All Posts Tagged With: "2008 Elections"

Third party spoilers have no steam in ‘08

Before the Presidential elections in 2000, the most popular way of describing Ralph Nader was “the safety belt” guy. After the elections, the description changed to “the spoiler”. Democrats openly blamed him for stealing votes from Al Gore and Republicans secretly thanked him for the same. And of course, it wasn’t the first time a [...]

August 13th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Finally Barack Obama is losing the election

Republican presidential candidate John McCain might not be winning the race at this point of time, but Democratic candidate Barack Obama is definitely losing it already. This might sound strange to anyone who is still in awe with his recent speeches but the ground realities as indicated in polls tell a different story.
For the first [...]

August 3rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Fox News Sunday host continues misquoting Obama

Four days after Dana Milbank’s first misquoted Democratic Presidential candidate Obama in a Washington Post report, and also four days after his assertion was repudiated by various people who actually attended the meeting, Fox News Channel host Chris Wallace continued to “quote” Obama with the incorrect one on his Fox News Sunday program. The quote [...]

August 3rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

McCain confused about his own tax policy?

John McCain used to be very sure that he will be able to stay away from new taxes while balancing the budget by the end of his first term, thanks to the Holy Grail of pork-barrel spending. He has frequently promised not to raise new taxes and in fact has criticized Obama for not supporting [...]

July 29th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued