Posts Tagged as ‘corruption’

September 22, 2008

ouch! John McCain’s campaign manager made almost $2 million from 2000-2002

From the NY Times:
Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations.
This is near insulting to sit here and listen to John claim to be a [...]

September 16, 2008

Hey Ball State, Republican Kaye Whitehead says your too stupid to vote!

From the Star Press, Republican Party chairman Kaye Whitehead states “she [is] concerned early voting on campus would encourage uninformed students to cast ballots.”  BSU Cardinals, are you really uninformed youth?  I think not!  This is clearly a fear of the youth/college vote that is traditionally in Obama’s court.
Voting is supposed to be easy.  Nowhere [...]

September 12, 2008

How do you counter the short-sided, absurd phenomena that is “Drill, baby drill”?

Frame it as the scandal it is.  Re-define the “Drill Baby, Drill” the phenomena that is has become.  Use ThinkProgress.org’s phrasing ”Drill Baby, Drill Scandal”.  Call it “Sex, Drugs, Oil”.  It doesn’t matter (though please avoid using anything with the ‘gate’ suffix.  It’s terribly uncreative and overused). 
Relentlessly.pound.this.into.the.public’s.head.   
Instead of Democrats caving and joining in to support ‘limited’ domestic drilling, use the gift that [...]