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McCain – Dazed and Confused

UPDATE: In One Ear… Out the Other hilariously compares this video to a similar video about former VP Dan Quayle. Twins separated at birth?

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McCain’s Frequent Liar Program

It isn’t often that irony hits this close to home, but the revelations in the Washington Post that McCain’s campaign is giving out prizes to people who spam political blogs explains some strange things that have been happening to PoliticalIrony.com over the last month. You can see it for yourself, on McCain’s official site. They even […]

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With friends like these, does McCain need enemies?

In the last two days, two Republican governors who are often mentioned as potential running mates for McCain have come out with high praise for Obama. First, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin praised Obama’s energy plan, despite the fact that McCain is trying to hammer Obama on this issue. About Obama’s plan to complete the Alaska […]

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McCain swings Nuclear

McCain is trying to make energy the centerpiece of his campaign, but his efforts seem to be a little clumsy. First he did a complete about-face on offshore oil drilling and decided to support it, despite voting against it in the past. Then he tried to blame Obama for high gas prices, running an ad […]

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Slacker McCain

At a campaign rally in South Dakota, McCain yelled “When I’m president of the United States, I’m not going to let them [Congress] go on vacation!” — referring to the fact that Congress is currently taking their August break. And in Eastern Pennsylvania yesterday, McCain called for Congress to come back to work “Congress should […]

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Damn Kids!

UPDATE: Was it the shock of learning they had acquired an Obama bumper sticker? The Straight Talk Express bus crashed into a minivan in Miami today. Does this mean they will take away McCain’s driver’s license? UPDATE 2: US News & World Report has a hilarious report on the bus accident in (of all places) […]

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Fiscal Conservatives v. Tax & Spend Liberals

© Steve Greenberg Here are the hard facts about the deficit for the last 11 presidents. In 2007, we paid $430 billion of our tax money just in interest payments on the national debt. That’s around $1.2 billion a day. To put this in perspective, thats three times more than the annual budgets for NASA, […]

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Straight Tirade Express

Or the “Insane McCain Train”. © Steve Sack

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Revenge of the Attack Ads

First Obama responds to McCain’s attacks: Choice quote: “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.” Then Paris Hilton responds to McCain’s attacks: from Funny or Die Choice quote: “I’ll see you at the debates, bitches.” UPDATE: As pointed out on the Huffington Post, in two minutes Paris Hilton managed to do five things […]

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Battle of the Attack Ads

23/6 has a brilliant comparison and critique of the attack ads coming from the McCain and Obama campaigns. Here are two examples: Obama ad says that McCain = high gas prices McCain ad says that Obama = Britney Spears (and picks an image of Spears when she was still hot)    Obama ad associates McCain […]

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Trading Vice

© Ted Rall

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Senator McCain, can you answer a simple question?

From the Jed Report.

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Is McCain racist, or does he just hate Democrats?

On Friday, Stephen Price, a reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper was kicked out of a media area at a rally for McCain. Price is black. All of the other reporters in the area were white. He was the only reporter asked to leave. All of his security and media credentials were in order. When […]

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Trust the Farce

© Tom Toles From the NY Times: On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the Bush White House. Less than a month later, the results are on full display. […]

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McCain’s Dick Move

Jon Stewart is a genius:

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