McCain Would Have Won … If He Wasn't So Weird
What is stunning to me is how much the media and the nets are expressing reservations about McCain's performance when -- especially listening to clips of the debate on the radio -- I thought McCain was rhetorically more effective than Obama. What accounts for that, I believe, whether articulated...
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Keeping A Low Profile With The Gang
Because yesterday's media was filled with shots of McCain trooping around the Capitol, as well as meeting with the President and bipartisan leadership, visual consumers received a thoroughly biased view of who McCain has actually been in bed with.
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Financial Crisis: Obama Gets Played In Background Check
Johnny comes beyond late to the party, throws a hand grenade into the budget process, then wakes up Friday morning to find, right there on the front page of the NYT, the hero on the march.
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Thoughts On The Debate: Real Estate, Faces, Teeth
Still, I was contacted by a reporter from NPR a couple days ago, asking what I thought were the key "visual cues" to be looking for during the debate.... I want to see how much he tries to lean, or even move away from his podium to toward Obama...
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Old McCain CW: Heroic Bomber Pilot. New McCain CW: Kamikaze.
Sitting there pretending he's being constructive after colluding with House Republicans that morning to blow up intense, three-day-old bipartisan negotiations, that's the look of the cat that ate the canary.
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McCain's Face Value
The reason Lettermen lashed out at McCain last night in playing a make-up outtake from Mac's interview before Couric's program? It's not just because McCain ditched Letterman at the last minute to do the interview.
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Have A Little FU With Your National Crisis
It's a fascinating portrait of the co-conspirators who, this morning, pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.
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John McCain and "Freddie" Davis
In contrast to the warm-and-fuzzy image of Rick Davis and John McCain the NYT used in their background piece this morning, this shot reveals the take-no-prisoners "steel" (steal?) of the Freddie Mac lobbyist.
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We Are All Georgians Now. (At Least, We Were Last Month)
I'll be tied up with my clinical life a good bit of the day. In the margins, though, I'll also be tracking S.P.'s diplomatic exploits, picking and choosing from the newswire.
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Top People In D.C. Would Never Admit They Don't Really Know What To Do
Latest on the Wall Street/banking crisis. Top People In D.C. Will Never Admit They Don't Really Know What To Do
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The Foreign Policy Education Of Sarah Palin (In One Okay, More Than One Photo-Op)
You see, Kissenger is that good that just one photo op sit-down can make anyone competent in a foreign policy. Anyone.
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The Coil
I'm convinced McCain believes he's a moderate guy. I don't think he's in touch at all with the way he fires up.
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Sarah's U.N. Preview
Why did the NYT chose to run this scary, but rather obscure image -- from the Ocala (Florida) Star Banner -- to illustrate a preview on Palin's upcoming meeting with foreign leaders?
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Taking Counsel
This shot from yesterday, of Obama with a Wall Street brain trust (Volker/former Fed and Rubin/former Treasury on either side) communicates and reinforces the impression of one candidate getting after the crisis and demonstrating the capability of actual deliberation in the face of all hell breaking loose.
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Luster, Really?
The NYT runs an update on Ted Stevens about how his trial is taking place concurrently with his senate campaign and the national election. The image above leads the story, titled "Alaska Star May Add Luster To Tarnished Senator." So, what are we investing our good time and...
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Your Turn: Red, White And Blue + White + Lot More Red. Oh Yeah, There's McCain, Too.
I'm interested in your thoughts on this, especially as a follow-up to the red shoes post.... From NYT slide show: Barbs on the Economy. (image: Todd Heisler/The New York Times. caption: At a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, said that the chairman...
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More Racist "Advice" From The McCain Campaign
Many of you have written about my take on "Advise," the latest McCain attack video.... In other words, consider the parallel between the smarmy way Obama was portrayed in Schmidt/McCain's Kindergarten/Sex Ed piece ten days ago and the portrayal of Frank Raines in this latest job. In their desperation...
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Stature Drop
I just wonder, what would Gerald Ford have thought if he could somehow see McCain coming to lay flowers at his grave with First Dude?
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