Mike Dukakis & John Kerry: The Day The Losers Redeemed Themselves
It was nice to see John Kerry as angry at George Bush and John McCain as Democrats have been at John Kerry the last four years.
It was nice to see John Kerry as angry at George Bush and John McCain as Democrats have been at John Kerry the last four years.
At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.
It is time, once and for all, for Democrats to burn the Kerry playbook. It is the same playbook used to guide one losing Democratic campaign after another for decades.
McCain was droll, offensive without being nasty and very relaxed. He was handy at spewing mixed-up rhetoric about his position and Obama's on the war, oil drilling, NATO and tax cuts -- It was seductive.
I implore you not to regurgitate your aspirational stump speech. You've got one chance -- with everybody watching -- to punch this guy in the gut. Please, for the love of democracy, include some of this.
In a week in which Democrats and the national media are focused on the Convention and the surrounding protests/parties/circus, it's worth keeping one eye on what's happening on local television in the swing states.
Karl Rove and his right-wing political cronies targeted me through a malicious, unfounded, politically-motivated prosecution. Now is the time to take action.
The New York-born politico exploited DC's property tax exemptions. If this story sounds familiar, it should: Rove played the same game back in 2005.
What is particularly noteworthy is where the media bias lies: it's a clear willingness to give John McCain (R) the benefit of the doubt, but not Barack Obama (D).
Imagine the triumphant procession: Barack at the head; after him the hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the cat.
What the four Iowans who tried to arrest Karl Rove did is courageous, and is exactly how we should use the citizen arrest power.
If Obama can both reconnect his inspirational personal story to the American dream and create a counter-narrative of McCain selling his soul to the Rovian devil, he can take back control of the campaign narrative.
Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. Arrogant, of course, is a euphemism. In the monochromatic bunkers from which old-schoolers cling to power the true word they use is "uppity" when hurled at blacks.
The revelation that as an AP reporter Fournier privately urged Karl Rove to "keep up the fight," came as no surprise to anyone who has read his recent campaign work.
Call it what you want: arrogance, a jinx -- but let's be honest with ourselves -- this thing is over. McCain won't just be defeated, he'll be crushed in a way that redefines the political map for the next 25 years.
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You lambs just don't get it. This election is about Obama, it dose not matter who McCain's VP is. Some people will vote against Obama because of his race witch is shameful. I will vote against him for these reasons
1. Way too far left of center
2. He has no legislative accomplishments, so what has he done?
3. Questionable associations with a homegrown terrorist, racist pastor, a convicted criminal.
4.I believe he wants to disarm the military of this country
5.He wants to be citizen of the world, whatever that means
6.Believes the big government is the solution and not the problem.
7. I think he is socialist.
8.Don't like the fact that the left is trying guilt people into voting the 1st black President
9. will be weak on foreign policy.
10.Wants to pull out of Iraq witch would be a disaster and a slap in the face of all who paid the ultimate price
Why do republicans take pride in being ignorant?
You forgot the part where Obama is a Muslim. Also, did you know he fathered two black children?
Ronald Reagan introduced himself as being a "citizen of the world".
Isn't Reagan your team's idol?
Spoken like a true puppet of the right wing. Let me guess....you listen to Fox "News", right?
No I watch Fox , I listen to NPR
1. Being way right of center has worked out so well for us
2. Every policy enacted in the last 8 years has been a total disaster
3. McCain has very strong association with George W. Bush and Karl Rove
4. You can believe the sky is orange, that don't make it so
5. So let's go on being hated, despised and totally alone
6. Because the housing market did such a good job regulating itself
7. See #4
8. Instead of trying to guilt us into voting a POW president
9. Will HAVE a foreign policy, which will be a lot more effective than the non-policy we've been using the last 8 years
10. We're already leaving. The eviction papers have been signed, by Bush.
: ) good retort
Still thinking of voting for McCain........
Check out this link below............
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1836909,00.html