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McCain's mortgage-buyout stunt

07:08PM Oct 08, 2008 in category Politics by George W Frink

[Updated 10/09/2008]

With the economy diving into recession, John McCain marked the second presidential debate with a desperate mortgage-buyout stunt whose implementation, effect and ultimate cost are all unknown.

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich called it "the stupidist plan I've heard yet" for helping homeowners.

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Palin's McCain-destructive attack speeches

03:25PM Oct 08, 2008 in category Politics by George W Frink

Their moral reprehensibility aside, negative campaign strategies can do as much harm to those launching them as they do to the target.

A study this week by Media Curves found that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's attack speeches do as much harm to the John McCain cause as to Barack Obama's: ...