McCain Media Attacks Become Entrenched Part of Strategy

Is it just me, or does Camp McSame seem to be in full-on freefall at this point? They can’t defend this indefensible pick, they can’t admit that this was a pick out of political desperation with next to no vetting, and they can’t stanch the flow of revelations about her character and ethics as a public servant.
“McSame: Campaign First.”

Lets see weasely McCain spox gets nailed to the wall by a journalist doing her job.
The McCain campaign runs away.
BTW what happened to McCain doing frequent press conferences?

So the McCain campaign releases info on the VP’s daughter because of internet rumors about the VP.
In response, right winger calls for the investigation of 6 and 8 year olds.
Yes watch out America, “Hi Daddy” is actual terrorist code!

Obama admits that he is completely inexperienced. When asked what qualifies to make him (Obama) more experienced than Palin he made an argument that he is experienced enough to be president because of the presidential campaign he has run.
He compared his employee and budget size to Palin’s while she was Mayor. Direct quote from Obama: “Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years,” Obama said.
Well that statement is completely a blow off of Sarah’s experience for 2 years as governor in which she manages a budget of over 10 billion dollars and employee base of 24,000 people.
This shows how Obama is unwilling to recognize the achievements of others he may not agree with. Yet this is a quality that is needed by any President.
Plus before you compare Obama’s 4 years as Senator for 4 yrs vs Palin’s experience as governor for 2 years. Let me remind you that Obama only attended his day job for 2 yrs. 2 yrs as governor vs 2 yrs as senator.
Not so long ago, Senators running for President were considered a joke because they had no executive or management experience. Instead governors were first choice, mayors were second, and senators were barely a blip on the screen. Why? Governors gain more executive experience in one year than a Senator makes in 30 years.

ryan c…
ok, just a quick, obvious, question for you and all other obvious obama supporters: what makes you think obamas experience is any better to qualify him for theposition of PRESIDENT let alone vice president? you are honestly going to talk about the issue of experience?! what possible ground do you have to stand on with this issue?

The McCain campaign has become the whiniest campaign there ever was.

All the news media is focussing the case against Palin and is diverting the attention to what Obama said about his Executive experience. What a shame? Even, Obama cannot vouch for his experience and tell people the story of his experience is in managing his campaign. Obama did not get it. Campaign and Presidency are two different things. Even Movie moghuls do campaigning for their Blockbluster Movie. Also,Obama is trying to prove that he is VP candidate when he compared his experience with Palin.

Ryan, you’re a little more sensible than most people on these blog sites, but I’m going to insist on 2 yrs because I can not equal 143 days being in the Senate as 3 years. I’ll only willing to give 2 yrs.

The questions should be directed at obama for having ties to terrorists, doing cocaine, not just drinking too much when 22, belonging to a hate filled church that supports Lybia and Ghadafi, and being financially supported including the purchase of his home by an indicted felon. Aren’t these questions much more germaine that whether or not the VPOTUS candidates daughter make a mistake. Come on this is beyond ridiculous. Investigate real stories.

Fred Thompson: “She is a courageous, successful reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.”
Fred Thompson does not read the intertubes.
She didn’t take on the establishment. And certainly not the corrupt Alaskan Republican Party. That Republican Party is still invested with crooks. It were the Feds are in the process of purging it of the crooks. Sarah Palin has done nothing to bring that about.
In fact, she even led a commission in support of the biggest crook of all: Sen. Ted Stevens.
She hired a lobbyist with ties to both Stevens AND Abramoff.

Concerned in OH.
FoxNews and Hannity have covered that stuff for months.
Oh wait….you wanted a legitimate new organization to cover those stories vs a partisan propaganda organ

Willem: Keep dreaming

Brown asked aggressive questions, and Bounds answered them well. Now, can we get one of Obama’s people on Brown’s show answering the same questions?

