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[mamculuna]

How does the McCain campaign come up with these backstabs (Palin, debate cancellation, etc)?

McCain's campaign now has Tucker Eskew as a consultant, the same guy who smeared McCain when he ran against Bush. Eskew is an avatar of Lee Atwater. Look for more dirty tricks in the months to come...

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[erinbow.livejournal.com]

The backstab may be worse than it looks. It's being reported at Huffpo that the Obama campaign called the McCain campaign this morning at 8:30 AM to talk to them about issuing some sort of joint statement about the bailout. They were brushed off for 6 hours at which point McCain campaign agreed and a few moments later made his statement to the media.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/24/mccain-asks-to-postpone-f_n_128968.html

Thus proving that when you want to "rise above politics in a time of crisis" you should not, you know, actually rise above it, just agree to do so for political points.

[anomster.livejournal.com]

There's a movie about Lee Atwater (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/09/26/segments/110500) that just opened here in NYC. It's a documentary that's only playing in 1 small "art" theater, but if it gets picked up, it might actually get out there & get seen more widely. The link is to a radio interview w/the director. It's pretty scary.

[(Anonymous)]

I had way to much exposure to the real guy. I don't think I'll be watching if it ever comes here, but thanks for letting me know about it.