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Look Past the Mirror to McCain and Victory

By Ripper on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 3:04pm |

After Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings, we were left stunned by the vicious hypocrisy of the Far Right.When the Supreme Court ruled against Al Gore to anoint George W. Bush president, we bitterly denounced the system.As Karl Rove successfully orchestrated the...

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A Tripwire to Armageddon

By Ripper on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 1:52am |

Some conservative commentators and John McCain argue that Russia is the clear aggressor in the growing war within the breakaway region of South Ossetia and that the U.S. and NATO should side with the former Soviet republic of Georgia in...

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New Obama Ad Slaps McCain Hard — Maybe Too Hard

By Ripper on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 12:00pm |

Obama's new ad "Embrace" is set to start Tuesday on cable channels, according to Time's resident cretin, Mark Halperin.The new ad calls McCain "Washington's biggest celebrity" and has numerous clips of him hugging Bush and basking in the limelight on...

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Newsweek: McCain Lies About Obama Again and Again

By Ripper on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 5:57pm |

Here's the link. It's a devastating analysis of McCain's false claims about Obama's tax proposals....

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Here's the Winners, Ya *#@$& Pukes!

By Ripper on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 1:11am |

As promised so long ago (July 30), I dedicate this post to the best insults from my thread "Come On, Ya *#@$& Pukes, Get It Out of Your Systems!" This was so damn fun, I'll have to do it again...

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Please See This Video

By Ripper on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 8:51pm |

THIS is how Obama needs to advertise:http://therealmccain.com/...

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The Fierce Urgency of Getting Tough Now

By Ripper on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 6:30pm |

Barack Obama has a message problem. If he doesn't fix his message soon, he will lose the battle to define himself, his opponent and the election itself. Such a loss would cost him the White House.With the release Friday of...

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My Anti-Celebrity Ad

By Ripper on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 7:27pm |

The truth is, I really don't know how Obama should respond, if at all, to McCain's "celebrity" charge. But I offer this as one possible answer. Make up your own appropriate visuals.VOICE 1: John McCain calling Barack Obama a celebrity?...

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John McCain Wants A Bigger Dressing Room

By Ripper on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 2:07am |

John McCain never got the hero's welcome he deserved, and you can tell it still gnaws away at the back of his mind. He's jealous.The brighter Barack Obama's star shines, the more John McCain wants to reduce his opponent's substance...

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AP: McCain Eyes Dole as VP

By Ripper on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 3:59pm |

WASHINGTON (Assacious Press) — With an eye to stressing his youth and easygoing temperament, aides to John McCain say the presumptive Republican nominee is strongly favoring former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas as his vice-presidential running mate."If you want to...

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Obama Fires Back at McCain

By Ripper on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 8:49pm |

I love that Barack Obama chose Springfield, Mo., to start firing back at John McCain. I used to live there.Speaking to supporters today in a heavily Republican area (House Minority Whip Roy Blunt's home district), Obama took aim at McCain's...

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Come On, Ya *#@$& Pukes, Get It Out of Your Systems!

By Ripper on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 7:28pm |

Whether you believe commentators who engage in insults here at TPM should be ignored, sued or dissected and fried, it's obvious that nearly everyone (not quite all) her have some degree of temper from time to time (or nearly always,...

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Borger Almost Gets the Story Right (formatted)

By Ripper on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:18pm |

John McCain's increasing meltdown into jealousy and fury seems invisible to most of the mainstream media, including Katie Couric's fawning piece on tonight's "CBS Evening News," which examined none of McCain's policies and, in fact, barely quoted McCain at all.Gloria...

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Borger Almost Gets the Story Right

By Ripper on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:12pm |

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On Why Obama is RIGHT About War in Afghanistan

By Ripper on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 2:01pm |

I must respectfully disagree with David O'Brien's recent post, wherein he argued Barack Obama is wrong about sending more troops into Afghanistan to "widen" the conflict there. Although the goal of a peaceful world free of imperialism and war is...

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Rachel Sklar's Answer to My TPM Post

By Ripper on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 11:31pm |

By Chris PowersMy identity is revealed above for the sake of transparency and also because I decided to call Rachel Sklar's bluff.Rachel, one of the bigwig bloggers at Huffington Post, served up a horribly knee-jerk attack on Barack Obama with...

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With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemas?

By Ripper on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 6:40pm |

Hint: Keep reading, you'll love my ending.Following up on Gary Cohen's post, I decided to register my complaint to Rachel Sklar about her hit piece at HuffPo under the headline "Obama's Revenge: New Yorker Reporter Banned From Press Plane For...

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Lieberman Becomes Zell Miller

By Ripper on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 3:35pm |

Barack Obama is prepared to accept defeat in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman said today on Fox News Sunday (see the video here).Lieberman, who described himself as an Independent Democrat, attacked Obama relentlessly and also confirmed to host Chris Wallace that...

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McCain's Next Move on Iraq

By Ripper on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 1:01am |

Now that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed Barack Obama's plan to withdraw American combat troops from his country over 16 months, what will John McCain's response be?Some are hailing al-Maliki's position as bolting the door closed on McCain's...

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SCAMMD: How the Press Escapes Accountability

By Ripper on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 2:36am |

TPM blogger Eric Kramer was recently kind enough to list the Associated Press board members in his reader post "Horrified by AP Bias."Having tried and failed again today to contact an editor at the Associated Press bureau in Washington, D.C.,...

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