Most campaign commercials run at exactly 30 seconds. They’re short, to the point, and most of the time completely worthless for informing anyone of anything. They’re political theater and serve little more than as a way to make or break a politicians brand.But, unfortunately, that’s all the political establishment believes modern voters are interested in. [...]
Apparently democratic debate is too painful for The Right. How else to explain Hot Air’s latest complaints? They’re fast of the trail of some truly disturbing browncoat behavior by the Obama campaign. The Obama campaign dared to organize supporters to call in during Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio show last night so they could argue with [...]
~It appears that somebody, most likely the federal government, is barring news media from flying over the hurricane-ravaged sections of Galveston Island.
~In the 26 years John McCain’s been a senator he’s seen two major loan crises. Someone should tell the guy that with his ringside seat to the GOP fueled “free market” excesses maybe, just [...]
Given former Bush adviser Karl Rove’s personal history with “the truth” this last decade it’s amusing that his opinion still carries any sort of weight in the media pundit circles. Never-the-less Karl Rove appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning to weigh in on this weekends round of campaign ads and his opinions? [...]
Today’s selection of important stories you might have missed:
~ Serious questions are being raised about the McCain campaign’s crowd size numbers. There’s something seriously fishy about a campaign attributing crowd size numbers to a fire marshal who denies ever releasing a count and releasing a number 3x larger then what on-the-scene campaign reporters estimate. There’s [...]
This post won’t truly make sense unless you watch the “offensive” Obama campaign ad first.
For those of you who can’t watch video the transcript follows:
1982.
John McCain goes to Washington.
Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t:
- He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer. (Politico 7/13/08)
- Can’t send an [...]
Today’s selection of important stories you might have missed:
~ For the people of the Texas breakwater island of Galveston Hurricane Ike is turning into a real nightmare. The storm surge is in danger of completely overrunning the island. The coast guard has issued a very strongly worded warning and said that, “Persons not heeding evacuation [...]
In less than two months America will elect a new president. Now, for months, Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his campaign have highlighted “experience” and “readiness” as the qualifying factors for the position of President. The question to ask then is simple: Why, if readiness is of such importance, is McCain unwilling to have [...]
One of the great democratizing benefits of the web when it comes to politics is that no matter what a person’s work schedule is they can, if they look for it, watch nearly any campaign speech whenever they want. The Jed Report has just released a stinging campaign video of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe [...]
In six days America will commemorate the 7th year since the World Trade Center towers were destroyed. The common consensus since then has been that it’s simply inexcusable to try to use the memory or footage of those who died for political gain. With Rudy “9/11″ Giuliani speaking at this years Republican National Convention [...]
