NYC Republican majordomo Guy Molinari, commenting on the latest GOP entrant in the race to succeed Rep. Vito Fossella: “He lies about everything. How do you pick a man like that to go to Congress?”
Seems like a tough sell since he was an honorary chairman, along with John McCain and Joe Lieberman, of the neocon Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.
Our question of the day: if a flip flops in the wilderness but no one hears, did it really flop? Or in other words, if a news story like John McCain’s recent shift in position on troop levels in Afghanistan doesn’t fit in with the dominant narrative of the campaign, will any news organizations pick up on it?
High-res version at Veracifier.com.
They say that everything that’s old will one day be new again. And in a similar vein eventually I knew Mitt Romney would be in the news again, notwithstanding his ignominious and deeply unfortunate campaign implosion last winter. But now in an effort to get picked as McCain’s veep, Mitt’s back on the airwaves with more vintage nonsense. And it also dovetails nicely with the escalating cult of personality over McCain and the ‘Surge’. So here’s Mitt saying not only did McCain support the surge. He actually invented the concept. McCain “authored the philosophy” of the surge, saith the Mittman …
A very helpful and detailed documentation of McCain’s decision to embrace Obama’s position on Afghanistan.
McCain camps unveils new strategy of aggressive whining about coverage of Obama’s foreign trip. From the NYT …
The extraordinary coverage of Obama’s trip reflects how the candidate remains an object of fascination in the news media, a built-in feature of being the first African-American presidential nominee for a major political party and a relative newcomer to the national stage.
But the coverage also feeds into concerns in McCain’s campaign, and among Republicans in general, that the media is imbalanced in their coverage of the candidates, just as aides to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton felt during the primary season.
“It is unproductive to spend it worrying about the way Obama is covered,” said Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman for McCain. “That being said, it certainly hasn’t escaped us that the three network newscasts will originate from stops on Obama’s trip next week.”
News executives say they generally devote the same resources to the candidates. But they do not dispute that Obama has received more coverage this year, not only because of the historic nature of his campaign and his newness to the political scene relative to McCain, but also because of the protracted nature of his primary battle with Clinton, which was at a peak when McCain last went to Iraq.
First McCain wanted Obama to go to Iraq; now he’s complaining that people care more about Obama’s trip than his dog-and-pony show last spring. I think the American people have to admit that they’re biased against John McCain.
Let’s be honest. Hardly anyone cares about McCain or his campaign. No one’s excited about it in any way. I don’t think that’s an overstatement. Caring or being excited about isn’t the same as supporting. Lots of people support McCain — but as the anti-Obama, the alternative. This isn’t to say he can’t win; he definitely can. But very little of this campaign is about him. Virtually all of it is about Barack Obama.
The numbers are in for June, and they put to rest some of the fretting over whether his money machine was slowing.
Tough to be the Wall Street Journal, which last week reported that Obama would bring in just a little over $30 million.
I’m always highly skeptical of the what I read in the British press, especially when it has to do with the US. But the Guardian’s fairly reliable and they’re reporting that US is planning to announce in the next month that we’ll be opening a diplomatic interests section in Iran. That means basically a de facto diplomatic outpost without having formal diplomatic relations. I believe we already have one in Havana.
Nonetheless this would be a further sign of a dramatic shift in the US stance toward Tehran.
Will be interesting to see if the report bears out. I’m skeptical; but let’s see.
Barack Obama says Fox News and other right-wing media outlets have gone after Michelle Obama in a way that Democrats wouldn’t do to a Republican’s spouse. That and other political news in today’s Election Central Morning Roundup
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