McCain, 2008
As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sits down for her first media interview today with ABC News’ Charles Gibson — 13 days after her nomination was announced — it’s worth mentioning that the man on the top of the ticket, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., hasn’t had a press conference in almost a month.
He used to be the most accessible presidential candidate in modern American history, and he prided himself on that.
No longer.
The last time he took questions from his press corps was on Aug. 13.
The calculation seems to be that the media is against McCain, anyway, so what’s the downside in avoiding the questions reporters have, or even in saying things that are demonstrably false?
- jpt
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Posted by: Goon | September 11, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am
The “war on terror” is a fraud for profit and resource control.
Expose the 9/11 Big Lie or say goodbye to your Constitution.
Posted by: danwallacelives | September 11, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am
Palin is hiding from the press and McCain is hiding behind Palin.
I would like to give ABC the benifit of the doubt, but Charlie is not my idea of a real news reporter, he is and remains a morning show host, and this interview will be just that.
This will be a softball, puff piece.
Posted by: Thinking | September 11, 2008, 9:49 am 9:49 am
Palin = Doll with a tape recorder
— repeating same speech only.
—- no spontaneous talk.
Posted by: zen | September 11, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am
Jake, there is no downside in McCain telling outright lies. Folks like you may post a little bit about it on your blog but the media, in general, is afraid of calling a lie a lie. Why is that?
Posted by: Yvonne | September 11, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am
The media made their bed; now they can lie in it.
Posted by: marylou | September 11, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am
Sarah:
Given the public scrutiny you have subjected yourself and your family too, and the risk of limiting your political career to run for VP; Have you received a compensation agreement to balance your risk?
Posted by: DTNC | September 11, 2008, 9:51 am 9:51 am
On a day we remember 9/11 we have a person who is friends with, and working with a known Terrorist, running for President…Barrack Obama
Posted by: Country First | September 11, 2008, 9:52 am 9:52 am
McCain can not fo this on his own he has her for a ride on her skirt tails.They are now campaigning together staying close as the media puts it..HE CAN”T DO ANY OF THIS ON HIS OWN<<<<<<<HE is nothing more then a clone of Bush and Palin is a close second…They are two sick puppies and it is so sad….to see them open their mouths and out comes a pack of lies….both of them….Scray to think of his age and she is NOT the person to run this country for pity sakes think about this before you vote….
Posted by: indp voter | September 11, 2008, 9:53 am 9:53 am
Why discuss the issues when all you’ll be doing is repeating the same song and dance from the past eight years?
We’ve heard it… and it’s time for a different tune.
Posted by: Deep Release | September 11, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am
Well, McCain finally wised up, it seems. Look at the mountain of gaffes Plugs and Smugs have piled high these last two weeks.
Why would he do press availabilities if he’s answering questions from a press corp proven to be in the tank for his opposition?
That wouldn’t exactly be a Sun Tzu idea, would it?
Why reward major media outlets who ran smears as news about his running mate?
Posted by: hippie_chucker | September 11, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am
the sheer list of his VP’s scandals that are floating to the surface and another round of hidden or disappearing email records…
his Rove attacks on the press to hide the slime going on within his campaign
his lies in ads now being called out by every non partisan fact check group out there to cover up srtuff…
shows he is going to be a repeat of the last 8 years but flip the Presidential and VP candidates…with Cheney now as President and Bush as VP
throw these bums out.
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 9:55 am 9:55 am
When you have nothing new to say, why open your mouth and prove it?
McCain is smart not to talk to the press.
Posted by: joe | September 11, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am
Joe Biden talking up Hillary Clinton, and saying she might have been a better pick than him? Sounds to me like Biden and Obama have something up their sleeves. Biden’s going to find a reason to drop out, and Obama will offer the VP spot to Hillary. Then Michelle will come out of hiding, hit Obama upside the head with a frying pan, and scratch Bill’s eyes out. Hillary will jump on the ticket with the velocity of Oprah on a ham sandwich, and Bill will finally stop calling Obama a Chicago thug. And you people thought Survivor was the tops in reality TV . . .
Posted by: JB in St. Louis | September 11, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am
Let’s face it, Media bias toward Obama is widespread … not just at NBC … most of the articles that get on the front page of ABC.com relate to Obama … even during the primaries there would be a story about Hillary and a picture of Obama on the page. I think the tide is turning however and voters are seeing that the Media is trying to “select” the President for them … kind of like the DNC “selected” Obama.
Posted by: Francisco Cardenas | September 11, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am
“Never get into a wrestling mud match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
John McCain, in December 2007, while talking to a reporter who had asked him about Mitt Romney’s way of campaigning.
I wonder how McCain would react now if Obama would say exactly the same?
Posted by: Kaj | September 11, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am
john mccain said the press is his base and that was true when he talked straight now he just lies all the time why would he let the press show him for what he is!
John McCain even copying Bush’s dodge the media policy!
FOX NEWS DID AN OBAMA CLOCK WHEN HE WOULDNT COME ON THERE AFTER THEY LIED ABOUT HIM AND ATTACK HIS WIFE!
ABC SHOULD START THE CLOCK!
WHEN WILL PALIN OR MCCAIN DO OBERMAN ?
BARACK DID OREiLY
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 10:00 am 10:00 am
I bet Obama won’t take his flag pin off this 9/11 like he did seven years ago.
Posted by: riley | September 11, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am
Charlie Gibson
Fox News (Lite)
Game of powder puff softball anyone???
Posted by: Omentum | September 11, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am
McCain is smart enough to know that press anyway is a garbage and Obama biased. Anything against Media and Boot creates an Anxiety attack and starts slinging mud without understanding the topics.
Posted by: Tim | September 11, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am
i love the media bias running weeks and weeks of rev. wright
lol yea bias… please they did a study of news storys a month or two ago
and most stories were favorable of john mccain while obama had the majority of negative stories
so please…. dont keep lying just because you are seeing mccain get some negative press…. he should have been getting MORE negative press with all his crazy gaffes
but nice try
Posted by: Bhrandon | September 11, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am
richardcranium1,
Once again Obama is tellnig more lies. And you are falling for it hook, line and sinker.
Obama (and you) claimed that the bill he supported to teach comprehensive sex education to kindergarten kids was designed to protect them from pedaphiles. Read the bill, there is not a single mention of this in it.
If you go by the letter of the bill, it would appear to require that kindergarten children be instructed on, the use of condoms and other contraception and prevention of HIV and STDs in “an age appropriate way”
READ THE TEXT OF THE BILL!!
Obama is telling lies!!
McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary ’12
Posted by: USVet | September 11, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am
Hey Country First -
You mean McCain – warmonger- supports an illegal war in Iraq, a country that did not ask for our help and had no connection to the doings of 9/11?
Thats is what I thought you meant…
Posted by: jozy | September 11, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am
Charlie Gibson the rabbit feed to the pittbull!
WHAT FLAOUR ICECREAM DO YOU LIKE ?
WHATS IT LIKE BEING A WOMAN IN A MANS WORLD ?
ISNT MCCAIN GREAT ?
I LIKE CAKE DO YOU LIKE CAKE ?
YAWN!
WHY DOES IT TAKE TWO DAYS TO DO AN INTERVIEW ?
ONE DAY TO ASK THE QUESTION AND SECOND TO GET THE WRITEN REPLYS ?
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am
I have hated George Bush at times–but I do give him credit for keeping us safe from another terrorist attack here at home.
The terrorist will not be afraid of Obama.
In fact other countries want the “citizen of the world” to be elected because he represents a weakened America.
Posted by: sally | September 11, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am
Some more information about Obama’s lies!!
Although the bill says that instruction should be developmentally appropriate it explicitly says that ANY couse must include instructions about preventing STD’s/HIV! Also that abstinence should be included in all courses. Imagine doing that with kindergarteners.
While this may not be the intent of the bill, I once saw a report on a local suburban school district that taught 4th graders how to put condoms on a cucumber so I wouldn’t rule it out. (Needless to say the parents were not happy.)
I can understand that in neighborhoods where children are regularly exposed to prostitution, etc. and kids become sexually active very early this kind of instruction needs to begin pretty early, but no kindergartener is cognitively or emotionally developed enough for any instruction about STD’s or even abstinence. Did Obama agree with this bill or did he just not read it? (And is this the final wording?)
Bizarre. I can’t wait for the media to fact check this. There will be ice skating in hell.
Posted by: USVet | September 11, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am
LOL! The media has been in the tank for Obama for months. Most have turned into Obama cheerleaders. Why feed them anything? Pathetic!
Posted by: USVet | September 11, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am
Hopefully, Charlie recognizes this is a significant opportunity and doesn’t do a “personality” interview. We know she’s a hockey mom, wife, former PTA president, hunter, small town mayor, Governor of Alaska, and beauty queen. We read that in her only other interview, People Magazine.
Ask substantive questions Charlie and please follow up when you get RNC talking points/spin for answers.
Posted by: Stacey | September 11, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am
As if Olbermann would have a conservative on. He actually said he was afraid to go to St. Paul for fear of his “personal safety”, (while conservatives showed up in droves to the DNC of course, even with all the moonbat protestors).
Olbermann doesn’t have differing points of view on his show, as O’Reilly often does.
Posted by: hippie_chucker | September 11, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am
Amid all the issues facing America, and surfacing from facts about the new national figure Sarah Palins record a softball fluff interview will backfire bigtime for the GOP ticket.
Posted by: votor | September 11, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am
As long as the press keeps reporting what McCain and Palin say and don’t challenge the blatent lies and misleading information they promote, why should they do anything else? It’s a great strategy.
Republicans assume that Americans are too dumb to notice the lies or that they’ll prefer style and sarcasm over substance and won’t care. Sad part is they very well may be right. It worked to promote a war. It worked to get W elected twice.
McCain and Palin have both been lying in their speeches, but when you don’t talk to the press, you don’t have to answer for it.
Palin, especially, has gotten a free ride thus far. Only thing being reported is the tabloid BS (kids, lipstick, etc.) that have no bearing on the future of our nation. The distraction is brilliant for the GOP. She’ll do ONE interview (so she can say she did one) and then say “the press is unfair”, and stand with John McCain and read her prepared speech some more.
Even when she claims to be qualified to be the second most powerful person in the nation, if Americans don’t demand it, why would they let her speak for herself? They can mislead America all they want with no consequences.
Carl Rove is an ###, but he knows how to spin Americans!
Posted by: Reality Check | September 11, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am
I’m sorry if my mind goes there.
But I am angry that Obama even steps foot at a 9/11 memorial.
I do believe he shares the views of Rev Wright as do 30% of us. When I see 9/11 and Obama I see Wright cursing America. Knowing that BO has called Wright a “great leader”.
I see Ayers stomping the flag and saying he didn’t bomb enough. And Obama calling Ayers “respectable”.
Obama can wear a flag pin and surround himself with flags–I don’t believe he loves America.
Posted by: cindy in nc | September 11, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am
John McCain’s last interview proved how out of touch he is with regular Americans so Karl Rove yanked his chain, cut him off from the media. Till they train him to answer every question with POW, Sarah, POW he will stay away from the media and run extreme negative commercials, Rove politics 101.
McCain’s real problem will be the debates because they can’t be scripted.
Unless, of course, they figure out a way to put a microphone in his ear like they did Dubya.
Posted by: joe | September 11, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am
anyone notice McCain didn’t wear a flag pin at the RNC? OOOOOOO….how UNAMERICAN?
Is this what is boils down to people?
Posted by: karen | September 11, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am
wow, this used to be a fair + interesting news blog. Now, McCain is really making a race of it, and JPT has spent the last three (at least) weeks traveling exclusively with Obama. The result? This blog has veered left, off-track almost as much as the democratic campaign.
Almost every entry is reported about Obama or from the Obama perspective, while subsequently taking swipes at McCain and/or Palin. Do you guys actually have anybody traveling with McCain/Palin?
P.S. The comments section to each post is beyond bizarre. It’s been hi-jacked by partisans from each side screaming their opinions without regard to the particular topic + without any respect whatsoever.
Posted by: kvnmnnng | September 11, 2008, 10:12 am 10:12 am
I agree with the comparison of the US to the Roman Empire. It’s freaky.
I feel the voters are just like the Romans wanting barbaric, nasty, corrupt fights until blood is drawn. They want “red meat” just like the ruthless Roman people, yelling for death. The Republicans are barbaric with their lies, smears, and corruption.
They are giving their voters the corrupted barbaric fight they want.
And when the Republicans when, we will have fewer allies. We will fight wars with no resources. The rich will be richer. More crime, unemployment, health crises, corruption (look at the Department of Interior.
We borrow money from China to support our wars.
SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN CHINA WANTS ITS MONEY BACK?
We are a broke nation. We are so hypocritical and corrupt, no nations will be willing to work with us
The Unites States is left standing alone.
The US jobs shift to the EAST.
CHINA and RUSSIA combine economic wealth and military force to conquer the US Empire.
US can’t fight back because what is she to do? Go ask China for another loan to fight China?
Those corrupt, barbaric voters whose voting for the warmakers who support the wealthiest of the country need to be careful. You will be the reason the the Unites States Empire will Fall.
Posted by: prophecy of the United States | September 11, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am
Stay tuned
Joe Volger will make Rev Wright look lik a altar boy.
Posted by: Omentum | September 11, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am
All you have to do resd this artical and no whicg canidate you are for.The news media here is like sorta like the media in Iran There the Govement controls what is being said here the media leans to LEFT and it is determin to make this country go the same direction Look at what they did to Hillary
Posted by: Pam W | September 11, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am
The “Maverick Reformer” is really a REFORMED MAVERICK!
Yah, he “stood up to his party” and then backed down on Bush’s tax cuts, abortion, Fannie Mae, etc…
He didn’t even pick his running mate! He wanted Liberman and was told to take Palin. WHO IS RUNNING THE REPBLICAN PARTY ANYWAY? Obviously, it isn’t the “maverick”.
Posted by: Flopper | September 11, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am
Hear it.. there it is again.. the sound of Ayers, wright, and rezko, hear that? the sound of Obamas campaign imploding, adn charlie Gibson and Jake Tapper and Andrea Mitchel cannot protect him…
Posted by: Country First | September 11, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am
“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest…” — Barack Obama
As I am rewatching the news footage. It only affirms my position against Barack Obama. When you look at this statement and look at Obama’s associations with Ayers and Rezko. Listen to his views on foreign policy, I have NO confidence in Obama as a leader. I had a lecture in NYC 1 week before 9/11 and to see what happened to that beautiful city and those people. It really affected me. I had no problem wearing a flag to symbolize my commitment to America. I won’t vote for this man.
