Jake Tapper has posted a great blog entry bringing up some key points about the McCain campaign’s response to McCain not being in the “cone of silence“: 1) The McCain campaign’s vitriol against NBC’s Andrea Mitchell is odder still when you consider that the McCain campaign’s blogger Michael Goldfarb was quoting her very same reporting […]
McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, has sent a very nasty letter to NBC about the claims that McCain may have heard the questions. Sully has the fully letter. So why is the McCain campaign taking such a defensive approach to this? A general reaction to something like this would be “we won’t answer such false […]
There has been a lot of talk about rather McCain may have heard the questions Saturday night when they were being asked to Barack Obama. It’s pretty much all coming out of a report by CNN that when Rick Warren said McCain was in a “cone of silence”, he actually wasn’t. As matter of fact […]
I have ignored the whole Jerome Corsi smear campaign against Obama. It is just another perfect example of how the Republican base wants to destroy the discourse of American politics. Now I must throw myself into this smut filled debate to pose a question. If Corsi is right about Obama, then is he also right […]
That would be former congressman, Republican Jim Leach from Iowa. Many might try to blow this off, but here is part of Leach’s resume: Interim director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow […]
The Jed Report pulls up an ad the McCain campaign put out in June of this year placing Obama’s face on the $100 bill, as well as other national monuments that currently contain the faces of white people: When Obama mentions it he is injecting race, yet McCain is the one who first brought this […]
Yup – now he is gone again. Via TPM: ARLINGTON, VA — Today, former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm issued the following statement: “It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Senator McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Senator McCain’s ability […]
By having one of his surrogates out there saying the “Muslims are going to kill us all“: One of John McCain’s fellow POW’s in Vietnam defended the war in Iraq, saying, “The Muslims have said either we kneel or they’re going to kill us.” In a phone call with reporters arranged by the McCain campaign, […]
There has been a lot of talk going on about attacking spouses in the general election. Now the McCain campaign is insisting that the Democrats have unfairly attacked Cindy McCain: The article that the DNC drew attention to reported that the McCain campaign had failed to reimburse Mrs. McCain for a flight in her company’s […]