Original Mavericks To McCain: "You're No Maverick"

Fontaine Maverick, great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870) explains the origin of the expression -- and why it shouldn't apply to the Republican candidate:

Gambling's Go-To-Guy

The clean-election group Campaign Money Watch announced just now that a new ad going after McCain for his ties to the gambling industry, will be airing two battleground locales -- Lynchburg, Virginia and Tallahassee, Florida -- in addition to national cable:

JOE McCain Abuses 911

This call came into Alexandria's 911 system on October 21 -

Operator: 911 state your emergency

Caller: It's not an emergency, but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic's coming the other way?

Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)

Caller: "(Expletive) you." (caller hangs up)

The complaint call about traffic on the Wilson Bridge forced the 911 dispatcher to call back. The voice mail on the other end, appears to belong to Joe McCain, brother of presidential candidate, John McCain.

"Hi this is Joe McCain. I can't take this message now because I'm involved in a very (inaudible) important political project. I hope on November 4th we have elected John."

"I think it's horrible. I can't believe somebody would tie up valuable resources to complain about traffic," said District resident Nancy Case.

"It seems stupid, my name can be tagged to this, why would I hose my brother, why would I do it," asked District resident Rob Case.

But that wasn't all. McCain apparently called 911 again to complain about the message the operator just left him, warning him such use of 911 is criminal.

Caller: Somebody gave me this riot act about the violation of police.

Operator: Did you just call 911 in reference to this?

Caller: Yeah.

Operator: 911 is to be used for emergencies only not just because you're sitting in traffic.

McCain and the Politics of Hate

Disgusting. . .

"Taxing Healthcare"

The Obama campaign is up with their second ad of the day targeting John McCain's plan to tax individual health benefits. While the first ad focused on Sarah Palin's inability to explain McCain's health tax plan, this ad goes straight at the core issue: that John McCain is proposing -- for the first time ever - to tax health benefits:

The McCain Health Tax

Grampy Gets Lost on Stage

After an economic speech Wednesday at the Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, John McCain had some trouble making his exit. Watch:

John McCain: Economic Disaster

John McCain does not have the ability to fix this economic crisis. After declaring the fundamentals of the economy strong, he created a political circus in Washington last week by mucking up bailout negotiations; a deplorable stunt, considering he and his political cronies helped cause the current meltdown.

It was McCain and his economic adviser Phil Gramm who pushed for the deregulation that helped lead to the banking crisis, and it was McCain's crony Rick Davis who had deep lobbyist ties to Freddie Mac. Don't let others be fooled by McCain's economic grandstanding because the reality is his policies and principles will only exacerbate our financial hardships. That's why you must spread this video.



McCain is being deceitful with his sudden populist message and support for regulation; his economic policies still favor our nation's wealthy elite. Call out McCain's economic dishonesty. Send this video to friends and ask them to sign up for a free Brave New Films video subscription to know the latest on TheRealMcCain.com. Then, post it on your blogs and spread it on networking sites like Digg and Reddit. These are some of the best ways to reach people who are not following this debate closely.

Day 2 - Letterman Continues Attack On McCain

John McCain to the Rescue!

"God save us from such help" - Barney Frank

McCain Lies About Buying American

What a surprise! In addition to his SEVEN HOMES, John McCain owns 13 vehicles; three of which are foreign made, despite his statements:



Who's the elitist candidate in this election? John McCain, you're a lying sack of shit!

Obama Blasts McCain Healthcare Proposals

"There's only one candidate who's called himself "fundamentally a deregulator" when deregulation is part of the problem. My opponent actually wrote in the current issue of a health care magazine - the current issue - quote - "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation."

So let me get this straight - he wants to run health care like they've been running Wall Street. Well, Senator, I know some folks on Main Street who aren't going to think that's a good idea."

Obama and McCain at Ground Zero 9/11/08

Barack Obama and John McCain met today at Ground Zero on the seventh anniversary of 9/11:

Part I


Part II

John Bush vs George McCain

Damning evidence from Jon Stewart


McCain Bush "I Think I Love You"


Take the Bush-McCain Challenge

Coming Soon

It's too bad that we lost "Mr.Voice" last week - I can hear him doing the preview for this one right now:

"In a world where No Country for Old Men mixes with Northern Exposure. . .Juneau what's coming next. . .

"Out of Touch" -2nd McMansions ad from Obama

The Obama campaign has debuted it's second ad in as many days on McCain's multiple houses. Entitled "Out of Touch," it bemoans McCain's "country club economics" and features a video clip of the Arizonan tooling around in a golf cart with former President George H.W. Bush, presumably while unaware of the number of houses he and his wife own:

"McCain's Mansions: The Real Elitist"

John McCain thought it was a good idea to use the standard Republican "My opponent is an elitist" attack against Barack Obama. The problem - McCain really IS the elitist; leaving himself wide open to return attacks. Here's one of the best ones thus far:

Baracky II

The saga continues:

Exxon John

The Democratic National Committee has unveiled another portion of its Exxon-McCain '08 ad campaign:

"Embrace" - Obama Turns the Tables on McCain

The Obama camp's ad makers fired a return attack on John McCain today, featuring the "celeb" theme used against them last week:



Speaking of, here's the latest McCain "celeb" ad. Somebody tell McCain that Bob Corker called and said that he wants you to return his campaign ad designer. . .