I think it’s odd that there hasn’t been more talk about the fact that a bank connected to John McCain failed last Friday. Until shortly before its failure John McCain’s son Andrew had been a director of the Silver State… Read More »McCain Bank Fails
Everybody has certainly fallen in love with Sarah Palin. What does it mean? CNN Showbiz Tonight this morning had a segment on how Sarah has become a bigger celebrity than Obama. Does that mean McCain will have to disavow those… Read More »Hometown Girl or Trailer Park Trash?
Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times says McCain would be a risky foreign policy maker. He says McCain is too prone to take risks, as illustrated by his selection of Sarah Palin as his VP. His risk taking may work… Read More »McCain’s Risky Foreign Policy
While this Mother Jones article raises several disturbing issues, for me the worst is the connection between McCain’s main foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, and Ahmed Chalabi. This article says that Scheunemann was one of Chalabi’s acolytes, along with Cheney… Read More »McCain’s Intelligence
I’m disappointed with myself for the previous posts criticizing McCain’s POW experience. I don’t think they are wrong, but I am mad when others, such as the Swift Boat Veterans, criticize Vietnam veterans for their service. Now, I’m criticizing McCain… Read More »Terrible Campaign
The almost universal hesitancy to criticize GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin and her daughter for the daughter’s pregnancy while in high school raises questions about how Republicans (and Americans in general) feel about women. One the one hand, Palin’s selection… Read More »Sarah Palin’s Daughter
Obama’s statement yesterday refusing to comment on Sarah Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy shows the distance still remaining between his campaign and McCain’s. McCain’s negative attack ads dragged Obama down somewhat, but he is still far above McCain in the decency of… Read More »McCain’s Nasty Campaign and POW Status
Putin obliquely accused Bush of encouraging or helping Georgia attack South Ossetia in order to help John McCain get elected, according to a CNN interview reported in the NYT. I was already worried in an earlier blog that McCain had… Read More »Putin Says Bush Pushed Georgia To Attack for McCain
I’ve had it with McCain’s touting of his POW experience as the answer to every question, particularly to how many houses he has. Jay Leno was the final chapter for me, when McCain said he wasn’t concerned about how many… Read More »McCain Hides Behind POW Experience
This article by a fellow POW of McCain’s on why he will not vote for McCain gives me conflicting feelings. On the one hand, it’s good to know that you don’t have to fall down and worship McCain because he… Read More »Is McCain Just Another Worthless Vietnam Veteran?