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...think it is going to be very close... I’m cautiously optimistic.” Cellucci called the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin “brilliant.” According to Cellucci, the Republican base wasn’t completely sold on McCain before the pick. With the Palin selection McCain motivated the base of the Republican party, he said. Cellucci also discussed the important role the next president will have in appointing judges to the Supreme Court. He emphasized the importance and the difficulty surrounding judicial appointments by reflecting on an appointment he made...
...editors: In “Servitude Nation” (Op-ed, Sept. 18), Daniel P. Robinson criticizes efforts by Senators Obama and McCain and the coalition of 114 organizations called ServiceNation to promote voluntary national and community service. Robinson uses a series of “straw-men,” challenging the legality of national service as well as the intent of those who desire to strengthen and grow the service sector. Unfortunately, Robinson recycles many tired and specious arguments. Robinson suggests that we already have enough volunteering available in America. How then can you explain the fact that...
...FactCheck.org debunked the McCain campaign's use of FactCheck.org. Do your reports get twisted and used unfairly? This was a clear violation of our copyright policy, which basically says please steal our stuff, just don't distort it and they distorted it. We have absolutely no objection to a candidate accurately quoting us. But we really have to push back hard when people distort what we say because our credibility is at stake. In this case, they knew perfectly well they were misrepresenting what we said. It was really outrageous and we kind of went off on them I guess...
...What have been the most egregious distortions in the campaign so far? Just about anything McCain has done on Obama's tax policies. We've called that a pattern of misrepresentation and it's continuing and it's working. I see that a couple of polls show 50% or more people think Obama's going to increase their taxes, when in fact he's going to cut them for 80-90% of people, or so he says...
...Obama side, the claim that McCain somehow supports cutting Social Security benefits. They don't specify that they're talking about a cut in relation to the growth of future benefits for people who haven't been born yet. When people hear that they think Grandma's check is going to be cut. And that's just a complete falsehood and they know that...