- We did an interview with Colorado Springs CBS affiliate KKTV. I yammered on and on. Hence our smiling faces are used as b-roll (that’s documentary talk for “stuff you use to fill the gaps between your important stuff”) in their Convention day 2 report.
- Read German? Able to muddle through a bit of German, half-remembered from high school? Good then, you can read Matthias Bernhold’s coverage of our searing revelations:
Dan Casey aus Philadelphia, der eine Dokumentarfilmcrew mit einem Blog begleitet, sieht das Ganze dennoch kritisch. „In Wahrheit sitzen hier vier Dutzend Blogger und machen das, was sie auch daheim könnten: Abschreiben, was sie im Fernsehen sehen.“
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1 tomcasey // Aug 28, 2008 at 8:31 pm
After hearing Joe Biden’s story and reading the Philadelphia Inquirer’s reporting about Jill Biden, I followed the Carol Mc Cain trail (mostly derived from the London Mail story)on Google. It looks like family values won’t be a big Republican feature this year, unless infidelity, wife dumping and trophy wives fit that rubric. Since the Democratic ticket seems to have longstanding and unfakably solid family stories on its side, I’m waiting eagerly for someone to develop easily decipherable code phrases to contrast them with Mc Cain and his running mate. If it’s Joe Lieberman (Though as far as I could tell it was religious observance he placed ahead of his first wife, not another woman. Maybe that plays well with fundamentalists? ), the slogan could be “Two men-two religions-four wives!”
No wonder Hillary is the Mc Cain campaign’s new heroine. She stands by her man politically even after he’s cheated on her, just like Carol.
I see her son, Andrew ne Swanson Mc Cain, resigned as a bank auditor in Nevada recently. He’s also on officer in Cindy’s beer business. It sounds too arcane for sound bites, but someone should try.
2 noah // Aug 28, 2008 at 8:46 pm
wow, what a brutal attack on the personal lives of the republican candidates. i know we’re democrats and we’re trying to win an election in which there is a lot at stake, but do we have to be so hateful?
3 tomcasey // Aug 28, 2008 at 10:47 pm
A brutal attack or the truth? When Bill Clinton was running for his second term, a conservative acquaintance stated he wasn’t voting for a philanderer (or was it only a DEMOCRATIC philanderer?).
If the personal is political, how you treat your (disabled ,disfigured) wife is a valid issue. If you dump her when she’s not simpatico, what are your values? These aren’t rumors about Mc Cain, they’re documented. I’m much angrier about him reneging on his condemnation of torture than about how he treated Carol, but maybe betraying one trust leads to betraying the next one.
Lieberman I doubt will be the VP choice, but if he were, my values say your realtionship with your spouse IS your relationship with God. So consider it a quirk of mine to judge someone for placing institutional religion above the personal (and all this is only what I saw in Wikpedia). If I liked him otherwise I might overlook it, but since I don’t, I choose not to.
As for Andrew Mc Cain, I don’t know much about him, and I think it’s fine to help your stepson, but I’m enough of a leftie cynic to suspect something fishy.
Swift boating John Kerry is hate. Corsi’s new book ‘Obamanation’- that’s hate.
Is it hateful to point out double standards and hypocrisy? I honestly don’t feel hate. I just don’t want the GOP to have a free pass where they’re vulnerable. If the GOP candidate were Chuck Hagel, Mike Huckabee, Sam Brownback, I’d have plenty of reasons to argue with them, but fake family values and hypocrisy wouldn’t be among them. I’m just calling it as I see it, sorry if it sounds h-ful.
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5 nskaroff // Aug 29, 2008 at 12:57 am
i’m not saying that the decisions the candidates have made in their personal lives are irrelevant. i agree that those decisions reflect directly on the strengths and weaknesses of their character. however, any discussion of private matters where we have only limited information should be sober and serious, especially when the stakes are so high. my issue is with the giddiness with which we tear them down.
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