Comments on: “Uneaten potato chips, rigatoni, and a McCain cake”

By: Rayne

Rayne — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:58:40 +0000

Watch for an email. Could be HUGE.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:03:48 +0000

Rayne, that’s great stuff. If the countrywide stuff is interesting, I know a bit about it (at least when I am at the office) and might be able to help. masaccio68 at gmail

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:30:13 +0000

Yeah. Now that I look at the numbers, McCain got almost 1.7 million more men than Obama. Part of that is expected–but I bet part of that is because NBC flipped IMMEDIATELY into the convention.

By: behindthefall

behindthefall — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:26:00 +0000

Do you think that a campaign of ‘hope’ could take a leaf from FDR’s book and begin to hammer on the well-known, patriotic, and rousing “All we have to fear is fear itself!”

They want to fear-songer? Let’s make them admit it!

By: JGabriel

JGabriel — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:23:34 +0000

Ha. That’s not too far from the “already in their bedclothes” excuse.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:21:20 +0000

A tweak to the graf about the real estate investors –

Bill and Sue Nebe, mentioned in McCain’s speech, are realtors in Farmington Hills and affiliated with Keller Williams realty.

The office building at which the McCain campaign office is located and which they had a so-called party is Trott Center, owned and operated by Trott & Trott. David Trott is a Republican bundler; his firm provides foreclosure services to companies like Countrywide, handling the nasty work of threatening mortgagees and evicting them. More on them to follow, if sources cooperate.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:20:20 +0000

I’m guessing the flipped over from football.

By: JGabriel

JGabriel — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:10:37 +0000

This is kind of odd, considering that McCain’s speech apparently drew a television audience of more than 38 million. I wonder why there’s such a dichotomy between the large audience and the small numbers of people who actually want to share the experience or enthusiasm for their candidate.

Of course, it would be glib to suggest that the demographic supporting McCain was probably in bed or in their nightclothes by the time he came on.

I suspect that EW’s speculation about the McCain supporters only needing to see Palin might have some truth in it, at least to the extent that Palin’s fundie base seems far more enthusiastic about her than they do about McCain himself.

By: phred

phred — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:02:05 +0000

Thanks for the reply bmaz — will keep my fingers crossed that all goes well…

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:31:33 +0000

Counterpunch has some interesting material from books by J. St.Clair excerpted to their website this week, mostly about the Presidential candidate.