Campaign News

A few bits:

The McCain camp has hired Warren Tompkins to handle some robo calls for the campaign. Tompkins was the fellow who masterminded the "McCain-has-an-illegitimate- black-child," robo calls during the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina. At that time, McCain denounced this type of dirty campaign tactic.

Sen.McCain has banned Time's Joe Klein (a/k/a "Mr. Mainstream") from his campaign. This adds to long lists of publications and journalists banned from the campaign. Amazingly, McCain will no doubt wonder why the press he gets now is not as favorable as what he recieved in 2000.

This weekend, the Chicago Tribune endorsed Sen Barak Obama. This is the first Democratic endorsement for the Trib in 37 years. (I believe the Trib held neutral in 2004.)

This weekend, Gov. Sarah Palin had this to say:

"We believe...that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."

Bad news Governor, the vast majority of Americans live in cities or their suburbs, not small towns. If the only real Americans are in small towns, than America is running short of Americans. Hmm... what other candidate came to power decrying the "rootless commpolitans" in the cities while lauding the simple folk in rural areas like ... ohh... Bavaria?