Out for a while; open thread
2 comments August 31st, 2008
Archive for August, 2008
McCain wanted to pick Lieberman, but theocrats forced him to back down
10 comments August 31st, 2008
The specter of a rebellion by the Religious Right prompted John McCain to give up his desire to name Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate.
According to THIS REPORT, McCain opted for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, though he “hardly knew her, and she had virtually no foreign policy experience…[V]irtually no one had heard of her, a McCain adviser said.”
This passage says it all:
“At the very least, the process reflects Mr. McCain’s history of making fast, instinctive and sometimes risky decisions. ‘I make them as quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow, if I can,’ Mr. McCain wrote, with his top adviser Mark Salter, in his 2002 book, ‘Worth the Fighting For.’ ‘Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.’”
Yeah, but what about the complaints of the rest of us?
Ah, sweet days of yore!
1 comment August 31st, 2008
Even if Gustav ruins this year’s festivities, we still have our fond memories of the fearfest of 2004.
Wealthy heiress offended by Obama’s speech
3 comments August 31st, 2008
Hey, it isn’t her fault that her husband doesn’t know how many houses she owns.
That Obama guy is just jealous.
No wonder she’s OFFENDED.
Obama says McCain’s pick of Palin an “indicator of this country moving forward,” but….
8 comments August 31st, 2008
McCain might deliver his acceptance speech from hurricane disaster zone
Add comment August 30th, 2008
Hurricane Gustav SEEMS ever more likely to wreak havoc on the Republican National Convention as well as the Gulf Coast.
President Bush might not attend the GOP conclave at all, and John McCain might deliver his acceptance speech from an area affected by the storm.
Gallup poll shows Palin with lowest rating for any running mate since Quayle
7 comments August 30th, 2008
Not since George H.W. Bush selected then-Sen. Dan Quayle as his running mate 20 years ago has a presumptive vice-presidential nominee scored as low as Sarah Palin in terms of public confidence, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
The survey gives Democratic veep choice Joe Biden an 18-point lead on his Republican counterpart Palin on the question of readiness to serve as president if needed.
The poll also shows Barack Obama maintaining an eight-point lead on John McCain.
Fox News has the story HERE.
UPDATE: A new Rasmussen poll SHOWS, as does the Gallup Poll, that Palin goes over better with men than with women.
So much for the theory that McCain’s choice would score especially well with women in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s failure to capture the Democratic nomination.
One other thing: Polls show that Obama’s acceptance speech was widely well-received. Fifty-eight percent of respondents rated it excellent or good, and only seven percent gave it negative marks. The rest said it was OK or had no opinion.
Perhaps most tellingly, 43 percent said the speech made it more likely that they will vote for Obama.
