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Will Obama's "infomercial" change anyone's mind about the election? (6 quotes)

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Eric Deggans

General Comments

Airing on CBS, NBC, Fox, MSNBC, Univision, TV One and Black Entertainment Television, the infomercial gave Obama access to wide swath of the TV audience... the film gave Obama a ubiquitous hold on TV outlets six days before the Nov. 4 election. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 30th, 2008

Daniel Menaker

Yes, it spoke to undecided voters

Barack Obama's infomercial -- fairly long on the mercial and comparatively short on the info, or at least on new info -- was moving and effective... It seems pretty clear from the post-show cable stitchers and the Internet that it's going to work the way it was supposed to... Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 30th, 2008

Leah McElrath Renna

Yes, it spoke to undecided voters

Although only time will tell, it appears that the Obama infomercial accomplished exactly what it needed to do: soothing skittish white undecided voters without alienating current supporters. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 30th, 2008

John McCain

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No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I'm president... Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 30th, 2008

Politics

Is the McCain camp at all responsible for pushing the Ashley Todd story? (16 quotes)

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Karen Russell

Yes, they advanced the story

This hoax will always follow Todd and the McCain staffer's involvement with this sordid but all too familiar episode gives the McCain campaign yet another black eye. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 26th, 2008

Steve Benen

Yes, they advanced the story

Given this, the connection between this racist, demagogic hoax and the McCain campaign, at least at the state level, is fairly obvious -- and in need of an explanation. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 26th, 2008

Barbara Morrill

Yes, they advanced the story

It comes as no surprise to learn that the McCain campaign was involved in pushing the now discredited Drudge and Fox News-generated deranged-black-man-mutilates-white-McCain-supporter story. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 26th, 2008

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Would a national infrastructure initiative boost the economy? (13 quotes)

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Paul Krugman

America needs a public works program

This is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 21st, 2008

Jeremy Jacquot

America needs a public works program

The next president should create a modern-day Work Progress Administration to get the hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans working on new infrastructure (think public transit, energy-efficient buildings, better roads and bridges) and clean technology projects. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 21st, 2008

Stephen Herrington

America needs a public works program

Across the board wage increases are by no means the only or ... the best solution to stimulating growth in the short term. Public works projects, national goals like carbon reductions and even perhaps a national specialization, like India has focused on computer technology, are possibilities. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 21st, 2008

Paul Abrams

America needs a public works program

[W]hat we need now is not tax credits or a rebate check, but massive public investment to create jobs. The key word is "massive". Less-than-massive will not work, and ideologues will regain the upper hand. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 21st, 2008

Nouriel Roubini

America needs a public works program

Urgent and immediate necessary actions that need to be done globally include ... A massive direct government fiscal stimulus packages that includes public works, infrastructure spending, unemployment benefits... Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 21st, 2008

Politics

Will Sec. Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama significantly help the Obama campaign? (46 quotes)

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Jed Lewison

Yes, by indicting the McCain campaign

Powell didn't just endorse Barack Obama -- he also systematically dismantled the entire rationale for John McCain's presidential campaign. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Joe Peyronnin

Yes, by helping Obama attract moderates

Joe the plumber is the centerpiece of the McCain campaign. General Colin Powell's endorsement will now be an important factor in the Obama campaign. This pretty much sums up the state of this race with two weeks to go before the election. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

David Sirota

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Indeed, if there's any true news value to such an endorsement, it should involve the media and activists asking why Colin Powell, a guy who deliberately lied us into war, is endorsing Barack Obama, who valiantly spoke out against that war. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Nancy Snow

Yes, by helping Obama attract moderates

Powell's endorsement of Obama for President is far more influential than any of the newspapers...Today's endorsement is coming from a man who could have easily been elected the first African-American president in 1996 had he chosen to go through the presidential nomination process. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Max Bergmann

Yes, by indicting the McCain campaign

Powell and McCain know each other well and have worked closely together. His public endorsement of Obama is a huge validation of Obama and a tremendous repudiation of McCain. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Leah McElrath Renna

Yes, by indicting the McCain campaign

As a leader who has unparalleled respect within the upper reaches of the military and in public opinion, Powell's repudiation of the McCain/Palin ticket holds particular power. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Michelle Kraus

Yes, by helping Obama attract moderates

The Colin Powell endorsement was huge. Yet remember Senator John Kerry won all of the debates in 2004, and lost the popular vote. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Geoffrey Dunn

Yes, by helping Obama attract moderates

Powell struck a strong and powerful blow against the failed politics of his former Republican cronies. Was it a game changer? As Sarah Palin would say, you betcha. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

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Does Obama's tax plan unfairly redistribute wealth? (12 quotes)

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Steve Benen

No, Obama's plan cuts taxes for most

The idea of "spreading the wealth around," the argument goes, is Karl Marx's dream... the McCain gang needed a new smear, preferably one that a) sounds scary; and b) involves the economy in some way. A spectacularly stupid "red scare" fits the bill. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Jonathan Cohn

No, Obama's plan cuts taxes for most

Mandating economic equality--i.e., carrying out a truly socialist agenda--would obviously be wrong. But there are compelling moral and economic arguments for asking the fortunate to pay a little more in taxes, in order to blunt the influence of chance on people’s lives. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Yes, working Americans will lose income

The Obama-Biden campaign wants to make it harder for the Joes of the nation to be small-business owners... There's something about that line -- along with that downright Marxist "spread the wealth" talk -- that would, on Election Day, deliver a decisive slap to this country's founding ideals. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

Howie Klein

No, Obama's plan cuts taxes for most

He would tax ... multimillionaires like... well, like Cindy McCain who inherited a fortune from her gangster, bootlegger father, and use that money for the benefit of society as a whole. To the right, of course, that is the biggest sin on God's earth. Read the Article

Quoted by dreadpirateannie on Oct. 20th, 2008

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