Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
The Eye-Rolling Debate
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Barack Obama, John McCain, Featured Stories, Debates, MediaWhen it comes to presidential debates, I'm normally not a big fan of body-language analysis. You know, that staple of cable television news, when "experts" in the field slice and dice each cough or sigh for symbolic import. Most of the time, you see, our presidential candidates act well within the bounds of commonly acceptable physical comportment, so what we end up with are a bunch of hack pseudo-psychologists telling us why a flip of the hair or a pursing of the lips belied a deep-seeded anxiety in candidate x or y. ...
Final Debate, Final Analysis
Comments from Left Field —
Last night Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama shared a stage for what is most likely the last time during this presidential election season. It was the last best chance for McCain to force a game changer to save his flagging campaign, while for Senator Obama, he had the monumental task of protecting his frontrunner status against an opponent who has nothing to lose.
Before we get into it, I want to first give a big thanks to everyone who joined me during our liveblogging last night. It was in my humble opinion the best liveblogging we’ve had here at CFLF to date, it was great fun, and still I think we managed to get the play by play analysis ...
McCain's Debate Gestures
News —
McCain's Debate Gestures John McCain is catching hell from liberal bloggers for his body language during Tuesday's debate. Daily Kos has a video mash-up of McCain's eye rolls and grimaces, which blogger Jed L called "childish" and said was the reason voters were turned off by McCain's performance. TalkingPointsMemo flags McCain's use of finger quotes when he talks about the "health of the mother" during an exchange over abortion. And AMERICAblog has a Reuters photo of McCain at the end of debate sticking his tongue out while Obama stands placidly. It took place when McCain was confused over which way to exit the stage. Blogger Joe Sudbay ...
McCain: Women's "health" is an "extreme pro-abortion position"
Feministing —
I'm going to have lots to say about this in tomorrow's Friday Feminist Fuck You, but I wanted to highlight this clip as soon as possible. McCain thinks so little of women's health that he put it in fucking air quotes. You know, because women's health and lives are a political talking point, not a reality.
Related: A diarist at Daily Kos shares her story. I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more of these as the reaction to McCain's crass dismissal of women's health (sorry, "health") sinks in. ...
John McCain sets a dangerous precedent on women's health
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
Sometimes perceptions in politics are ambiguous, so the truth might be harder to see. But there was one wrong perception about the campaign this year that had the potential to prove damaging to Democrats in November. "John McCain is pro-choice." Well, our readers know that McCain isn't pro-choice at all. But what has been fascinating throughout the campaign is that many voters, undecided or truly independent or even Republican, really thought McCain was pro-choice. Heck, Carly Fiorina earlier this summer said McCain had never signed on to overturn Roe vs. Wade (which ...
How mainstream are “pro-life” extremists?
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Amanda Marcotte
I have a total backlog of links on health care, foreign policy, and Sotomayor’s nomination, but honestly, I feel right now that I have to put much of my time to this domestic terrorism issue, so that Dr. Tiller’s assassination doesn’t just disappear in a mountain of news items, leaving people to forget about the ongoing threat that puts more health care workers and their patients in danger. With that in mind, I have to address the ass-covering that’s going on with conservatives, Republicans, and their apologists on this issue, starting with James Kirchick of WSJ. He’s pulling the “anti-abortion ...
