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Friday McCain/McSame Bashing (Repaired)

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Thanks to the helpful intervention of techs at Dreamhost, I managed to pull up a backup of the blog’s database and find at least 95% of the lost text for last Friday’s McCain bashing entry. So I’m reposting it here even though it’s a little dated – the stuff that got cut off previously starts after the horizontal line.

Of course, there’s been a ton of good stuff since then…

Thurs

• Obama Ad, Who Advises
• Kevin Drum, Palin Without a Prompter….Part 7
• TalkLeft, Todd Palin Refuses to Comply With Subponea
• Digby, Ghosts Of Nam Redux
• TalkLeft, Why Alaskan Legislators Aren’t Rallying Behind Palin
• Crooks & Liars, Barack Obama: “John McCain can’t decide whether he’s Barry Goldwater or Dennis Kucinich”
• Political Animal, ‘Preemptive lying’
• Crooks & Liars, Jon Stewart rips McCain, GOP duplicity on off-shore drilling
• TPM, Palin Not Ready for Prime Time
• Political Animal, House Republican throws his support to Obama
• Greg Sargent, TPM, Did Palin’s Pay As Wasilla Mayor Really Get Cut?
• Crooks & Liars, Cafferty Mocks McCain: Is privatizing Social Security really a good idea?
• Kagro X, Kos, Forget the moose. Sarah Barracuda can field dress a McCain.
• DeLong, John McCain Is Dishonest and Dishonorable
• HuffPo, McCain Camp Removed Bush Criticism From Wall Street Statement
• ABC News Blog, A WHAT Administration? A WHO Administration?
• Citizens for Ethics, “Palin’s email practices as governor of Alaska are strikingly similar to the email practices of the White House”
• Spain interview story just gets worse
  • Bizarre McCain Remarks Appear To Reject Spain As Ally
  • NSN, Spanish Missteps: McCain’s Serious Foreign Policy Gaffe
  • AmericaBlog, John McCain just forget where Spain was. Seriously, not kidding.
  • Political Animal, McCain Chose Vanity
  • TPM, Chin-Scratching Big Think on McCain’s Zapatero Gaffe
  • TPM, Spain Goof Consensus Emerges
  • TalkLeft, What McCain Did Wrong In The Zapatero Affair
  • DeLong, John McCain Is Not Only Dishonest and Dishonorable But Also the Stupidest Man Alive—Save for His Foreign Policy Advisor Randy Scheunemann
  • Crooks & Liars, Don’t Know Much ‘Bout Geography…or Foreign Policy…or Heads Of State: McCain Slights Spanish PM
  • TalkLeft, Spain An Adversary? A Homage To TR And The Rough Riders?
• Political Animal, Energy Expertise
• Politico, McCain ‘sidelines’ the press
• ThinkProgress, Hagel On Palin: ‘I Think It’s A Stretch To…Say She’s Got The Experience To Be President’

Wed

• Jim Macdonald, Making Light, Obeying the Law is for Wimps
• Obama, Sold Us Out
  
  
• Talkleft, Palin’s Claim About Her Energy Record Gets a 4 Pinocchio Rating
• When McCain called, Palin blinked
• ABC News on McCain Financial Crisis Flip Flops
  
  
• Needlenose, Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
  • TPM, Oy
  • TPM, El Cid! (More on Mccain’s Liberation of Spain)
• TalkLeft, Jewish Group Calls for Rescission of Palin’s Invitation to Iran Protest Rally
• TalkLeft, McCain Flip-Flops on AIG Bailout
• Kevin Hayden, Polls Reflect Reality Setting In: It’s Barack
• Crooks & Liars, Campaign proxy can’t escape McCain’s responsibility for Wall St. meltdown
• Burden
  
  
• David Neiwert, Firedoglake, McCain’s Latest Lie: Spanish-Only Immigration Ad Blames Obama
• Of “177 McCain staffers, advisers, and fundraisers that the DNC has identified as lobbyists, 83 of them have lobbied for investment banks, mortgage houses, and other parts of the financial services industry.”
• Kos, John McCain: Another Day, Another Lie
• Two minute commercial without glitz. Treating America like grown-ups. What a gamble — Obama, Plan for Change
  

