McCain Plays “Gotcha” Card

What is John McCain going to do?  If it’s not uppity journalists asking Sarah Palin tough questions, it’s a bothersome voter engaging in “gotcha journalism.”  Just how a voter does this isn’t clear from the exchange or the interview with Katie Couric.
Take a look at John McCain’s body language throughout the [...]

McCain was Out to Lunch, no Dinner!

John McCain attacked Barack Obama for the Republican leadership’s failure to deliver votes in the House today.  According to the AP:   
Later in the day, after a stunning rejection by the House of a bailout of the financial industry, McCain said Obama and his allies had “infused unnecessary partisanship” into the [...]

Hey, Thelma! Why’d you Bail on Bush?

The House just voted down the Bush administration-sponsored financial bailout bill (H.R. 3997). House Republicans split more than 2-1 against their President.
Virginia’s 2nd District Representative, Republican Thelma Drake, who has voted with Bush over 96% of the time, voted against the measure. As of 10:30 AM, her local office could not tell us [...]

New Video On McCain’s Gambling Problem

The Democratic National Committee just released this web video:

Hard to believe that in Bible Belt Virginia, where it took monumental efforts to pass a state lottery, horse race betting, and where slot machines are still illegal, mainline Republicans could support a candidate like John McCain.

McCain: A Roll of the Dice

The New York Times has published a thorough examination of lifelong gambler John McCain’s ties to the gambling industry and to the casinos overseen by his Indian Affairs Committee. While it is a tangled web, here are some of the highlights:

John McCain, anointed candidate of the “traditional family values” party, is [...]

Tina Fey Does It Again!

Last night Tina Fey reprised her uncanny role as her evil twin, Sarah Palin. Just 38 more days, Tina, and you can get back to 30 Rock full-time.

Palin’s Got to Go? What Took You So Long?

Kathleen Parker comes to an interesting conclusion in her column recommending that John McCain dump his running mate.  Of course, she doesn’t suggest McCain fire Sarah Palin, she suggests Palin should resign to spend more time with her family.  Like Karen Hughes did when she couldn’t stomach lying for George W. Bush anymore.
What’s interesting is [...]

McCain: Obama is Very (Subliminally) Scary

John McCain is trying to scare us again. In his new internet ad, you’re supposed to focus on Barack Obama saying McCain is “right” several times in the debate. But there is something more subtle going on. The background changes from the telegenic blue of the debate stage [...]

Obligatory Debate Post

An interesting evening, prompting a few observations on John Sidney McCain, III:

McCain expressed fake sympathy that Teddy Kennedy was in the hospital.  No, Senator Kennedy was out of the hospital at the time of the debate, but McCain’s staffers were apparently too busy fending off the next wave of conflict of interest charges to notice.
McCain [...]

McCain: Got Bigots?

Lost in all the noise about the bailout, and the will-he-or-won’t-he-debate speculation about McCain was this ominious news item.
The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan will be among the crowd at Ole Miss for the Obama-McCain debate tonight.
The “emperor” of the white supremacist group, who insisted on anonymity, said that KKK members would [...]