Posted by: A Guy Named Keith | September 11, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am
How do I start this? I have been observing the Political Climates since after the convention and I have come to the realization
that Americans are in the process of making the same mistake three times.
The most confusing of all is that the rest of the World can see it but Americans appear to be blind to it.
Americans are being taken for a ride. Mccain’s Campaign is twisting facts and People are gullible enough to buy into it.
Why must a Person aspiring to lead a Country bring down his opponent with falsehoods?
Why must he cash on the innocence and the ignorance of the People he seeks to lead, to get the that position?
I get miffed when I see all the lies going up in the name of Campaign Ads and the MSM is not doing enough to debunk the false allegations.
Is the silense conspiratory?
Why is Mccain’s campaign on the Offensive when it come down to discussing Gov. Sarah Palins’ records? Is there something they are trying to hide?
It would be a disservice to the People of America if this antic is used again and it will be a disservice to generation yet unborn if the election is allowed to be won and lost on the alter of race, sex, fear and lies.
A Country that refuses to learn from the mistakes of the past is doomed to repeat it.
It appears that no lesson has been learnt and the mistake is about to be made.
I hope and pray that the divine hands of God will help to put things right.
I pray that the Person that will eventually win will be he that the heaven has destined to bring succour to aching hearts.
But as things stands, the elections is fact becoming personality based instead of issue based.
May the good Lord help us.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | September 11, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am
Face it, people, the big winners in this campaign are Fox News and conservative talk radio. I used to make fun of Fox News, and laugh at Hannity, O’Reilly & Co. Now I tune in. The pro-Obama craze in the mainstream media is driving more and more people to give Fox News a chance. No doubt they’re conservative. But they’re still more balanced than the so-called mainstream media.
Posted by: Carrie | September 11, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am
anyone catch John MCcain’s speech at the RNC in which he said he fell in love with his country while incarcerated at Hanoi? Didn’t he love it before then? How about the fact that his runningmate said when asked about the VP position a couple of months ago that she’d have to see if it was good for Alaska? and her husband’s long time membership in the AIP which whose founder states that he’s Alaskan not American and has no use for American institutions? How about feeling appalled at their presence at 9/11 ceremonies? What hypocrisy in this country!
Posted by: Karen | September 11, 2008, 10:16 am 10:16 am
“Never misunderestimate the stupidity of the American public”
Karl Rove
Posted by: Carl | September 11, 2008, 10:16 am 10:16 am
McCain/Palin – Good for America
Obama/Biden – Good for nothing
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am
how about some concern over this natural gas pipelie bill that Gov Palin signed with a Canadian company = not an American company that allows for triple damages if a competing contract with an American co is facilitated by the state> Triple damages of an amount based on estimated ongoing fuel to run through the line…an estimate the state won’t give. So an openended damage clause to a non-American co. with $500 mil nonrefundable “seed money” put up by the state, with at LEAST 18 BILLION in federal guarantees so far with NO mechanism for getting the fuel to the lower 48…but deals already in place with China? That’s so patriotic and has America’s best interests at heart….
Posted by: karen | September 11, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am
Carrie,
Isnt that funny you knew that fox new was propaganda… But now you think the rest of the media is lying ??? Could it be the republicans are full of it ?
Why is Palin and McCain hiding from the press ?
Why does Barack talk to all of them including the republican spin network fox news ?
nothing to hide nothing to fear ?
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am
Karen,
No it took feeding him rice every day to make him like America.
lol
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am
so dl…
you spout slogans for your candidates…do you review issues… check out the pipeline…another word on Ms Palin’s ability to handle economic policy… During her tenure as mayor of Wasilla (approx 5,000 population at that time)…Spending rose 33%, Taxes rose 38%, she instituted a regressive sales tax (including food)..YET still borrowed $27 million from the Fed government and left the town which had NO debt at the beginning of her tenure $27 MILLION in debt at the end. These are not rumours people….just the facts.
Posted by: karen | September 11, 2008, 10:23 am 10:23 am
Obama says in twenty years he NEVERY heard Rev Wright make those comments I think he is lying Just go back and listen to what his wife said about what she thinks about this country and you’ll agree Maybe she attended church on the days that Rev Wright made those comments and Obama was doing some community organizing
Posted by: Wayne W | September 11, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am
McCain is so scared…he/her cannot even face the press…and how is he suppose to face other world leaders?
Not ready to lead. Never was.
Karen,
Thanks for the information on the Alaska/Canadian pipeline. I will be sure to share that today.
Posted by: JIMD | September 11, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am
Obama is a fraud. He comes from one of
if not the most corrupt counties in
the U.S.(Cook Co.,Ill.) Dead people
have voted there for decades and I’m sure
they also vote for Obama.
If you think Marxism is the answer then
fine. That is what you’ll get from him.
Enough said!
Posted by: john g. | September 11, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.”
– Michelle Obama
On 9/11 lets remember that good or bad we are all Americans. I am proud of my country. Michelle’s comment was stupid. How these people have made it this far into getting a DNC nomination is beyond me. MSNBC is replaying the newstape and the towers have just fallen. Lets not forget that this happened to all of us.
