Open Thread: McMaverick Edition

the straight talk express (0.00 / 0)

crashed in Miami - taking a right turn. No one was hurt.

Netroots Outreach Director for the Carol Shea-Porter campaign

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by: susanthe @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 09:21:04 AM CDT

Hand Wringing (4.00 / 2)

More about Arizona politics surrounding John McCain, then most will ever want to know.

It's easier that way.

Pulled from Kos.
Postmodern John McCain: the presidential candidate some Arizonans know - and loathe

Phoenix New Times
By Amy Silverman
Published on August 07, 2008
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I learned the love lesson firsthand during the 2000 election, when - cajoled into doing an interview about McCain for a piece by TV newsmagazine 20/20 - I flew back and forth to Washington in a single day to be interviewed by Sam Donaldson, only to learn later from his producers that, whoops, Donaldson had decided he really liked McCain and didn't want to include anything negative in his profile.

On my way back to the airport that day, exhausted, I checked my voicemail from the back of a town car. Tucker Carlson, then a writer for now-defunct Talk magazine, had called, looking for quotes for a story. I called him back and left a message saying I couldn't help him. And since then, for the most part, I've stayed away from other reporters doing stories about John McCain.

They still call, from as far away as London. One guy, describing himself as a Phoenix freelancer (I'd never heard of him) wanted to know what it would take to get me to give him all my files of public documents on Cindy McCain. I tell them that the work my colleagues and I have done on McCain over the years speaks for itself.

And it does. Yet, something seems to be getting lost in translation.
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Best McCain line: 'I'll embarrass a Democrat any time I get the chance.'


The giant finds its gait.

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 09:27:21 AM CDT

one casualty on straight talk express crach (4.00 / 1)

I've always said
Lieberman takes the cake.

A little more to that Miami traffic accident yesterday involving Joe Lieberman aboard the Straight Talk Express: Turns out the impact sent a staffer's chocolate birthday cake with thick white frosting smack into the Connecticut senator.

Netroots Outreach Director for the Carol Shea-Porter campaign

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by: susanthe @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 11:21:43 AM CDT

That "wouldn't vote for" line is a killer (0.00 / 0)

It's long been rumored that McCain didn't vote for Bush in 2000.

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by: JimC @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 11:25:05 AM CDT

OMG: (4.00 / 1)

This is really, truly, unbelievably despicable:

To understand how slimy this is, you have to have some familiarity with imagery and themes of Christian fundamentalists.  Through some familial connections, I do.

This really is worse than anything Bush did in an ad. It's essentially a massive dog-whistle to fundamentalist Christians that Obama is the anti-Christ. There's no question in my mind it'll be attached to thousands of chain emails.

More here in this kos diary.

It's amazing how my ability to get shocked by Republican sleazebag tactics gets renewed every cycle.

Wonder if Sununu's fired now.

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 11:50:58 AM CDT

If memory serves -- (0.00 / 0)

In that "light will come down" clip, isn't Barack being humorous? Making fun of earlier criticism of his rhetoric?

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by: JimC @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 12:01:36 PM CDT

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Yes, that's exactly it. (4.00 / 1)

Normally, that alone would be a reason to scorn such an ad, but in this case, it's a drop in a bucket of slime.

Wonder if Sununu's fired now.

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 12:23:43 PM CDT

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Who do you pick for a running mate (4.00 / 1)

if you're the Anti-Christ?  

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by: elwood @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 13:24:20 PM CDT

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Devil's child n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: JimC @ Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 13:46:59 PM CDT

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