Archives: Posts From September 2008
Bob Barr: Obama Can Debate Me
By Russell Berman | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 at 10:01 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Bob Barr has finally sensed his opening. With Senator McCain calling for Friday's debate to be postponed, the former Georgia congressman and Libertarian Party nominee says he is eager to fill in as a replacement."Given Senator McCain's political stunt to ...
Reid to Candidates: Stay Out of Washington
By Russell Berman | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 at 4:11 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, is essentially warning the two presidential candidates to stay out of Washington this week. Mr. Reid just put out the following statement responding to Senator McCain's announcement that he was suspending ...
Obama Ad Biden Disowned Aired Only Six Times
By Josh Gerstein | Tue, 23 Sep 2008 at 12:52 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: An Obama campaign ad which poked fund at Senator McCain over his inability to use computers and was disowned yesterday by the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Biden, aired a grand total of six times, according to a private firm which tracks ...
McCain Adviser Schmidt Rips New York Times
By Josh Gerstein | Mon, 22 Sep 2008 at 12:20 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: During a conference call for reporters just now, a top adviser to Senator McCain's campaign, Steven Schmidt ripped into the New York Times, accusing it of flagrant bias in its coverage of the presidential race."Whatever the New York Times once was, it is ...
Paterson to McCain: You Can't Have Cuomo
By Russell Berman | Mon, 22 Sep 2008 at 11:50 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: What does Governor Paterson say about Senator McCain's desire to appoint New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission? You can't have him."McCain may want Andrew, but I can tell you Andrew wants Obama ...
New Democratic 527 Tools Up
By Josh Gerstein | Sun, 21 Sep 2008 at 8:54 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: With just weeks to go before the November election, a former aide to John Edwards is starting a so-called 527 political organization that may seek to boost Democrats' chances at the polls. Citizens for Safety & Security was formally registered with the ...
McCain's Surprise Pick for SEC Chief: Andrew Cuomo
By Russell Berman | Sun, 21 Sep 2008 at 7:58 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Senator McCain dropped a surprising name tonight when he was asked who he would want to replace Christopher Cox as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission: Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic attorney general of New York."I think he is somebody who ...
McCain Slips in Citing Investor Protection Agency
By Russell Berman | Tue, 16 Sep 2008 at 11:09 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: When Senator McCain delivered a speech this morning on the upheaval on Wall Street, he referred to several federal agencies and regulators that he pledged to reform to better serve both investors and the public. But in listing the organizations, he ...
Mich. GOP: Web Site Faces Libel Suit Over Foreclosure Voting Story
By Josh Gerstein | Tue, 16 Sep 2008 at 3:53 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: A libel suit will be filed soon against an online publication, the Michigan Messenger, over its report that a county Republican chairman in the state said foreclosure lists would be used to challenge voters at the polls in November, the Michigan ...
Fannie Mae Slips from Obama Lobbyist Litany
By Josh Gerstein | Tue, 16 Sep 2008 at 2:15 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: There was a curious omission Monday when Senator Obama lit into Senator McCain over the presence of lobbyists in the upper echelon of his campaign. "Listen, it's great that he now wants to talk about putting corporate lobbyists in their place. But he ...
The Difference Between the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
By Russell Berman | Sun, 14 Sep 2008 at 11:35 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: is "teeter" versus "totter."The top headline on the Times site right now: "In Frantic Day, Wall Street Banks Teeter"The Journal's: "Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Brothers Totters" ...
Bloomberg Presides Over Obama, McCain Greeting
By Russell Berman | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 at 4:22 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Mayor Bloomberg could not have asked for a better opportunity to project his mantra of bipartisanship than the image broadcast moments ago on MSNBC of the arrival of Senators Obama and McCain at ground zero for a brief joint appearance commemorating the ...
I'm Correcting Matt Damon
By Josh Gerstein | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 at 1:48 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Buzzing through the ranks of panicky Democrats in the last day or two was a video clip of a television interview in which movie star Matt Damon expresses deep skepticism about Senator McCain's choice of Governor Palin of Alaska to be his runningmate. The ...
GOP 527 Must Show Us The Money
By Josh Gerstein | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 at 12:53 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: A new Republican-run 527 group planning advertising that could bolster the presidential campaign of Senator McCain of Arizona and undercut that of Senator Obama of Illinois, Leadership for America's Future, plans to disclose its donors publicly, contrary ...
The Ten Debates That Weren't
By Josh Gerstein | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 at 12:26 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Back in June, Senator McCain of Arizona proposed ten debates with Senator Obama of Illinois. Mr. Obama's camp declined, but I bet if that offer were on the table today, the Democratic nominee would jump at it.Even if some time at those discussions was ...
Union Big: No Contact From Obama Camp About Trooper
By Josh Gerstein | Mon, 8 Sep 2008 at 9:31 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: A top official with an Alaska police union says Senator Obama's campaign never contacted the labor group to seek information about efforts by Governor Palin of Alaska to have her former brother in law fired as a state trooper."I want to state ...
