I’m relatively indifferent to Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) speaking at the Democratic National Convention, but given the historical parallels Kauf von Levaquin , I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of stories like this one. ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta report: Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., an abortion rights opponent who endorsed Sen. Barack […]
In his column today, the WaPo’s Peter Beinart argues that race, in a general sense, is dogging Barack Obama, and undermining his chances at winning the White House. This is likely to get worse, Beinart argues, because race will be “central to this campaign because McCain needs it to be. He simply doesn’t have many […]
I think the new Obama campaign ad works pretty well: It’s another “contrast” ad Kauf von Cipro , hitting McCain in the first half, touting Obama in the second half. The spot starts out with the image of a hardcover book, “Economics … by John McCain.” Turning the various pages (get it? “turn the page”?), […]
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: * Meet your DNC Keynote speaker: “Mark Warner, Virginia’s former governor and its Democratic candidate for the Senate, has been tapped to be the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, a plum […]
When news broke this week that John McCain would attend a fundraiser in Atlanta that Ralph Reed is helping host, it raised a few eyebrows. After all, McCain helped expose the Jack Abramoff scandal, and Reed was Abramoff’s business partner. Indeed Viagra Ohne Rezept Kaufen , as part of the investigation, we learned that Reed […]
Jerome Corsi helped destroy John Kerry in 2004 with a hatchet-job, “Unfit for Command,” that became the basis for the entire Swiftboat smear. It worked once, so Corsi’s giving it another shot. Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats’ presumed […]
Following up on an item from June, there has been a quiet discussion going on among Democratic Party leaders and select interests about the language on reproductive rights in the party’s platform. A new draft is making the rounds, and, predictably, it’s drawing a series of competing reactions. The last Democratic Party platform, written four […]
It’s probably safe to say John McCain is losing the NYT’s Thomas Friedman. John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling for oil, by telling a motorcycle convention that Congress needed to come back from vacation immediately and do something about […]
It wasn’t too long ago when Charlie Black, a top McCain campaign strategist, told reporters, “[W]e don’t want to talk about [Barack Obama’s] patriotism and character. We concede that he’s a patriot and person of good character.” Like most of the McCain campaign’s commitments, this didn’t last long. One of the McCain campaign’s new themes, […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Russia has apparently finished making its point: “President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia agreed on Tuesday to the terms of a cease-fire that could end the clashes in Georgia, saying Russia had ‘punished’ Georgia enough for its aggression against the separatist enclave of South Ossetia. The six-point agreement — […]