The Week Americans Reclaimed Their Country

For eight years, we’ve been told by those in power that we are small, bigoted and stupid — easily divided and easily frightened. This was the toxic catechism of Bush-Rove politics. It was the soiled banner picked up by the sad McCain campaign, and it was often abetted by an amen corner in the dominant [...]

Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad

With despair rising even among many of John McCain’s own advisers, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering — much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.
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Troopergate: Not Over Yet

A new Alaska legislative report finding that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power and violated state ethics laws spells new trouble for the McCain campaign. Special counsel Steve Branchflower’s report could lead to fines or legislative action to censure Palin.
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Kerry Slams McCain

Barack Obama was the first person to speak and lay out at that meeting at the White House for about seven or eight minutes the entire parameters of what we had resolved. John McCain, when offered the opportunity to speak, passed, didn’t speak until the very end, and when he spoke, [...]

John McCain and the Lying Game

Almost every politician stretches the truth. We journalists try to point out the exaggerations and criticize them, then let the voters decide. When McCain says, for example, that Barack Obama favors a government-run health-care system, he’s not telling the truth — Obama wants a market-based system subsidized by the government — but McCain’s untruth illuminates [...]

The McCain Lie

Obama Is The Only Remaining Green Candidate, Says Times’ Friedman

As we emerge from Labor Day, college students are gathering back on campuses not only to start the fall semester, but also, in some cases, to vote for the first time in a presidential election. There is no bigger issue on campuses these days than environment/energy. Going into this election, I thought that — for [...]

Former POW: McCain is not cut out to be President

Is McCain out of his mind?

John McCain needs what Kinky Friedman calls “a checkup from the neck up.”

In choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, he is not thinking “outside the box,” as some have said. More like out of his mind.
 

Palin a first-term governor of a state with more reindeer than people, will have to put [...]

More than 84,000 attend Obama speech

More than 84,000 people have jammed into Invesco Field at Mile High stadium to hear Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech, city officials say.
Nancy Kuhn of Denver’s public works department says the figure is based on the number of credentials that were scanned as delegates, individuals and news media entered the football stadium where Obama was [...]