In an email to Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham on Sunday, McCain adviser Mark Salter responded to this week's cover story.
Comment: Judging from how many people are inspired to donate to the McCain campaign, Newsweek has really done GOP a big favor. Just like NYTimes helped solidify the GOP base with their suggestive McCain Affair story. So why complain? Isn't MSM good for GOP after all?
Comment: Has Mr. Salter mentioned what tactics GOP's been using lately in their congressional campaign? Smear ads involving Obama? Wonder why those ads received so much notice in the media. Bias indeed! Biased media! Pay more attention to GOP's positive ads, will you?
Comment: It is interesting why our impression of the Republican campaign is so "negative"? Perhaps their negative tactic have been so successful that we just can't forget them? - McCain's black child? Kerry's war record? Dukakis?... Can you think of any Dem tricks that can top these? Come on, Mr. Salter, don't be modest.
Comment: ANybody ever heard of MAJOR GENERAL KEVIN BERGNER? Might want to see what he reported before we start killing Iranians and bring about WWIII. HEY HILLARY and Lil BUSH! you listening or you gonna be like GW and just ignore the GENERALS?
Comment: Outstanding - I wish everyone to include the uneducated people of WVA would read and understand what's really going on in the race to become KING!
Comment: Another example of the press being in the tank for Obama.
All we hear about is that "nasty, Republican attack machine" with nary a word about all the nasty campaign ads that Democrats and their wealthy backers run.
There is the James Byrd ad, the Missouri crosses will burn if republicans are elected ad, the misleading DNC ad about John McCain's Iraq comments, etc.
Why do we never hear about the "nasty Democrat attack machine"? Or does it not exist as far as left wing media outlets such as Newsweek is concerned?
The alliance of Newsweek and MSNBC is clear. All the evidence I need of Richard Wolff's extreme left wing affiliation is his regular appearances on that far left MSNBC show of Keith Olbermann's . Anyone who appears on that show must have extreme lefty credentials.
Comment: I've been a big fan of Evan Thomas's writing and observational skills for more than 15 years but have to agree this article was totally pro Obama.
As an independent it's depressing to lose respect for someone I thought was one of the last true unbiased journalists left in America.
I'm voting for McCain because he's the only one in the race that has earned his position.
The entitlement mentality of the Clinton camp and the rabid affirmative action mentality that produced Obama (and Michelle) have set this country on a course to produce nothing.
JFK's words of "ask not what your country can do for you" are now perversely turned on their head by liberals who bargin with the poor and poorly educated for their votes.
Comment: As a former Democrat, and having just read this article, I have donated $100 to McCain's campaign.
As a McCain supporter, I'm sure I'll be called a racist for not supporting Barack, but you know MSM, bring it on!!
Newsweek and MSNBC are Barack's PR machine and happily acknowledge this.
--p.
Comment: thank you newsweek. as a result of your desperate attempt to remain relevant, i have officially decided to donate money to the mccain campaign. with you and all of your kool-aid drinking friends in the msm, he's going to need it.
Comment: Here is something else to ponder. This is not Sen. McCain's campaign alone.
There are large number of Americans who are unenthused about either candidate but who believe that a President Obama will be a disaster for America. These voters will express that belief at the polls the only way they can, by voting for Sen. McCain. Given that a 'no" vote against Obama is their motive they will certainly not abide by calls from Sen. McCain to take the high road.
That may be McCain's campaign strategy but since McCain is incidental to their "no" vote on Obama, who cares what he thinks.
Psssss .... Did you hear? Anywhere from 10-20% of Americans believe that Obama is really a Muslim and took his oath of office on the Koran (and with any luck most of them will be signed up in Obama's voter registration drives. Ah, the blissful irony of it.)
Comment:
Today's headline: "McCain Acknowledges Global Warming and Urges Nuclear Power to Combat it."
I am SO GLAD that John McCain has acknowledged the reality of global warming. However, his supposition that nuclear power is "clean energy" is absurd.
Clean energy doesn't leave behind deadly radioactive rods to be disposed of. Clean energy isn't subject to nuclear fallout, meltdowns and explosions. Clean energy doesn't cause birth defects and cancer. Clean energy can't be subverted into nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
Effective clean energy technologies created to date are solar, wind, hydroelectric and hydrogen fuel cells. Ethanol is not clean energy, as it takes immense amounts of energy to create fuel this way, and the big corporate farmers pollute with excessive chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, it can help us transition our economy away from oil dependency and as such it is an excellent stop gap, especially if we use cellulose ethanol rather than corn based ethanol.
