Daily Archives: September 5, 2008

Republicans’ story engine creaking to a halt…

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 5, 2008

McCain’s presentation at the RNC included the image of Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, CA on the big screen behind him…. TPM offers speculation about the irrelevancy. A soldier’s funeral flag folding ceremony was revealed by CBS to be stock footage from Getty Images. No real widows had to suffer to put a [...]

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Obama in Fox News Interview

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 5, 2008

I wish he wasn’t a war mongering imperialist, but at least he’s a principled, intelligent, diplomatic war mongering imperialist and running dog of the international corporate elite.

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Executioner’s Thong

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 5, 2008

Much has been made of the “executive” experience of half-term Governor Palin (Alaska). Running smoothly on some combination of Astroglide and Chutzpah, this week the Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin asserted that she “knows how to execute.” George W. Bush knew how to execute too. According to the ‘pedia, “During his tenure, Bush signed the [...]

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