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By MichaelJ.W.Stickings You know what's hilarious? The McCain-infatuated Weekly Standard complaining about Chris Matthews. And yesterday , Mary Katherine Ham responded to what she called Matthews' "post-debate drooling" over Obama. "Barack Obama is gifted in birth by a wonderful smile," said Matthews last night on MSNBC. "John McCain, when he smiles, has a somewhat menacing quality....
By MichaelJ.W.StickingsSarah Palin, abuser of power, was in Philly this evening ceremonially dropping the puck before the Flyers home opener against the Rangers. Ryan Cormier at Delaware Online (i.e., The News Journal ): So, how did Philadelphia Flyers fans greet Sarah Palin, who was on hand tonight for the ceremonial puck-drop? Watching on Comcast, it seemed like there was...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings From Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), one of America's greatest civil rights leaders: As one who was a victim of violence and hate during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, I am deeply disturbed by the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign. What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin...
By MichaelJ.W.StickingsAndrew Sullivan , on the mob-crazed insanity bubbling over at McCain-Palin rallies and the enabling and encouraging of it by McCain and Palin themselves: This is getting close to the atmosphere stoked by the Israeli far right before the assassination of Rabin. Terrifying... but true. (John Dickerson has more on the mobs here , Jonathan Martin here . And...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings I used to think Connecticut was just the rectangular thing I had to drive through to get from New Jersey (where I used to live) to Boston (where I went to college), or vice versa. Sure, it has a lovely coastline, especially around Mystic (which did have some excellent pizza), and the Merritt Parkway is especially nice, but, beyond that, what? Hartford?...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings I mentioned yesterday that, for McCain-Palin, it has now all come down to Ayers -- but that, with desperation deepening, it could be Wright again before too long. As the WSJ is reporting , however, despite all the negativity coming out of the McCain-Palin campaign, the Wright card may not be played after all: Top McCain campaign officials are grappling...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings So McCain and Palin want to smear Obama with guilt by association over his non-relationship with Bill Ayers , eh? Well, perhaps more attention ought to be paid to Palin's long and ongoing relationship with the extremist Alaska Independence Party (AIP) and its leaders. And perhaps Palin ought to be asked why she has associated -- and rather closely (she...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings In case you missed it -- and it's been making the rounds the past couple of days -- here's a rather revealing clip of the McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio. As Tim Russo of blogger interrupted puts it: "I've been doing blog video for a while, and presidential rallies a lot longer. And this is the most strange, ignorant, uninformed, angry, up-to-no-good,...
By MichaelJ.W.StickingsJohn Cole puts it well: John McCain is not man enough to own his shit. John McCain will not openly confront Obama with his smears and lies and innuendo. John McCain will not come out and talk about Ayers, he has to be asked . That is why he goes to places like Fox News, so he can be asked. What a coincidence. John McCain is a coward. John McCain would...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings So, who said that? Obama, right? I mean, he's the one who thinks the U.S. should engage in direct talks with its enemies, such as the leaders of Iran, perhaps even without preconditions. (And, of course, McCain opposes such talks.) But no. It was actually McCain's hero, Gen. David Petraeus, the man who can do no wrong. Petraeus gave a talk yesterday at...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings From James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter : Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of airtime on CBS, sources confirm. The Obama campaign will air a half-hour primetime special on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. Sources say the Obama camp is also in talks with NBC and Fox. NBC is said to be very near a deal. Obviously, Obama has the money to do this,...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings Some of the other national polls show a somewhat closer race, but, according to Gallup , Obama continues to hold an 11-point lead over McCain, 52-41 -- the same numbers as in the previous tracking poll . The poll was conducted from October 6-8 and therefore includes one day of interviews after Tuesday's debate. And here's some post-debate polling from...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings As I have mentioned here already -- and it is hardly a radical obsrvation -- the McCain-Palin campaign is trying to shift the race away from the issues, and specifically the economy, and towards "character" and "values," an all-too-common Republican strategy. More specifically, what they want is for the race to be sort of culture war in microcosm: -- On...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings Far be it from me, your humble blogger, to disagree with the great David Brooks, distinguished New York Times columnist and leading conservative intellectual. On Monday, at an event celebrating the redesign of The Atlantic magazine, Brooks said this , among other things: [Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started...
By MichaelJ.W.Stickings This is just bizarre -- and perhaps a glimpse into the messed up mind of McCain. At a rally in Pennsylvania today, McCain referred to his fellow Americans as "my fellow prisoners." Jed Lewison has the clip (note that Palin, who may or may not be paying attention, so enraptured is she by her own smug arrogance, isn't phased at all by it): There really isn't...
