Posted on October 20, 2008 by Bruce Benidt
So this weekend I found myself calling, on our little blog, Michele Bachmann un-American for calling Barack Obama anti-American. And I saw Colin Powell explain, with grace and power but no foam around his mouth, why he was for Obama and disappointed in the campaign John McCain has run. All in all, I’d rather be like [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2008 by Joe Loveland
As an astute reader from the west coast points out, it appears a certain presidential candidate may have been studying tapes of historic debates and stealing guilt-by-association attack strategies.
- Loveland
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Posted on October 16, 2008 by Joe Loveland
Based on last night’s presidential debate market research, this morning more than a few undecided voters feel little like middle child Jan Brady of the Brady Bunch fed up with too much attention heaped on a high achieving sibling: “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! That’s all I hear about it is Marsha!”
I [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by Joe Loveland
A little political parlor game for you: What if Barack Obama came out at the beginning of tonight’s debate and said something like this:
You know, John, in our ads and in our speeches, we’ve been talking about each others’ records for months. Now, like it or not, that’s a part of campaigning. [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Jon Austin
I’ve now watched the debate twice and if the audience had been a panel of debate judges, it would have been a knock-down for Senator Biden. His 36 years in the Senate plus a week of intense debate prep gave him the base to range freely across the questions and demonstrate his experience in both [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by Joe Loveland
Let’s face it, Joe Biden can probably anticipate 90% of the topics he will face in tomorrow’s debate. And he has been around long enough to understand that a) staying on message (i.e. change v. third Bush term) and b) delivering entertaining and compelling sound bites determine the winners of Presidential debates, not the [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2008 by Gary Hornseth