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Clinton delegate in GOP ad thinks McCain is pro-choice

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The McCain campaign is running an ad featuring Debra Bartoshevich, a female Hillary Clinton delegate to the Democratic convention who says that she will be voting for McCain, and encourages other Democrats to do the same.

But when asked how someone like her who is pro-choice could vote for McCain, she said that as far as she knew, McCain was against overturning Roe v. Wade. I guess she hasn’t looked at McCain’s website, where he declares that he will do everything he can to overturn Roe v. Wade, including appointing anti-choice Supreme Court justices. Or his recent interview at Saddleback church where he said “I have a 25- year pro-life record in the Congress, in the Senate. And as president of the United States, I will be a pro-life president. And this presidency will have pro-life policies.”

Watch Rachael Maddow:

Surveys show that quite a few women are not aware that McCain has a 0% rating on pro-choice issues. As Rachael Maddow says, that’s stuuu…pendous!

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The ad that should have been run during the Olympics

Monday, August 25, 2008

Wouldn’t this have been a good TV spot to run during the Beijing Olympics:

“Sponsor” (60 seconds)

Voiceover: ”Ever wonder what Washington has done with your tax dollars? This Olympics is your chance to find out. For the last 8 years, the Bush administration has been paying China billions of dollars in interest on the trillions it borrowed for tax breaks, pork, and special privileges you never got. That money helped create thousands of businesses and millions of jobs—in China. So as you enjoy the games, keep an eye on your tax dollars at work. The way our economy’s going, it’s tough to pay your bills. But take heart: You already paid China’s.”

Tagline: ”America’s Taxpayers. Proud Sponsors of the Beijing Olympics.”

From Bruce Reed in Slate.

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The Whizzdom of Crowds

Monday, August 25, 2008

A few weeks ago I did a post about McCain’s “frequent liar program” that gives out prizes to people who spam political blogs. When his program started, I suffered a dramatic (15x) drop in new readers coming to my blog from news aggregators like Digg and Reddit, but yesterday I noticed an ironic twist to this.

After weeks of my posts getting downvoted in Reddit, one of my posts suddenly started getting lots of new traffic! I couldn’t figure out how this could have slipped by the McCain ditto-heads. The post was titled “I just don’t know about this Obama fellow“, started with a funny comic from Tom Tomorrow, and finished with a analysis of how lack of experience doesn’t predict the greatness of a president. In other words, all of McCain’s attacks on Obama for being “inexperienced” don’t really mean much.

But when I read the comments on Reddit, I just had to laugh. Several commenters thought that this was an anti-Obama article. For example,

Wow, A popular cartoon on Reddit which compares Obama to George W. Bush unfavorably. Given the overtly pro-Obama sentiment of reddit I don’t many of the people upvoting this really thought through the implications of the cartoon.

This comic seems to think that Barack Obama is capable of doing to this country what George Bush did.

My guess is that people looking to down-vote anti-McCain articles saw an article with the title “I just don’t know about this Obama fellow” and left it alone (or maybe even voted it up — wouldn’t that be a hoot?!)

Today, the same thing seems to be happening again. A comic (not submitted by me, and included below) has been in the top five stories on Reddit all morning. Its title is “What’s Wrong with Obama?” but it is actually making fun of people who believe the negative things about Obama that are being circulated. If you read the comments on Reddit (many of which are racist and stupid) you realize that these people just don’t get it.

You couldn’t ask for anything more ironic. It is funny when people who are all pissed off end up pissing on themselves.