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Presidential Town Hall Debate Pre-Game Post (UPDATE: How McCain Wins the Election Tonight)

Jimmie | October 7, 2008 | Comments (1)

Well, thanks to Barack Obama’s essential scaredy-cat nature, this is the only town hall-style debate we’ll see before the election. Here’s what I, a non-professional interim member of the pundit class, think each candidate needs to do to win.

The Post Where I Give the McCain Campaign a Few Thousand Dollars Worth of Free Advice and Save their Butts from a Landslide

Jimmie | October 3, 2008 | Comments (4)

At this point, as Robert McCain has pointed out quite amply, John McCain is just about cooked. he’s managed to run a worse campaign than John Kerry did in 2004, which I thought was impossible. However, I don’t think he’s done. I think there is one thing he can do right now that will not [...]

Well, Do They?

Jimmie | September 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

My short response to Robert McCain’s question: Yes. Yes, they do.

Is John McCain Putting Country in Front of Campaign Again?

Jimmie | September 28, 2008 | Comments (4)

I’ve had a persistent thought the past couple days that John McCain has been going easy on Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats on purpose. I saw McCain’s performance during the debate and it baffled me why he wasn’t more aggressive toward Obama on the bailout question. It’s not as if he didn’t have plenty [...]

Barack Obama Runs A Great Campaign Ad…for John McCain

Jimmie | September 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

Via Mark Hemingway, I see that the Obamessiah has opted for the new and unusual tactic of portraying his opponent as a decisive winner in a new ad called “Bad News”. The ad is a glimpse into the future, where John McCain has won the Presidency, which is, I assume, supposed to be bad news [...]

America’s Most Famous Community Organizer Unwilling to Organize His Senate Community

Jimmie | September 24, 2008 | Comments (1)

Barack Obama is one of a hundred US Senators. He’s drawing a salary, paid for by you and me, to be a US Senator. Right now, the US Senate is debating whether or not to dump over 700 billion of our dollars into a financial bailout plan. Obama’s campaign counterpart, John McCain is already heading [...]

The Media War is On and It Could Cost Us All Greatly

Jimmie | September 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

Well, you can certainly throw that whole John McCain, Media Darling thing right out the window. After his campaign accused the MSM of being little more than tools of the Obama campaign, the New York Times promptly threw a temper tantrum in the form of this article accusing his campaign manager of being a tool [...]

Fact-Checking the Fact-Checker

Jimmie | September 19, 2008 | Comments (4)

The Washington Post has weighed in, in its “Fact Checker” column, on a John McCain ad and manages to make a hash of the whole thing. Whoever wrote this didn’t pay much attention to McCain’s ad and seems completely oblivious to the fact that they effectively proved the reporter who wrote the original Raines article [...]