John McCain is pouncing on Barack Obama’s call for shifting more wealth from richer Americans to poorer ones, likening it to socialism. His remarks win applause at campaign events. But they ignore the nation’s long tradition of redistributing huge amounts of wealth through tax-and-spending policies.
Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that Republican John McCain is offering little more than “willful ignorance, wishful thinking, outdated ideology” to an economy in crisis, seeking to capitalize on the main issue that is propelling him forward in the race for the White House.
Florida kicked off early voting on Monday, with record crowds heading to the polls and voters waiting hours to cast their ballots. Elections officials said the few reported problems were minor.
Republican John McCain and his supporters on Monday branded Democrat Barack Obama a liberal and criticized feminists and the media as they rallied their conservative base in Missouri, a hotly contested bellwether state, two weeks before the election.
Muslim McCain supporters fight back against protesters who accused Barack Obama of being a Muslim Socialist bent on destroying America. Watch the video after the jump.
The most dangerous dog, as the saying goes, is the one backed into a corner. With the Republican campaign in obvious disarray, and the electoral map growing bluer by the day (perhaps because Americans have reverted to toddler-tantrums and are now holding their breath until they get their way), Sarah Palin’s Pit Bulls are cornered. […]
America’s health care crisis is, of course, a central concern for voters. And it’s come up in several of the debates. Space constraints preclude an in-depth dissection of Obama and McCain’s competing ideas (you can read good analyses here and here). It is, however, worth exploring the premise behind the McCain approach to health care. […]
Since the New York Times is running a story on Cindy McCain’s drug addiction, here’s the story we did a few months back on it. From 1989 to 1992, Cindy McCain was a drug addict. She was addicted to Percoset and Vicodin. Rather than go to a street dealer or doctor shop like Rush Limbaugh, […]
There have been a number of videos circulating around the internet showing the ignorance, fear and hatred of McCain/Palin supporters. Many are disturbing and show the deep rooted ignorance of McCain’s supporters as well as what McCain and Palin are doing to to incite this anger. Here are our Top 5 McCain Palin Hate-Mob videos.
Last night on the Dave Letterman show, McCain was asked about his ‘criminal affiliations.’ The person he was referring to was G Gordon Liddy. Liddy was a staff aid for Nixon and was one of the central figures in the Watergate scandal.
Yesterday, Barack Obama and John Mccain appeared at the Waldorf Astoria for the Alfred E. Smith benefit dinner. Both men had some pretty funny lines. McCain had a couple jokes for Hillary Clinton and Keith Olbermann and Obama has some funny jokes about Rudy Giulani. Watch the Video After the Jump
When it comes to the public’s image of John McCain, it’s as if somebody dialed the electricity down in the past month. For Barack Obama, the juice is still flowing.
