They were just mentioning it in campaign speeches, but now the campaign is diving in with the following ad…which looks like it’s really just created for the web since it’s 1:30 seconds long. But hey, maybe they’re pouring a bunch of money into it.
Not that this is any surprise, but I sincerely hope that McCain [...]

This seems oddly controlling of the McCain campaign.
From TampaBay.com:
CLEARWATER — Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn’t permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would [...]

Haha, you really can’t make stuff like this up.
From Wash Post:
“McCain Wins Debate!” declares the ad which features a headshot of a smiling McCain with an American flag background. Another ad spotted by our eagle-eyed observer featured a quote from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis declaring: “McCain won the debate– hands down.”
This campaign is seriously [...]

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Now let’s be clear about this…the plan was most likely available to politicians on the 19th, but it was released to the public on the 20th. Tuesday was the 23rd, and as of that time McCain still hadn’t read the thing.
Important detail about Paulson’s proposal: IT WAS 3 PAGES LONG.
Unbelievable…

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And not only that, Rick Davis did it for 5 years and his firm made approximately $1.8M in that time.
From NY Times:
Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend [...]

How could they get it so wrong?
Exhibit A - Scrolling within boxes?

I’m sorry, but anybody who knows anything about User Interface design would never make you scroll to see, well, nothing. I mean, this is amateur hour.
Now, I could easily detail another dozen things that are immediately awful about the new design, but it looks [...]

He also talks pretty directly with campaign manager Rick Davis about her ties to lobbyists and her cozy relationship with pork.
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Well, looks like Palin won’t be showing up on Fox News Sunday any time soon…
Meanwhile, the Bridge to Nowhere lie is still in her stump speech.
I’m telling you…this weird “maybe they won’t notice” strategy is [...]

Okay, I know why they’re trying to do it, but why even get involved? Shouldn’t they let this thing just play out and stay as far away from it as possible? Or are they really that afraid of what this investigation will find?
From Newsweek:
Key Alaska allies of John McCain are trying to derail a politically [...]

This is just odd…
McCain is traveling with the U.N.’s World Food Programme, whose work she monitored in Southeast Asia and Africa this spring and summer. McCain plans to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and to visit wounded Georgian soldiers. She would also visit representatives of the HALO Trust, which works to remove land mines [...]

Over the years I’ve heard stories about people who’ve grown marijuana in their basement or their dorm room or even on land out in the middle of the country.
However, I have never heard about anybody growing it…in a mall?
MIAMI — The Drug Enforcement Administration discovered something unexpected in the Mall of the Americas.
DEA agents found [...]

John McCain’s latest editorial is entitled “We Are All Georgians” and I have to say pretty bluntly that McCain absolutely does not speak for me.
First off, McCain’s not the President. Obviously he knows this, but when he says something so broad it feels like he’s speaking for America. Perhaps this isn’t what he meant, but [...]

They used a clip of the legendary Saturday Night Live characters Wayne and Garth shouting their catch phrase “We’re not worthy!” and Mike Myers apparently didn’t like that…
McCain’s camp spins it as such…
Obama’s celebrity friends are bringing their considerable resources to bear in this election, hosting fundraisers at their estates in Geneva, offering advice on [...]

I don’t even want to think about what this would mean if he had been the candidate.
From ABC:
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.
Edwards also denied he was the [...]

So I made my way over to McCain’s new “Spam For Prizes” site, and they actually have lists of suggested blogs to target. Thankfully, Donklephant didn’t make the cut.
The most surprising part about this blog strategy? Combined, they list 23 blogs in the moderate, liberal and other categories, but over 70 in the conservative category.
Huh?
That [...]

This should piss off anybody who runs a blog, be they left, right or center. Because while “astroturfing” is a pretty common practice in comments sections, giving people incentives to spam is not only dishonest, it smacks of desperation.
From Washington Post:
Spread John McCain’s official talking points around the Web — and you could win valuable [...]

It may work, but I have my doubts since it’s the same “elitist” strategy that Republicans wage year in and year out against Dems.
Here’s his latest ad…

Effective? Maybe. But I have to say that given McCain’s continued campaign throughout the years for “PoliCeleb” status, all of these ads will ultimately ring incredibly hollow. It’s as [...]

Well, the 2008 version of the “Windsurfing” ad has finally emerged. I think many of us who have admired McCain in the past didn’t think he’d actually go here, and yet here we are.
Enjoy…

I think the purpose is pretty clear: Obama thinks he’s God and you should hate him for it.
However, did you note the [...]

McCain is better than that ad, and he shouldn’t have made it. What’s more, I think he knows this.
But just in case he doesn’t, the media is reminding him…
From Washington Post: For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a [...]

This is an interesting catch by TPM, especially in light of Wes Clark’s major gaffe over the weekend.
Seems as if the McCain camp has recently rolled out a new surrogate by the name of Bud Day…the same Bud Day who was in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth commercials.
So the question now…why employ this guy? [...]