Citylimits.org takes a closer look at ACORN’s supposed culpability in the housing market crash. It’s really something when the actual record so thoroughly contradicts the propaganda narrative put forth by committed partisans.
H/T: Sam Smith
Archive for October, 2008
Questioning the Right’s Scorn of Acorn
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Economics, Politics on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
GOP Infighting Heating Up
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Times reports today that the McCain campaign has angered party leaders in several key battleground states:
Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff Frederick says he knows his state’s historically conservative voters, but that John McCain’s campaign dismissed his input even as the Republican presidential candidate slid in polls and the state unexpectedly became a battleground. [...]
David Horsey’s Message to Governor Palin
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greenspan Acknowledges His Share of Responsibility for the Economic Crisis
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Economics, Politics on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
WSJ:
Returning to Capitol Hill amid a financial crisis rooted in mortgage lending, Mr. Greenspan said he had been wrong to think banks’ ability to assess risk and their self-interest would protect them from excesses. But the former Fed chairman, who kept short-term interest rates at 1% for a year earlier this decade, said no one [...]
The $150,000.00 Makeover
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Washington Times:
The Republican National Committee reported spending about $150,000 on clothes, hair-styling and makeup for the vice-presidential candidate after she joined the ticket in September.
The campaign expenses include $75,062 spent at high-end department store Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis and $41,850 in St. Louis in early September. The committee also reported spending $4,100 for [...]
On October Surprises and al Qaeda
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics, War on Terrorism on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton (the man from who Rudy Guiliani has stolen much credit from for “cleaming up” New York City) and former NSC counterterrorism director R.P. EDDY today in the NY Daily News:
Al Qaeda has a history of trying to influence elections, most notably with the 2004 train attacks in Madrid. Just [...]
Political Debate Boiling Over Into Vulgarity and Vandalism
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve recently come across number of disturbing stories about supporters of both candidates who have crossed lines in their zealous opposition to the other side of the political aisle.
Earlier this month protestors in Philadelphia during a Sarah Palin campaign stop there wore vulgar shirts that certainly would have offended Dem voters if the [...]
Exploring Alleged Voter Registration Fraud
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hilzoy today with an investigative entry to examine the case against ACORN for any kind of “systematic fraud”:
In particular, I wanted to know whether or not ACORN had flagged suspicious registrations, and whether or not it seemed to be cooperating with the authorities and generally trying to minimize fraud. I did this because I wanted [...]
Hats Off to These McCain Supporters
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Buying Into the Notion of “The Obama Effect”
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coined by Peggy Noonan, it’s the idea that many people who plan to vote for Obama won’t admit it to pollsters. Personally I’m skeptical. And my distrust in polls still has my gut telling me that McCain’s standing is likley much better than the breakdown of respondants indicates.
Still, Noonan isn’t alone in her [...]
Plumbing Middle-Class Economics
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Joe the Plumber was an early hit with the demographic McCain hoped to reach according to Rasmussen numbers released yesterday:
Among those earning $40,000 a year to $100,000, 52% have a favorable opinion of Joe the Plumber while 33% offer an unfavorable assessment.
The poll was taken on the 17th. I wonder how many of [...]
Joe the Plumber for Congress?
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Really?
The following was posted by Stephan Dinan on The Washington Times weblog page:
Despite being arrears in taxes and potentially in violation of license laws for being a plumber — or maybe because of that — some folks say Joe the Plumber, real name Joe Wurzelbacher, is needed in Congress.
Yes, http://www.joewurzelbacher2010.com/ has already been registered by [...]
If McCain Loses This Election
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…there will be no shortage of reasons provided and explored to explain the end of Republican control of the White House, just two years after the electorate handed control of Congress to the Democratic Party. A sampling, in no particular order:
The national realization that Iraq was an unnecessary war.
The failure of the administration to [...]
An Open Letter to Joe The Plumber
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Economics, Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following was posted at The Swampoodle Report at Sam Smith’s Pregressive Review:
Dear Joe:
I am Charles R. Chortlelywell, chief accountant of Flush Plumbers United – or Change Man Charlie as I’m known around the office.
We are a national organization dedicated to the interests of plumbers earning more than a quarter million dollars a year. [...]
Blog Post of the Day
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Economics, Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From (who else?) Hilzoy:
Seriously: given all the fretting on the right about Obama’s possible socialist leanings, of which I have seen precisely no evidence, you’d think they would have noticed that someone has recently been taking steps that are genuinely socialist. And that someone isn’t our guy; he’s theirs.
The moral of this story is: there [...]
Adam West And Burgess Meredith as Debate Stand-ins for Obama and McCain
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
H/T: Sullivan
Of Mavericks and Mugwumps
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sam Smith on why real mavericks don’t count John McCain among them.
On Debate Body Language
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recall much being made of Vice President Gore’s body language in the first Bush/Gore debate in 2000. Here’s a sampling of how the right reacted to Gore’s performance:
Peter Mulhern of Free Republic:
He was visibly pleased with himself each time he delivered another soundbite. When Bush spoke Gore rolled his eyes and snorted into [...]
Video of McCain Speaking at an ACORN Meeting in 2006
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics, The Straight Talk Express on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To the adoring, cheering crowd, he states with heartfelt sentiment, “What makes America special is what’s in this room tonight”.
H/T: Boing Boing
Raising Ayers
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NY Daily News:
Obama had earlier suggested McCain didn’t have the stomach to confront him personally with the “over-the-top” Ayers attack.
But McCain made clear yesterday he wouldn’t flinch from talking about the “unrepentant terrorist” whose group set off bombs when Obama was 8 years old, and who in 1995 held a fund-raiser for Obama.
“You know, I [...]
Mike Hendrix’ Head Has Finally Exploded
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics, Punditry on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can admit to the slightly masochistic guilty pleasure of reading Cold Fury. For anyone unfamiliar, it’s often well researched and thoughtful, despite their open and usually profane hostility toward the left which is excessive enough to make Cold Fury a borderline hate-site. They’re of a different brand from, say, Ann Coulter’s columns. [...]
The Obama Effect
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Peggy Noonan last week:
People speak of the Bradley effect—more people tell pollsters they will vote for a black candidate than vote for the black candidate. But I have been wondering about the possibility of what may someday be called the Obama effect: You know your neighbors think he’s sketchy—unknown, a mystery, “Hussein”—so you don’t say [...]
Addressing Blatant Dishonesty on the Rabid Right with Naked Facts
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Economics, Politics, The Straight Talk Express on October 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m a little late to this party but I haven’t seen many efforts to set the record straight. The right has made much of the following youtube video posted by Michelle Malkin underling Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, showing Barney Frank and I believe 4 other House Democrats at a hearing before the Committee on [...]
On Overhead Projectors and Planetariums
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Science for sissies on McCain’s calling out of Obama for earmarking $3 million dollars to buy an overhead projector for a planetarium in Chicago.
H/T: ProRev
On the Tricky Matter of Guilt by Association
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Politics, tagged guilt by association, mccain, obama on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Begala on Meet The Press yesterday:
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back—I’ve written a book about McCain. I had a dozen researchers go through him. I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board [...]
On the Financial Industry Bailout Package
Posted in Economics, Politics, tagged bailout, economy on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Boy did I pick a terrible time to take a break from this forum. Well, I didn’t actually pick this time. I’m still in the field for work, at the moment in a hotel room with a rather precarious internet connection. My days here start very early and are pretty long. I don’t have access while at work [...]
