Tag Archives: john mccain

The Road Most Travelled By – the unraveling of the GOP

By Nasser Ali Khasawneh | Published: November 3, 2008
You do have to hand it to the McCain team for their oddly subtle touch. They didn't want to go out and call Obama a terrorist just because Obama's father was Muslim.
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I can see the campaign finish line

By Feature Writer | Published: November 3, 2008
We have become so jaded that democracy for its own sake seems meaningless, but voting to stand against “isms” seems somehow more justified.
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McCain the postmodern candidate

By Ali Eteraz | Published: November 2, 2008
If McCain had wanted to continue with his "elitist" narrative against Obama then he should have shown Obama hanging out with America's real elitist celebrities; perhaps someone like Bono or Angelina Jolie or Madonna.
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If the Democrats win – then what?

By Feature Writer | Published: November 1, 2008
Expectations are incredibly high right now. Obama has been short on specifics, such that each interest group can project back onto him what it is they want to see accomplished.
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Obama the “socialist boogeyman”

By Feature Writer | Published: October 26, 2008
White people who are otherwise held down by their class still have someone to look down on: the black welfare mom, the illegal immigrant, etc.
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John McCain: I am not George Wallace

By Feature Writer | Published: October 20, 2008
It is the very act of condoning racism that caused General Powell to support Obama.
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Final presidential debate: will the real Joe the Plumber please stand up?

By Feature Writer | Published: October 16, 2008
Moderator Bob Schieffer did the best job of all the monitors so far in attempting to make the candidates actually answer the questions.
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Fight-or-Flight: the American electorate and the politics of fear

By Feature Writer | Published: October 16, 2008
What are you most afraid of? Not being prepared for another terrorist attack? (fear Obama!), or another 8 years of George Bush? (fear McCain!).
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Running Away Screaming from the GOP

By Feature Writer | Published: October 15, 2008
If Cheney says the sky is purple on Wednesday and green on Thursday, legions of talk-radio listeners will be happy to parrot their favorite propagandists to explain that he was somehow right on both days.
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The McCain campaign: lipstick and lynch mobs

By Natalia Antonova | Published: October 10, 2008
Buoyed up by the "young and plucky" governor from Alaska, "plucky" enough to hear death threats against her opponent and not bat her mascara, this campaign has entered into its most surreal phase yet.
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