November 1, 2008
It is difficult for me to convey the importance of the next four days to you folks, especially as its halloween tonight and Americans love celebrating this day and therefore I’m slightly drunk. Anyway. It’s 4 days until the election. For the Obama campaign its the culmination of 20 month...
go to article »October 31, 2008
Joe Klein at Time blog: Here we have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism–a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefor...
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The magazine says: The Economist does not have a vote, but if it did, it would cast it for Mr Obama. We do so wholeheartedly: the Democratic candidate has clearly shown that he offers the better chance of restoring America’s self-confidence. But we acknowledge it is a gamble. Given Mr Obama...
go to article »October 28, 2008
When I say the ground operations that Obama’s team have put together on the ground are huge, what I really mean to say is that they are bloody massive. Last weekend alone hundreds of Californians, and myself, drove down to the neighbouring swing state of Nevada (Las Vegas) just so they could k...
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My only response to this story is: LOL. Clearly, not enough Jews are reading Mad Mel Phillips and her attempts to tell us that an Obama candidacy, the man apparently with “a Muslim heritage” (cue scary music) will lead us into the end of the world for All Freedom Loving People. All you f...
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One of the key points I made in my “Can we give the white working classes what they want” speech at the Fabian event at the Labour Party conference was that a lot of middle class white commentators on this country - people like Rod Liddle for example - use the working classes to project ...
go to article »October 22, 2008
Discussing the rise and then sudden collapse of support for Sarah Palin is likely to be the biggest story if John McCain loses the American election in less than two weeks time. When she was unveiled as the candidate, right-wingers mostly swooned over her (incl. Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes) while the...
go to article »October 21, 2008
Hi everyone. After back-packing around India, Nepal and Pakistan - I’m now temporarily in the USA. My aim here is to learn from the Obama campaign’s ground operation. I’m also volunteering for this historic election. Hell, if and when he wins, wouldn’t you want to be here to ...
go to article »October 16, 2008
(cross-posted over from Liberal Conspiracy) Watching the final presidential debate between McCain and Barack Obama was a frustrating one for a strong supporter of Obama like me. Obama didn’t attack back enough; he didn’t point out that Sarah Palin was clearly unfit to be president; he di...
go to article »October 14, 2008
From the latest ABC polls: The economy is not the only wind at Obama’s back. McCain’s receiving blowback for what’s perceived as negative campaigning; registered voters by 59-35 percent say he’s been mainly attacking Obama rather than addressing the issues. Obama, by contrast, is seen by an ...
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