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Was McCain poking fun at the ultra-hawks?
Archive for the ‘John McCain’ Category
November 4th, 2008
Category: John McCain
If he’d made this sort of speech during the campaign, he would have left a better memory.
November 4th, 2008
Category: John McCain
“There is neither honor nor profit in doing evil badly.”
- Michael Walzer
November 4th, 2008
Category: Election 2008, John McCain
Will John McCain concede before the polls close in Alaska?
October 30th, 2008
Category: Campaign 2008, John McCain
The consensus seems now to have settled down that John McCain’s campaign behavior has been erratic and temperamental. Certainly that was the Obama campaign’s narrative.
In fact, McCain has been about as consistent as can be: whatever Steve Schmidt tells him to do, he does. Since Schmidt is obsessed about the news cycle, and [...]
October 30th, 2008
Category: John McCain
If McCain is an engineer because he went to Annapolis, then I’m a pansexual semiotics professor (because I went to Swarthmore).
October 28th, 2008
Category: Campaign 2008, John McCain
All government policies redistribute income. So McCain’s complaint is nonsense.
October 27th, 2008
Category: John McCain
The McCain campaign in Florida gets its “volunteers” from temp agencies.
Some of the managers seem a little prickly about it.
