to call someone and get a confirmation or denial. Basic crap folks. LOTS of reporters don't do this anymore. I don't know why on earth I would expect a major party presidential campaign to do that if the reporters can't be bothered to.

I think I agree with Sullivan, no racism here. But it all is really stupid.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

It's got electoral votes. It's what politicians crave.

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Obama Plan Ad 2 minutes long

Well, here is the TWO MINUTE 'Plan' ad that Barack Obama has released:



It's a great non-negative show them what you've got ad. If you can get people to sit for two minutes.

I agree with Elyas Bakhtiari at The Moderate Voice:

Whether it works or not, you have to at least give Obama credit for trying to raise the level of political discourse.

At the very least it will present a real contrast to what McCain-Palin have been pushing out.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

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Meanwhile Over In GOPland

Over in the McCain camp, which has been flying under the radar, for the most part, they have decided to do something else besides be happy that they came up with the gas tax holiday, but are letting Hillary take Obama's broadsides. Here is what is, presumably, their new 'healthcare solutions' ad:



There may be many solutions to this problem John but your commercial is articulating stuff that doesn't seem like it will have much of an impact on Joe Smith who lost his job and can't get his family health insurance. I, personally, was not aware that millionaires getting prescription drug subsidies was a major problem with our healthcare system. Thanks for alerting me to this new crisis, John.

Importing drugs and reducing crappy lawsuits is going to help more Americans be covered by health insurance? I think not. It will mitigate the cost increases but do absolutely nothing to help people get coverage. Notice how I used the phrase 'mitigate the cost increases' and not 'reduce costs'. Do you know why? I think you do.

Boy are they lucky more people aren't paying attention! If this is the best they are going to be able to pull out in September and October, than McCain may have a lot more in common in his immediate predecessor in the senate, Barry Goldwater, than he does now, come the second week in November.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

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