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Bad Week
Balloon Juice — Kevin Drum. Let’s summarize the past couple of days: (a) Politico reports that La Palin has spent $150,000 on campaign outfits, (b) John McCain’s brother calls 911 to complain about a traffic jam and then curses at the operator for telling him to get off the line, (c) the New York Times reports that Palin also spent $30,000 or so on hair and makeup over a period of two weeks, and (d) a white woman who claimed she was attacked by a black Obama supporter admits that the whole thing was a hoax. He was also endorsed by al ...

McCain Adviser Votes for Obama
Daily Kos — A bad week for John McCain just got considerably worse: ... Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by absentee ballot. In his letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel to the McCain-Palin campaign, he asked that his name be removed from the several campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis." As TPM notes, Fried served on McCain's Honest and Open Election Committee and ...

A Quick Question
Newshoggers.com — ... I've having a hard time trying to figure out which would be worse.  I'm leaning to the Bush one, because there isn't any way the McCain camp can spin it as not being sincere.  Over and above that, you have to say that the last week really hasn’t been too kind to the McCain campaign, as Kevin Drum notes: ...