Confessions Of A Politics Geek

It seems that John McSame has a new pair of shoes that he has been wearing out on the stump. Not, mind you, ones he can afford to get scuffed and tattered getting in and out of vechicles, walking through factories.. No, John is wearing 520 dollar Ferragamo calfskin loafers. Now is that in-line with [...]

I guess Obama is not looking that bad in the swing states since Bush won Fla and Ohio the last time around.
FL-Pres
July 31 Quinnipiac  Obama (D) 46%, McCain (R) 44%
OH-Pres 
July 31 Quinnipiac  Obama (D) 46%, McCain (R) 44%
PA-Pres
July 31 Quinnipiac  Obama (D) 49%, McCain (R) 42%

388 years after the first African slave arrived on the shores of America our congress finally says… You know what?  We are sorry we were racist bastards. It is hard to imagine why it took a country that prides itself in freedom for all to admit that was not originally the case.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The [...]

The McCain campaign continues to just stumble over their own feet.  More Obama Book stupidity.
SPRINGFIELD, MO –  The RNC has modified a page from their “Barack Book” mock social networking site because the church they associated Obama with — the Messiah Lutheran Church — turned out to be a real denomination affiliated with the Missouri [...]

What a wonderful witty line by the NYT in an article —-
Low-Road Express
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the Bush White House. [...]

Just when I praise the Post for finally telling some truth they push out a story blasting Obama for being presumptive (I am sick of this word) by saying: “ I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” Well, guess what?  As usual the main stream press who according to some [...]

My God I was wondering how long it would take the main stream media to report that McSame has been lying about this visiting the injured troops charge. Well……  The Post finally comes through.
For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit [...]

With over 4 thousand dead soldiers John McSame thinks we had an easy go of it.
From Think Progress:
In late 2002 and early 2003, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a fixture on cable television, assuring Americans that an invasion of Iraq would be “easy.” “I believe that the success will be fairly easy,” McCain told CNN [...]

You know, it seems all of the regional players in McSame’s fight against Radical Islamic Extemism like Obama’s plans for the region.
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the United States trumpeted major portions of Barack Obama’s approach towards his country on Tuesday, marking the second time in as many weeks that an official at the center of U.S.-Mideast [...]

This from Ben Smith at Politico:
The day’s clever RNC attack on Obama seems to be in the process of being swallowed by the Internets.
After Obama supporters swarmed BarackBook with a series of not-so-friendly discussion threads, the GOP seems to have disabled the discussion feature and deleted the mockery.
Read it all on Ben’s blog