McCain is woefully uninformed about the realities of our energy problems and their potential solutions. McCain is woefully uninformed about the economy, and still hasn't come up with any plans for combatting the recession, paying down the national debt, and restoring lost jobs. McCain is woefully misguided about the war, and wants to pursue a hawkish military policy even though the vast majority of Americans are against this.
I respect McCain and the sacrifices he has made for our country. But right now, we need someone ready to roll up their sleeves and work on our current problems. Someone who can make America stronger before we go down the tubes with our oil dependency, our failure to recognize the shifting global economy, and our blatantly wrong-headed foreign policy. McCain is not that man. I'm a Republican and I'm voting for Obama.
Comment: After reading Cantabrigian's comments, I think it is fair to expect Newsweek to investigate whether Obama was born in Kenya or the United States. I do not think all media personnel have stopped investigative reporting about Sen. Obama.
Comment: A few weeks ago the Obama camp tried to swift-boat Senator John McCain by saying he could not run for president because the Senator was born outside of America!
Well, the media should investigate the birth of Senator Barak Obama.
Web-postings can be truthful, nonsense, or reasoned debate; however, the latest posting on the web questions the birth-place of Barak Hussein Obama.
According to the web-posting, the Kenyan Birth Documents list Obama as born in Kenya. The posting claims that Obama's mother was in Kenya with his Arab Kenyan father, and was not allowed on a flight to return to HAWAII due to her late pregnancy. The web posting claims that after she gave birth to Obama in Kenya, she managed to get a plane to Hawaii where the birth was also registered!
Now, the validity should not be too difficult to check out because the Kenyan government registry birth records are probably accessible to the public. However, a truth-check would require an investigative reporter and there are not too many of them around these days.
Comment: Think about this and do with it what you will.
"BIG OIL" reported a PROFIT of 111billion dollars last yea..
There are 600 million Americans (give or take). 1 billion = 1000 million
IF (lol) the oil companies gave each one of us 1,000,000.00$
It would affect their "PROFIT" by less than 7%...did I just blow your mind?
It blew mine. Now obviously that will never happen, but think about it. does it make you angry?
It should, we're being robbed of our dream. they are making profit on our hard earned dollars and
laughing all the way to the bank.
OBAMA-NATION!!!
Comment: Uh, sorry, genius, but the U.S. population is about 300 million, not 600 million. Oh, and if the oil companies gave each one of us (600,000,000 Americans) $1 million , it would cost them $600,000,000,000,000 (or $300,000,000,000,000, if you have any idea what the population of your country is). That's $600 TRILLION (using your wildly inaccurate population figure) or about 5400 times the total profit of what you attribute to the oil companies. (Sorry I didn't take the time to verify it.)
Comment: Sorry I tried the same meds McCain/Clinton supports are on and look at the math...lol
Comment: You all are a bunch of sissies. Negative campaigning is good for us and has been around since elections have been around. Why do I say that and in such a debased manner? Because the negativity simply depends on your perception of what is said. Repbulicans put out a piece like Willie Horton and their side sees it as informative, never mind the fact that it maligns an entire race. Democrats put out a piece claiming Bush is reducing money to a program that helps underprivilieged kids eat when he's really approving a smaller increase from the previous budget than what was proposed.
It's all hogwash designed to make you think you understand what's really going on in a 30 second spot. It is up to the voters to read extensively on an issue and see through the BS. But since that's not going to happen, the two sides will continue to attack because it yields results. Civility and the American body politic be damned.
Comment: What people fail to notice in this debate about Hamas is what Hamas actually said in their statement. They simply said that they saw Obama as the candidate most likely to raise a positive image of America in the world.
Think for a moment about the fact that Obama's grandfather was a converted Muslim (although neither Obama's father nor Obama is Muslim). But even that mild association is enough to make the Muslim world feel that there could be some kind of rapprochement with the Christian world. This slight feeling of fellowship could have a huge effect on world peace, decreasing the impulse for terrorism.
