Yesterday’s report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on the White House’s deliberate deceptions before the U.S. invasion of Iraq was not exactly blockbuster news. That doesn’t come as a surprise — Bush and his team lied about Iraq? Deliberately shoveling talking points that they knew to be false at the time? You don’t say. But […]
BeliefNet described Mark DeMoss as arguably “the most prominent public relations executive in the evangelical world.” That’s an entirely fair description. We are, after all, talking about someone whose client list includes Focus on the Family, Franklin Graham, and Campus Crusade for Christ, in addition to having served as Jerry Falwell’s chief of staff. And […]
For a while, political observers were starting to wonder about the McCain campaign’s media team. They were creating plenty of videos and TV ads, but they tended to be odd and unpersuasive. (In March, the campaign’s first general-election video made an odd connection between McCain and Churchill, while interspersing images from the Hubble telescope. As […]
By any reasonable measure, Florida and its 27 electoral votes are going to be pretty important on Election Day, and some of the early polling shows John McCain with an edge in the state over Barack Obama. I can’t help but wonder, though, how much that will change once Floridians get to know McCain a […]
The last couple of presidential elections have followed certain patterns, not the least of which is the geographic/electoral-college driven nature of the contest. Dems and Republicans draw up their maps, Dems ignore safe “red” states, the GOP ignores safe “blue” states, and everybody spends a lot of money in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. There’s reason […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * After shaking the reporters who follow him, Barack Obama met privately with Hillary Clinton last night. No one knows what they said to each other — it was literally just the two […]
On the economic front, the news is “ugly.” The nation’s unemployment rate jumped to 5.5 percent in May — the biggest monthly rise since 1986 — as nervous employers cut 49,000 jobs. The latest snapshot of business conditions showed a deeply troubled economy, with dwindling job opportunities in a time of continuing hardship in the […]
One need not look too hard to find talk from Hillary Clinton supporters who, at least for now, are prepared to vote for conservative Republican John McCain in November. Personally, I’m pretty confident that this talk is temporary — emotions are running high right now, but in the coming weeks, cooler heads will prevail. Clinton […]
To hear the McCain campaign tell it, Barack Obama is just wrong. He’s offering the wrong solutions and he’s asking the wrong questions. It’s curious, then, that McCain has taken to emulating Obama’s campaign so carefully. The general election is now in full speed — just check out the competing slogans. Republican John McCain has […]
When the scandal broke over the Bush administration’s policy of warrantless searches of Americans’ phone calls and emails, John McCain took a reasonably sensible position, consistent with a classical conservative, interested in limited government. Just six short months ago, McCain told the Boston Globe that he, unlike the current occupant of the Oval Office, felt […]