I think her foreign policy experience comes from running the National Guard in AK and going to Kuwait and visiting wounded soldiers in Germany before it was demanded of her.
Back to Obama: one of the primary concerns of the presidency are the troops. He snubbed, repeat… snubbed wounded soldiers. Soldiers who are mostly low to middle income people and with a minority background. Yet Obama would rather go to the gym and shoot baskets than stop in and say hello to wounded soldiers and future veterans.

“I think her foreign policy experience comes from running the National Guard in AK and going to Kuwait and visiting wounded soldiers in Germany before it was demanded of her.”
Funny,
C’mon now. The actual commander of the Alaskan Guard, who has complimented Palin, but made it very clear that she has no part in our national defense and has no command in the field.
At that point you would have to credit Obama’s trip last month as foreign policy experience.

mary…
im not saying obama CANT say he has run a successful multimillion dollar campaign. he (and his advisors) have accomplished that. thats not the problem. my problem with what h said was that he compared his successful multimillion dollar campaign to palin bein the mayor of wisilla alaska! why didnt he compare his multimillion dollar campaign against her over 1 BILLION dollar a year budget?! thats all im saying. he was being misleading, and its not te end of the world. he is a politician, they all do it. that isnt the reason im not voting for him.. lol im just simply pointing out that he compared himself running (again with his advisors) his campaign (which essentially IS a business) to her being the mayor of a small own. did he simply just forget that she has been the head of and successfully ran a u.s state with an average budget of over a billion dollars and tens of thousands of employees?! all i wanted to say that he blantantly was trying to misguide people on the facts.

“lets face it, community leader? constitutional law professor?! not that these are bad things, but there are ALOT of those people out there”
Tim,
While there are many community organizers (what Obama was doing was voter registration drives) and quite a few Constitutional Law professors.
There are not many that do both.
But I respect your tone and your view of the ticket.
We will just have to vote our consciences and agree to disagree.

The media’s harsh treatment of Palin is so appalling — has any of this happened to Obama?
She is a strong woman with her own opinions. She worked hard for her hometown and her state. She brought in federal money to build roads and update sewer lines for her hometown — what is wrong with that? She opposes to wasteful spending, she is not about no spending.
I am so disgusted by these journalists who report with intention to trash a person — where is your professional ethics? She is a mother of 5 and a governor with 80% public approval rate.
All this only convince me that I need to give my vote to her, even though I disagree with her views.

When Obama was working voter registration did he work with ACORN?

amy…
you had me until you said you have to vote with her even though you dont agree with her..lol thats just ridiculous

I am a lifetime Republican. Tucker Bounds is an idiot. He alone is the rason I will not vote for McCain.

I am a lifetime Republican. Tucker Bounds is an idiot. He alone is the rason I will not vote for McCain.

I’m not sure where people are getting the idea that Palin is a reformer. Apparently she got huge earmarks for Wasilla by hiring a lobbyist (who happened to be Ted Stevens former chief of staff). She left the town with a huge deficit ($20 million) even though she inherited none. She worked for Ted Stevens 527. She is under investigation for abuse of power and from her history it sounds like she’s guilty. All I see is corrupt, arrogant, and unethical behavior.

Maybe it’s just me . . . when I see video of McCain clapping his hands I’m reminded of a toy monkey banging cymbals.
Also, the radical Christians would have gone rabid if one of Al & Tipper’s kids went prego. If it had happened to Chelsea, we would have gotten another Ken Starr.

Why is the MSM asking more questions about Bristol than Ayers? 19 months Obama has been running and zero questions.

Palin got those federal fundings to improve her own hometown. She opposes to wasteful spending, she is not about “no spending”. To reduce government spending, she even cut her own salary.
If she was corrupt as the news media wanted to make you believe, how can they explain Palin won her mayor position twice with landslide, won governor position by more than 30% against a 3-term republican senator, and won 51% in a 3-way contest against a former governor (a democratic). Palin’s approval rate is 80%, tell me if there is any other governor can get this high mark?

