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ARCHIVE: Campaign 2008
Twinkies are young, gung-ho communications practitioners who sometimes take it inappropriately over the top when it comes to dealing with the press. In this case, John McCain’s twinkie brigade gets all up in the face of a Fox Channel video crew, creating some tense and awkward moments for everyone involved. Maybe “Tense and Awkward” should […]
Topics: McCain, Television, Campaign 2008 |
Did John McCain cheat by cribbing questions in advance at the rightwing megachurch forum Saturday night?
UPDATE
McCain apparently knew question about Supreme Court in advance
McCain operative Nicole Wallace vehemently denied claims that McCain heard Barack Obama being questioned, even though McCain was not sequestered in a “cone of silence,” as Rick Warren, the multimillionaire evangelist […]
Topics: McCain, GOP Corruption, Campaign 2008, Christian Nationalists |
By now everyone’s heard that Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne is suing John McCain and the Republican Party for using his song, “Running on Empty” without permission. The song appeared in an ad produced by the Republican Party of Ohio on McCain’s behalf, deriding Barack Obama for urging conservation as part of […]
Topics: McCain, Campaign 2008, Politics |
Rev. Kirbyjon Caudwell marries Jenna Bush and Henry Hager
It’s probably statistically impossible to be wrong all the time, and the Rev. Kirbyjon Caudwell is living proof. The good pastor is known as George Bush’s spiritual adviser, and recently officiated at Jenna Bush’s wedding. He has also led a ministry for recovering homosexuals and wannabe recovering […]
Topics: McCain, Obama, GOP Hypocrisy, GOP Corruption, GOP Adulterers, Jesusland, Campaign 2008, Politics |
National polls are mostly meaningless for the next few weeks, but this one may be surprisingly noteworthy:
Barack Obama has been declared winner of the 2008 bobble head election, held by sports consulting firm The Goldklang Group in six minor league baseball stadiums this month.
Obama defeated John McCain 55 percent to 45 percent, as minor […]
Topics: Obama, McCain, Campaign 2008 |
Diehard supporters of Hillary Clinton are getting their way. The senator’s name will be placed in nomination at the Democratic National Convention.
“Both sides agree that it is in the best interest of party unity and making sure that everyone’s voice and vote is honored to make sure her name is put into nomination,” a person […]
Topics: Democrats, Campaign 2008, Politics |
John McCain has played the prisoner of war card so many times that others are doing it for him, as Sean Hannity recently demonstrated. Alan Colmes suggested that if having an affair makes John Edwards unfit for the White House, then John McCain must be unfit as well. Hannity’s response? McCain’s affairs didn’t count because […]
Topics: McCain, Campaign 2008, Politics |
With Barack Obama and Gen. Petraeus over Iraq. Smokin’!
Hagel is the maverick John McCain wishes he could be
Is it me or is it hot near Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)? For an old guy, he’s definitely got something going on. But personal magnetism aside, Hagel is a stand-up guy with a biography that includes Purple Heart […]
Topics: Obama, Campaign 2008, Politics |
If anyone had any doubt, Florida is officially Democrat territory. Registration for the state’s Aug. 26 primary, which will decide many local races, recently ended and here are the totals.
Democrat: 4,389,698
Republican: 3,924,081
The significant thing is the new voters are going Dem by about two-and-a-half to one.
Figures released Sunday night by Secretary of State Kurt […]
Topics: Florida, Campaign 2008, Politics |
A full week after it happened, John McCain finally found time to apologize to the black reporter, Stephen Price, who was thrown out of the press area during a McCain stop in Florida. And while the candidate maintained the incident was the fault of the Secret Service, not his campaign, he went out of his […]
Topics: McCain, Racism, Florida, Republicans, Campaign 2008 |
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