Worried About the Economy? Stop Whining
The Dow Jones fell 2 percent on Wednesday, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ plunged 2.6 percent. Home foreclosures are booming, credit card debt is soaring, real wages are sagging, and the job market is grim....
View ArticleSay What?: John McCain Edition
Every now and then, we react to the pronouncements of elected officials and public figures with a bemused "Say What?" A little belatedly, but with no less puzzlement than we felt when we originally...
View ArticleIt's the Economy Again, Stupid. (Maybe).
Everyone has a theory about how the presidential election is going to play out. Some people think Barack Obama - lately dubbed "The One" - is on his way to being anointed. Other prognosticators argue...
View ArticleObama & Britney & Paris: The Low-Road Express Goes Lower
When we commented today about the cheesy, negative tone of Senator John McCain's campaign - we called it the Low-Road Express - we thought we'd seen some pretty low-brow and witless attack ads. But a...
View ArticleSay What? John McCain, Barack Obama, and the "Race Card"
We know that operatives in modern-day presidential campaigns are supposed to say things that everyone knows are ridiculous - and to do it with a straight face. Still, there was something surreal, and...
View ArticleSenator Stevens: Not Feeling the Love
In his 40 years in the Senate, Ted Stevens made sure Republican colleagues shared in the wealth of his ever churning fundraising machine. It's amazing what a corruption indictment can do. These same...
View ArticleHe's No Teddy Roosevelt
John McCain has declared that he counts himself as a Republican "in the Theodore Roosevelt mold." But it's hard to square Senator McCain's candidacy with his hero worship of the 26th President....
View ArticleJohn McCain's Housing Crisis
Here's the presidential campaign soundbite of the moment: When asked by the Politico Web site on Wednesday how many houses he and his wife own, John McCain responded: "I think - I'll have my staff get...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman Was for Barack Obama Before He Was Against Him
One of the more unlikely speakers at last week's Republican National Convention was Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Independent of Connecticut. Sen. Lieberman, who is still registered as a Democrat and caucuses...
View ArticleAnother Opinion from Ed Koch: A Presidential Endorsement
Fresh from his critique of Rudy Giuliani's convention speech, Ed Koch is offering up another opinion: an endorsement of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. That was not a foregone conclusion, despite Mr....
View ArticleWhat's Spanish for 'Lies'?
Senator John McCain's truth-deficient campaign hit another low last Friday with a fraudulent new ad, this time about immigration. The ad, in Spanish, accuses Senator Barack Obama and his Congressional...
View ArticleThe Two Faces of Barack Obama
There goes Barack Obama, down into the deceptive-campaign-ad gutter with John McCain. It's this immigration ad, in Spanish, called "Two Faces." We've already complained about a deceptive Spanish McCain...
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened to Afghanistan?
It's taken far too long, but finally the Bush administration is showing a new urgency and a new focus on Afghanistan, the anti-terror war frontline it effectively abandoned when it invaded Iraq in...
View ArticleJohn McCain and the Group that May Be 'Destroying the Fabric of Democracy'
Acorn, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has a well-deserved reputation for effective grassroots activism. But it's been getting terrible press lately, because of an internal...
View ArticleAcorn Update: The Deluge of Hate
Acorn, a non-profit group that advocates for poor and moderate-income people, has unfairly become a high-profile target in the presidential campaign. Acorn has conducted a large-scale voter...
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