By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign. By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. [...]
Archive for October 6th, 2008
6 Oct
McCain, Obama on the issues
The Seattle Times By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press Writer A look at where Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stand on a selection of issues: ABORTION McCain: Opposes abortion rights. Has voted for abortion restrictions permissible under Roe v. Wade, and now says he would seek to overturn that guarantee of abortion rights. Would [...]
6 Oct
House Of Cards
thinkprogress.org IRAQ Last month, when Gen. David Petraeus handed command of coalition forces in Iraq to Gen. Ray Odierno, the new top U.S. commander announced that while “Iraq is now a different country from the one” he first saw, the “gains are fragile and reversible.” Odierno’s sentiments were reflected earlier this month when the Pentagon [...]
6 Oct
Is It 1929 Again?
By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, October 6, 2008; The Washington Post Watching the slipping economy and Congress’s epic debate over the unprecedented $700 billion financial bailout, it is impossible not to wonder whether this is 1929 all over again. Even sophisticated observers invoke the comparison. Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, [...]
6 Oct
A Pal Around McCain
By Harold Meyerson Monday, October 6, 2008; The Washington Post “There’s no question that we have to change the subject here,” a senior Republican operative told The Post’s Michael D. Shear in a story published Saturday. The “subject” in question is the economy and how to fix it. As Americans have taken their eye off [...]
6 Oct
McCain fudges his Navy record
Wreckage of McCain plane, Hanoi, October 1967. “I crashed a plane in Corpus Christi Bay one Saturday morning. The engine quit while I was practicing landings…I took a few painkillers and hit the sack to rest my aching back for a few hours….I was out carousing, injured back and all, later that evening. –John McCain, [...]
6 Oct
Dems: Forget Ayers, Remember Keating
Updated 1:00 p.m.?By Perry Bacon Jr.?Barack Obama’s campaign is reminding voters of John McCain’s connections to the so-called Keating Five savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the release of a 13-minute documentary called “Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis.” ??Two days after GOP vice [...]
6 Oct
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS THAT KEEP US OFF OUR BACKS
suddenlysenior.com Saul Friedman Gray Matters October 4, 2008 Social Security had its 73rd birthday in August, but there was another commemoration this summer that has special importance this year. That was the 75th anniversary, on June 16, of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Within days after a news conference celebrating its birthday, the FDIC took [...]
6 Oct
Woodward: Bush Said His Iran Strategy Was “They’re A**holes”
Posted by Jed Lewison, Huffington Post at 8:57 AM on October 5, 2008. From Woodward’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. There’s been so much going on with the campaign lately that I hadn’t paid much attention to Bob Woodward’s newest book, The War Within. Recently Woodward was on Real Time with Bill [...]
6 Oct
A List of McCain’s Nastiest Moments
Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 2:41 AM on October 2, 2008. Think there’s no way that John’s actually that bad? You haven’t seen this list. Robert Greenwald Brave New Films Earlier today, a commenter asked if John McCain is “truly as nasty and belligerent as he appears to be.” Is he really that bad–or is it just one [...]
6 Oct
They’re Stealing from You and Me — Where’s the Outrage?
By Garrison Keillor, International Herald Tribune. Posted October 6, 2008. It wasn’t their money Wall Street was playing with. It was ours. Where were the cops? It’s just human nature that some calamities register in the brain and others don’t. The train engineer texting at the throttle (“HOW R U? C U L8R”) and missing [...]
