Fox says McCain won’t pick pro-choice veep

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If THIS is true, it means that neither Tom Ridge nor Joe Lieberman will be on the Republican ticket.

My prediction of weeks ago that it’ll be Tim Pawlenty is looking better.

Toby Keith’s a pro-Obama Democrat!

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Wait’ll the fascists in country-music radio — y’know, the folks who banned the Dixie Chicks from the airwaves — hear about THIS.

Jack Cafferty cuts loose — with a vengeance

7 comments August 19th, 2008

 

CNN’s resident curmudgeon Jack Cafferty fired both barrels today, one aimed at John McCain and the other at George W. Bush.

I’ll try to find a video clip. Meanwhile, HERE’s the story.

UPDATE: I guess there is no video.  Cafferty’s tirade was a commentary posted on the CNN Web site.  READ IT ALL.

The ground game vs. the TV game

4 comments August 19th, 2008

 

FiveThirtyEight.com has an INTERESTING POST on the difference between Barack Obama’s ground game and John McCain’s TV game.

The point is that campaign money sometimes is better spent on field organizing than on television advertising.

Obama’s field operation (a small sample of which is represented by the photo above) is the most massive in the history of American politics.

Your “liberal” media in action (part 488)

4 comments August 19th, 2008

 

CNN, which seems at times to be trying to out-stupid Fox News, featured a DISCUSSION the other night of the demented theory that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ.

Notorious lightweight Campbell Brown (that’s actually her in the photo) hosted the affair.

I get really big bucks for writing this blog, so how come I ain’t rich?

2 comments August 19th, 2008

I guess it depends on how you define “rich”:

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McCain was for these three Supreme Court justices before he was against them

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During a church forum this past Saturday night, John McCain was asked by Pastor Rick Warren to name the current Supreme Court justices he would not have nominated were he the president.

McCain named Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter (above, left to right) and John Paul Stevens.

Well, McCain wasn’t in the Senate when Stevens was nominated, but he was there when each of the other three came up for confirmation. And he voted for them.

Obama will pick Colin Powell for veep!?

5 comments August 19th, 2008

 

As the old saying goes, no guts, no glory. But alas, I haven’t got the guts to flat-out predict an Obama-Powell ticket. Hence, the exclamation point in my headline is followed by a question mark.

Still, I think naming Powell his running mate would be the boldest, most exciting thing Obama could do. It would be politically electrifying. It would give the ticket the foreign-policy gravitas it needs. And it would checkmate the hell out of John McCain’s candidacy, no matter whom he picks for the Republican vice-presidential slot.

Moreover, having two African-Americans on the Democratic ticket would isolate the die-hard racists more effectively than does Obama’s candidacy alone. This isn’t to say that everyone who would vote against this ticket should ipso facto be considered racist. That would be more than unfair.  But the combination would, in the most dramatic terms, put the race issue front and center for all of us to conscientiously examine.

I also think it would result in a landslide in November.

But would Powell accept the offer? Has the offer already been made? Does this help explain Obama’s air of confidence and coolness?

We’ll know soon enough.