Posted by: A Guy Named Keith | September 11, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am
john g.
John McCain keating five ??? Ring a bell ??? Google it !
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am
Give me one good reason to vote for Obama that doesn’t include the point that he’s not GWB? Quick. Don’t go research it. Just off the top of your head. See? There’s nothing there.
Posted by: Kitty | September 11, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am
Wayne,
And the Alaskan Independence Party website has been “scrubbed” by the McCain camp in the last week. Does that smack of what we were told was communist propaganda as children? Yet…all you see is Rev Wright…open your mind up and look at both sides. Are you aware that one of McCain’s long time friends…head of his campaign a few years ago owns the most racially charged Southern newspaper in the country which even advocated Lincoln’s assasination? Nope…didn’t think so…because the media doesn’t report it and I assume you have done no research. Go google Richard Quinn and then come back and talk to me about Rev Wright
Posted by: Karen | September 11, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am
Matt Damon granted an Interview to AP where he made the assertion that a picture of Gov. Palin as the President if anything untowards happens to Mccain is scary.
I think its scary too. I have been having sleepness nights about it.
An America where there is no freedom of choice?
A Vladmir Putin looking down on a President Palin?
It is indeed scary and Matt Damon aptly sums it up.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | September 11, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am
If McCain/Palin won’t talk to the press, then why does the press cover their campaign talking points each day?
Posted by: SET | September 11, 2008, 10:37 am 10:37 am
kathy,
well actually i could come up with about 20…but how about the fact that while independent both candidates economic plans
will not decrease the deficit….Obama’s will increase it LESS than Mccain’s….while investing in our local auto manufacturing plants to build non-gasoline powered autos..and give tax breaks to more people.
Posted by: Karen | September 11, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Kitty
Respect for the rule of law
Healthcare
Tax breaks for 95% of americans
Ending this dumb war and winning the real one!
Global warming
Open government!
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am
Think McCain is smart to keep his mouth shut to the media. He will talk when the time comes.
Today is a day when we should all stop what we are doing for a moment of silence and prayer for the victims of 9/11, and remember what a great country we live in.
It is a shame when we are asked to put a man in the White House that has only been vetted by the media. We don’t know him and we can surely question his patriotism, judging him from past actions. You can’t become a patriot by just wearing a pin on your suit. Why do the other countries want Obama elected, do they know something we don’t? Hum…..maybe they feel he will let them do what they want to us with no resistance.
This is the best country there is, even with its faults. We should put the best we have in the White House to keep America safe. If we aren’t safe, it won’t matter who is richer or needs health care.
Posted by: MEW | September 11, 2008, 10:45 am 10:45 am
What can make the picture clear to all and sundry?
Schmdt has done a good job. Americans have been blinded again.
All I hear now is the novelty of choosing a Woman.
Nobody is asking about what happens the day after.
We will be around to see how it unflods in the next four years.
But to see them having a laughter at having conned Americans again is so painful.
I feel helpless because, like other discerning People around the World, I can see how this is playing out.
One can only count on the 538 Americans that will vote in the Electoral College, who I feel can see what an Average American can not see now but which the World can see clearly.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | September 11, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am
so wayne…
trying the old sexist tactic now are you? yes we GIRLS are offended by this woman’s viewpoints. we CARE about the issues…I would HAPPILY support a woman who felt the same way I do about the direction for this country? We girls – many of us = were taught to read and think for ourselves…and..by the way…to bring it to your schoolyard level – I was popular in high school without being a “snobby” elite…still am and still am…. LOL.. trying to bait on sex and race…so typical of the republican tactics lately…so much for working across the aisle, eh? Divide, divide,divide
Posted by: Karen | September 11, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am
so let me get this straight – it’s patriotic to wear a flag pin, but swallow campaign lines hook line and sinker without doing any research on issues or records that may not support your preconceived notions or already made up minds about candidacy? even if THAT is dangerous for America? Wow…for the record..i have checked out every link supplied to me by McCain supporters and kept an open mind throughout this process – don’t we owe it to our country? that is patriotism.
Posted by: Karen | September 11, 2008, 10:55 am 10:55 am
Before you start accusing McCain of saying things that are false, I suggest you start fact-checking the press. These past two weeks have been a low point in the history of journalism. And the voters know it, even if you don’t.
Posted by: frank | September 11, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am
Sarah Palin has been abusing her power since Wasilla. Did you catch the ABC/Brian Ross investigation of her book banning attempt in Wasilla?
She fired the Wasilla librarian who was the Head of the Alaska Library Association because like a real American, she told Palin to her face that she wouldn’t ban books, ever. So Palin fired her.
But the Wasilla townspeople stood up to Palin and said no way, so Palin had to flip-flop and put her back in her job.
Even John McCain stood up to Palin on at least 3 massive earmarks she tried to get for Alaksa. McCain said Palin’s earmarks were responsible for the Minneapolis bridge collapse.
Then he hired her as his VP!!!
