Tag Archive for 'election2008'

No need to watch the debate tonight, John McCain’s already won it. Thats according to online ad’s his campaign is already running at least.

Twitter launches an Election 2008 page.

The Great Schlep

The Great Schelep is a pretty cool idea/website where Jewish kids sign up to visit their grandparents in Florida and talk to them about voting for Senator Obama in November. From their website:

The Great Schelep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor. Don’t have grandparents in Florida? Not Jewish? No problem! You can still become a schleper and make change happen in 2008, simply by talking to your relatives about Obama.

Even better, Sarah Silverman has done a video for them that is 12 different kinds of hysterical and awesome. Enjoy:


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

I think I’m going to buy one of their shirts.

LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS! LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS! Senator Obama has been an answer in 3 NY Times crossword puzzles, Senator McCain none. via

NY Times takes up McCain’s challenge

On Sunday Senator McCain was all “Go ahead, do some research on my campaign manager”:

On Sunday, in an interview with CNBC and The New York Times, Mr. McCain responded to a question about Mr. Davis’s role in the advocacy group through 2005 by saying that his campaign manager “has had nothing to do with it since, and I’ll be glad to have his record examined by anybody who wants to look at it.”


So the NY Times did
:

One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain’s campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement.

The disclosure undercuts a statement by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years.

Whoops, McCain “wrong” again. Its kind of amazing to me how Senator McCain basically says anything, at anytime, completely oblivious to the fact that, you know, things can be looked up nowadays. Lexis-Nexis, YouTube, etc.. Its kinda easy to do this stuff. Someone should tell Senator McCain.

Game on: Senator Obama ramps up his ad spending.

Chris Rock on Letterman gives some valuable political analysis.

Steve Schmidt is a true wonder

Its hard not to laugh while reading this:

Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record.

But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy.

The errors in McCain strategist Steve Schmidt’s charges against Obama and Sen. Joe Biden were particularly notable because they seemed unnecessary. Schmidt repeatedly gilded the lily: He exaggerated the Biden family’s already problematic ties to the credit card industry; Obama’s embarrassing relationship with a 1960s radical; and an Obama supporter’s over-the-top attack on Sarah Palin when — in each case — the truth would have been damaging enough.

“Any time the Obama campaign is criticized at any level, the critics are immediately derided as liars,” Schmidt told reporters.

But as he went on to list a series of stories he thought reporters should be writing about Obama and Biden, in almost every instance he got the details wrong.

I guess give the man points for trying. via

The Onion gives us a sneak peak inside Senator Obama’s Gmail account. via

FOTB The Cooler reminded me to post the Sarah Palin baby name generator. Came up with “Flack Gobbler Palin” for me.