No Time For Cue Cards
In the case of McCain, as with Bush and Palin too, the candidate is largely about the script as opposed to the other way around.
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Not Just Rogue Warrior But McCain Campaign’s Mutation
In this brilliant image from Sioux City on Saturday, a clever AP photographer captures what can best be described as the McCain campaign's worst nightmare -- a Sarah Palin having mutated into her own wild and muscular beast.
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Getting A Jump
Win or lose, Obama had no choice but to launch himself early and aggressively into a thorough and accelerated transition process.
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A Campaign’s Silhouette
A number of you have passed along this shot accompanying David Frum's WAPO article this morning, "Sorry, Senator. Let's Salvage What We Can."
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"One Party" Scare Tactics
, With apparently nothing left in the playbook, the GOP is launching a last-minute, last-ditch effort to scare voters over one party rule.
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Honolulu
How poignant and profoundly unusual for Obama (or any presidential candidate) to have this moment-in-time, not just to spend with his grandmother, but to also wander his childhood neighborhood almost completely alone just 11 days before the national election.
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Your turn: O U N T R / M A V E R I C K
Students at St. Anselm College display "MAVERICK" on their chests as republican presidential candidate John McCain speaks during a rally at the New Hampshire college
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Candidate By Design
No, the real picture here is this... Sarah Palin is whoever and whatever she wants us to believe. The outfit is a metaphor.
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More On Palin's Saks Scandal
In its coverage of the Palin clothing expense story, I was struck by this photo Huffington Post included in its featured slideshow. It shows Piper Palin toting Mom's VL bag -- unless it's Pipers! To really appreciate the image, however, you have to also know it was shot on...
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The Dunhams
I too am struck by the resemblance between Barack Obama and his grandfather. Look at the chin, the eyes, the big ears, the forehead and widows peak. Also, it might be where that "cocked head" gesture comes from.
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Newsweek — Swallowing GOP Attack — Positions Obama As Leftist
I take issue with the fact a politically centrist Obama is framed by Newsweek as looking leftward -- that, at the same time, in the closing days of the election, his inordinately rightward-looking competition is branding him as a socialist.
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Family Matters
What strikes me as most significant about this photo (which I dug up from the newswire) is that I somehow never saw it before today. It was taken during Obama's vacation to Hawaii in August and shows him tossing a lei into the sea where his mother's ashes were...
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"I Feel Strongly About This Particular Point Because Of A Picture I Saw In A Magazine"
This is the image that crystallized, in Colin Powell's mind, how the GOP has completely gone off the tracks in polarizing this country. Think what you will of Powell himself, his reference to this photograph as a statement of inclusion and as a rebuttal to the hate being spread...
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Palin Misses Her Match
Did Palin and her minders somehow restrict the Governor's role on SNL last night, effectively reducing her to a prop? Did the show merely bring out the fact she's "not ready for prime time?" Or, did the liberal entertainment complex flat out give it to Palin, just like Letterman...
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St. Louis
In terms of timing as well as momentum, this shot of Obama in front of 100,000 supporters in St. Louis yesterday seemed remarkably familiar.
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Powell's Buttons
Tomorrow morning, in his much-anticpated appearance on Meet The Press, will Powell stay true-to-form and refuse to endorse either Obama or McCain? Or, might he actually unbutton the jacket for Obama?
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