Just like McCain hired the Bush campaign official, Tucker Eskew, who made racist smear attacks against McCain’s own daughter, Bridget.
McCain won’t even stand up to the guy who made racist smears against his own daughter. He hired him and has him working for Palin!!!
McCain and Palin–I can’t tell which is worse.
Posted by: Danny | September 11, 2008, 11:02 am 11:02 am
AMERICAN, PLEASE DON’T BUNGLE THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.
IT WONT COME UNTIL ANOTHER FOUR YEARS.
AND YOU CAN IMAGE THE DAMAGE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BY THEN.
USE YOUR HEADS AND NOT YOUR HEARTS, PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
I AM BEGGING, THE WORLD IS BEGGING.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | September 11, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am
AMERICANS, PLEASE DON’T BUNGLE THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.
IT WONT COME UNTIL ANOTHER FOUR YEARS.
AND YOU CAN IMAGINE THE DAMAGE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BY THEN.
USE YOUR HEADS AND NOT YOUR HEARTS, PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
I AM BEGGING, THE WORLD IS BEGGING.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | September 11, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am
A Guy Named Keith
Google Palin and pot she was for it and says herself she was a pot smoker for years with her husband! But says it wasnt against state law then it was just illegal under federal law!
She wanted alaska so succed the US remember!
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 11:19 am 11:19 am
Reason number one for dodging the Press by McCain/Palin no issues to talk about just smear speeches and TV ads. All blow and no go as they say. Thats the McCain/Palin ticket all blow no go. No substance to have any talks about so they hide from the media.
Posted by: Lukeskytalker | September 11, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am
So if she don’t think like you it’s wrong Where are you differant
Posted by: Wayne W | September 11, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am
Just so you know Johnny boy we know that behind your curtains stands Phill Gramm and he’s still on your staff. The very person most responsible for the turmoil in our fincial markets you think is so economic guru, he’s a selfish pig out for whats good for Phill Gramm just like when he was a Senator.
Posted by: QuicksdrawMcGraw | September 11, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am
McCain/Palin: Good for America
Obama/Biden: Good for nothing
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 11:36 am 11:36 am
Obama: Number one choice for those who feel victimized.
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Jake: Obama only just appeared on O’Reilly after 18 mos. he conducted one photo op with Olberman and had one semi real interview with Steph, after how many months?
When was Obambi or Biden’s last full blown presser?
Posted by: JAZ | September 11, 2008, 11:41 am 11:41 am
Karen just because you can Google something and come up with some hits doesn’t make the information true Your smarter than that! As you know a very small percentage of what out on the net is true from either side You can pick and chose what you want to believe
In 2000 you Dem love McCain every time he went against the Republican party You was quick to tell the world Now you want to dismiss because it the Democrat talking points. During the primary it was ok for Obama comments to be to the far left so he could secure the nomination but now it ok for him to come to middle Do you know which way he is going govern to the left or to the middle Just the other day he said if this country was in a recession he would not change the tax rates but still give he’s tax cuts (How is going to be paid for) Well if the tax hike is bad when we’re in a recession then why is good when we’re out of one? He policies does not make sense
Do you really want to pay and have the government run the health care If you believe national health care is good Go to Canada ask them what they think about theirs . There you have the wealthy people coming to the US get good care Do really think the government can run it better than private. Lets see Bush spent 40% more in Ed than Clinton and it still sucks, SS is underfunded, mid care is going broke All these are ran by the Gov Do want these programs because you can’t make it in the real world or you one of those just want to redistribute the wealth of this country We can make the school system look good to if we take all the grades of the students and average them Then everyone would be equal The people making F’s would make C’c and the ones making A’s would be C’s Then the government can tell us that we have to drive certain cars so the caboose in Alaska can have a good life Then we need to be sure that no one has a house more than a 3 bedroom and by the way you can only have 2 children and they need to be boys
As for as the convention speech goes McCain had the courage to stand up and tell his party that there were thing in party that needs changing Obama never did has stood up to the left he voted 128 time present so we wouldn’t know where he really stood He is to far and is not what this country wants If does get elected the good thing it will be for one term He need to be run for office in EU
He own VP pick said he wasn’t ready to be President and now he say it is (Which is it is he are isn’t he)
Posted by: Wayne W | September 11, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am
“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.” — Barack Obama
OBAMA 2008 Fighting for your right to buy organic. Change you can believe in. Even if you were already doing this before he came along.
Posted by: A Guy Named Keith | September 11, 2008, 11:46 am 11:46 am
Obama: “OK folks – here’s how to solve the global energy crisis. Just wrap your lips around all your valve stems and breath hot air into the tires until they’re properly inflated. Worked for me”.
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 11:50 am 11:50 am
Tom Friedman:
I confess, I watch politics from afar, but here’s what I’ve been feeling for a while: Whoever slipped that Valium into Barack Obama’s coffee needs to be found and arrested by the Democrats because Obama has gone from cool to cold…
Somebody needs to tell Obama that if he wants the chance to calmly answer the phone at 3 a.m. in the White House, he is going to need to start slamming down some phones at 3 p.m. along the campaign trail.
