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John McCain has cut two ads tying Obama to former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson, who worked for the Obama campaign for about two days before he was fired in an uproar, and another former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, who actually told the McCain campaign days ago that he wasn’t advising Obama. Today, he […]

In terms of security, it is now obvious that it was a really bad idea for Sarah Palin to conduct government business from a Yahoo email address. But security wasn’t the priority, the priority was secrecy. As the New York Times reported, “her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking […]

Last week, I criticized a new tone-deaf Obama ad that hit McCain on his computer illiteracy, because I thought it would alienate older voters who may have similar problems. Jonah Goldberg decides to play the POW card in today’s LA Times, arguing that McCain can’t use a computer because of his injuries: One reason McCain […]

While visiting Alaska, Sarah Palin dropped the (inaccurate) line in her stump speech highlighting her opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere, presumably because everyone there knows that it isn’t true. Once she returned to the lower 48 the line reappeared, despite her embarrassing interview with Charlie Gibson last week in which she was basically forced […]

Everyone has problems. Cindy McCain used to have a problem with drug use. Many people in America have problems with drugs. If they get caught and don’t happen to have nine houses, they often end up in jail for long periods of time, even if they don’t steal money from charities to feed their habit. […]

Yesterday McCain called politics a “dirty business.” But today McCain’s new ad hits Obama for not being appropriately “respectful” to Sarah Palin, as though pointing out inconsistencies in her record was out of bounds. Someone should remind McCain that Obama is running for president, he’s not interviewing to be a servant at one of McCain’s […]

The McCain campaign has been touting Sarah Palin as a fiscal conservative in bold defiance of the facts. She charged taxpayers for nights spent at home, kept the federal pork alotted for the Bridge To Nowhere, sold the governor’s plane at a loss and left Wasilla after her tenure as mayor with 20 million dollars […]

Meghan McCain says what should have become apparent after the paganesque war fiesta at the RNC last week, there’s only one soldier whose service really matters. This morning she told Meridith Viera that “no one knows what war is like other than my family, period.” The other thousands of families with relatives in Iraq and […]

They happen to live, close to 9 months of the year, where they go to school. Yet, states like Virginia and South Carolina are going out of their way to prevent young people from voting where they spend most of their time, despite the fact that the Supreme Court long ago decided that it was […]

The Onion successfully skews the GOP’s creepy, gleeful exploitation of 9/11: While Cheney is known by many to be cold and taciturn for the other 11 months of the year, those close to the vice president say there is something about the 9/11 season that puts a smile on his face and a spring in […]