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Bill Kristol in a nutshell - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 10/13/2008
Bill Kristol in a nutshell - Glenn Greenwald
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On October 5, Bill Kristol used his New York Times column to describe his telephone interview with Sarah Palin, during which they both agreed that the McCain/Palin campaign must attack Obama harder on his “associations,” particularly with Bill Ayers. He ended his column this way: I asked at the ...

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McCain calls for a "do-over"
Newshoggers.com — ... fairly good job of painting McCain as being erratic and less-than-dependable in a crisis. In this, McCain himself has been Obama's most significant ally. McCain's responses, (and the plural is the point), to the economic crisis have been all over the map, and the campaign continued to flail about over the weekend. And now, with only three weeks to go until election day, and tanking in the polls, McCain is apparently going to call for a mulligan. Bill Kristol, (always wrong, never responsible), leads the charge for McCain to revamp his campaign ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... In 2004, Kerry beat out Bush 220 to 205. And of Obama's 28 endorsements, five came from papers that endorsed Bush in 2004. McCain has won no Kerry endorses. And for the record, I've long maintained that newspaper endorsements don't mean squat for high-visibility races like the presidential. Newspaper editorials are pretty much meaningless these days. Glenn Greenwald: First Kristol urges the McCain campaign to get aggressive and go on the attack in his column: I asked at the end of our conversation whether Palin, fresh off ...

The William Kristol Harmonic Convergence
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Bill Kristol in a nutshell: On October 5, [2008] Bill Kristol used his New York Times column to describe his telephone interview with Sarah Palin, during which they both agreed that the McCain/Palin campaign must attack Obama harder on his "associations," particularly with Bill Ayers. He ended his column this way: ...

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