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Why McCain will have to wear Ashley Todd’s scarlet letter

Oct 25th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 6,736

Here’s the question of the day: How did the entire blogosphere and twitterverse know intuitively that Ashley Todd was some imbalanced attention-seeker almost immediately after the story broke but John McCain, Sarah Palin and their top staff did not?
Predictably, the liberal bloggers and tweeters were calling bullshit as soon as they heard Todd’s tale of [...]

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George W. Bush’s sloppy, wet kiss of death

Oct 24th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 29

How can you tell when a blogger is lacking inspiration? He posts a bunch of videos. I couldn’t resist putting this one up because it’s freaking hilarious. We’ve truly entered unchartered waters: The country is about to elect its first black president, the Tampa Bay Rays are in the World Series and Saturday Night Live [...]

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Let Obama and McCain settle this on the dance floor

Oct 23rd, 2008 by Joe Newman | 4

Barack Obama was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the other day, telling Ellen he might not be able to dance better than his wife, but he was pretty sure he could out dance John McCain. After watching this video, I’d call it a tie. Though I have to admit, I’m not sure Obama has an [...]

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Hey McCain, how do you like your boy genius now?

Oct 19th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 16

Can it really be less than two months since the New York Times told the world how political strategist Steve Schmidt had transformed the McCain campaign into “an elbows-out, risk-taking, disciplined machine”? At the time, I remember having a visceral reaction to its description of Schmidt’s “brillilance.”
It bothered me that McCain’s surge in the polls [...]

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The Keating Five rides again (or how John McCain lost his way)

Oct 6th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 114

Now it gets exciting. Sources in John McCain’s camp spent the last several days telling reporters that the campaign was about to go hard negative against Barack Obama on the character issue. It was the best way, they said, to move the national discussion off of the economy.
And true to their word, VP candidate Sara [...]

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