TMI from Cindy McCain
Nov 1st, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionPromo for Larry King Live seen on CNN just a few minutes ago:
Monday: Cindy McCain — Why she thinks her husband can come from behind — one last time.
2008 Presidential Election
The Palin-drome
Oct 31st, 2008 | By Mark | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionWhy does the VP pick matter so much this time?
Surely there’s something of a perfect storm surrounding John McCain’s gimmicky decision to put Sarah Palin on the ticket. There’s John’s advanced years, but knowing the presidency is a high risk occupation no matter who sits in the big chair (they don’t assign Secret Service [...]
So Sick Of This
Oct 31st, 2008 | By Mark | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionMaybe I’m just sick of being sick since I’ve been dealing with a chest cold for over a week now. Maybe it’s because I already voted, so in my subconscious I know none of the remaining flourishes of the campaigns make any difference to me personally. Maybe, no … without a doubt John McCain, Sarah [...]
Early Voting in Louisiana
Oct 25th, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionSaturday morning we went down to the Louisiana State Archives Building and voted for Barack Obama. This location is one of three in East Baton Rouge Parish so we knew there’d be crowds — and there were. Luckily, they’ve got their act together and it only took us about 35 minutes to get through the [...]
Vote McCain . . . Or He Might Lose
Oct 24th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionSRSLY? Is that all they got now? After picking Palin merely because she looked the part . . .
“The way you pick a vice president is, you get a frame of Time magazine, and you put the pictures of the people in that frame. You look at who fits that frame best — that’s your [...]
There’s So Much Wrong With Palin
Oct 17th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionSo very, very much.
In the course of just one speech, the mind-bogglingly stupid piled on top of the just plain dumb is staggering.
Not only is is unable to name any newspapers or magazines that she reads, she doesn’t watch the news — rather, she’s not allowed to.
At those times on the campaign trail when sometimes [...]
Will Blog For Plumbing Work
Oct 17th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionThe theory holds. The internetz IS a series of Tubez, that are now irretrievably clogged with the story of Joe the Not Really a Plumber from Toledo. Seriously, there’s so much shit out there on Joe right now, you’d think we were vetting a vice Presidential candidate. Lord knows he took more questions, answered them [...]
Here’s the one moment from the final debate that will live in infamy
Oct 15th, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionNot every debate has a take-away moment, that you will “take away” with you from that night, that moment that you will never forget, that moment that encapsulates one or the other candidate in brief flash of insight. McCain had one in the second debate when he referred to Obama as “that one.”
Tonight McCain had [...]
Alright, Enough Of This Stupid Narrative
Oct 15th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionIncreasingly I’m seeing the center right and way-out wacky right punditocracy announce this sort of meme as they write John McCain’s political obituary:
Previous to this economic free fall — and after his transformative vice-presidential choice — McCain was about tied in a race he should have been losing by a large margin. The public clearly [...]
It’s Always the Candidate, Not the Campaign
Oct 15th, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: 2008 Presidential ElectionThe post-mortems have already started even though McCain’s campaign is not officially dead yet.
That said, this piece by Dan Gerstein reinforces what has become a truism in politics: win or lose, it’s always about the candidate and not the campaign:
One day, Obama is too inexperienced; the next, he’s too liberal; now, he’s palling about with [...]
