Plunderbund

Normal people average about 10 blinks per minute.
In this 1 minute interview I count John McCain blinking over 90 times!

According to Wikipedia: “excessive blinking may help to indicate the onset of Tourette syndrome, strokes or disorders of the nervous system” or it maybe just be anxiety.
Do you think John McCain really wants to “welcome” Bob […]

This weekend I saw this piece of an interview with Ken Blackwell on CNN. In it Ken claims “John McCain is willing to stand before African American voters and say ‘I care’.”

It’s nice to see that McCain found at least one black Republican to support him.
Unfortunately, Blackwell’s claim just isn’t true. Sure, […]

Reading the Dispatch blog this morning I came across an interesting piece of information: the Ohio Supreme Court has a mandatory retirement age of 70.
It turns out a mandatory retirement age of 70 is actually pretty common. Even the Catholic Church has a mandatory retirement age of 70 for priests.
Since it seems […]

Is it just me or does Cindy McCain come across as kind of creepy and disconnected from reality?
Maybe it’s the botox and the too-perfect eyebrows.
Or maybe it’s her smug, I’m-better-than-you-because-I-adopted-a-brown-baby, I’m-so-rich-I-can-spend-all-my-time-volunteering attitude that seems to permeate every thing she says.
Elitist. I think that’s the word I’m looking for.
Anyway- in another attempt […]

The LA Times ran an interesting piece this morning about John McCain’s lack of support among social conservatives in Ohio.
I found it especially interesting that the McCain people are now trying to avoid associations with wing-nuts like Phil Burress - even though they worked hard to get his endorsement during the primary.
After a recent meeting […]

So McCain “released” his medical records today.
In case you haven’t been following this, “released” means that he let a couple of reporters review 1,173 pages of medical records for 3 hours. No copies. No pictures. Just notes.
Fucked up, right?
I figured CNN would send crack medical reporter Sanjay Gupta, and I was right.
I […]

It turns out John McCain is actually kind of funny.
In this clip from last night’s Saturday Night Live he makes fun of his age and promises to cut wasteful spending on things like gaydar jamming devices…
“I don’t know if it’s anti-gay or pro-gay or if such a device would even work. I just […]

In a speech today at Wake-Forest University, McCain “vowed to model his Supreme Court appointees after George W. Bush’s” - i.e. radical, right-wing judges who want to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away reproductive rights from America’s women.
McCain also attacked a 2005 Supreme Court decision that “barred capital punishment for murderers who were under […]

The RNC is really worried about the DNC’s new anti-McCain ad. So much so that they are threatening legal action…

“As a legal matter,” RNC chairman Mike Duncan said today, this is a “maliciously false” campaign ad. “The advertisement in question falsely and maliciously” quotes Sen. McCain as saying that extending the war in Iraq […]

John McCain’s campaign announced that Mitt Romney will be campaigning for John in Lancaster, PA tomorrow.
Man I hope he gets a bunch of questions about the polygamist Mormons in Eldorado Texas!
If you think working class folks in PA are turned off by Pastor Wright…

An interesting new Gallup Poll asked:
Who do you LEAST want to see elected president this year.
40% - John McCain
36% - Hillary Clinton
20% - Barack Obama
More good news for Obama!
A disturbing side note: 12% of the people who chose Obama did so because they believe (incorrectly) that he is a Muslim.
I’m pretty sure, however, that this […]

How quickly do you think the likes of Ben Keeler and his cohorts (so very caught up with Obama’s pastors words) will mention this one:
Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a “war” against the “false religion” of Islam with the aim of […]

It’s not often that two things I’m fairly well addicted to converge, but this might be it. I love politics - can’t stay away from it no matter how hard I try. This should be fairly well known to those who have been reading PB over the course of the last 2 1/2 […]

This:

Made me think of this:
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oh, and this too:
“John Kerry is a close friend of mine. We have been friends for years,” McCain said Wednesday when pressed to squelch speculation about a Kerry-McCain ticket. “Obviously I would entertain it.”
How much fun is this gonna be? Hillary, come on. Step aside already so we can […]