Filed under: One Choice: Obama | Tags: Barack Obama, Frank Rich, John McCain, New York Times, Sarah Palin
Frank Rich’s column of Oct. 4, “Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain,” has a scary assessment of the dynamics between the GOP candidates.
Of McCain’s fading star, Rich writes he “is looking increasingly shaky, whether he’s repeating his “Miss Congeniality” joke twice in the same debate or speaking from notecards even when reciting a line for (literally) the 17th time (“The fundamentals of our economy are strong”) or repeatedly confusing proper nouns that begin with S (Sunni, Shia, Sudan, Somalia, Spain).”
Of Palin’s performances of late, Rich notes “a steady unnerving undertone to Palin’s utterances, a consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks she can be president, she thinks she will be president. And perhaps soon. She often sounds like someone who sees herself as half-a-heartbeat away from the presidency.”
As I’ve said over and over, she’s Cheney’s new puppet.
The point of Rich’s column is that this is essentially an Obama vs. Palin race. And that’s even more frightening.
When you’re done reading Rich, check out David Rossie’s column Speaking of poison and politics. It’s a wonderful redress of the whiny GOP.
Filed under: One Choice: Obama | Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Keating Five, Maureen Dowd, Sarah Palin
- Make sure to read Mark Sumner’s scathing article over at The Nation: John McCain: Crisis Enabler.
- Darn tootin’ you’ll love Maureen Dowd’s take on Palin’s “bridge-to-nowhere” chatter.
- Looks like the Troopergate case just got some legs again as seven aides to Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin will testify in the probe of whether she abused power by firing the state police chief.
- Jason Szep of Reuters Blogs writes Palin said Sunday at a fund-raising event in San Francisco “They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.” Oopsies!
- By now you’ve probably read about Palin’s scurrilous remarks branding Obama a friend of known “domestic terrorist”, Weather Underground member William Ayers. These were the remarks that the Associated Press reported were “a deliberate attempt to smear Obama” and called them “exaggerated at best if not outright false.” Today Scott Conroy over at CBS News’ From the Road blog that Palin was undeterred by the AP’s scathing assessment. Conroy writes: “The Associated Press is wrong,” Palin said. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn’t been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy’s living room.”
- In response to the ratcheted up noise on the campaign trail, Sen. Diane Feinstein said on “Face the Nation,” according to a CNN report, that Obama’s “leading in the polls. He’s leading in most of the battleground states. And this is going to be a month, I think, of character assassination. And so the Republican position is to try to assassinate Barack Obama’s character and try to place him in a position where the trust that he has built dissipates, the credibility that he has dissipates.”
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Our condolences to Sen. Joe Biden and his wife Jill on the death of her mother,
Bonny Jean Jacobs.
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