On the eve of their second presidential debate, McCain and Obama released TV ads accusing one another of untruthful attacks. Both are essentially accurate, though each tells only half the story.
Month: October 2008
Sadly, Mostly True
Posted by miri On 7 October, 2008
Why McCain’s Time With Council Of World Freedom Matters
Posted by miri On 7 October, 2008
Since Sunday, Democrats have been buzzing about the re-revelation that during the 1980s, Sen. John McCain served on the board of a far-right conservative organization that had supplied arms and funds to paramilitary organizations in Latin America.
Democratic strategist Paul Begala lit the fire when, during an appearance on Meet the Press, he warned that this relatively obscure detail from McCain’s past could draw him into a guilt-by-association game he was bound to regret.
“John McCain sat on the board of…the U.S. Council for World Freedom,” said Begala, “The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said ‘has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.'”
Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame
Posted by miri On 7 October, 2008
Such lovely people.
In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
Big Insurer’s Spending Habits Disclosed
Posted by miri On 7 October, 2008
Unbelievable.
A week after the insurance giant, the American International Group, received an $85 billion federal bailout, its life insurance subsidiary, AIG General, held a weeklong retreat for its top sales agents at the exclusive St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, Calif. Expenses for the week, lawmakers were told, totaled $442,000, including $200,000 for hotel rooms, $150,000 for food and $23,000 in spa charges.
In addition, the former A.I.G. executive who led the London-based division whose implosion is largely blamed for the insurance giant’s downfall, Joseph J. Cassano, continues to receive $1 million a month from the company, on top of the $280 million he received in the last eight years.
And even after A.I.G. reported $5 billion in losses in the final quarter of 2007, its chief executive at the time, Martin J. Sullivan, argued before a compensation committee that executives should receive performance bonuses. He received $5 million.
Donkey (and fresh fudge) for sale
Posted by miri On 7 October, 2008
Make-Believe Maverick
Posted by miri On 6 October, 2008
I really hope factcheck.org does a story on this article.
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
Civic Club
Posted by miri On 6 October, 2008
Don’t scratch!
Posted by miri On 5 October, 2008
Why pay more?
Posted by miri On 4 October, 2008
Tourist toe
Posted by miri On 3 October, 2008
