Veeps 2008

..Why should this woman be one heartbeat away from the Presidency?
It’s a valid question, and one that many in Alaska are already asking. Including her mother-in-law. Faye Palin has confessed that she hasn’t decided how she’ll vote this November. “I’m not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she’s a woman and a [...]

It wasn’t the Brandenburg Gate, but in all fairness, someone else put in their deposit before him. While Barack Obama was floating his Presidential fitness trial balloon this week, peddling his oratory in front of a rabid Berlin audience, Senator McCain was selling his message in a similarly Teutonic, if somewhat more watered-down vein, at [...]

My 62-year-old boss gets very angry when stories emerge that John McCain doesn’t know how to use a computer. “He was a goddamned fighter pilot,” says my boss, who served eighteen months in the Marines in Vietnam. “My father was a pilot in World War II and he knew how to use an onboard computer.”
He’s [...]

Well, if they stop fighting them there, then they’ll have to fight them here, and no one wants that.
John McCain won’t win himself many overseas absentee votes with any more declarations like he made today. Speaking with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today, Senator McCain was asked by Lauer “If (the war) is working, Senator, do [...]

Next week, the Senate will vote on a bill co-sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman and John Warner imposing mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking to a group of employees at wind-turbine company Vestas in Portland, Oregon, less than three weeks ago, McCain said of the bill, “I hope it will pass, and I hope [...]

Being the presumptive nominee ain’t what it used to be, as John McCain found out this weekend when Nevada Republicans convened in Reno for the seemingly routine business of selecting the state’s GOP delegates. Mitt Romney won Nevada’s caucus and Ron Paul nudged McCain into 3rd placed by 200 votes. The Paulettes had a surprise [...]

I have a 78-year-old mother who is sharp as a tack, so I’m very sensitive to deploying ageism as a campaign tactic.
That said, my mother doesn’t forget what she said eight minutes ago and hasn’t recently engaged in physical battery on anyone. She really does stand on principle, and when she takes a position on [...]

I don’t think there’s any question who has the strongest toughness bonafides going into this election. Never mind his five years in the chicken cage in Hanoi. He called his wife a “cunt”* and lived for someone else to tell about it. In the old days, that was at best a husband wearing the pants [...]

There was a time when we didn’t send our kids off to kill and risk being killed without the quid pro quo of a hearty and generous “Thanks, fella!” It was called the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944, or the “GI Bill.”
William Atherton was a lawyer and leader in the American Legion and is principally [...]

Well, it’s been five years and our war’s growing up. John McCain is promising to defend the surge and protect our right to remain at war over the liberal wetnoodlery of those two peaceniks, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. George Bush is measuring the success of the war by the number of soccer games being [...]