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McCain campaign also spams letters to the editor

I have done a couple of posts on McCain’s program to reward his supporters for spamming political blogs (McCain’s Frequent Liar Program, and The Whizzdom of Crowds). But a new article shows that the McCain campaign is doing the same thing with letters to the editors sent to newspapers in battleground states. The article was […]

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McCain, the maverick clown

© Ruben Bolling

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Taking on the Old Boy Network

© Steve Sack

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The Presidential Candidates are Tools

OnlyKnives has come out with two Presidential Multi-tools — The “Maverick” and the “Change”: The McCain Maverick features: An electric drill, so you can “drill baby drill” A clothes hanger, to anger pro-life and pro-choice voters alike A Geiger counter A pry bar, to get rid of that pesky Bush legacy An abacus, to help […]

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SNL skewers McCain campaign ads

Apparently this skit was conceived of by Al Franken, former SNL regular and currently running for the Senate.

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McCain campaign can’t tell the truth even when they try

McCain campaign convened a conference call today with reporters to complain about being called liars and to criticize the media for underreporting potentially damaging stories about Obama. Ben Smith at Politico writes that McCain chief strategist Steve Schmidt lied repeatedly during the call, forcing many reporters to conclude that McCain’s campaign staff can’t even tell the truth when they […]

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Financial Funnies

Everything Phil Gramm touches costs you money. McCain wanted to bet your Social Security money in a “casino”.

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McCain’s Soul

© Mike Luckovich

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P-O-Dubya

© Kevin Kallaugher Is John McCain a Prisoner Of Dubya’s disastrous policies?

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Which one is the Elitist again?

John McCain and his 13 cars. Not to mention the houses and the jet.

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Muppet McCain and Miss Palin

A reader sent this to me: From Best O’ The Web And with all the talk about lipstick on pigs, I can’t help but think of this image (not that I would ever think any politician is a pig — it’s just a figure of speech):

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John McCain’s Very Bad Week

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The Nosey Bridge to Nowhere

© John Sherffius

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McCain wants to make health insurance just like banking

You can’t make up stuff like this.  In the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies (the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries — the people who figure out how much life and health insurance should cost) there is an article from John McCain.  Here’s what McCain says about market-based health reform: Opening up the health insurance […]

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McCain wanted to bet your Social Security money in a “casino”

McCain declared Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had turned “our markets into a casino”. This begs the question — since McCain has long been a proponent of “privatizing” Social Security by investing its funds in the financial markets, doesn’t that mean that he wanted to bet your retirement on a casino? If McCain […]

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