Now that all of the suspense is over and we know that FDT is running - after, ironically, serving as McCain’s national co-chair in 2000 - the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza had an exceptionally cogent analysis, on how FDT’s entry will affect other Republican candidates, throughout the nomination process.
The most intriguing part of The Fix’s analysis, […]
So how exactly did the words “flak” and “flack” enter the English language?
A trip to the Online Etymology Dictionary vindicates McCain’s spelling. According to the site:
flak
1938, from Ger. Flak, acronym for Fliegerabwehrkanone “airplane defense cannon.” Sense of “anti-aircraft fire” is 1940; metaphoric sense of “criticism” is c.1963 in Amer.Eng. “
But Obama’s staffer does deserve […]
Campaignia was very surprised about the sparring between Senators McCain and Obama on Friday. With the nation’s attention riveted on Memorial Day trips (and the concomitant high prices of gasoline), it did not seem to be an ideal time for engagement on any topic, let alone the war, for an election that won’t officially start for […]
Today, we start with Moderates for McCain’s Lorraine, who concisely describes Senator McCain as “Quintessential Americana”, citing the Manchester Union-Leader editorial. She does so on Blogs4McCain, in a post titled The Gambler: John McCain Goes All In, rather than on her own blog. In Lorraine’s words:
“John McCain is quintessential Americana. More than a John Wayne war hero […]
Nobody now has to rely on Campaignia’s “reasonably concise summary” of what appears to have become memorable as the “Romney’s small-varmint gun” call, as the NY Sun’s Ryan Sager has reprinted the McCain campaign’s official release of the transcript of the May 22 new-media/bloggers conference call.
Below- Sager’s complete post and transcript (note: he reprints […]