I am not saying that we should negotiate with Hamas (unless they publicly denounce terrorism), but I do think it is important that we engage in real diplomacy with Muslim world leaders. War is not, and terrorism is not the answer to political disagreements. Diplomacy is.
Maybe politicians should be required to take a course in non-violent communication. That would really improve the tone of the political discourse in America.
Comment: The play you give to Mark Salter's response plays right into the hands of the republicans. They accuse you of bias than get to argue for their candidate, and bash barak, for three pages. By rights, you should run a three-page article by an Obama partisan rebutting Salter's comments. To not do so is to admit that your reporting and analysis was biases, requiring a counterargument. I fear this is republican strategy is going to play out time and again in this campaign, just as it has on TV news shows, where conservative thunderdomes are also there to counter TV's supposed left wing bias, as a result of which center and right are always heard, but NOT the left.
Comment: The entire original article in Newsweek was written by an Obama partisan.
Why are they entitled to yet another free advertisement of their candidate?
Comment: Did you even read Salter's email? That is the point. The friggin' COVER STORY is the Obama love letter you desire.
Comment: Sorry, but this letter is a rebutting already to the FEATURED COVER STORY where all these accusations and characterizations are made against republicans in a biased manner. Just because you won't call it a duck doesn't mean it can't fly. That article was as biased and partisan as Salter's response is here. Any Salter's response isn't going to get the play that the featured article did.
Comment: emmarcee, not too hard to swiftboat Obama's Rezko connection since he is the "unnamed" politician who was supposed to receive some of the illegal payoff campaign contributions. Nor will it be hard to take Obama's own statements from his books and use them against him, especially his admitted years of using cocaine.
Comment: Thank you very much for posting Salter's comments. Nothing I didn't know, but this will be of great benefit to hard-working Americans who don't have the time to wonder whether reporters, who are mostly Democrats, have a tendency to inject their liberal biases in the stories, interviews and television reporting they produce. Kudos to Newsweek for including Salter's response, which is everything the Newsweek was not: 100% factual, well-sourced, well-reasoned and intellectually honest.
Comment: Vow, Newsweek had nerve to publish this.. so what i sNewsweeks response to the "truth"? Anybody who can think can find out, the medis is biased and always run a machinery in favor of the liberals. It is just that there are peolpe in USA who really don't want all the way to the left. Even with Bush's policy failures, it was media who had painted the current regime to be complete and utter failure. The truth is somewhere in between. It is not all black and white.
Comment: So let me get this straight...Republicans scare votes but Democrats don't? Hahahahahahahahahaha. How about "the world is ending because of global warming"? or "If a Republican is elected we will go back to segregation or women will lose their right to kill their babies"? Democrats provide a model example of election scare tactics.
Comment: Salter is correct and Newsweek should be ashamed of itself for its blatant and constant Obama shilling.
Comment: Newsweek is filled with Obamamaniacs holding onto their dinosaur careers as they become irrelevant. Let us remember that Obama won his senate campaign by going after his opponents divorce records. David Axelrod is getting a pass because he is a left-wing journalist like the other freaks at Newsweek. But he makes Karl Rove look like a boy scout. The democrats have been misogynist, corrupt, and lower than dirt against Hillary, one of their own. Newsweek is beyond bias. They are embarrassingly in love in a stalker kind of way. There are no dirtier tricks than the fraudulent Obama. Newsweek comes in a close second.
Comment: McCain Toast!!! No "GoodYear" for him. RELEASE YOUR WIFE'S TAXES, SHOW US THE DIRT
Comment: haha the biggest haters are the ones responsible for the republicans being in office in the first place: The NOBLE SPEAKING EVER RESPECTFUL BEVERAGE CHALLENEGED TEDDY KENNEDY, THE RESPECTFUL AND EVER LOYAL LOST IN A LANDSLIDE TO TRICKY DICK OF ALL PEOPLE GEORGE MCGOVERN, HAMAS LOVING JIMMY CARTER, SWIFT BOATED JOHN KERRY, JUST NOW SLITHERING OUT FROM UNDER A ROCK JOHN EDWARDS, VENGEANCE IS MINE I WILL CAST THE DECIDING VOTE AL GORE, YEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAW HOWARD DEAN, ZERO DELEGATE WINNING DODD, NEVER EVEN GOT OFF THE BENCH BILL BRADLEY, FIRST SENATE LEADER IN HALF A CENTURY TO BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE TOM DASCHEL AND WHO THE HELL CARES BILL RICHARDSON. haha if any of these gyne envy phallically challenged "MEN" had done their job this country wouldnt be in this mess. THEY are the ones responsible for BUSH. THEY are the ones responsible for the mess the Democratic Party is in. THEY are the ones responsible for knocking out Senator Clinton because BANTAMWEIGHT BARRY couldnt. Clinton has had their t*ts in a ringer for 16 MONTHS and they still havent been able to do it. hahaha and theyve got the DNC and MSM and all the obamabots helping them out. GOD BLESS AMERICA. oops i mean NO, NO, NO, GOD DAMN AMERICA OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT BY OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN SPIRITUAL ADVISOR TO OBAMA CRAZY OLD UNCLE JEREMIAH WRIGHT. hahahahaha
Comment: "The characterization of Republican presidential campaigns as nothing more than
attack machines that use 527s and other means to smear opponents strikes us as pretty
offensive."
To quote President Obama, "It is what it is." Whether it offends the delicate sensibilities of the McCain campaign or not, that is how the modern GOP operates. Since Karl Rove and other dirty tricksters (not to mention every known lobbyist on the face of the earth) are advisors to the McCain campaign, it is safe to assume that the swiftboatery will come thick and fast.
Comment: o yes, donot speak anything against the Messiah. Let him rule the world. Halleluiah. I should think Republicans will learn a lesson from Hilary. She kept quiet in the beginning, she lost. Go read this weeks Time. See how manipulative this guys is. Everything we have been trying to say. .. how he switches from Black and white.. Palestine ang Jews.. Pr o- iran and anti pakistan... His biggest ace is his stance aginst the war (against his brother). Please don ot tell e that he has never beem Mulsim .
Comment: Marsha is so stupid.
Messiah? Muslim. Welcome to stupid America, where the idiots can read the article - and ignore it.
Is McCain your Messiah marsha?
Comment: John Sidney Mccain War Record - Part II - From Internet Research:
After being drug from the lake, a mob gathered around McCain, spit on him, kicked him and stripped him of his clothing. He was bayoneted in his left foot and his shoulder crushed by a rifle butt. He was then transported to the Hoa Lo Prison, also known as the Hanoi Hilton.
After being periodically slapped around for "three or four days" by his captors who wanted military information, McCain called for an officer on his fourth day of captivity. He told the officer, "O.K., I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital." -U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain.
"Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate. Eventually, I gave them my ship's name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant." Page 193-194, Faith of My Fathers by John McCain.
When the communist learned that McCain's father was Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., the soon-to-be commander of all U.S. Forces in the Pacific, he was rushed to Gai Lam military hospital (U.S. government documents), a medical facility normally unavailable for U.S. POWs.
The communist Vietnamese figured, because POW McCain's father was of such high military rank, that he was of royalty or the governing circle. Thereafter the communist bragged that they had captured "the crown prince."
For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.
"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs -- the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. "Since McCain got 28 medals," Bell continues, "that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys -- grunts on the ground -- who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I'm sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down."
For years, McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an overly friendly and biased news media. The former POW turned Congressman, turned U.S. Senator, has managed to gloss over his failures as a pilot and collaborations with the enemy by exaggerating his military service and lying about his feats of heroism.
McCain has sprouted a halo and wings to become America's POW-hero presidential candidate.
Comment: without wasting time, you may try this: lie on you r back, and spit into air. See what happens. Trying to make a swiftboat about nothing. Why don't you see this: being an admiral's son, did he have an opportunity not to be in the harm's way?
Also, you will say this about a soldier who got killed by a road side bomb in Iraq? without getting any real "combat hours?". Idiot, you should know that this will backfire.
Comment: Copied and pasted verbatim from internet research:
Part 1:
Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been allowed in the cockpit of a military aircraft..
[More:]
His father John S. "Junior" McCain was commander of U.S. forces in Europe later becoming commander of American forces in Vietnam while McCain III was being held prisoner of war. McCain III's grandfather John S. McCain, Sr. commanded naval aviation at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents and one in combat.
