Posted on July 31st, 2008 by political buzz
The close fight between John McCain and Barack Obama is teetering very close to the edge of civility - and comments today from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis (yes, he’s still there) are threatening to send it careening toward a valley of mud slinging and daily barbs from now until the election.
Obama responded yesterday on […]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by political buzz
Today marks a milestone in this long and exhausting presidential campaign. It is the first day of the rest of the race; a day when both candidates have made it clear that the gloves are off and negative jabs are fair game to be put to use in criticizing each other. Yesterday’s memorable tit-for-tat between […]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by political buzz
Obama has had enough. After weeks of taking John McCain’s direct attacks and manipulation of facts, the Obama campaign has decided to initiate a response before visions of a paralyzed John Kerry danced in the heads of Democrats.
The campaign has released a brand new TV spot late this afternoon as an immediate response to McCain’s […]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by political buzz
The latest corruption scandal gripping Republicans finally received some attention from the McCain campaign today as they attempted to spin the potentially explosive developments into an extension of McCain’s message of anti-pork spending and “change” in Washington.
The campaign also made a distinct effort to portray the relationship between the GOP nominee and Stevens as strained […]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by political buzz
Has the McCain campaign finally reached the breaking point on their increasingly caustic and just-plain-silly television ads? After blaming Obama for personally upping gas prices and drilling him over a Pentagon communications mistake regarding the military hospital visit in Germany, the McCain camp has released another biting TV spot - “Celeb” - that seeks to […]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by political buzz
For someone who has consistently broken the revered golden rule of potential running mates - keep your freakin’ mouth shut - VA Gov. Tim Kaine continues to be the Veep contender with which the Obama campaign is most enamored. Kaine has been vetted extensively, with repeated calls from the campaign concerning documents and records. And […]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by political buzz
This morning’s buzz is all about John McCain and the major shift his campaign has made towards the type of hard-hitting negative campaigning that his once hated rival George W. Bush was famous for. The McCain campaign has turned away from the softer, “maverick” style that once was trademark McCain and has embraced an anti-Obama […]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by political buzz
That temporary scare concerning a nasty mole on the right side of John McCain’s face appears to be resolved after a biopsy was done to determine if the removed skin was cancerous. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale found out that it was not, meaning McCain has not had another recurrence of skin cancer.
A […]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by political buzz
The Obama campaign has decided a stern comeback is needed to answer McCain’s especially nasty attack ad from last week on energy policy and particularly blaming Obama himself for high gas prices.
Today they releases a new TV spot set to run in several battleground states that directly takes on McCain’s controversial ad and attempts to […]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by political buzz
The Veepstakes for both candidates has officially hit its stride as this hyper-speed campaign rolls on. What was once penciled in automatically every year for convention week or thereabouts has shifted weeks earlier this year, with talk heating up about imminent picks on both sides. But, contrary to what we were told last week, it […]
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