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The McCain campaign is all set to roll out its message for the last 30 days of the campaign: "We may not be good for your bank account, your mortgage, your health care, or your job security -- but none of that will matter if you are dead. John McCain: If You Want to Live." For the moment, McCain is allowing his high-sticking hockey mom to lead the fear-mongering parade, but Palin's Alaska crude will soon be mixed with McCain's own Maverick mud. At a Colorado town hall last Thursday, McCain was asked, "When are you going to take off the gloves?" His grinning reply: "How about Tuesday night?" So how long into Debate II do you think it will be before McCain brings up Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, or Tony Rezko?
It's all negative all the time now in the TV ad wars. For once, Obama has stolen a march on McCain in the campaign hit parade. And its attack strategy seems to be much more on the axis of decision for this election.
Didn't the Wall Street bailout stop the economy's bleeding? No. The US has exported a ton of toxic mortgages to, well, everybody. Now we're all in this together.
The preconditions that the Bush administration have publicly proclaimed in the past were based on the increasingly faulty assumption that the U.S. always has the upper hand. But the world has changed.
Have we not a right to expect our elected leaders to be smart, rational and honest? Is that too much to ask? The irrational ought not to prevail. Smart and good are better.
John McCain's new coziness with Big Oil is in many respects just a replay of his old coziness with Charles Keating. In both cases, money and access bought influence.
The conclusion seems impossible to avoid: McCain's health care ideas are risky, unstable, and poorly thought out. They could result in a 'healthcare meltdown' that Americans can ill afford.
Did a Fox news executive decide to go after Congressman Frank because O'Reilly was embarrassed in front of 800,000 people who caught the meltdown on YouTube?
Like a cartoon convenience store robber shouting "Your money or your life!" at the clerk, McCain has staked his campaign on a last-ditch effort to make voters sufficiently afraid of Obama.
Were she black, Sarah Palin's performance would have been skewered by the right as undignified and demeaning to the office she seeks.
If the kind of gotcha journalism that so irritates John McCain and Sarah Palin were more woven into the fabric of our civic life, we might not be in the mess now consuming us.
If the measure passes, factory farms in the largest animal production state in the country would have until 2015 to change their ways.
Sarah Palin now asserts that she reads The Economist, at least to Fox News Channel. Well, doggone it, if she does peruse the Oct. 4 issue, she'll find a 20-page report on the presidential election.
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