When the Prince of Darkness Karl Rove says you are going too far in your campaign and being dishonest, you know you have a problem.
In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Rove slams the McCain Campaign:
McCain has gone in some of his ads — similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the ‘100 percent truth’ test. …They ought to — there ought to be an adult who says, ‘Do we really need to go that far in this ad’?
I never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I agree with Karl Rove. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little…
More – including the new hard-hitting Obama ad – after the jump.
In yet another sign of the “enthusiasm gap” between supporters of Barack Obama and supporters of John McCain comes this clever and funny take on Les Miserables.
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There may have been a time when John McCain could have been considered a “maverick,” but that time has clearly come and gone. McCain has hired Karl Rove’s henchmen to run what even the traditional media is calling one of the nastiest campaigns in recent memory.
You may have heard the reports that as mayor of Wasilla Sarah Palin considered banning books from the local library. Now the traditional media is finally picking up on the story. Among the book she may have looked into banning was Pastor, I am Gayby former PFLAG regional director Reverend Howard Bess.
Palin, now the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996 with strong support from the Wasilla Assembly of God. The Assembly of God is well known for preaching anti-gay rhetoric from the pulpit.
Good Morning America aired this investigative report into the controversy:
Here is a new McCain-Palin ad in which Barack Obama’s usage of the old “lipstick on a pig” cliché is being unfairly decontextualized so that it’s made to sound like a pointed reference to Palin:
But beyond the “lipstick” comment itself, there are several other points of opportunistic impropriety here. Like, for instance — what campaign was Katie Couric actually talking about when referencing sexism? Was “that campaign” referring to Obama’s, as Team McCain implies, or was it referring to…
In this must see video Joan Garry, co-chair of the Obama campaign’s LGBT Finance Committee and former Executive Director of GLAAD, Log Cabin Republican Executive Director Patrick Sammon and Washington Blade Editor Kevin Naff discuss the presidential elections. The video is featured on Logo.
Garry gives an impassioned rationale for why LGBT voters and our friends and families must vote for Sen. Barack Obama. As expected, Sammon made excuses for Sen. John McCain’s failure to include LGBT people in his convention speech or even express any support whatsoever for LGBT civil rights.
Despite the spin being put on John McCain’s anti-gay record by Log Cabin Republicans, there is ample evidence that McCain is no “maverick” on LGBT equality. As an example check out this ad from 2006 promoting an anti-gay constitutional amendment in in Arizona:
You don’t have to be all that smart to get how dumb it is that more than 50 military-trained Arabic linguists have been fired for being gay when we are fighting two wars in countries were the predominant language is Arabic. In all, some 12,000 soldiers have been kicked out of the military for being gay or just being rumored to be gay. That’s one of the reasons I don’t understand Republican presidential candidate John McCain statement on repealing the current ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers:
“So I think it would be a terrific mistake to even reopen the issue. It is working my friends. The policy is working.”
I mean seriously. 9/11 happened in part because our intelligence agencies did not have enough trained Arabic linguists to translate the backlog of intercepted messages and McCain supports the firing of dozens of Arabic specialists because they may be a little too attached to their collection of Madonna memorabilia?
More than 25 of our allied countries including our international BFF Great Britain allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly and proudly while McCain wants the military to continue engaging in witchhunts, electronic snooping and gossip-mongering.