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Tuesday

• Kevin Drum, Deer in Headlights
• Jonathan Martin, Politico, McCain press pack stages mini-insurrection
• Zachary Roth, TPM Muckrakr, Trooper-Gate: Palin’s Shifting Stories
• Crooks & Liars, Barack Obama slams John McCain on the Economy: It’s not believeable
• Very damning — Thomas Buchmueller, Sherry A. Glied, Anne Royalty, and Katherine Swartz, Health Affairs, Cost And Coverage Implications Of The McCain Plan To Restructure Health Insurance (I know Sherry Glied - I trust this report.)
• Tax Policy Center, An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans: Updated September 12, 2008 — bottom line is that McCain’s plan will deliver far less and save very little: McCain’s plan would cost $1.3 trillion over 10 years, but would only cover about 5 million new people with insurance at its peak. By contrast, Obama’s plan would cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years but eventually get insurance to an additional 34 million people.
• BradBlog, Mark Crispin Miller: Why They Chose Sarah Palin
• Palin Truth Squad, John McCain Launches ‘Palin Truth Squad’ To Dispose of the Truth About Sarah Palin
• Matt Stoller, OpenLeft, Is John McCain Dying of Cancer?
  • Kathy G, John McCain’s health as an asymmetric information problem
  • Brandon Friedman, HuffPo, McCain’s Use of POW Card Makes Medical Records Fair Game
• Capaign Silo, Firedoglake, McCain Campaign Pushing “War Injuries” Story To Explain Computer Illiteracy
• CREW, “Behind the scenes Governor Palin is using every possible tactic to stymie the inquiry into her own corrupt conduct.”
  • Political Animal, So much for transparency and accountability
• Micah Sifry, techPresident, Our Lip-Service Democracy
• Political Animal, McCain’s new-found disdain for Wall Street
• Crooks & Liars, Carly Fiorina:Well, I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation.”
• Kos, John McCain Versus John McCain
• Obama Campaign, Fundamentals
  
  
• Shades of ‘inventing the internet’ — Politico, Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry
  • Ari Melber, Washington Independent, McCain’s Latest Whopper: He Helped Create the BlackBerry
  • ThinkProgress, Former FCC Chairman Blasts Claim That McCain Invented The Blackberry: He Is ‘So Out Of Touch’
  • What Did John McCain Invent?
  • Political Animal, A man and his BlackBerry
• Matthew DeLong, Washington Independent, As a First-Term Senator, McCain Railed Against His Own Pork
• MoveOn, My Friends
  
  
• Tristero, Hullabaloo, McCain/Bush/Palin’s Sicko Health Plan

Monday

• Plutonium Page (eh?), Kos, McCain’s Double-Talk Express Rolls On
• John Farrell, US News (!), John McCain’s Journey From Maverick to Liar
• TalkLeft, Palin Refuses to Meet with TrooperGate Investigators
• Kate Klonick, TPM Muckraker, It’s Sunny All Year Round at the Governor’s Mansion in Alaska — ‘cause she installed a tanning bed! (Albeit at her own expense.)
• TPM, Big Game Fib Hunting; Kagro X, Kos, McCain’s Earmark Lie: Palin actually grubs $1 mil/day as Gov.
• Kos Himself, Romney calls out McCain for lying
• Kevin Drum, Joe Biden Speaks
• TalkLeft, Palin Distorts Record, Gets Heckled at Colorado Event
• DeLong, John McCain Is Dishonest, Dishonorable, and Out of Touch with Mainstream America
• Political Animal, The debate Obama wants to have
• Making Light, Just When You Think McCain Has Hit Bottom
• DeLong, John McCain Is Dishonorable, Dishonest, Underbriefed, and Ignorant
• Scout Finch, Kos, The McCain Crowds
• Emptywheel, Will the McPalin Campaign Ask Carly Fiorina to Give Her $42 Million Back?
• DNC, Count the Lies
• HuffPo, McCain On ‘Black Monday’: Fundamentals Of The Economy Are Still Strong
• Obama, Honor
  
  Red meat at last. (And it’s all true.)
• Feminist Law Professors, Essays By Feminists About Sarah Palin
• TPM, McCain: Okay I Lied, But Shut Up!!!
• Micah Sifry, techPresident, McCain: Out of Touch, or Just Can’t Touch-Type?
• Kos Himself, Palin’s rapid fade
• TPM, Fundamentally Corrupt
• Political Animal, Even Fox News (thinks McCain lies too much)
• Crooks & Liars, Rovian Push Polling In Florida Links Obama To PLO
• Political Animal, McCain still sees the fundamentals of the economy as strong
• Brave New PAC: Phillip Butler
  
  
• South Florida Daily Blog, I’m Frustrated
• tristero, Hullabaloo, McCain/Bush/Palin: Completely Unqualified

Sunday

• Pam Spaulding, Pam’s House Blend, Sarah Palin’s diversity in action as governor: cronies and classmates - and definitely no blacks
• Harold Feld, The Attack on Oprah: A Case Study Of The Strategies of the Conservative Noise Machine.
• VERY POWERFUL STUFF: Brave New Films, John McCain’s health records must be released
  
