Politics Today
From now until election day I’m going to be sharing some of the daily articles that I read to stay informed. The hope being that the less informed will take the time to educate themselves. I invite others to share their own links, too….
Politico: How John McCain Lost Me
Elizabeth Drew, author of the pro-McCain book Citizen McCain no longer views the candidate is a positive light and now calls him a “panderer.”
Salon: What does Sarah Palin have to hide?
Glenn Greenwald examines the irony surrounded the breech of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! Mail account by computer hackers and asks what she has to hide.
TIME: The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on McCain
John McCain either doesn’t know where Spain is or who the Prime Minister of Spain is or both. He may have sparked a small international incident with a US ally due to being confused.
• Talking Points Memo has more on the Spain gaffe.
• Listen to the full interview (the key passage about Spain starts at 2:58).
Crooks & Liars: Palin can’t answer softball question
At her first town hall meeting with John McCain, Sarah Palin can’t answer a simple question about her national security experience.
Omaha World-Herald: Sen. Hagel doubts Palin’s ready
Senator Chuck Hagel (R, Nebraska) became the nation’s most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president.
TIME: John McCain and the Lying Game
Every politician stretches the truth but John McCain is running a uniquely dishonest campaign and the media isn’t letting him get away with it.
Salon: Sarah Palin’s Wasteful Ways
She poses as a fiscal watchdog, but when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she grabbed city funds to give her office a pricey “bordello” makeover.
TPM Election Central: Did Palin’s Pay As Wasilla Mayor Really Get Cut?
Sarah Palin cites the pay cut she took as mayor of Wasilla as proof of her reform credentials. But did she really take a pay cut?
Fox News: Biden: Wealthy Americans Must Pay More Taxes to Show Patriotism
John McCain and Sarah Palin have already twisted Joe Biden’s words into something he didn’t say. They are deceitfully omitting the word “wealthy” and claiming that Biden said “raising taxes is patriotic.”
September 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Is this in your blog as well? My co-workers check it out now after I showed them a few articles.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Is this in your blog as well? My co-workers check it out now after I showed them a few articles.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
It is. I cross-post everything through Facebook. Comments are cross-posted back. It's super fancy.