September 16, 2008 Posted: 12:19 PM ET From CNN’s Chris Welch and Rebecca Sinderbrand A McCain senior aide said Tuesday he ?helped create? the Blackberry. (CNN) – McCain senior domestic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said Tuesday the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device was a “miracle that John McCain helped create.” Addressing the nation’s economic crisis, Holtz-Eakin [...]
Archive for September 16th, 2008
16 Sep
The McCain Economic Council
ECONOMY This weekend, the U.S. financial system faced what the Washington Post called its “gravest crisis in modern times.” The securities firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, “becoming the largest financial firm to fail in the global credit crisis.” At the same time, “the credit crisis claimed another of America’s oldest financial companies,” as Merrill [...]
16 Sep
Fiorina: Palin, McCain not qualified to run-company
From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby Carly Fiorina spoke at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. WARREN, Ohio (CNN) – Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned John McCain Victory chair, said Tuesday that Sarah Palin isn’t qualified to run her old company. Appearing on a KTRS Radio show in St. Louis, Fiorina was [...]
16 Sep
McCain-onomics
thinkprogress.org ECONOMY Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has spent much of his general election campaign for president trying to distance himself from President Bush’s failed policies — even though the policies he has outlined and would pursue as president mirror those of the last eight years. McCain’s strategy so far has been to make the public forget [...]
16 Sep
The Media Call McCain and Palin on Their Trail of Lie
Newsday. Posted September 15, 2008. A rundown of 25 responses in the media to McCain and Palin’s bald-faced lies from the past two weeks. The McCain campaign has spent the last couple weeks making claims and accusations of dubious accuracy, mocking independent fact checkers, and telling everyone who will listen that the “media filter” doesn’t [...]
16 Sep
McCain and Palin’s Top 20 Lies, Myths and Flip-Flops
By Isaac Fitzgerald and Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. Posted September 12, 2008. Agents of change? Symbols of feminism? A roundup of these and other ridiculous tall tales coming from McCain’s increasingly desperate campaign. The corporate media won’t say it and the Obama campaign isn’t saying it enough, so we’re saying it loud and clear: John McCain [...]
