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Published: 05/10/10

John Kerry Decries Return of 'Swiftboating' in Pennsylvania Senate Race

By  David Sessions - Politics Daily
John Kerry Decries Return of 'Swiftboating' in Pennsylvania Senate Race

As the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania senate between Arlen Specter and challenger Joe Sestak has become preoccupied with Sestak's military record, Massachusetts senator John Kerry weighed in, saying he will not comment on the charges. The victim of an orchestrated assault on his military record during his 2004 presidential run against George W. Bush, Kerry said he refuses to participate in "swiftboating" another Democrat. "What troubled me most about the 2004 smears was that lies were permitted to pollute the public dialogue even after they were thoroughly and publicly disproven by the ...

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Published: 06/14/08

McCain Rethinking Those Town Halls

By  Dave - Politics Daily
McCain Rethinking Those Town Halls

This is funny. After digesting what Obama said to his supporters in Philadelphia last night, the Michael Goldfarb at the McCain blog had this to say. "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." A couple thoughts from McCain HQ on this. First, Barack Obama has a long track record as a proponent of stringent gun-control regulations--to the point that a questionnaire filled out by his staff, and with the candidate's handwriting on it, stated that Obama favored a ban on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of handguns. Can we assume that Senator Obama now opposes efforts to ban the ...

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