  
• TPM, Pathological
• Even Rove Says McCain’s Lying Has Gone Too Far
  
  
• Campaign Silo, Obama Cancels SNL Appearance While McCain Attends NASCAR Race
• Crooks & Liars, McCain’s “Disrespectful” Ad is Downright Racist.
• AFL-CIO NOW Blog, Ding! You Picked the Correct Answer. McCain Wants to Tax Your Health Care
• HuffPo, Author Of Book Palin Targeted Lashes Back: She’s My Mortal Enemy
• Obama, ‘His Administration’ Ad
  
  
• Back in Alaska, more people turn out for anti-Palin rally than at her event. Compare report that more than 1000 attended the anti-Palin rally in Anchorage with ‘hundreds’ at Palin’s Anchorage rally . See also Mudflats (top Alaska blog), ‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE!
• Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, To McCain, the truth is expendable
• Boomtown Tribune, AP: Palin Lies Again in Carson City
• Alec MacGillis, WashPo, As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin Cut Own Duties, Left Trail of Bad Blood
• Adam Vaulx Boles, St. Pete Times, Cousin John, where did you go?
• David Ignatius, WashPo Op-ed, Stopping At Nothing To Win
• Frank Rich, NY Times Op-ed, The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket
• Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman & Michael Powell, NY Times, Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
  • Steve Clemons, The Washington Note, What is Up with CNN’s Carol Costello? She Owes Us More on the “Daddy’s Roommate” Story or Owes Ed Koch an Apology
• William Yardley, NY Times, Active Role for Palin’s Husband in Alaska Government

Saturday

• SEIU, McCain Says We’re Better Off?
  
  
• David Neiwert, Orcinus, Sarah Palin’s just fine with vicious sexist smears … of her foes
• Crooks & Liars, The McCain campaign and the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty
• Exaggerating their time ‘in’ Iraq
  
  
• DeLong, The Army Times says John McCain Is Dishonest and Dishonorable
• TalkLeft, Greenspan Criticizes McCain Tax Cut Proposal
• Now available at Cafe Press: Palin For President
  
  
• Political Animal, Compare And Contrast, compares “the legislation each person has sponsored … that actually became law.”
• DeLong, Kathy G on Casey Mulligan’s Advocacy for McCain which he calls “the stupidest argument for McCain I have ever seen that is not clearly false.”
• TPM, Like I Said, Morally Unfit
• Crooks & Liars, How to Brand McCain and Palin as Liars
• Emptywheel, When McCain Says “Victory” in Iraq, Is He Lying About THAT, Too?
• georgia10, Kos, Your Lying Eyes points out the significance of Lorraine Woellert & Jeff Bliss, Bloomberg, McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials
• Crooks & Liars, Alaska National Guard General gets promoted after retracting damaging Palin statements
• Political Animal, When dishonesty is the story
• Boston Globe, Palin camp clarifies extent of Iraq trip: Says she never ventured beyond Kuwait border
  
  (Private Christopher T. Grammer/Department of Defense via Associated Press/Boston Globe)
  • WashPo, The Trail, Palin’s Foreign Travel Eyed
  • Steve Clemons, The Washington Note, “Why Not Count Refueling Stops?
  • Political Animal, About that Iraq trip….
  • Kagro X, Kos, Path. O. Logical.
• McLobbyist.com profiles the McCain 7
• Bob Greiger, Part Two: So Much Deception in a Single 30-Second McCain Ad
• Political Animal, ‘Rhetorical’ book banning
• Kissing Suzy Kolber, She Was For The Steelers Before She Was Against Them
• Political Animal,
  • McCain taps lobbyist for transition (see also clammyc, Kos, McLobbyist transition team head was ultimate Nixon insider)
  • A novel defense for ignorance
  • Entitlement confusion
  • Palin reverses course on bridge claim
• Eye on Miami, McCain’s Florida finance co-chair: war profiteer … by gimleteye
• David Sirota, Country First
• NYT Editorial, Gov. Palin’s Worldview (One word: deficient)
• Bob Herbert, NYT Op-ed, She’s Not Ready
• Tom Hamburger & Maeve Reston, LA Times, McCain wrong on Palin earmarks
• Michael Cooper & Jim Rutenberg, NYT, McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions — the Times tries to say he’s lying, without saying “he’s lying.”
• New blog: Women Against Palin

Friday

• The Buzz, Bob Graham: Sen. McCain should do better, return to “honor”
• Hunter, Kos, John McCain: Still Lying. Again.
• Digby, Hullabaloo, Oil Covered Ostriches
• TPM, Lying Sarah (Caught Red-Handed Edition). Palin: Okay, I Didn’t Quite Say ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’

  
  

