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Goofus and Gallant Part Two with Palin
Shakesville —
As an extension of Melissa's posts about the Presidential candidates concerning Senator McCain suspending his campaign and Senator Obama's response regarding the "Bailout of Wall Street Bill," here are the videos. The first video is part of Senator McCain's press conference followed by CNN commentary. This is Senator Obama's press conference following Senator McCain's statement. Just have the debate. Both candidates have put their legislative record on hold during their presidential ...
Obama today
The Reality-Based Community —
[image] Obama today I'm not sure Barack Obama is right to agree to pass a Toxic Waste bill with only provisions for oversight, a chance for the taxpayers to get their investment back, help for distressed homeowners, and compensation limitation. Combined with the joint statement (designed to keep McCain from leaving everyone else holding the bag politically by voting "no") it was clearly the course of action best calculated to avoid a train wreck. We had three statements today: one by a Presidnt and two by Presidential candidates. Only one of the three was Presidential. Even while he was laying out the evidence that McCain is a dirty double-crosser, ...
Traps laid by the GOP
Brilliant at Breakfast —
Yesterday Barack Obama refused to walk into a trap that the Republicans set for him, but Congressional Democrats are going full speed ahead right into one. John McCain, in an interception of the statesman football from the Obama camp, decided to go one-up on Obama's proposal to issue a bipartisan statement together and suspend his campaign, including a proposal to postpone Friday night's debate. Of course the early reports were full of Republicans, including Orrin Hatch, extolling the virtues of "the John McCain I know," and lauding McCain's "statesmanship" -- until Camp Grumpy Grampy decided that the date of the Palin/Biden debate would ...
If Looks Could…
The Republic of T. —
Last week was a bad one for the McCain campaign, no matter how you slice it. First, he pulls the stunt of trying to “suspend” the campaign, only to get called out by Obama when the chronology of their exchange reveals an impulsive attempt by McCain to back Obama into “suspending the campaign” and following his lead. Instead, a reporter’s question gives Obama the chance to say that whoever wins the election and ends up in the oval office “will have to be able to do more than one thing at a time.”
Then he cancels on Letterman, only to have Dave catch him in a lie, and show the NBC ...