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am
It’s his campaign and he’ll run it on his terms. The media aren’t entitled to anything.
Posted by: John | September 11, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am
I’ve been watching this campaign since January and the disgusting liberal preferential treatment towards Obama has been disgusting and unprofessional. Media has lost all credibility, so I’w with McCain. While Bozo’s world tour was being covered like he was the second coming, McCain was taking care of business as usual….HE’S A DOER AND NOT A TALKER.
McCan is the man, so screw the press that has been treating him like he’s old news….Obama’s new car smell is gone and now he’s just STINKY.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN, BEFORE THE PALIN PICK!
Posted by: Debra | September 11, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person…” — Barack Obama
Barack Obama. Because Only A Racist Would NOT Vote For ME
Posted by: A Guy Named Keith | September 11, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am
Amazing.. a liberal journalist that actually understands the heart of a matter and is able to say it in less than a million years.
Jake you are right. The media is against McCain and Palin at the moment. Anything they say WILL be used against them.
So why should they step into the lions den? What does it accomplish except to feed the enemy?
Posted by: reason | September 11, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
How do I start this? I have been observing the Political Climates since after the convention and I have come to the realization
that Americans are in the process of making the same mistake three times.
The most confusing of all is that the rest of the World can see it but Americans appear to be blind to it.
Americans are being taken for a ride. Mccain’s Campaign is twisting facts and People are gullible enough to buy into it.
Why must a Person aspiring to lead a Country bring down his opponent with falsehoods?
Why must he cash on the innocence and the ignorance of the People he seeks to lead, to get the that position?
I get miffed when I see all the lies going up in the name of Campaign Ads and the MSM is not doing enough to debunk the false allegations.
Is the silense conspiratory?
Why is Mccain’s campaign on the Offensive when it come down to discussing Gov. Sarah Palins’ records? Is there something they are trying to hide?
It would be a disservice to the People of America if this antic is used again and it will be a disservice to generation yet unborn if the election is allowed to be won and lost on the alter of race, sex, fear and lies.
A Country that refuses to learn from the mistakes of the past is doomed to repeat it.
It appears that no lesson has been learnt and the mistake is about to be made.
I hope and pray that the divine hands of God will help to put things right.
I pray that the Person that will eventually win will be he that the heaven has destined to bring succour to aching hearts.
But as things stands, the elections is fact becoming personality based instead of issue based.
May the good Lord help us.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | September 11, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm
Obama’s dream of coloring all the states to his color has fallen flat on it’s face. He’s now pulling his troops out of most states because he doesn’t have a chance. He’s concentrating on the same states all presidential candidates focus on and he’s slipping in those. Even his numbers in his home state are slipping and Indiana, which he took for granted, is now heavily McCain.
So, what’s that flushing sound we hear?
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
Dare Nigeria
Yep – Obama definitely needs divine intervention.
His fault! Not everyone Else’s.
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
When will Obama allow strident Michelle to mingle with reporters?
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
I noticed that too dl, the priblem with Michelle is that it is difficult to keep her hatred (for what seems like everything) on the wraps. You could tell how feigned her support was during Hillary’s speech at the DNC convention. I find her to be very polarizing.
Posted by: A Guy Named Keith | September 11, 2008, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
And Obama’s availability?
Posted by: Wade | September 11, 2008, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
“The calculation seems to be that the media is against McCain” – Jake Tapper
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That is a fact. look at your own blog. You’ve spent the past two weeks defending Obama and attacking McCain. Why is it when Obama stretches the truth (lie) and smears McCain as being senile (can’t remember how many homes he has), you do not spend as much time defending McCain?
Posted by: OxyCon | September 11, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
Sarah Palin will be on with Charlie Gibson tonight. Let’s see what a good reporter Charlie is. I hope he is going to ask her some questions about the issues facing America today.
I hope he gets to teh nitty gritty since we have not been able to vet her like we have vetted all the other candidates.
The time is too perilous for us to have a VP that hides from the press while she “crams”.
Let’s see if Charlie is Barbara Walters tonight or if he is Edward R Murrow.
It will be a statement as much about him as it will be a statement about her.
Posted by: woman | September 11, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm
So McCain and Palin think that the media is out to get them?? Wow.
I thought we were electing a President and Vice that had to tough. I thought we were electing people that might have to face down some pretty tough customers around the world.
Is that whining I hear from the Republicans. Is the big bad media scaring you?
Always so tough when it comes to helping people in our country that need help and always so weak when it comes to asking actual policy questions.
What a bunch of cry babies.
Posted by: woman | September 11, 2008, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm
It’s that the press hasn’t made him answer a question, not that McCain hasn’t answered a question.
The press has been lazy this season.
From Watergate to 2008. Such a fall this profession has taken.