Below I have a question for MEDIA MEMBERS TO CONSIDER WITH THE CURRENT OFFICERS OF THE AIP.
Palin was the PARTY SECRETARY, an officer of the Alaska Independence party. She was not a mere member.
Palin was an officer of a secessionist party, whose intent is to secede from the union, since option 3 already exists, options 1 and 2 are what makes the party’s energy and momentum happen.
PALIN put her energy as officer of the party into an option to secede from the UNION.
THEREFORE, ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE IS NOT HER POINT OF VIEW.
MEDIA MEMBERS:
Ask the current officers of the Alaska Independence Party to explain the options that the AIP intends.
1. Alaska to be an independent nation-state, which means Alaska secedes from the union.
2. Alaska to be a commonwealth, like Puerto Rico, paying no income tax, which means Alaska secedes from the union.
3. Stays a state.
4. Other

Tim-I would be happy to answer that for you. Lets look at Palin versus Obama in terms of experience…1980 to 1984; Obama attends Columbia U, Palin is Miss Wasilla and runner up for miss Alaska (Obama gets world class education, Palin gets tiara)
1985 to 1990, Oabam works on the southside of Chicago as a community organizer, then attends Harvard where he majors in law AND is elected president of the Harvard law review. Palin, during the same time, majors in Journalism at the University of Idaho and minors in political science. (Obama President of Harvard Law review, Palin learning to be a journalist)From 1991 to 1995 Obama graduates magna cum laude from Harvard and takes a job at a law firm in Chicago, directing the Illinois Project Vote and staying invloved with community organizations. Palin is involved in the PTA and the Alaskan Independence Party, which FYI, seeked to secede from the Union. How very patriotic of her.
1996 to 200 Mr Obama teached Constitutional law at the Univ. Of Chicago Law School and is elected to the Illinois Senate where he sponsors over 800 bills during that time. Palin is the the mayor of Wasilla (pop. 5,470 at the time).
2001 to 2004 Obama is reelected to his seat and Chairs the Health and Huaman Services Committee. Speaks out about the Iraq war before we ever send troops there. In 2004 he is elected to the US Senate. Palin is elected President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. Whatever that is.
In 2005 Obama is sworn in as the 5th African American Senate member, is part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, European Affairs Subcommittee, Cosponsored Orderly Immigration bill along with ethics reform amongst many others, and overall has a good realtionship and know-how in the ways of Congress and the national stage. Plain is sworn in as mayor in December 2006, so techinically she has been a mayor for just about 19 months, was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, shut down the project but kept all the earmarked funds, and lives close to Russia. Sort of.

So I was merely making the point in terms of BOTH experience and qualifications, Obama has her whooped and the argument really needs to be put to bed.

I see people posting that Palin is a strong woman with strong opinions.
I see the opposite. HER FAITH BASED PANDERING IS TOTALLY ABOUT THE TEACHINGS OF HER CHURCH.
That is not strength.
Her position is no different from the Tennessee Taliban who railroaded Snopes in 1927, making creationism local law.
Creationism, claiming the planet is only 5000 years old, is an excuse to ignore global warming.
She does not have strong opinions. She doesnt have her own opinions. She is a parrot.
All her points of view were first stated in the mid-1200′s by the Catholic church.
Denial of science, denial of women’s rights, nothing “strong” about any of it. It is the work of parrots. The OFFICIAL MANTRA. AUTHORITY TOLD ME.

All this only convince me that I need to give my vote to her, even though I disagree with her views.
what?? how much sense does that make…
i dont agree with her views but you dont talk nice about her so im voting for her?
listen media makes a big deal about everything some people think it should get alot of media attention others think its just picking on someone..
rev wright is a perfect ex. obama got slapped for everything that man did or said just like palin is getting slapped for everything mccain or her daughter has done.

Senator Obama why would you subject your daughters to the racist and hate filled sermons of Jeremiah Wright?
Haven’t heard this question asked either right?

