Monthly Archive for April, 2008

It Takes Real Chutzpah for a Guy Who Owns Eight Houses (McCain) to Call Barack Obama an “Elitist”

McCain doesn’t lack “chutzpah.” Yesterday his campaign actually accused Barack Obama of being an “elitist” for saying that it’s not surprising that people in small Midwestern towns are bitter after seeing their standard of living systematically destroyed over the last three decades.

Read the rest over at the Huffington Post.

McCain’s lack of candor on reproductive rights

April 11, 2008 | “He’s not who you think he is” is likely to serve as the Republican rap against Barack Obama, if and when the inspiring orator from Illinois secures his party’s presidential nomination. Yet precisely the same complaint can and should be made against John McCain, who is neither as moderate nor as principled as his publicists in the press corps tell us.

Read the rest at Salon.

John McCain’s got some serious money troubles

Wait one dollar-grubbing minute!

How can the troublesome twin Democratic candidates raise $60 million between them Arizona’s Senator John McCain has the Republican presidential nomination sewn up, but he’s lagging far behind Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in fundraisinglast month and John McCain scrapes together barely $15 million, according to campaign sources. And this is supposed to be so great? A successful month for this guy?

Read the rest on the LA Times blogs here.

McCain’s marriage is key to his finances - SFC

On a spring day last year at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple’s political and business interests in a single snapshot.

Read the rest at SFGate.com

WSJ reported McCain criticism of execs’ pay without mentioning his approval of Bear Stearns aid

Summary: The Wall Street Journal reported that Sen. John McCain “displayed a strong populist streak over the housing crisis this weekend, blasting what he called the ‘outrageous’ and ‘unconscionable’ compensation of Bear Stearns and Countrywide executives and their ‘co-conspirators,’ ” but did not mention that McCain reportedly expressed support for the Fed’s decision to extend a $30 billion line of credit to facilitate the acquisition of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase.

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Brzezinski and McCain adviser agree that McCain admitted lack of economic knowledge once — but he’s done so several times

Summary: On Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski and Carly Fiorina, an economic adviser to Sen. John McCain, suggested that McCain acknowledged his weakness on economic issues only once. But the Boston Globe has reported that “on numerous occasions over the course of the campaign, McCain has volunteered that he is unsatisfied with his lack of knowledge about aspects of economics.”

Read the commentary here.