Confessions Of A Politics Geek

I watched Obama’s acceptance speech on CSPAN so I was not included in the total of 38 million viewers that watched on the network and traditional cable outlets.
In case you are wondering it beats out the Olympics.

From TPM
Today in Ohio, new McCain veep pick Sarah Palin made a big play for Hillary voters by referencing her now-famous “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling” quote.
But Newsweek reports that back in March, at a Women and Leadership event held by the mag, Palin’s view of Hillary wasn’t quite as charitable:
Once onstage, together [...]

McCain’s surprise choice of Sarah Palin is a gamble that picking a solid conservative and non-Washington insider with a bit of a reformist record will outweigh the clear downside: That choosing someone with only two years in high office as back-up president undermines attacks on Obama’s alleged lack of commander-in-chief readiness.
By any reasonable measure, Palin’s [...]

How can she do the job if she does not know what the job entails?
From Politico
Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain’s ticket mate.
Palin replied: “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for [...]

McCain’s attacks on Obama go too far. He knows better.
Jonathan Alter
This is hardly the nastiest campaign in recent memory. But it’s not shaping up as the “civil” contest that both candidates promised either. Instead, we’re seeing the emergence of a “smear gap”. John McCain making stuff up about Barack Obama, and Obama trying to figure [...]

Politics makes strange bed fellows, or not in this case as one of the most interesting stories of this political season comes to a close: John McCain returns $2,300 without fanfare to the publisher of Manhunt a popular gay hookup site. That publisher, Jonathan Crutchley, proceeds to donate the cash to the Obama campaign.
“He said, ‘If John is [...]

Exactly what does John McCain mean when he says Barak Obama would loose a war to be president?  I seem to remember that it is his argument that we have already won in Iraq.  We removed Saddam did we not?  There were no WMD…  So exactly what signifies winning the war?  McCain has said the “surge” has [...]