All this only convince me that I need to give my vote to her, even though I disagree with her views.
Posted by: amy | Sep 2, 2008 9:07:12 PM
This person has two months to realize that the poor picked-on woman will end the civil rights she enjoys.
A person of 44 will end up serving for 8 12 or 16 years. Consider the issues. Dont vote out of some adolescent reactivity. Take a breath and allow the details to come out.
What is creationism? Why is it destructive to global warming?
What is the Alaska Independence Party and why do they want to leave the UNITED STATES and become a new nation of Alaska? Would that be good for the US economy? Would that be good for the US defense from Russia?
Why did she put her time and energy into a secessionist party?
There are plenty of real issues. Relax. Let the facts come out. People call Obama a Muslim and commie, although he is not. Palin had not felt a 10th the scorn and insanity that the person of color has endured. Dont give your vote away so fast.

It was political malpractice for Tucker Bounds to do an interview, knowing what he’d be asked about, and have no legit prepared response. Did he assume the media would go easy on him? Campbell could have a been a lot tougher, and others will be. Of course this isn’t the first time–he stands out as being particularly ridiculous, even among the talking heads.

The wheels have fallen off the GOP’s bus.
You know, and everyone else knows that Sarah Palin was not a first choice.
You know, and everyone else knows, that they never even heard the name “Sarah Palin” before.
And you know, and everyone else knows that Barack Obama knocked it out of the park on Thursday night.
McCain is desperate.
It’s over.

Len – what a fantastic post. Kudos to you for pointing out what the haters can’t seem to figure out.
I do believe it’s because most of them are part of the kook fringe.

Why does Sarah Palin hate America?

geevill
The qualifications for President and Vice President are exactly the same.

“See anything unfair in there?”
Tell me what is fair in advocacy journalism. I see a woman working hard to elect Barack Obama and that is consistent with what she said about Hillary Clinton or any other candidate that threatens him.
Palin doesn’t have to explain her decisions for her family members. She has to explain what she will do to change Washington politics.
Campbell Brown will have to explain how she justifies her position as a news anchor who advocates for a candidate in a national election.
This in-the-tank business is ruining the credibility of broadcast journalism.

Were you there, Rodney? Did you spend your time being tortured? Did you serve?
“len thinks like a wacko”
Call me what you like. I don’t feel the pain and you don’t have the reach, but John McCain served honorably and paid the price. If you denigrate that, you don’t deserve the right to post here or anywhere. You forfeit your honor, and take this to your campus dorm room, those without honor have no place in the service of a country, and are not heard among those who do.
They merely breathe the free air such have ensured they can.

len you know absolutely nothing about mccains early history—–before you make fantsy statements you should do your homework—–if you knew all the facts you certainly would see things diferently—then again maybe not

McCain will likely win the election because the media treat him with a kid glove while undercutting Obama at every turn. Obama meets each challenge head on and often using it to break new ground. McCain has responded to the kid-glove treatment in an erratic, confused, evasive, unreadable way. Most of us have no idea what McCain really stands for. He does not appear to be the one controlling his campaign. But the media protects its own. And thanks to their selfishness and cowardice the huge promise of 2008, that has so many of us ready to work for a more productive country, may well turn out to be the U.S. version of Medvedev/Putin — McCain with Cheney/Rove et al pulling the strings.
God save America.

Bald Eagle proves that creationism is not about denying global warming, it is about denying science. These guys dont want to roll back the womens, civil rights and labor movements, they want to roll back the Enlightenment.

Saw the interview twice — PLEASE –just answer the question!!!!! The question was fair, but there was no answer give. WHY?
Here is a pot calling the kettle black. One side is allowed to attack while accusing the other of doing just that. The American citizen is smarter than you are giving credit for. These sophmoric tatics are not going to work this time around!

I cannot belive abc just cut off the fred thompson speech
media bias and manipulation
shameful!

what happens if palin gets impeached as governer—–should be interesting.–mccains soulmate–what a freaking act

rodney…
ok, simple question for you. why do you think palin was a bad v.p. choice for mccain?

any others wanna try tha one? what makes palin a bad choice for v.p for mccain??

