http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/08/28/breaking-news-obamas-big-speech-leaking-like-clinton-on-sight-of-a-cheerleader/ Sliding down the banisters of the ivory tower. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/08/28/breaking-news-obamas-big-speech-leaking-like-clinton-on-sight-of-a-cheerleader/#comment-1075 Iqra’i: Update - McCain VP leak Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:59:01 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=314#comment-1075 [...] Yesterday I was worried that leaking McCain’s VP during Obama’s acceptance speech: seems such an obvious dirty trick that even the average voter is going to see through it, quite possibly with resultant distaste for the Republican machine. Certainly, it gives the Dems plenty of opportunity to hammer home their current key line, that McCain represents the continuation of the “nasty” Bush-Rove era. Crashing other people’s press parties is the type of thing Washington politicians do, and McCain has been fighting hard to demonstrate that he’s just as much of an innocent outsider as Saint Obama. [...] [...] Yesterday I was worried that leaking McCain’s VP during Obama’s acceptance speech: seems such an obvious dirty trick that even the average voter is going to see through it, quite possibly with resultant distaste for the Republican machine. Certainly, it gives the Dems plenty of opportunity to hammer home their current key line, that McCain represents the continuation of the “nasty” Bush-Rove era. Crashing other people’s press parties is the type of thing Washington politicians do, and McCain has been fighting hard to demonstrate that he’s just as much of an innocent outsider as Saint Obama. [...]

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