• BarbinMD, Kos, McCain’s Opinion? It Depends On the Audience
• David Lightman, Miami Herald, Out of bounds: McCain-Palin misdirect blame for immigration flop
• Joe Klein, Wingnuts At Play
• Mark Murray, MSNBC, First Read, Wheels Come Off Straight Talk Express?
• Greg Sargent, TMP, Obama Campaign: McCain ‘Would Rather Lose His Integrity Than Lose An Election’
• HuffPo, Tim Johnson: Palin’s Experience Claims “Laughable,” McCain “Hard To Work With”
• Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld, TPM, Two High-Ranking McCain Campaign Officials Lobbied For Companies At Center of Sex-For-Oil Scandal
• TalkLeft, Palin’s Climate Change Flip-Flop
• Hullaballoo, Of Course They Cheated And Broke The Truce. Duh.
• TalkLeft, How The Media And The Left Blogs Are Allowing McCain To Escape The Bush’s Third Term Label
• TPM, Question of the Day & Lying McCain
• HuffPo, New Evidence: Palin Had Direct Role In Charging Rape Victims for Exams.
  • Hunter, Kos, Palin Spokesperson: That Reality You See Never Happened
• Political Animal, Palin’s global-warming skepticism
• TPM-TV, McCain Fib Watch, Episode 1
  
  
• Progressive Accountability does clips:
  • McCain Falsely Claims Palin’s Negotiated Natural Gas Pipeline Will Bring ‘Clean Energy’
  • “McCain Leads The Crowd: Drill Baby Drill
  • Palin Makes First Gaffe, Indicates Fannie and Freddie Are Publicly Owned
  • McCain Lies, Says Palin Sold Plane On eBay… For A Profit!
  • McCain Criticizes Obama For Wanting to Slow FCS Development
  • McCain Exhorts: ‘Change Is Coming!’
  • Palin: VP Choice Says Lots About Pres. Nominee, And You Can’t Call Biden An ‘Agent Of Change’
  • Crowd Interrupts McCain With ‘Straight Talk’ Chant
  • McCain: Palin Is ‘Right On National Security… She Understands Those Issues,’ Contrasts Her ‘Record’ With Obama
  • ‘Reformer’ McCain: Tired Of Gov’t Not Responding To Disasters And Old-Boy Cronyism In DC?
  • Palin Reminds People ‘Government Is Not Always The Answer… Too Often Government Is The Problem,’ Lists Her ‘Maverick’ Achievements
    *Todd Palin Subpoenaed by Alaskan Legislature’s Committee
• David Kurtz, TPM, History Quiz — “every veep in the last 32 years has met a head of state before taking office”; Palin would be the first not to have done so. (But then she got her first passport last year so what do you expect?)
• McCain: It’s easy for me to be out of touch
  
  
• This one is very good: Brave New Films, John McCain’s ads are LIES. Here’s the video proof.
  
  
• Ari Melber Stands Up to a Liar
  
  
• HuffPo, McCain Pre-Palin: Mayors And Governors Can’t Handle National Security. Also, Kos, McCain vs. Palin: He Said, She Said (McCain, a year ago: “I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time.”)
• National Security Network, Heartbeat
  
  
• It seems that it’s not just that Gov. Sarah Palin hates cats. She hates other animals too: see Defenders of Wildlife, Brutal
  
  
• This one is very good too: Planned Parenthood, McCain Distorts Obama’s Record on Sex Ed
  
  
• Obama Campaign, It’s Over
  

  After viewing that, might be time to revisit McCain’$ Loybbyists

• Jonathan Rauch, National Journal, John McCain. Youth You Can Believe In
• Mark Kleiman, Reality-Based Community, Disrespecting the dead
• Chutzpah: McCain Issues A Challenge: ‘Nobody Can Name’ An Issue I Have Flip-Flopped On (via ThinkProgress). Incidentally the count is at 76 different issues and growing.
• Chutzpah2: Political Animal, Chutzpah Watch — more on earmark memory loss.
• HuffPo, McCain Grilled On “The View”: Sarah Palin, His Abortion Stance, His Obama Attack Ads, And More
• 4/29 Truth, John McCain is a Cylon. The resemblance is strong:
  
• Politico, Obama to pressure McCain on openness about tax returns. Maybe we’ll find out if the Palins paid taxes on those travel expenses for the kids.
• Jane Hampshire, McCain “Deeply Ashamed Of What He Did To His First Wife”
• Bob Geiger, So Much Deception In A Single 30-Second McCain Ad

Earlier

• James Fallows, The Atlantic, The Palin interview
• Deepak Chopra, Obama and The Palin Effect
• Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: The American Idol candidate
• Matt Damon Condemns Palin
  
  
• Ben Smith, Politico, Palin’s Driftnet
• Dan Fagan, Comment, Anchorage Daily News, Palin’s responses on radio talk show very unbecoming

Full post as published by Discourse.net on September 21, 2008 (boomark / email).