Hold Fast

The McCain campaign has puffed up its chest recently about its headfirst dive into the mud. Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment last night provides as concentrated a deconstruction of this strategy as I’ve seen in any medium.

Going beyond Palin’s role as a mud slinger, in the past few days rhetoric coming from McCain and Palin has […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g72BuIvMbWY

Great job by the economy campaign. Their documentary on the Keating-McCain savings and loan scandal is insightful and informative. Most importantly, it’s accessible and succeeds at tying McCain’s actions on behalf of his friend and political contributor Charles Keating to McCain’s current failed approaches to the subprime mortgage crisis and economic troubles. I’m not sure […]

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Steve Benen inadvertently writes the script to an ad I’d love to see the Obama campaign running.
Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended a convicted felon who advised his supporters on how best to shoot federal officials in the head. John McCain has.
Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever used the money […]

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Jonathan Martin of Politico is reporting that John McCain is pulling out of Michigan.
I will now put forward what I believe is the least likely explanation of why McCain is pulling out of Michigan:

Former Congressman and Edwards campaign manager David Bonior is from Michigan.
Bonior was very public in expressing his disappointment in John Edwards following […]

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The DNC has put out their first ad of the 2008 cycle on John McCain and I think it’s a good one. It makes crystal clear how out of touch McCain is from the challenges Americans face now thanks to the failures of the Bush economy. I hope the DNC takes this ad and puts […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRV8Q9IBDxk

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Ezra Klein takes a look at another creepy, spinning, rambling web ad from the McCain campaign.
When his first trippy ad came out, I asked, “what sort of hallucinogens does the McCain campaign think we should be taking when we watch this ad?”
Judging from some of the multi-colored smoke effects in the first half of the […]

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Color of Change has a thorough fact sheet of John McCain’s problematic stances on race and civil rights over his career.
On just about every issue, John McCain emerges as more of the same. His image and even his rhetoric do not match his record and his actions. The more people learn about the real John […]

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Jane has the details. No matter what happens with McCain and public financing in the general election, it should be clear that he is only considering it because he and his campaign know that the Democratic nominee will obliterate him in fund raising. Public financing is safe money for McCain, so he’ll do it. […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_9sI7hzAc

Brandon Friedman at VoteVets has much more about the campaign launched today by VoteVets, WesPAC, and Brave New Films to put pressure on John McCain to support a new GI Bill.
Sign the petition to McCain at The Real McCain.

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