Sarah Palin on $150k blingfest: “That is not who we are.”
From the Marin Independent Journal …
A Republican charged with representing the views of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain told Dominican University students Thursday that war with Iran in the next four years is inevitable.
The prediction came during a campus event in which teams of Dominican students presented the positions of McCain and his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, on six key issues: the economy, foreign policy, environment, health care, education and ethics.
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After each presentation, brief comments were added by Republican William Grayson, president of a San Francisco hedge fund company and former general counsel for the San Francisco Republican Central Committee, and Tony West, a partner at a San Francisco law firm and co-chairman of the Obama campaign’s California finance committee.
“Let me assure you of this,” Grayson said after the student presentation on foreign policy. “The next president, whether it is Senator Obama or John McCain, will go to war, and he will go to war with Iran.
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The highest-paid McCain-Palin campaign staffer is Sarah Palin’s makeup artist. That and the day’s other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
Bill Weld endorses Obama.
Getting the sense that no moderate GOPer wants to be the one left holding the McCain bag on November 5th.
On the Street I believe this is referred to as a ‘flight to quality’ …
Conservative legal scholar and Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried, who just endorsed Obama, isn’t just a Republican. He’s actually one of McCain’s campaign advisors.
Before they cycle down the memory hole, here’s Fried on McCain’s Honest and Open Election Committee and Justice Advisory Committee.
Key to his decision was McCain’s “choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis.”
Well, for everyone who had eyes to see, this thing stunk to high heaven. But now we have official word that that McCain volunteer who had the straight-out-of- the-trash-novel story about being assaulted by a mugger-cum-Obama-activist has confessed that the whole thing was a hoax. It is the classic story that is so perfect for certain malevolent actors that if it hadn’t happened they’d have to make it up. As indeed they did.
To say this is a dark moment does not do justice to the deep awfulness of this stunt. It’s the metaphoric pedal-to-the-metal for the sleazy sub-rosa campaign of racial fear-mongering that so far has failed to derail Obama’s candidacy.
There are many questions to be asked about who pushed this story yesterday afternoon and last night. A lot of explaining.
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