Comments on: McCain Announces He Will Follow Christopher Ward’s Finance Methods

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:21:30 +0000

Exactly, and with McCains dishonest manipulation of the public financing system already exhibited, it is hard to imagine how this is being used to batter Obama.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:17:35 +0000

What he pledged to do was to try work something out with Rep. nominee. This lets him off the hook.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:12:40 +0000

Yes, the pledge Obama never, in fact, really made….

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:38:25 +0000

Was that parry-riposte using your left brain or right?

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:37:10 +0000

Presumably to replicate what the model produced the first time: untraceable funds, whose loss is attributed to individual fraud or incompetence rather than group design.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:12:00 +0000

This should be Obama’s “out” from his pledge to take public financing. And just because I haven’t used a “Princess Bride” reference lately, I have to say about Black’s use of the word “err”:

Those functions that can legally be done at either [the campaign or RNC], we’ll err on the side of doing them at the RNC

In the words of Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:43:55 +0000

Yup. And more importantly, is repeating the model that failed for the NRCC. Why replicate it at the same time you’re playing dumb on the NRCC’s willingness to let the fraud happen in the first place?

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:42:59 +0000

DAmn. I meant to include comment on his maverickness in here and plum forgot it–thanks for mentioning it.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:40:05 +0000

A bumper sticker opposing Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign claimed that what Bobby had done to Ethel, who was pregnant, he now wanted to do to “US”. A classic slam from the family values folks at the GOP.

What KKKarl did for Shrub and the GOP in Alabama, he now wants to do across the country. A prophylactic seems unlikely to fit over his head or around his imagination. But there are enough leads suggesting his criminal past that all we need is a properly disinfected DOJ to return Mr. Rove’s mind back to what he finds most important: his own backside.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:09:33 +0000

But our feisty almost-an-Admiral-like-dad “employs” lobbyists who work for free, out of patriotism and the goodness of their hearts. Washington runs on money and power. If McCain’s several score of lobbyists are foregoing one, they surely are being paid with the latter.

Juan Cole, speaking about McCain’s mish-mash of a non-strategy for Iraq, correctly assesses the totality of what a McCain presidency would mean:

In other words, elect McCain, my friends, and you are summoning the awful genie of another 9/11. I said it. I mean it. I’m not taking it back. That man’s announced policies could well produce a blowback that will lead to the end of democracy in the United States. It is a momentous decision.

http://www.juancole.com/