Submitted to a Candid World

Although both issues are moot, yesterday there were two big stories on two of Election 2008’s biggest non-candidate “characters,” Joe the Plumber & the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. First, ABC played the ad that the McCain camp prepared, but never aired, indicting Barack Obama for his connection with Jeremiah Wright:
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Sarah Palin blames Bush and, more specifically, the problem shocker of a Republican debt presidency, while openly pondering her role in 2012: “Show me where the open door is and even if it’s cracked up a little bit, maybe I’ll just plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don’t let [...]

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It’s way too late - I’m writing this at 2:40 AM, for publication at 7:30 - so just a few simple notes. First, how about our main man? That was a hell of a speech, and exactly what America needs to hear now: “I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your [...]

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It’s kinda like the old Disneyland ride Mission to Mars (I’m dating myself.), except it’s fun …
McCain’s Brain at the first debate
McCain’s Brain at the second debate (my personal favorite)
McCain’s Brain at the third debate
You’ll be humming the theme song long after the last polls have closed …

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Per DailyKos, Pennsylvania is currently blanketed in Obama volunteers, calling to preempt dishonest McCain robocalls targeting Hillary supporters.
As for me, by the time this post goes up I’ll be halfway to Pennsylvania with one of these placards (right) in my hand. Facing concerns of Republican lies about the forms of identification required, along with the [...]

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While John McCain continues his focus on Pennsylvania, Virginia is still squarely in the sights, too.
Per Jonathan Martin of Politico, the Virginia GOP targeted white churchgoers (a demographic that Obama is still losing, despite inroads among the “religious left”) with a new laminated piece of windshield litter ominously titled “Who Shares Your Values? YOU DECIDE.” [...]

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November is open-enrollment month at my husband’s workplace. That its timing coincides with deer-hunting season in New York is quite appropriate, for nothing can make a family feel more like quarry than having to select an employer-sponsored health plan.
My husband’s employee contribution is increasing 10% in 2009. This is the second consecutive year [...]

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A while back, Jeremiah Wright said some things that, decontextualized, sound crazy and bad for Obama. McCain promised not to run on it; he lied. Well, how about this? McCain hailed as his “spiritual guide,” earlier this year, a man who said that America’s #1 goal in the world should be to destroy Islam. Not [...]

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Right. We all believe that. A new ad going up in Pennsylvania, entitled “Judgment,” asks viewers to infer something about Obama’s character from his relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. You’ll recall that John McCain told his party that Wright was “off limits” for negative ads. You’ll also recall that McCain, prior to April of [...]

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Throughout this election, Senator McCain has made “liberal” use of publicity stunts to secure himself the media coverage he’s otherwise sorely lacked. Hell - even his own running mate won’t mention him. To make up for this deficit, he mastered the art of the one-day headline grab: from picking a rabble-rousing “hockey mom” over a [...]

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