Robert Timberg, author of The Nightingale's Song, a book about Annapolis graduates and their tours in Vietnam, wrote that McCain "learned to fly at Pensacola, though his performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it."
McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom.
McCain's second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. "Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula," Timberg wrote, "he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral."
McCain's third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game.
Timberg reported that McCain radioed, "I've got a flameout" and went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees.
McCain's fourth aircraft loss occurred July 29, 1967, soon after he was assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While seated in the cockpit of his aircraft waiting his turn for takeoff, an accidently fired rocket slammed into McCain's plane. He escaped from the burning aircraft, but the explosions that followed killed 134 sailors, destroyed at least 20 aircraft, and threatened to sink the ship.
McCain's fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain's A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms and a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi.
Comment: The Indiana blogger displays the typical Liberal rage---all emotion, no facts. You're paying for $4 a gallon gas because your liberal Democrat reps and senators, financed by the econuts, won't allow oil drilling offshore or in ANWR. Try putting a windmill on your car and see how far you'll go.
Comment: Oh yes I forgot the offshore drilling will save us!!! Let us chant and pray :) Such a classic excuse on your part who knows the fact. If anything fails we can also blame someone else. When does the party ever have some responsibility for what they do. Of couse you are going to blame Liberal Democrats for this war right? Does the blaming game ever end? The Republicans are always right and when something is not working eveyrone else is to blame. Divine right without logic. Is this the fact you are referring to?
Comment: Quick quiz: When was the last oil refinery built and why has it been so long since the last one's construction?
Hint: Not Republicans.
Extra Credit: Why is there not more use of the much cleaner and beneficial nuclear power?
Hint: Not Republican.
Comment: I can't believe the lunacy on these boards:
Refineries haven't been built because they are so expensive and the returns are so low it takes decades to recover the cost. Red tape is a deterrent sure enough, but if there was enough profit in building them, it would get done. That's neither a left of right issue. It's an ROI issue.
Since the Three Mile Island accident, nobody wants nuclear plants built near their communities. Radiation doesn't care if you're a Rebuplican or Democrat. The Nuclear industry itself has done a piss poor job of publicizing it's safety improvements over the past three decades. But even if it did, my guess is people would still object vehemently to a plant being near them.
People are so busy boiling everything down to issues of left vs right, and then playing the blame game. No wonder nothing gets done in this country.
Comment: Or it could people that Nuclear Power had been so demonized by environmental groups that public opinion of it shifted regardless of the facts. Then, to show that fate has a sense of humor, environmentalists are having to backpedal to embrace it to be able to support a legimate alternative energy.
As for oil refineries, why is all that cost and red tape there? Just because it gives Congress a thrill? It was done to appease environmental groups. Your right that it is an ROI issue, but that issue was made because environmentalists made it too costly to build refineries.
Comment: Republicans claiming to be the moral compass of the people?? Let's put all cards on the table here. The Republicans have an entire Network working for her, the prostituted Fox Network and they are talking about moral compass because Newsweek has exposed their candidate for who he is? another warmongering pandering rich retiree who wants to continue a war so that he can fix it, as if this is a game he can replay on the blood of thousands of Americans. Let's see, how about Rush Limbaugh, the scum of the racist Universe who encouraged people to vote for Clinton even if they hate her to keep the Democratic campaign going so that it can benefit them? And I know this for a fact since unfortunately I live in Indiana. People in Indiana who told me they voted like this are people whom I no longer speak because how corrupt can a human being become when anyone would abuse the right to vote in such a way when it was given to us by our forefathers to honor. As if the Republicans can actually hide the fact that the uneducated racist KKK links are not even there. Like I said I experienced this first hand since I lived all my life in Indiana. Republicans have destroyed this country hiding behing religion, sexism, and racism and here we are today with an unending war, thousands of casualties and a failing economy. Even if I have the heart to excuse this war and the failing economy what excuses can the Republicans offer for betraying the American people by turning this country into a military machine with corrupt rich and a disappearing middle class. Tomorrow I shall go to work and I still have to pay $4.00 for my gas and what does Bush do? Like Cheney said: "so?" In other words, "Let them eat Cake!" I don't care if the Republicans win or lose anymore, their corruption has seeped so deep into our souls we can't even begin to describe the damage it has done to our society's moral fabric. Enough excuses. A little too late for that.
