The dumbest ad ever?

2 comments September 26th, 2008

This TV ads says that if you express agreement with John McCain on a few points, you’re not ready to lead:

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UPDATE: THIS GUY agrees with me.

Open thread on debate (or whatever)

11 comments September 26th, 2008

 

I’m out for the evening and won’t be back until late tonight.

Feel free to comment on the debate, even as it’s in progress. Or you can introduce any other topic you want.

Next Generation Veterans for Obama

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This chart tells the story

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On each of the last five days, the Diageo/Hotline Daily Tracking Poll has asked Americans which of the two presidential candidates would do the best job handling the economy.

On Monday and Tuesday, the poll showed John McCain and Barack Obama virtually tied on that issue.

Then McCain pulled the stunt of suspending his campaign and seeking to postpone the debate scheduled for tonight. Suddenly, Obama opened a wide lead on the issue of the economy.

Today, the gap is 14 percentage points.

As Shakespeare would put it, McCain was hoist with his own petard.

UPDATE: THIS GUY says McCain’s mistake was to confuse a national crisis with a national tragedy and to expect his gesture to be hailed as honorable rather than just appropriate.

Has a bailout agreement been “locked down”?

3 comments September 26th, 2008

 

A spokesman for John McCain said yesterday that the Republican nominee would continue the suspension of  his campaign and would shun tonight’s scheduled presidential debate unless there was a “locked-down agreement” in Washington to deal with the financial crisis.

Well, at this writing, no such solid agreement has been announced. But the suspension of McCain’s campaign has been dropped, and the senator has agreed to participate in the debate.

So much for McCain’s vaunted “straight talk” and the characterization of this campaign stunt as an example of putting “country first.”

There’s more on the matter HERE, including the observation by former McCain adviser Craig Shirley that McCain’s campaign “is governed by tactics and not ideology.”

“In the end,” added Shirley, “he blinked and Obama did not. The ’steady hand in a storm’ argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain.”

UPDATE: WaPo pundit SAYS McCain’s stunt “did not pan out as he had hoped.”

Yeah,  just the like the choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate.

The Dummy’s Guide to the Banking Crisis

9 comments September 26th, 2008

HERE’s a handy little 20-step guide to understanding the current financial crisis.

The debate is on!

1 comment September 26th, 2008

John McCain’s campaign organization ANNOUNCED this morning that the Arizona senator will fly to Oxford, Miss., this afternoon and will participate in tonight’s debate with Barack Obama.

UPDATE: McCain’s handlers are not waiting for the actual debate to declare that their man prevailed.

Here’s a screen shot of the Wall Street Journal Web site this morning where a McCain Internet ad appears:

Conservative scribe says Palin should drop out

7 comments September 26th, 2008

 

Kathleen Parker, the conservative columnist whose work appears in more than 300 papers, including the Rockford Register Star, SAYS Sarah Palin is “clearly out of her league” and should quit the Republican presidential ticket.

Argues Parker: “If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.”

And this is from someone who likes Palin and wanted her to succeed.

UPDATE: Aides to John McCain REPORTEDLY are complaining that Palin is “clueless” and that her performances in mock debates have been “disastrous.”

UPDATE II: CNN’S Jack Cafferty calls Palin “pathetic”:

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Huckabee says McCain made “huge mistake” suspending his campaign and trying to delay debate

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who unsuccessfully vied with John McCain and a raft of other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, SAYS it was a “huge mistake” for McCain to suspend his campaign and seek postponement of the debate scheduled for tonight.

“You can’t just say, ‘World stop for a moment. I’m going to cancel everything,’” Huckabee said.

AP asks: Who had worse day? Bush or McCain?

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Thursday’s White House summit meeting on the financial crisis devolved into a contentious shouting match.

And that was only one of the dramas, according to THIS ACCOUNT.

UPDATE: Here’s a video summary of John McCain’s wonderful day in Washington:

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