People are starting to point to this latest bit of policy wonkery from Senator McCain: This came up because McCain advisor and veep mentionee Carly Fiorina went off-message and talked about the unfairness of the fact that insurance companies cover Viagra but not contraception. But this isn’t the first time McCain has been utterly stumped […]
Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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MCCAIN’S BAD AD ABOUT HIPPIES AND HOPE.
John McCain has a new ad out, and the guy who keeps saying how much he hates talking about Vietnam is, what do you know, talking about Vietnam again: And as a bonus, we get hippies! If the sight of them still makes your blood boil forty years later, then there’s no doubt which candidate […]
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The McCain Rules
The press has been reasonably kind to Barack Obama. But this is nothing compared with its eagerness to adopt any argument even mentioned by the McCain campaign.
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PATRIOTIC HEALING, BABY, IT’S GOOD FOR ME
In honor of Independence Day, take a moment and check out what is probably the greatest rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner ever delivered. The song is widely agreed to be a musical abomination, almost impossible to sing in a pleasing way, no matter the talent of the singer. But there is at least one exception: […]
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THE RICH REALLY ARE DIFFERENT.
We know John and Cindy McCain are seriously wealthy – Cindy’s fortune has been estimated at $100 million, and they have seven, yes, seven homes (if you’re keeping track at home, there’s the estate in Sedona, which has two houses on it, the $4.7 million condo in Phoenix, the condo in Arlington, VA, the condo […]
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McCain: Noun, Verb, Terrorism
For all John McCain’s supposed experience, he has the same absurdly simplistic and factually ignorant understanding of the problem as President Bush.
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COURAGEOUS? NOT QUITE.
Following up on Tim’s post below, there are a couple of important things to note about McCain‘s allegedly courageous acts of apostasy. First of all, why exactly is it that going against your party is “courageous”? It’s courageous if your goal is to rise within your party to become, say, Senate Minority Leader. But that […]
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Smearing Michelle
Frustrated by their inability to successfully call Barack Obama’s character into question, his opponents have seized on the next best option — attacking his wife.
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THAT WASN’T HARD TO SEE COMING
Open up the New York Times op-ed page today, and you’ll see that David Brooks is deeply disappointed in Barack Obama: But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past […]
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THE AIR WAR IS JOINED!
At long last, Barack Obama is on the air with his first ad of the general election. Take a gander: Like every Obama ad, this one features high production values and a crisply defined message. The script is all about this great land of ours, which you can hardly blame them for, given the sustained […]