McCain's 'Real-ly Stupid' America

John McCain and his advisers apparently have latched on to a final hope: that enough voters won’t do the math about tax plans or carefully evaluate the guilt-by-association smears before they go to the polls, that they’ll just vote their gut reactions to scary words, like “socialism” and “Kha-lah-di.”

The McCain-Palin political calculation is based on a lowest-common-denominator judgment about the American people. Full Story »

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by James Staley - Nov. 3, 2008

Mr. Parry, as he often is, is verbally blistering while remaining rational in making his case. Among the many scarecrow lies McCain and Palin have planted around Obama -- "pals with terrorists," "socialism," "Arab sympathizer," "Muslim," et cetera -- the most effectively analyzed and dismissed are the "redistributionist" and "big taxer of Americans" scarecrows. The Teddy Roosevelt quotes alone make this op-ed well worth perusing.

The political success candidates for the most important position in the world have had by repeatedly chanting scarecrow words (that is, words meant ... More »

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by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 2, 2008

Valid observations, well opined.

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