Comment: Hekabe, if you want to put FOX News in the (R) column, it is only fair to put CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and most other media outlets into the (D) column. Sure seems to me like the Dems come out way ahead on media coverage.
As for your gas prices, like Jumonth said above, you pay $4.00 for gas partly because the Democrats who control congress refuse to allow the United States to drill for the abundant oil that is available here. With the economies of China and India rapidly developing and demanding more oil, unless we increase supply the price will continue to escalate. We can increase supply by drilling for our own oil. It's simple Econ 101. It works the same for Republicans and Democrats. Perhaps you should do some reading.
Comment: The fault for lack of drilling goes both ways. The Rebublican Governor and Republican state legislature here in FL won't allow drilling off our coast. Besides drilling for new supply would take 10-20 years to have an impact on the price of oil. In that time, we can be well on our way to other energy sources benefitting us substantially. Or, given the right legislation, energy efficiencies can be improved to the point where our demand for oil is curbed.
Bush will not release any of the strategic reserve to help ease the pressure on the market in spite of the fact that the reserve is 97% full. However, I'm guessing if he wanted to release some of it, those in Congress who are currently for it, would then be against it. Ahh, Washington partisans.
Comment: This magazine does a disservice to journalism with this tripe.. have conservatives used negative campaign tactics, of course.. but they are matched by those from across the aisle, and this magazine shows itself to be bought and paid for or hopelessly naive by slating the story so far in one direction. Anyone remember a story on Bush's military service on a major network based on forged documents? A front-page allegation of an affair against Senator McCain based on no proof? Or the ads run against Bush trying to tie him to that horrible racial murder in Texas? Listen to the Netroots today, the MoveOn.org comments slamming McCain, and you might find just a vital source of negative campaigning about to overtake our country.. a well-funded source, by the way - one that might deserve more than passing mention in your sorry excuse for a journalistic exercise.
Perhaps your ombudsman might want to weigh in on this, or even a first year journalism student.. you've done a shoddy job here.
Comment: Most of these bloggers have no recollection at all of the events you speak of. They were in 8th grade last election. And the rest will call you a liar,
Comment: I'm not partial to either party and have voted for Bush and Kerry in the last two elections. After reading only a few lines of the cover story, I laughed at the ignorance of the piece. Sadly, most Americans probably think your magazine is just reporting the news. How you can make such baseless claims attacking the Republicans as fear mongers is beyond my comprehension. All policitians feed on fear. How about the Dubai Ports World situation? Democrats lined up to scare the American public so that they could protect their union constituents. Bush was one of the few that actually got the situation right. In fact, Wolf Blitzer even went to Dubai and got confirmation from a Naval Commander that security was better there than in America. But I digress...you get my point. Shame on you.
Comment: I am crying crockidile tears for the Repulblican Party. They sure have dished it out over the last 30 years, and whine, when their tricks are used, on them. To even bring up Hamas is just as bad a saying Obama has lunch with Hamas.....Whisper campaigns, is what GW Shrub did to McCain in 2000 and in 2008. All McCain did is plant a seed, and that's all it takes. so Mr Salter is full of it. Good luck to us all.
Comment: I seem to recall some pretty sleazy guys working for Bill clinton ---- Paul Begala and James Carville. If you want to talk about attack dogs, look no further than these 2 Democrats.
Republicans didn't bring up Hamas' endorsement of Barack Obama. The Hamas guy that was interviewed offered up that nugget. There has got to be some reason why Hamas wants him to be President. Let's see, Hamas likes him, he will talk unconditionally with our enemies, his Houston campaign office had a big poster of Che Guevarra in it, anti-American pastor and spiritual advisor, William Ayres..... I see a pattern forming.
Comment: You cannot possibly believe that Democrats do not engage in the very same tactics. Nobody can be that naive. Politics is called a "blood sport" for very real reasons. One does not play nice when trying to defeat an opponent. Exposing the negative aspects of your opponent is just as valid and effective as explaining why you would make a good candidate. This is nothing new. Look at the campaigns of our founding fathers. They could sling mud with the best of them.
Comment: Guess you will be crying real tears when all the FACTs on Hussein replay over and over...
Comment: Whhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Mommy
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