ABC gets it mostly right: The most controversial item in the McCain ad is the assertion that Obama supports children “learning about sex before learning to read,” and the accusation that Obama’s “one accomplishment” on education was “legislation to teach ‘comprehensive sex education’ to kindergarteners.” But both claims are false. The idea seems to be to paint Obama as an […]

Christ, even I know what the fucking “Bush Doctrine” is and I’m not trying to run for the vice-presidency where I could become the leader of the Free WorldTM at a moment’s notice. If they win, we’re fucked. By the way, did you notice that everyone held to the “no politics on 9/11” except that McPalin campaign? By which I […]

Oh, they shouldn’ta done THAT. A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama’s attacks on Palin “completely false” and “misleading.” That’s what we said, but it wasn’t about Obama. Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the […]

Robert Greenwald’s group spells it out. I’m just sayin’…

Another night of phone banking last night and another full house. Our township leadership team and their volunteers have had to move our twice-weekly phone bank to a new location in Ann Arbor due to an overwhelming response and, last night, we ran out of phones at the new location! People are just showing up to say, “what can I […]

As I have been phonebanking and canvassing for Senator Obama’s Campaign for Change for the past two months, one of the focuses has been on “undecided” voters – voters identified by the campaign as on the fence. I have talked to a great deal of people who say they haven’t decided yet. In many of these conversations, by the end […]

Rick Santorum thinks you should be supporting Sarah Palin. ‘Cause, you know, you have vaginas and stuff. Sarah Palin is the Clarence Thomas for feminists. The civil rights community, the African-American community obviously should have rallied behind Clarence Thomas an his achievement, but they hammered him because he was a conservative. And the civil rights establishment was first and foremost […]

Josh Marshall over at TPM ‘schplains things about the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere”: That’s just beautiful. More like this, please. I’m just sayin’…

I am quite afraid that this is one of series of blog entries on the lies being told by the McCain campaign right now. It’s out of control and, lo and behold, it actually looks like the media might actually call them on it this time. Hallelujah. Here’s CNN’s Paul Begala calling “bullshit!” on Sarah Palin’s ridiculous assertions that she’s […]

I walked into the local Democratic Party offices last night, on a day of disappointing national poll numbers for the Obama campaign, prepared to see a team of sullen phone-bankers. Boy, was I wrong. Rather than being dejected about McCain’s poll bump, our volunteers were more excited than ever to talk to undecided voters. Because mixed in with the news […]

…You call it more of the same. Awesome ad from the Obama campaign. My wife and I have decided to make up new bumperstickers that say: Being Out of Touch Doesn’t Make You a Maverick. Absolutely stunning editorial by Frank Rich of the New York Times this week. Lots and lots of money quotes. Here’s a choice selection. We still […]