McCain/Palin Goes on the Dole
By Josh Gerstein | Mon, 8 Sep 2008 at 6:19 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The Republican ticket of Senator McCain of Arizona and Governor Palin of Alaska is now officially on public assistance.The Federal Election Commission announced today that on Friday it approved a payment from the federal treasury of $84.1 million to the ...
New 527 Group Plans Attack on Obama Themes
By Josh Gerstein | Mon, 8 Sep 2008 at 12:56 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Republican political strategists in California are setting up a new political organization which hopes to run television commercials undermining the central themes of Senator Obama's presidential campaign while underscoring the strengths of his ...
Parrying Palin
By Josh Gerstein | Thu, 4 Sep 2008 at 3:56 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The morning after Governor Palin's stiletto-sharp speech last night to the Republican National Convention Democrats are struggling to find ways to parry her attacks and her folksy persona without getting trapped in the minefield of gender.The challenge ...
Bruno Compares Obama to Spitzer, Calls Him a 'Wimp'
By Russell Berman | Thu, 4 Sep 2008 at 2:08 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: No longer in office, Joseph Bruno clearly feels free to speak his mind. At a New York delegation breakfast here this morning, the recently-retired state Senate majority leader took after his one-time nemesis, Eliot Spitzer, and even compared Senator ...
FBI & Police: Molotovs, Kidnap Talk Part of Convention Protests
By Josh Gerstein | Wed, 3 Sep 2008 at 6:22 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Anarchists intent on disrupting the Republican National Convention discussed kidnapping party delegates and one man affiliated with the group allegedly assembled Molotov cocktails as part of a plan to firebomb the arena where the convention is taking ...
McCain Camp Goes All Out in Defense of Palin
By Russell Berman | Wed, 3 Sep 2008 at 2:17 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: In anticipation of Governor Palin's speech tonight, the McCain campaign is launching a full-throated defense of her qualifications to be vice president and an offensive against what they perceive is unfair treatment of Ms. Palin by the press.The campaign ...
Eli Lake's Diavlog on Sarah Palin
By Staff Reporter of the Sun | Wed, 3 Sep 2008 at 1:57 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The Sun's Eli Lake joins Heather Hurlburt of the blog Democracy Arsenal and the National Security Network to discuss Senator McCain's selection of Governor Palin of Alaska to be his running mate ...
Republicans Prepare for Night of Attacks on Obama
By Russell Berman | Wed, 3 Sep 2008 at 1:35 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Viewers tonight should expect some hard-hitting speeches tonight from Mayor Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee, as Senator McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, told reporters this morning that the program at the Republican National Convention ...
Gaffe of the Night: 'Sarah Pawlenty'
By Josh Gerstein | Tue, 2 Sep 2008 at 8:18 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: A co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee and the head of the committee which planned the party's convention, Jo Ann Davidson, just muffed Senator McCain's pick for vice president, referring to Governor Palin of Alaska as "Sarah Pawlenty, our ...
Ex-Gov. Whitman: 'Surprised' by McCain's Choice of Palin
By Josh Gerstein | Tue, 2 Sep 2008 at 8:02 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: A former New Jersey governor and key figure in the moderate wing of the Republican Party, Christine Todd Whitman, says she was "surprised" by Senator John McCain's choice of Governor Palin of Alaska as his running mate."I think I was as surprised as ...
Ex-Clinton Backer: Graham Can Work McCain Against Tort Reform
By Josh Gerstein | Tue, 2 Sep 2008 at 6:38 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: A prominent trial lawyer who is endorsing Senator McCain's campaign after backing Senator Clinton during the Democratic primary, John Coale, says opponents of tort reform should be able to "work things out" with the presumptive Republican nominee ...
Lieberman, Thompson to Speak Tonight; Giuliani Bumped
By Russell Berman | Tue, 2 Sep 2008 at 12:00 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The delayed speaking program of the Republican National Convention will kick off tonight with Senator Lieberman of Connecticut, Fred Thompson, and an appearance via satellite by President Bush, party officials confirmed a few minutes ago. Mayor ...
Report: Palin Headed 527 Group Founded by Senator Stevens
By Staff Reporter of the Sun | Mon, 1 Sep 2008 at 6:31 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Governor Palin of Alaska, Senator McCain's presumptive running mate, is contending today with dual announcements that her teenage daughter is pregnant and that she has hired an attorney to deal with an ethics probe in her home state.An additional report ...
Cox Warns of Security Consequences for Election
By Russell Berman | Mon, 1 Sep 2008 at 2:36 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The chairman of the McCain campaign in New York, Edward Cox, waded carefully into the politics of national security this morning as he warned that the city could face another calamity if voters make the wrong choice this November.Mr. Cox, a lawyer who ...
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