Closing Arguments Barrack Obama Election 2008 Eve

With the finish line in sight, Obama serves up familiar, pie-in-the-sky promises.

In the last few days, Obama has wrapped up his pitch to the electorate with some misleading claims we’ve heard before:

He continued to ask voters to believe he can pay for every dime of an ambitious health care plan and other spending proposals while cutting taxes for all but the most affluent. Budget experts say that’s unlikely.

He also kept up the drumbeat on a promise to end “tax breaks for sending jobs overseas,” as though that could do much to keep jobs at home. Experts say it can’t.

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Closing Arguments Barrack Obama Election 2008 Eve

Closing Arguments John McCain Election 2008 Eve

John McCain and Sarah Palin close their campaign with a new set of dubious attacks.

In the final week, the McCain-Palin campaign unleashed some all-new misleading attacks on

Obama:

• McCain strained to tie Obama to a Palestinian professor whose views on Israel are quite different from Obama’s.
• McCain and Palin both distorted a seven-and-a-half-year-old radio interview with Obama concerning the court system and civil rights.
• McCain and the GOP ran ads claiming Obama’s military budget would mean huge job cuts in Virginia, despite Obama’s proposal to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps – and McCain’s own calls for ending wasteful weapons programs.

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Closing Arguments John McCain Election 2008 Eve

Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue

Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue

With less than a week to go before Election Day, both sides are worried.

Republicans, while still holding out hope for a “McCain Miracle,” are increasingly worried that McCain is losing in a way that, as David Frum put it, “threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him.”

Democrats, while being careful not to count their electoral chickens before they’re hatched, are privately worried about winning without enough of a majority in the Senate to really change things.

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John McCain, The Internet & The Death of Rovian Politics

“We are witnessing the end of Rovian politics,” Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google told me. And YouTube, which Google bought in 2006 for $1.65 billion, is one of the causes of its demise.

Thanks to YouTube — and blogging and instant fact-checking and viral e-mails — it is getting harder and harder to get away with repeating brazen lies without paying a price, or to run under-the-radar smear campaigns without being exposed.

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Surge Amnesia : The Media’s Newest Affliction

According to Arianna Huffington, John McCain is “running a victory lap on Iraq” with the reduction in violence in Iraq. In her words: “War supporters are crawling out from the shadows and beating their chests”
 

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Arianna Huffington: Social Commentary and Political Opinion

Memo to Barrack Obama : Moving to the Middle Is For Losers

Arianna Huffington looks at Barrack Obama’s campaign not through the prism of her own progressive views and beliefs but through the prism of a cold-eyed campaign strategist who has no principles except winning. From that point of view, Huffington concludes that “The Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. Tacking to the center is a losing strategy.”

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Arianna Huffington: Social Commentary and Political Opinion

McCain’s Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why are the Media Looking the Other Way?

Isn’t it interesting how, after largely ignoring the issue for the last 30 years, during which the GOP consistently outfundraised and outspent Democrats in election after election, the media are suddenly all atwitter about whether the campaign finance system is “basically fair”? How dare Obama inspire 1.5 million donors, giving an average of $197 apiece, to help him raise more money than McCain?

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Arianna Huffington: Social Commentary and Political Opinion

John McCain: The Second Coming of Bob Dole

“Prominent Republicans . . . have been for the first time openly critical” of John McCain’s “floundering campaign.” An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week asked the question, “Who do you think will win?” The answer: Barack Obama 54; John McCain 30. Obama is unlikely to win in such a landslide, which means that millions planning to vote for McCain expect him to lose — as was the case with Dole.

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Arianna Huffington: Social Commentary and Political Opinion

Unmasking McCain: His Reactionary Record on Reproductive Rights by Arianna Huffington

Unmasking McCain His Reactionary Record on Reproductive Rights

In Clinton vs. Obama, the policy differences were minor. In McCain vs. Obama, the differences are enormous. And nowhere is the difference more profound than with reproductive rights.

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