Palin has visited three countries in her lifetime.
The United States, Germany and Kuwait. She claimed to have visited Ireland, but apparently it was just a fueling stop.
I’m so glad she’s so well traveled.

I happened to see a little bit of the Republican convention tonight. I thought that I had tuned in to a MEMORIAL DAY celebration.

I find most curious in this article the statement of fact that McCain would make a better comander in chief than Obama. I don’t think anything could be farther from “fact”. Maybe that’s a rational opinion, and the most widely accepted one, but I think its entirely wrong headed to concluded that a military man (and there’s no doubting that it runs through every fiber of McCain’s character and genes) makes a good commnader in chief. Military decisions are for generals, not presidents. The leadership of the commander in chief entails policy making decisions that should properly not be trusted to generals, or for that matter, those whose entire way of thinking is the product of life in the military. A commnader in Chief decides whether to make war, not how to do it. I find it odd that so many accept that such a grave power should be entrusted to those who, for quite natural reasons, are predisposed to lead the country to battle rather than those who would do so with a greater trepidation over the costs to the country, not just in lives, but in global respect and stability.

sean o…
what would you say if i said marxism runs through every fiber of obamas?

Tim: “what makes palin a bad choice for v.p for mccain??”
You’ve got to figure that one out yourself, my boy.
When the arguments why she would be a good VP doesn’t catch on with voters and are laughed out of the ballpark, you’ve got a problem. It’s your problem, not ours.

tim: “what would you say if i said marxism runs through every fiber of obamas?”
Can I answer this one?
Yawn.

Tim, great. Than we’re all happy. Right?

TIM
TRY LACK OF EDUCATION AS A STARTER.

anybody else left here?! i cant be the only one?!

Republicans can’t stand up on their own.
Now even McCain can’t appear on anything but Fox Noise without crying.
Pathetic. McCain is just like Bush and Cheney.
Weak.

I think what democrats don’t understand is that Republicans respect Joe because he like McCain works across party lines to do what he thinks is right. That is the very reason why many democrats kicked Lieberman to the streets. Kerry actually told Lieberman not to speak at the RNC. Obama like Lieberman said has never even tried to reach across party lines so that things may be accomplished. McCain and Lieberman put country first. Obama places party over country.

The American public is not going to fall for Rovian tactics (i.e. real journalism hyped look like bad thing).
The sad part is that these tactics are tarnishing McCains reputation as a stand-up type of Republican/politician…

Jake, here is what is unfair about that interview. I think a good definition of fair is treating both sides the same. Here’s a simple test of whether Campbell Brown’s interview of Sen. McCain’s spokesman was fair. CNN should show its viewers video of a CNN reporter asking Sen. Obama or one his spokespeople a question as many times as Ms. Brown asked the McCain representative and with the same duration and ferocity. If CNN can show the video, then I say CNN is fair. If CNN can’t (and I don’t think CNN will be able to), then CNN should apologize and do a better job of delivering the fairness CNN has promised.

Why did Brown continually insist on comparing the Presidential candidate to the VP candidate?
That’s loopy to start with.
Palin has had more executive experience than Obama. Far more.
Obama claimed that his running his campaign was “executive” experience. Now that’s funny.

Palin was a member of an Alaska secessionist party.
While she is dazzling, and to be admired on certain levels, it is odd that a seccessionist candidate was chosen as a VP running mate.

“Palin was a member of an Alaska secessionist party.”
No, this is not true.

Have you been reading the garbage that the media is throwing at Palin? These are the same guys that are NOT telling the Rezko investigation.
Look I was for Clinton….now I’m shifting parties. I have definitely been paying attention to the media bias.
68% of the public thinks the media is trying to get their candidate elected….their candidate is Obama. Maybe the public is wrong.
Maybe not the media hasn’t even admitted bias in their demonization of Hillary Clinton as a campaign tactic for Obama.