Posted by: kravitz | September 11, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm
So the media made McCain shy away from them…..Gee I wonder why? We saw why with Hillary. Made me HATE MSNBC and CNN. In my opinion they have lost as much credibility as FOX. Why should ANYONE trust media with an agenda? It’s not reporting information, it is providing a format with a bunch of WHATEVERS/WHOEVERS to voice their opinions as facts to a general public. It’s irritating, bias info 24/7.
Posted by: irma | September 11, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
The press aided and abetted this country’s march into a stupid and pointless war by mindlessly regurgitating the lies thrown at it by Bush/Cheney/Rove. This was, perhaps, understandable in light of where we all were post 9/11.
Until yesterday, the press was aiding and abetting the McSame/Palin/Rove daily dribble of distractions, distortions, divisions and lies. I hope the “pig” business put an end to this nonsense in the same way that not finding WMD’s put and end to the press serving simply as an outlet for Bush/Cheney/Rove talking points.
Why do networks air negative ads for free on “news” shows and then discuss their “effectiveness” instead of whether they’re true or false? Why does the press let McCain get away with endlessly repeating that “Obama will raise your taxes” when every independent group that’s analyzed the candidates’ tax plans (including the Heritage Foundation) has said that this is simply not true? Why does the press let Palin get away with repeating things day after day that are demonstrably false?
If the press were doing its job, organizations like “fact checker” wouldn’t be necessary. The press should be the “fact checker.” I hope that’s where we’re headed.
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | September 11, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
dl
I think michelle will make a great first lady and it will be great having some young normal kids in the white house again!
Posted by: Deb | September 11, 2008, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm
Perfect example: Yesterday, Palin was headed to Alaska. She had enthusiastic supporters waiting at the airport. Meanwhile, the CNN pundits sat there ridiculing the fact that she had supporters waiting and the fact that they were covering the VP candidates landing. They let everyone know that there were teleprompters, that there was a person pumping up the crowd; trying to deminish the fact that she is popular. All this was true of Obama too in the beginning; yet they NEVER felt the need to let us know he had someone riling up the crowd, or that he had teleprompters waiting for him EVERYWHERE. Only those who saw it in person knew, but we didn’t care. Finally when Palin spoke, you could tell she was nervous at first, eventually you could see the charming person she is. She does have something, just as Obama and HILLARY do. You don’t have to knock someone just because you don’t agree with their politics, especially if your job is giving NEWS. Apparently that is not what CNN is. Therefore, they should just call themselves opinionaters rather than reporters. For those Republicans who found this upsetting; This Liberal Woman noticed…I remember when they did that crap to HILLARY.
Posted by: irma | September 11, 2008, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
Obama: “my uncle was part of the U.S. forces that liberated Auschwitz.”
How many lies has this man uttered?
Posted by: dl | September 11, 2008, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm
DL you are misquoting. He said his great-uncle. And he introduced him at the DNC convention. And he was, in fact, a member of the platoons that first entered and freed Auschwitz. We can disagree on issues, but what does this kind of lying really do but cloud the real issues in this campaign?
Posted by: Kate Mom of Twins | September 11, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm
“The calculation seems to be that the media is against McCain anyway…”
Now why on earth would they think that?!!
Posted by: Thank God for Karma | September 11, 2008, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
Irma, I saw the CNN anchors during Palin’s return to Alaska last night too. It was a joke… especially Anderson Cooper. You have to wonder… do they really think people are so stupid that they don’t notice their incredible bias? I think every time they reveal how blatantly biased they are, like Cooper did last night, it only fuels the support of McCain.
In light of the journalistic malpractice committed by the mainstream media against Governor Paliln over the past two weeks, Senator McCain is very smart to short shrift them, one and all. Just keep talking straight over their big heads and directly to the people.
Posted by: Thank God for Karma | September 11, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
This interview of McCain with tough questions about Palin should be on all MSM. If the link given here does not work, go straight to Politico and scroll to the third story. There is a video of a Maine reporter asking McCain tough questions that I hope Charles Gibson asks when he interviews Palin.
Posted by: Kristin | September 11, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
She consented to give here first interview on September 11th? That’s crass and purely Republican. Take advantage of people paying respects on this day. There are no depths that McCain
won’t sink to try to win this election.
Posted by: Pogyak | September 11, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
Irma, I want the person that is suppose to be ready on day one to lead this nation be able to speak to the public at a moments notice without a script. Proves they know something.
Posted by: Pogyak | September 11, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
Why is it that Republican’s (like the ‘guy named keith’ would rather focus on Michelle Obama rather than the policies of the ‘potential’ next president?
Repubs can’t attack Obama’s senate record.
They can’t compete with his ‘popularity’.
They can’t compete with the plans he laid out (that beat Hillary) if he were to become president.
They’d rather sidestep REAL issues that affect everyday people like you and me, and try to BS the general public into believing complete and utter falsehoods (like Obama wants to teach SEX Ed to kindergardners COME ON)!
Search the FACT FINDING media (not the biased media like FOX) for the real truth and make your decisions in Nov based on TRUTH, not on lies and deception…
Posted by: a Different Keith | September 11, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm