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5 Responses to “McCain: NY Times Share Price Tanking Because It Favors Obama”

1. bar_kochba132 says:

   August 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM

   Just read that Obama has rejected having a serious of face-to-face “town hall” meetings with McCain in addition to the regular 3 debates in the fall. How is it that such a “golden-tongued” orator would be afraid to face off with a low-profile-type like McCain. He is now carrying out the “Tom Dewey-play-it-safe” campaign tactics of 1948. Dewey’s policy in the campaign was “don’t say anything controversial”. In the end Dewey lost to Truman.

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2. Richard Silverstein says:

   August 2, 2008 at 10:52 PM

   @bar_kochba132: Today the NY Times compared Obama to Reagan. But I don’t think anyone has ever been “clever” enough to see a comparison to Tom Dewey. I have to admit, that took some creative thinking.

   Dewey was a N.Y corporate Republican lawyer. Obama is a former community activist. Dewey spoke for the moneyed interests. Obama is seeking to restore American government to its traditional sense of checks & balances after an imperial presidency practically tore the nation asunder. “Playing it safe?” I don’t think so.

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3. Mark Goldman says:

   August 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM

   The McCain campaign is looking really desperate these days. This sounds like it came right out of the Fox News playbook.

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4. bar_kochba132 says:

   August 3, 2008 at 1:39 AM

   Although the Obama campaign is claiming that much of its funding is coming from $10 and $20 internet contributions, in fact, the large majority is coming from “moneyed corporate interests”. (David Brooks in the New York Times pointed this out). Do you think they are giving him this money hoping that he will then carry out another FDF-New Deal-like “attack on moneyed corporate interests”?

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5. Richard Silverstein says:

   August 4, 2008 at 12:55 AM

   @bar_kochba132:
   

   Although the Obama campaign is claiming that much of its funding is coming from $10 and $20 internet contributions, in fact, the large majority is coming from “moneyed corporate interests”. (David Brooks in the New York Times pointed this out).

   As usual, you don’t provide a quote or any documentary evidence to prove yr claim. Besides, you provide David Brooks as yr main evidence (w/o even providing the gist of his argument) & he’s not exactly non-partisan.

   But if yr claim were true then this statement from The Guardian would have to be erroneous:

   Obama has particularly impressed the political world by winning over lots of small donors. Many have contributed money for the first time, perhaps giving only what they could afford – and the average donation was just $68.

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