20 Aug

McCain Wasn’t Tortured by Bush’s Definition

Andrew Sullivan points out that by Bush/Cheyney’s definition of torture, John McCain was not officially tortured in Vietnam. Hrm…
From Sullivan:
No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the [...]

18 Aug

Obama and McCain Define “Rich” Differently

McCain says that the “rich” (i.e., people who should be in the upper tax bracket) are people who make $5M or more per year. Obama claims the number is closer to $250,000 per year. This isn’t surprising given their very different backgrounds. It also suggests to me that McCain is richer than rich and has [...]

18 Aug

McCain the Elitist Real Estate Multi-Millionaire

The new video from Brave New Films. Watch it and share it with your friends.

McCain’s Homes:
Phoenix $4.6 million
Coronado, CA $2.1 million
Sedona, AZ $1.9 million
Coronado, CA $2.7 million
La Jolla, CA $1 million
Arlington, VA $847,000

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15 Aug

Does McCain’s “The One” Ad Have a Hidden Message?

Some think so. I reached out to the progressive Christians I know, and they did not know much about this. They don’t believe in Messianic and/or Evangelical teachings. I’d be fascinated to know more about this.
A snippet:
…this ad was not done by some campaign volunteer with a bit of editing experience for (as McCain suggests) [...]

15 Aug

The Adultery Double Standard: McCain vs. Edwards

This is really amazing to watch. Hannity just keeps repeating his talking point, “five and a half years of being tortured…,” while Colmes tries to point out the hypocrisy. Basically it’s this: the Right says Edwards can never be trusted on anything else, ever, because he cheated on his wife. But John McCain also admitted [...]

15 Aug

John McCain Forgets

Wow.

As DailyKos puts it:
Given that McCain has been using the situation in Georgia to pretend he’s the president (speaking of presumptuous), it’s not surprising that he wants to present this as the biggest crisis ever. And he’s right, assuming you forget the Gulf War, and Somalia, and the Rwandan Genocide, and the earlier war in [...]

13 Aug

New Obama Ad Hits McCain on Economics

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12 Aug

Scarlet Letters: McCain vs. Edwards

Americablog ponders why the MSM seems to be far more concerned with Edwards’ affair than with McCain’s. My guess is that Edwards is pretty to look at and therefore easy to imagine having sex. John McCain, not so much.

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08 Aug

McCain Flip-Flops on Running a Respectful Campaign

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31 Jul

Who’s the Elitist?

The Right (and before that, the Clinton camp) have been trying to portray Obama as an elitist who is out of touch with the middle class. McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis said this recently:
Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day, demand “MET-RX chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of [...]