Archive for September 17th, 2008
September 17th, 2008
THIS POLL is chock full of bad news for John McCain, including the fact that most voters see him as “a typical Republican” who likely will follow the policies of George W. Bush and is far less likely than Barack Obama to bring change to Washington.
Consider, too, that most of the poll was conducted before the recent tumultuous events on Wall Street, which likely will have negative effects on the U.S. economy, at least in the short term.
September 17th, 2008
Lady Lynn, if you don’t know, is the wife of British financier Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild. She’s also the mistress of Ascott House, the family’s 3,200-acre estate in Buckinghamshire. She hangs around with a lot of other wealthy Brits, is considered the “the flashiest hostess in London” and has “the most beautiful apartment in New York.”
Another thing about Lady Lynn is that she’s an embittered former fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and has DECIDED [Warning: The article to which this is linked contains an F-bomb] to lavish her patrician support on John McCain because that uppity Barack Obama is such “an elitist.”
They ought to make a movie about this woman’s political predelictions. It’d be a comedy, of course.
September 17th, 2008
It pains me a little to admit it, but these are my people:
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September 17th, 2008
I ran across an INTERESTING ITEM this morning on TalkingPointMemo.com, in which a commenter with a background in finances offered this observation:
“(T)he markets operate like team sports — like say, a football game. Team sports don’t operate well without referees, and that’s exactly what’s happened under the Republicans.
“They can blame Clinton all they want — the fact is, the Republicans under leadership of such brain trusts as Phil Gramm have methodically removed the referees from the games, and look what’s happened. One of the primary reasons investors shy away from putting money into third world countries is an ABSENCE OF REGULATION.”
Makes sense to me.
POSTSCRIPT: Michael D. Shear of the Washington Post has a good ANALYSIS of John McCain’s sudden conversion to support for economic referees.
UPDATE: McCain FLIP-FLOPS on bailout of AIG.
September 17th, 2008
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September 17th, 2008
Carly Fiorina (pictured above offering somebody what Fox News would call a terrorist fist-bump), an economics adviser to John McCain, REPORTEDLY will not likely appear on TV anytime soon as a surrogate for Mr. Straight Talk.
I guess it has something to do with Fiorina publicly suggesting that neither McCain nor Sarah Palin are qualified to run a major corporation.
There are several other interesting angles to all of this. Fiorina has shown that she, too, is unqualified to run a major corporation. She mismanaged Hewlett-Packard, the computer giant that lost half of its stock value while she was at the helm. And then, when she was fired, she got a SEVERANCE PACKAGE of more than $21 million.
That latter item doesn’t jibe well with McCain’s declaration of just yesterday that as president he would “stop multi-million- dollar payouts and golden parachutes to CEOs who break the public trust.”
Fiorina may not have violated any public trust, but still…
September 17th, 2008
HERE’s a handy little summary of where John McCain is coming from with respect to the U.S. economy.
September 17th, 2008
Steven Waldman, an expert on religious issues, SAYS there is good reason these days to pose a previously unlikely question:
“What is John McCain’s position on abortion and life issues?”
Waldman warns that if McCain moves too far to the center on abortion and stem-cell research, “he’ll end up reminding religious conservatives why they hated him in the first place.”
On the other hand, of course, a hard-right position on so-called life issues — especially support for the Republican platform’s call for a total ban on abortion, even in cases of rape or incest — could hurt McCain among independent voters.
UPDATE: A Catholic pro-life group is running this TV ad against McCain:
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