• Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    McCain: One of the Keating Five, Remember?

    October 6, 2008 - By 

    The Obama campaign is coming out with some attack ads of their own… they went back to the archives for some footage from the Keating Five hearing. McCain got off that one with a reprimand for exercising poor judgement. Oh, and this is the guy we want in charge of our economy, and the world’s? Uh, no. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jhb41Z-Znkg" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] William Bradley: Obama Finally Fastest In TV Ad Wars

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    Tongue Jutting: McCain’s Tell

    October 6, 2008 - By 

    Back about a week or so, I ran across an interesting item in my feed that was shared by ***Dave. It was a funny little detail Stephen Colbert lampooned: McCain’s weirdly reptilian tongue flicking gesture that was picked up by someone as a classic “poker tell.” FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Tongue Jut Tongue-jutting behavior is a gesture used by people who think they have gotten away with something or are “caught” doing something. I have seen this behavior in flea markets both in the United States and in Russia, among street vendors in Lower Manhattan, at poker tables…

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    Flowers for a dead President (not the one you expect)

    September 19, 2008 - By 

    I also wonder, what would Gerald Ford have thought if he could somehow see McCain coming to lay flowers at his grave with First Dude? …And what is Todd Palin doing there in the first place — especially when (forsaking the excellent adventure) he could be home with the baby and kids? Ah. This is one of those “reach out to the moderates” action straight out of the playbook. Ford would be appalled, I think, by Palin’s politics, as he was appalled by the Religious Right’s co-opting of the party. Reported this one to The General.

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    Colombians Briefed McCain: Fixing Up The Image

    July 4, 2008 - By 

    Colombians Briefed McCain Before Rescue – washingtonpost.com CARTAGENA, Colombia, July 2 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke repeatedly Tuesday and early Wednesday about how he would work as president to free three American hostages held by leftist guerrillas in Colombia, but he declined to reveal one key fact: Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and his aides had briefed him Tuesday evening about the plan to rescue the Americans, along with 12 other captives.