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Contributed by Cary Briel / Skaneateles
The Jewish Alliance for Change, a pro-Obama group, is launching a series of three ads in swing states that use humor and celebrity narration to go after John McCain. An ad titled “Ain’t Funny — Vice President” features old-time movie and TV stars such as Carl Reiner, Danny Devito, and Jerry Stiller riffing on topics ranging from the price of gas (“it costs more than the car”) to health care and Sarah Palin. “He wants to put that girl who winks in the second position,” says Reiner, of Oceans 11, 12, and 13 fame, “Oh God, we are in trouble.”
Continue reading...Contributed by: Cary Briel / Skaneateles
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka offers this moving defense of Barack Obama against racial attacks.
Contributed by Cary Briel / Skaneateles
One might argue that the real John McCain is well illustrated in the videos below. Many insiders who know John McCain have hinted about Mr. McCain’s testiness and temper, and we’ve seen some examples of it in the press. He seems pretty good at hiding this aspect of his personality in most cases, but I would suggest that cool heads need to prevail after 8 years of the current president and vice-president. The following are three clips taken from an interview of John McCain by the Des Moines Register.
UPDATE:
Politico reports more McCain testiness on October 2, 2008:
“We just followed McCain down the steps following the vote to ask him about the reaction of House Republicans to the vote. He didn’t appreciate the company.
McCain: “Excuse me, you’re bothering me.”
Politico: “I’m bothering you?”
McCain: “Excuse me, I have to go.”
Maybe it’s time for McCain to retire if he’s so bothered. Article here.
Contributed by Cary Briel
When I first moved to Skaneateles, I talked for a while to the lawyer for the seller of our house in the front yard, mainly about the Skaneateles area, and I remember that he joked with me that he was the sole Democrat in Skaneateles to show up for Democratic primaries. At the time, I just laughed, and said “I’ll bet!” That was almost 20 years ago. Interestingly, John McCain has set forth a health plan that may effectively tax health benefits for some workers, primarily those with high incomes and/or expensive health plans. This would seem to apply to many people in Skaneateles, hitting them right in the pocket book, right at a time when expenses are soaring for fuel, food, and many other necessities. Here’s a video of Joe Biden discussing McCain’s plans to treat certain health insurance premiums as taxable income if he’s elected, possibly making the plan the largest tax increase on middle-class tax payers in American history. You can read more about it in this New York Times article. The article also describes how John McCain has advocated the “free market approach” (read: deregulation) as the approach to make health insurance more affordable.
