attack ads

Oh lordy. I've been suffering from a bit of insomnia lately and spend a lot of time late at night surfing, reading and farting around. Maybe I wasn't paying this much attention in 04, but it seems to me that this particular political season, the attack ads and parodies online have been nothing short of spectacular!

Check out these juvenile attack ads by the McCain campaign against Obama:

Check out these juvenile attack ads by the McCain campaign against Obama:
The first,  calling him a Marxist, and the second equating him with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears… (a la the infamous TN GOP Harold Ford Playboy ad).
Obama’s response.
How would you characterize this quote?
“What you’re going to see is [...]

OK, in truth, I don’t know if this is factual but it is terrifyingly possible, since the price of crude went up $5 a barrel yesterday alone. Over at Random Mumblings, Jack Lail quotes from a Fast Company interview of T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman.

OK, in truth, I don’t know if this is factual but it is terrifyingly possible, since the price of crude went up $5 a barrel yesterday alone. Over at Random Mumblings, Jack Lail quotes from a Fast Company interview of T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman.

MSNBC and the AP have just called the Congressional special election for Democrat Travis Childer in Mississippi's 1st District, one of the most solidly Republican districts in the US. A district that went for GW Bush in 2004 by 25 percentage points.

MSNBC and the AP have just called the Congressional special election for Democrat Travis Childer in Mississippi’s 1st District, one of the most solidly Republican districts in the US. A district that went for GW Bush in 2004 by 25 percentage points. Despite the millions of dollars of attack ads, despite personal campaign [...]

Mark Mays reports that Republicans are looking to get involved in the Democratic primary in North Carolina: