tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/22/2008
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The McCain campaign is now charging that the terrorists want Obama to win, while pretending they're not really saying that.
The McCain campaign just held a curious conference call with reporters in which McCain advisers made the insinuation. It's a claim that's at odds with folks who know ...
realclearpolitics.com - 10/24/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
WASHINGTON -- Contrarian that I am, I'm voting
for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the...
polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama ...
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McCain for President
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 10/22/2008
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attackerman.firedoglake.com —
The U.S. may occasionally have a hard time
calculating its interests. Al Qaeda, on the other hand,...
tends to know what's good for it. That's why, along with millions of wingnuts worldwide, it wants you to focus on lies about Ayers and ACORN. It leaves ...
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You’re The One For Me: Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/25/2008
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
The McCain camp is denying that it was
a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in...
Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ...
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Who Do You Believe?
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Conference Calling
Matthew Yglesias —
Dave Weigel and Sargent & Kleefeld both report on a McCain campaign conference call featuring Randy Scheunemann and Jim Woolsey to discuss al-Qaeda’s preference for a McCain victory. They seem to have taken a two pronged approach:
Other “bad guy” types have said nice things about McCain.
Al-Qaeda saying they’re hoping for a McCain win is obviously a bankshot effort to help McCain
Of course these arguments contradict each other.
On a more substantive note, in a world that wasn’t ...
Whiny Randy
Talking Points Memo —
... McCain foreign policy advisor takes a few moments out from bailing water to insist that Al Qaida really isn't rooting for McCain, even though a major al Qaida-linked website ...
McCain Surrogate: Al Qaeda Blogger Using Reverse Psychology
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... recall that in the 2004 election, Republican officials were quick to interpret a late-in-the-election tape from Osama bin Laden as a surefire endorsement of John Kerry's candidacy. Even Kerry himself said the issue cost him the election.
Now, it appears, the standards are different, with al-Qaeda well-versed in electoral trickery and eagerly pushing a candidate that they think would, in the end, most harm its cause.
UPDATE: Greg Sargent at TPM offers an interesting reminder concerning this topic:
When discussing this ...
McCain Surrogate: Al Qaeda Blogger Using Reverse Psychology
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... recall that in the 2004 election, Republican officials were quick to interpret a late-in-the-election tape from Osama bin Laden as a surefire endorsement of John Kerry's candidacy. Even Kerry himself said the issue cost him the election.
Now, it appears, the standards are different, with al-Qaeda well-versed in electoral trickery and eagerly pushing a candidate that they think would, in the end, most harm its cause.
UPDATE: Greg Sargent at TPM offers an interesting reminder concerning this topic:
When discussing this ...
McCain and Al Qaeda: You Telling Me Y’all Believed That?
Firedoglake —
... idea of al-Qaeda preferring a U.S. strategy that strengthens it confounded the McCain camp. "It is ridiculous to believe that in its heart of hearts, al-Qaeda wants John McCain to be the president," Woolsey said. "It's ludicrous." But the only thing that's ludicrous is Woolsey's expectation that the American public will keep falling for this sort of misdirection by the same blinkered analysts who blundered the U.S. into Iraq in the first place.
More from Greg Sargent & Eric Kleefeld at TPM and Dave Weigel at Reason.
Crossposted ...
McCain campaign rattled by al Qaeda admission
Political Animal —
... " conference call. McCain's senior foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann made two predictable points. First, al Qaeda's message shouldn't be taken at face value. Second, quotes from Hamas and Iran that seem sympathetic to Obama must be taken at face value. A reporter noted the contradiction . One especially fun moment on the call came when McCain adviser Jim Woolsey badly undercut the campaign call's message. Woolsey said that Al Qaeda supporters who praise McCain are actually doing it to hurt him, because praise from Al Qaeda is the "kiss of death." At that point, a ...
