• Steve Kornacki - New York Observer
    Does McCain really expect voters to buy the Obama-Terrorist line?

    On Thursday, John McCain at last did away with all above-the-fray pretense and added his voice to the right-wing chorus now openly trying to portray Barack Obama as a fundamentally anti-American figure. The McCain campaign is going for maximum emotional effect, hoping that voters in the post-9/11 era will be sufficiently suspicious when they are told that a black candidate with a Muslim-sounding name has “ties” to a “terrorist.” And actually, the technique really isn’t new.

  • Joe Conason - New York Observer
    McCain misunderstands the meaning of honor

    Nothing in the presidential campaign so far has been as instructive as its swift descent into the politics of personal destruction. Although voters have probably heard little lately that they did not already know about Senator Barack Obama, they have learned something very important about Senator John McCain.

  • Jason Horowitz - New York Observer
    Black Congressmen declare racism In Palin’s rhetoric

    As the McCain campaign ratchets up the intensity of its attacks on Barack Obama, some black elected officials are calling the tactics desperate, unseemly and racist. “They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York. “He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”

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