Saturday, October 25, 2008

Bush Intervenes in Ohio Voter Dispute

By Jason Leopold
October 25, 2008

In a déjà vu moment from Campaign 2006, President George W. Bush again is asking his Attorney General to launch an investigation into the registration of hundreds of thousands of new voters, many of whom are expected to vote Democratic.

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Military Voices Like Colin Powell's

By Julie Bergman Sender
October 25, 2008

I have been hearing voices in my head for the last four years. No, I have not been driven completely around the bend by eight years of the Bush administration.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

For Whom the Bailout Tolls

By Michael Winship
October 24, 2008

During the Stock Market Crash in 1929, that curtain raising overture to the Great Depression, stories abounded of Wall Street brokers rushing to their office windows and leaping to their deaths. But according to the late John Kenneth Galbraith and other economic historians, those accounts of suicide were, by and large, fairy tales.

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McCain Enflames 'Partisan Rancor'

By Robert Parry
October 24, 2008

Perhaps the biggest lie of John McCain’s campaign – from a list that is long and growing daily – was his claim during his acceptance speech in early September that he would be the leader who would end “partisan rancor.”

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

McCain-Pundits: End of a Love Affair?

By Brent Budowsky
October 23, 2008

When John McCain famously said the press was part of his political “base,” he was right. The press has been in love with John McCain for years, and McCain has benefited from the adoration and friendly bias of the press for almost his entire career.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Al-Qaeda Leaders Root for McCain

By Robert Parry
October 22, 2008

Gloating over the U.S. economic crisis, al-Qaeda strategists are telling each other that a John McCain victory is crucial if the slide of their American enemies is to continue and possibly accelerate.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

New Front in Palin's 'Troopergate' Mess

By Jason Leopold
October 21, 2008

In a new front for Gov. Sarah Palin’s “Troopergate” troubles, a top Alaska Democratic lawmaker has called on the state’s attorney general to appoint an independent investigator to probe whether operatives in Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign broke Alaska’s criminal witness-tampering laws.

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Palin, the Energy Expert?

By Barbara Koeppel
October 21, 2008

Gov. Sarah Palin’s claim of energy expertise – and her promise to send Alaskan natural gas through a new pipeline to heat homes in the Lower 48 – may be as dubious as her boast about foreign policy expertise based on Alaska’s proximity to Russia.

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Why Listen to Colin Powell, or Brokaw?

By Robert Parry
October 20, 2008

Retired Gen. Colin Powell made what sounded like a heartfelt endorsement of Barack Obama – hailing the Democrat’s presidential qualities and criticizing the nasty tone of John McCain’s campaign. But why should anyone care what George W. Bush’s first Secretary of State thinks?

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Sunday, October 19, 2008

The GOP's 'FBI-Is-Investigating' Smear

By Robert Parry
October 19, 2008

Trailing in the polls with the election barely two weeks away, John McCain has dug deep into the Lee Atwater/Karl Rove playbook, now portraying Barack Obama as a combination of class-warfare socialist, terrorist fellow-traveler and crooked pol.

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