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Name That Tune : Theme Songs for John and Sarah
Jackson Browne has filed a lawsuit against John McCain after the Republican presidential candidate used a portion of Browne’s “Running On Empty” in a campaign commercial without permission.How about SOS by ABBA? Just trying to help…By Zoltan Abraham / The … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, McCain, McCain Campaign, Music, Musicians, Rock 'n Roll, Sarah Palin
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Gerry Storm on Obama and McCain’s Sun Signs; Alaskan Rednecks; and the Finer Points of Slaughtering a Moose
Getting your moose cooked in Alaska…‘It is hard to maintain a red neck in Alaskasince there is no sun in winter’ By Gerry Storm / The Rag Blog / September 12, 2008 Obama is a Leo, thus during the time … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Campaign Tactics, Environment, McCain, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin
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Arianna Huffington on Obama : Time For Some Righteous Rage
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ : Righteous rage.‘It’s time for Obama to unleash his inner Atticus’By Arianna Huffington / September 10, 2008 Back in February 2007, I wrote about the role casting would play in … Continue reading
Fontaine Maverick : John McCain is no Maverick!
Former Texas Congressman and San Antonio mayor Maury Maverick — the real thing.McCain’s just talking ‘gobbledygook‘By Fontaine Maverick / The Rag Blog / August 31, 2008 I just got a call from my brother, Maury Maverick, who said that if … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, History, Marketing, Maury Maverick, McCain, Presidential Campaign, Progressives, Texas, Texas History
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Arianna Huffington : John McCain, Paris Hilton, and the Politics of Nothing
Illustration by André Carrilho / New Yorker.‘it’s not exactly a surprise that the Republican election machine would resort to trying to make the entire election into an issueless sideshow’By Arianna Huffington / August 6, 2008 With just ninety days left … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Marketing, McCain, Media, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, Paris Hilton, Political Strategy, Presidential Campaign
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McCain, Anthrax and the Afghan Blunder
McCain: Let’s see. Bin Laden? Afghanistan? Yes, let’s invade Iraq. See Video of McCain on Letterman in 2001 below. ‘Barely a month after the 9/11 attacks and while the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan was still underway, McCain was already eyeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bin Laden, Campaign Tactics, Iraq, Iraq War, McCain, Presidential Campaign, Terrorism, Video, War on Terror
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Drawn and Quartered
Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog / Posted August 3, 2008
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Cartoon, Electoral politics, Humor, Karl Rove, McCain
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Alleged Rove Threat Brings Immunity Request
Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not ‘Take the Fall’ for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says AttorneyBy Brad Friedman / July 24, 2008 Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Criminal Justice, Election Fraud, Karl Rove, Republican Party, Technology
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Could Alabama Gov. Siegelman Bring Down the House of Cards?
Former Alabama govenor Don Siegelman accompanied by his wife Lorie reports to the Federal building in downtown Tuscaloosa in 2004.Gov. Siegelman at Netroots Nation: Bush’s Undoing?By Sam Seder / July 14, 2008 As more and more corruption and law breaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Campaign Tactics, Corruption, Dirty Tricks, Karl Rove, Netroots Nation
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McCain Man Charlie Black Advised Jesse Helms on Racist Campaign Tactics
Senator Jesse Helms, campaigning in Lenoir, North Carolina for the first time as a politician, spoke inside an old storefront for ten minutes before leaving town in his motor home. Photo: “Jesse” (1991) by Spencer B. Ainsley.The connection is CharlieBy … Continue reading
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Barack Obama and the Tradition of Community Organizing
Saul Alinsky, a major architect of the community organizing concept. Photo from cover of Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy by Sanford D. Horwitt. The following article by Peter Drier from Dissent online discusses the … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Community Organizing, History, Obama, Presidential Campaign, The Left
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Arianna Huffington : Watch Out For Right Turn
The supposed innovation of Karl Rove was to have George Bush concentrate on activating his base rather than playing to the center during his presidential campaigns. That strategy won the last two elections even with a moron heading the ticket. … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Obama, Political Strategy, Presidential Campaign
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