Friday McBush/McSame Bashing (Home Stretch Edition)
Discourse.net —
... Ayers Robocalls
Ann Bartow, Feminist Law Profs, “Feminists for Obama”
Marc Ambinder, Palin: McCain Supports GOP Abortion, Stem Cell Platform Planks
Crooks & Liars, Daily Show Flashback: McCain is a “socialist”, too!
Spencer Ackerman, McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain
David Weigel, Reason, al-Qaetch-22
TMP, McCain Campaign Attacks Washington Post, Insinuates Terrorists Want Obama Victory ...
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McCain campaign rattled by al Qaeda admission
washingtonmonthly.com 10/24/2008 — MCCAIN CAMPAIGN RATTLED BY AL QAEDA ADMISSION.... Following up on an earlier item, al Qaeda supporters reportedly stated their support for a McCain victory on a password-protected website. The group apparently prefers the candidate who'll keep ...
Today in The Nation: Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
thenation.com 10/22/2008 — Robert Dreyfuss An extremist web site allied with Al Qaeda says it will do all it can to elect John McCain, as the best way to hasten America's decline.
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balloon-juice.com 10/22/2008 — Remember this ?
John McCain’s campaign is seizing on a Hamas adviser’s recent “endorsement” of Barack Obama[*], trying to suggest that the Democratic front-runner brought the unsavory praise on himself.
In a ...
Al Qaeda’s Voter Survey
washingtonindependent.com 10/30/2008 — So far, this election cycle has yielded the usual presidential endorsements from the usual special-interest groups. The League of Conservation Voters ( Sen. Barack Obama ). The National Rifle Assn. ( Sen. John McCain ). The AFL-CIO ( Obama ). The ...
Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
washingtonindependent.com 10/22/2008 — Washington may occasionally have a hard time calculating its interests. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, tends to know what’s good for it. Unsurprisingly, then, Pam Hess of The Associated Press reports that Al Qaeda’s clear choice is Sen. John McCain: ...
Al Qaeda Messing Around in Our Elections?
democracyarsenal.org 10/31/2008 — The front page of Drudge is hyping the much anticipated "Al Qaeda endorsement" saying that "al Qaeda Wants Republicans, Bush 'Humiliated." Of course Drudge's whole point here is to try and get folks believing that Al Qaeda ...
Jihadists for McCain
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/22/2008 —
Interesting Associated Press report on al-Qaeda’s thinking about the upcoming election:
The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and ...
Op-Ed Columnist - The Endorsement From Hell
nytimes.com 10/27/2008 — John McCain isn’t boasting about a new endorsement, one of the very, very few he has received from overseas. It came a few days ago:“Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web ...
What Zawahri's Message to Obama Says About Al Qaeda
democracyarsenal.org 11/19/2008 — Today, Al Qaeda's number 2, Ayman Zawahri released his first message since the election. As the AP reported he used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that ...
More Good News
balloon-juice.com 10/21/2008 — For John McCain :
As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack Obama, they have warmed up to him, with more than half, 53 percent, now saying they have a favorable impression of him and 33 percent saying they have an unfavorable view. But as ...
The S word, again —
First Read 10/22/2008
From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy GOFFSTOWN, NH – After nearly a week of dedicating most of his stump speech to Joe the Plumber and Obama’s promise to “spread the wealth around,” McCain slightly shifted his focus today to hit Obama harder on ...
McCain Seeks Another Comeback in N.H. —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 10/22/2008
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Manchester, N.H., on the presidential race.
John McCain , the Republican presidential candidate who is lagging in nearly every poll, heaped praise Wednesday morning on New Hampshire, a state that has saved him ...
Martin: GOP attacks show fear and desperation —
CNN.com - Politics 10/22/2008
Watching Sen. John McCain and top Republicans swing wildly in their attempts to slam Sen. Barack Obama, with less than two weeks ago to go before Election Day, is like watching an old fighter --clearly out of gas, his legs turned to rubber, and all he ...
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