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Monday, October 6, 2008 12:00 AM

John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today

The increasingly petty and ugly attacks on Barack Obama by a desperate, dying movement are a microcosm of the last eight years.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 03:05 PM

    Obama is playing it right, playing it cool, Dukakis is wrong

    The reason Obama won the Pres. debate, and Biden won the V.P. debate, and their poll numbers are rising, is because they're adults. Obama's staying above the fray as McCain muddies himself further.

    McCain sneers about associations, Palins mocks him, then there are plenty of people out there that show McCain's and Palin's are comparable or worse. Obama responds that McCain is looking erratic. I think that's devastating, even if less flashy than Obama attacking. Obama's camp doesn't even have to do it, the liberals are energized and are fully capable of using "the google".

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