Sunday Politics
Newsweek: All the Candidates’ Cars
Barack Obama — the elitist — owns one car. John McCain owns thirteen cars, which is fewer than two cars per house. Now, in McCain’s defense, I doubt he knows that he owns that many. And if asked about his cars, I’m sure McCain would play the POW card: There was a time in my life when I couldn’t own a car. The Hanoi Hilton doesn’t have valet parking. Or something like that….
• CNN has more: Dems seize on McCain’s 13 cars:
the McCains currently own 13 cars — two of which are foreign-made: a Honda and a Volkswagen. That appears to contradict the Republican presidential nominee’s past statements he only buys cars made in America. (Cindy McCain also drives a Lexus and daughter Meghan owns a Toyota Prius, but neither are registered to the McCains.)Newsweek also reported Barack Obama owns one car: a Ford Escape Hybrid.
In a quickly-arranged conference call organized by the Democratic National Committee, United Auto Worker Union President Ron Gettelfinger — an Obama supporter — said the registration records show McCain is not being truthful with Americans and undermining autoworkers.
New York Times: Pact on Debates Will Let McCain and Obama Spar
In an apparent attempt to make things easier on Sarah Palin, the rules for the vice presidential debate between Palin and Senator Joe Biden have been dumbed down:
At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between [Palin and Biden] will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential nominees, the advisers said. There will also be much less opportunity for free-wheeling, direct exchanges between the running mates.
Salon: John McCain’s hot air
John McCain isn’t as “green” as he says he is. In fact, his environmental record is dirtier than a horse in the mud.
Gawker: Jill Greenberg: Mag Photographer’s Grotesque McCain Trick
The photographer hired to take McCain’s cover picture for The Atlantic was vetted about as thoroughly as Sarah Palin.
YouTube: ABC Panel Tears Into McCain
The panel discussion on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos raised the age question and was pretty brutal in their discussion of John McCain: “harshness of the carnage is something that will mark him ’till November 4th…showed his personality this week and it made some of us fearful.”
YouTube: Thank John McCain
A private citizen has made the best and most factual anti-McCain ad.