Mysterious E-mail

Here's another little tidbit from Joe Klein...

http:www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1842030,00.html

Sent by Dan | 4:19 PM | 9-19-2008

Looks to me like someone read the headline and not the content of the article, then sent it along.

Sent by Dana Kletchka | 4:38 PM | 9-19-2008

Ouch.

Sent by Mike | 4:55 PM | 9-19-2008

Maybe this is a new campaign gimmick called honesty!

Sent by Shannon | 5:04 PM | 9-19-2008

I think the Mccain campaign is desensitized to the claim they are running a dishonest campaign. So its good news for them to read, anything at all, that brings the Obama camp down to their level. How sweet it is!

Sent by Paul Hackett | 5:26 PM | 9-19-2008

Effing hilarious.

Sent by Rachel | 6:29 PM | 9-19-2008

I know you're trying to be funny, but the point they're trying to make is that even dyed in the wool Democrats who think McCain is doing sleazy advertising think that Obama is going too far. It DOESN'T mean that the sender agrees with Klein that his own candidate is in the wrong. It'd be like me forwarding along an email from Howard Zinn who says "While I think that America is usually in the wrong, Ward Churchill goes too far in saying that the people in the WTC were little Eichmanns". Does me forwarding along the Zinn email automatically make me agree with Zinn? Nope, and the same rule applies to the email in question here.

Sent by Matt | 6:37 PM | 9-19-2008

McCain not only didn't utter "immigration" (nor did anyone, I think) in the Convention - he then saw the writing on the wall and co-opted Obama's longtime message of Change. I wonder why immigration as a word wasn't front & center those 3 days?

But what do you expect from a mummified presidential candidate who's been in DC (23? 26? years) and is somehow "not" part of this economic collapse while Obama, he claims, is. He's had 20-some years to deal with immigration and is from a state on the front of immigration - why is this still even an issue?

I actually thought McCain was a pretty honorable guy and I essentially breathe a great sigh of relief thinking that he's at least a genious compared to Bush. But since he chose Palin - an obvious extremist and ironical figure in more ways than I can state here - and now seems to be just be flailing and waffling, going off into nowhere lately, I certainly understand how terrible a presidency his would have been.

I'm just glad we're all seeing now - how he & Palin are unraveling given very little pressure - after all - the first debate (if it will truly be one) hasn't even begun, and even then - Palin's "debate" is still two weeks away (study up "my friend")

Sent by Kevin Caldwell | 6:44 PM | 9-19-2008

Based on what I've heard about McCain's computer skills, this must've been his first email!

Sent by Regina Caldwell | 8:06 PM | 9-19-2008

It would be difficult for McCain to repudiate Rush Limbaugh who has been for many years the chief propagandist for the republican party.

They've been using Rush and his groupthink dittoheads for long enough and it's time for them to see what a liability these idiots actually are.

Sent by Thomas Meek | 9:46 AM | 9-20-2008

A McCain/Pain administration is quite likely the worst possible thing that could happen to our country.

This particular article by Sam Harris should be required reading for all potential voters: http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080/page/1

On top of that, NPR (and other major news outlets) could do America a favor and thoroughly investigate exactly what Governor Palin's religious beliefs are, and exactly how they are likely to affect her policy decisions should she find herself stepping in for McCain as president.

Sent by jonathon, pdx | 4:23 AM | 9-21-2008

jonathon...the link you supplied is rubbish. He is an elitist. Like all he looks down his nose at those unwashed and unlearned. What he doesn't realize is that academia has no place in politics because you actually have to associate with this unwashed. If nothing else he is a hypocrit. Why not add restrictions to voting. Anyone who has under a 3.8 G.P.A. in college cannot vote. Of course only college graduates need apply.

And rather than investigate Palin's religious beliefs (which sounds very Stalinesque) let's look at how Obama was influenced under Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers and the CAC...or what the WSJ calls "guilt by participation". Of course any investigation (at all) into Obama's background would be welcome and very long overdue.

Sent by Mike Cloghessy | 1:05 AM | 9-24-2008