McCain says Palin “knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States”

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Is this insane or what?:

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The would-be vice president says a U.S. war with Russia is possible if Georgia is invaded again

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I hope John McCain or some other grown-up tells Sarah Palin that nuclear superpowers don’t go to war over relatively minor disputes. That way lies madness (to borrow a phrase).

Here’s the STORY.

The DNA of bears vs. the DNA of seals

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[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vj6TvUQ_0to" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]Once again, you can laugh along at the end, if you so choose (and you’ll likely want to, because this is truly funny):

Political chain e-mails, whether they’re targeting Obama or McCain, usually are false

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Lori Robertson of FactCheck.org has the story HERE.

Independent fact checkers find McCain camp off base with its lipstick and sex-ed ads

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Two non-partisan Web sites have put the lie to John McCain’s campaign ads faulting Barack Obama for, respectively, a sex-education bill he supported in the Illinois Senate and a remark he made about “lipstick on a pig.”

Regarding the latter, PolitiFact.com, a joint venture of Congressional Quarterly and the St. Petersburg Times,  SAYS the McCain camp is guilty of an “outrageous attempt to distort the facts.”

Regarding the former, FactCheck.org, SAYS McCain’s ad ”claims Obama’s ‘one accomplishment’ in the area of education was legislation to teach comprehensive sex education to kindergartners. But the claim is simply false, and it dates back to Alan Keyes’ failed race against Obama for an open Senate seat in 2004.”

Poor John McCain. The vultures running his campaign are squandering his reputation for honor and integrity. No wonder he sometimes seems confused and out of touch with the garbage that’s being peddled in his name and the words his speechwriters are putting in his mouth.

As the Washington Post said almost sadly in an editorial just this morning: “John McCain is a serious man who promised to wage a serious campaign. Win or lose, will he be able to look back on this one with pride? Right now, it’s hard to see how.”

UPDATE: Democratic activist James Carville, an admirer of McCain, SAYS he doubts that Mr. Straight Talk is even aware of some of his camp’s attack ads.  (But then, I sometimes wonder whose side Carville is on.)

Keith Olbermann nails the GOP for its cynical exploitation of the Sept. 11 attacks

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Bush and McCain both run with the wolves

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White House seems confused about the role of bin Laden in attacks of Sept. 11

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John McCain vows to follow Osama bin Laden “to the gates of hell,” but the Bush White House suddenly ISN’T SURE that the infamous CEO of al Qaeda was actually the mastermind of 9/11.

The Great Decider is running a real Keystone Kops operation, isn’t he? 

McCain’s Unmagnificent Seven

14 comments September 11th, 2008

Some of the McCainiacs who regularly visit Applesauce seem astonishingly unaware that Mr. Straight Talk’s presidential campaign is almost entirely run by lobbyists.

From AmericaBlog, we get this list of seven top campaign officials:

* Rick Davis, campaign manager, has lobbied for Airborne Express and DHL on their controversial merger deal, as well as telecom companies Bell South/SBC and Verizon.

* Charlie Black, senior advisor, lobbied for more than 100 clients, including Yukos Oil and Freddie Mac.

* Randy Scheunemann’s lobbying clients have included BP Amoco and the NRA.

* Nancy Pfotenhauer, senior policy advisor, is a former Koch Industries lobbyist.

* Frank Donatelli, the McCain campaign’s director at the RNC, has had 70 clients including PHARMA, Pfizer and Exxon Mobil.

* John Green, congressional liaison, has lobbied for at least 150 clients, including insurance industry trade groups, predatory lender Ameriquest, Chevron Texaco, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.

* Wayne Berman, campaign vice-chair, finance co-chair, and advisor has also lobbied for almost 100 clients, including Ameriquest, Fannie Mae, the National Rifle Association and American Health Insurance Plans.