At first blush, the setting seemed unfavorable to both Barack Obama and John McCain — an evangelical megachurch hosting the first major candidate forum of the presidential campaign. For Obama, the goal was to impress a largely-skeptical audience of conservative evangelicals that he is a man of strong values and Christian faith, and that there […]
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The McCain campaign scored some favorable headlines yesterday when it announced that it had raised $27 million in July. How’d the Obama campaign do over the same time period? Obama’s team sent out this press release this afternoon: Senator Barack Obama’s campaign announced today that more than 65,000 new donors contributed to the Obama campaign […]
The WaPo’s Dan Balz noted the other day that the next three weeks are going to be unusually hectic for the political world, going so far as to say “there has never been quite as concentrated a dose of potentially campaign-altering events” in the modern era. That seems like a fairly reasonable assessment — in […]
If Republican hacks are going to go on national television to attack Barack Obama for supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution on Russia’s aggression towards Georgia 2pharmaceuticals.com/medicine , they probably ought to know that John McCain supports the same U.N. Security Council resolution on Russia’s aggression towards Georgia. As my friend Jed noted: GOP strategist […]
Following up on an amusing story we’ve been following, about a week ago, Stuart Shepard, who makes religious-right videos for James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, devoted a segment to asking politically-conservative Christians to pray for rain on Aug. 28, in order to disrupt Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. Shepard called for […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m willing to cut senators, from both parties, quite a bit of slack for missing votes during their presidential campaign. It’s tough to hold down a day job while running for president. But if a sitting senator is going to miss a lot of time while out on the campaign trail, […]
First up from the God machine this week is good news from some popular end-times authors — they don’t like Barack Obama, but they’re pretty sure he’s not literally the antichrist. (via Ron Chusid) John McCain’s campaign ad “The One” has generated a lot of buzz regarding the “Left Behind Series.” Political commentators are comparing […]
Much of the week has been spent responding to Jerome Corsi’s new book, “The Obama Nation,” and its lengthy list of transparent falsehoods. Yesterday, the Associated Press asked John McCain, who was on route to a meeting, what he thought of the right-wing hatchet-job. McCain responded, “Gotta keep your sense of humor.” The Obama campaign […]
Guest Post by Morbo Is there something in the water that makes judges in Alabama go insane? This is the state that brought us Roy Moore, formerly chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who was ejected from that position after he defied a federal court order and would not remove a Ten Commandments monument […]