Tag: campaign

Tonight the questions will be direct, meaningful, and appropriate for clearly stated positions in response, and Palin will not have a problem with them. She’ll have no problems getting the points across.

The question is, what’s going to be the necessary icing on the cake to get some sort of bounce out of the debate?

AP: “…she e-mailed the Obama campaign through its Web site asking that he not mention it during debates or speeches…”

…The bracelet with Ryan Jopek’s name that Obama had to consult during the debate was not intended to be a prop for a campaign stunt. Especially not an embarrassing stunt like the “I have a bracelet too, from the mother of…errm, uhhh, ummmm…” fiasco that is likely to blow up in Obama’s face in big way - much larger than a simple gaffe. …

…It seems neither the mother or father of the soldier want Obama to wear the bracelet. When Jopek’s mother gave Obama the bracelet it was intended to be between her and Obama, not fodder for the campaign trail. She asked him not to wear it. She’s now understandably upset with the attention she’s getting.

She was upset back in March when Jopek’s father was interviewed on the radio and discussed the problems Obama’s exploitation of their son and the gifted bracelet were causing. …

Now referencing someone’s occupation is a racist slur. Gov. David Paterson of New York is accusing the Republican Party of using references to Obama’s past as a community organizer in place of an attack on Obama’s race.
“I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’ in a sense that it [...]