Most politicians have figured out that it backfires when you say something racist (the Republican Party has even issued rules to try to avoid future “Macaca moments”). The trick, however, is to somehow appeal to racist fears while not appearing to actually be racist. For example, in 2006, the Republicans ran a now-infamous negative TV […]
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Who says that McCain doesn’t understand the Internet. Well, come to think of it, he doesn’t. But he seems to have found a new way to get free airplay for his political ads. Simply fill them with lies about your opponent! Then the liberal blog-o-sphere will endlessly analyze your ads, your opponent will have to […]
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McCain’s latest attack ad against Obama equates him to Britney Spears, but new evidence has surfaced that proves that it McCain who is a Britney wannabe. Don’t believe it? Just watch! UPDATE: © Pat Bagley
From In One Ear… Out the Other
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Last month, candidate McCain did a complete flip-flop and is now supporting expanding offshore oil drilling in the US, even though he used to oppose it. He claims that his change of heart is because of the high price of oil. He even has a TV ad attacking Obama for opposing the expansion of offshore […]
From Humanitainment, the same people who brought you The Empire Strikes Barack.
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On June 11, 2003, on Fox News, Neil Cavuto said “… many argue the conflict isn’t over.” McCain responded, “Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?” Thanks to TPM
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We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States. On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can’t seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who is married […]
Fox News makes lemons out of lemonade (at 1:20 in the video), pointing out that there are monuments in Germany associated with Hitler! The whole video is hilarious, of course: UPDATE: The push to associate Obama with Hitler has turned even weirder, if not downright sinister. On Glenn Beck’s CNN show, guest Ben Stein said […]
Source Obama McCain LA Times On Monday, the Illinois senator was photographed in a helicopter touring Baghdad with Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq. On Monday, the Arizona senator was seen on television riding in a golf cart with former President George H.W. Bush at Bush’s oceanfront estate in […]
You aren’t supposed to cry about spilt milk, but how about spilt oil? McCain has been on the attack recently because Obama wants to keep the current limits on offshore oil drilling. So today, while Obama was giving a speech to a crowd of over 200,000 people in Berlin, McCain decided to pull his own photo […]
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It is ironic that, despite his age, McCain reminds me of a small child so desperate for attention that he will do anything to get it. On the night Obama secured the Democratic nomination, McCain tried to deflect attention away by giving a speech, which even Fox News thought was embarrassing, and CNN said was “awful” and […]
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