In Land of Enchantment, McCain Asks ‘Who is the Real Barack Obama?’
In Albuquerque, NM, this afternoon, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, delivered his harshest attacks yet against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., painting his Democratic rival as a mysterious, risky unknown.
"Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain asked.
“Even at this late hour in the campaign there are things we don’t know about Senator Obama or the record that he brings to this campaign,” McCain said. “We have all heard what he has said, but it is less clear what he has done or what he will do."
Speaking to a relatively small crowd of maybe 750 people, McCain said, "My opponent’s touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned. For a guy who’s already authored two memoirs, he’s not exactly an open book….What has this man ever actually accomplished in government?"
“Nothing!” the crowd shouted.
"What does he plan for America?" McCain asked. "In short: Who is the real Barack Obama? But ask such questions and all you get in response is another angry barrage of insults."
"Who is the real Senator Obama?" McCain asked. "Is he the candidate who promises to cut middle class taxes, or the politician who voted to raise middle class taxes? Is he the candidate who talks about regulation or the politician who took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and turned a blind eye as they ran our economy into a ditch? Which one is it? Is he the candidate who promises change, or is he the politician who has bought into everything that is wrong with Washington? And he’s bought into it big time."
Unlike the allegedly mysterious Mr. Obama, McCain said, "I didn’t just show up out of nowhere, after all — America knows me. You know my strengths and my faults. You know my story and my convictions. And though familiarity in politics can be both helpful to a candidate, or not so helpful, it does at least fill out the picture and answer the essential questions. You need to know who you’re putting in the White House — where the candidate came from and what he or she believes. And you need to know now, before it is time to choose."
The attack comes just two days after McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, started saying that Obama doesn’t see America the same way most Americans do, and is "palling around with terrorists."
A new McCain-Palin TV ad asks the "Who is Barack Obama?" question and also calls Obama "dishonorable."
In April, McCain told Fox News, "Americans want a respectful campaign. Now, people say negative ads move numbers. They may. But do we have to go to the lowest common denominator? I don’t think so."
In May, Cindy McCain said that "none of this negative stuff though you won’t see come out of our side…My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all….We’d rather not win than have to do that. That’s not worth winning for."
– Jake Tapper and Bret Hovell
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Posted by: herta | October 6, 2008, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
It’s all too little too late for McCain now.
Besides, it’s BS.
The ship has already sunk.
Obama is going to win in a landslide.
Posted by: palindrome | October 6, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
Jake, you fail to mention that someone in audience shouted “TERRORIST!” very loud after McCain asked who the real Obama is. Politico reported on it, and on McCain visual reaction.
Plus, it really tells us a lot about the totally sick mindset of the idiots who are McCain’s supporters these days.
What has this democracy come to when people are calling a man like Obama a terrorist? And McCain… he just let it pass.
McCain is a coward.
Posted by: harriet | October 6, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
The DNC is already out with a rebuttal ad that splices these McCain attack ads from a passage from a Newshour interview in which he rants about negative campaigning being a sign that you have no positive message.
Posted by: Reality-based | October 6, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
McCain=McBush/McNasty
And we thought Bush/Cheney were nasty?
Posted by: carl29 | October 6, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
As a American Senator John McCain should be deeply ashamed about the fact that he didn’t denounce or even respond to his supporter who shouted “terrorist!”
In my book, this is serious stuff. Of course both Senators are in a election fight that can get hot. But a Senator that lets a fellow Senator be called ‘terrorist’ for no good reason whatsoever, and who does NOT respond to that tasteless allegation, does NOT deserve to be a Senator of the United States of America.
Shame on John McCain.
Posted by: Johnson | October 6, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
Americans are only beginning to know the truth about Obama, because the media has not been doing their job. The media has literally been picking through the trash about Palin to find silly things about her, and yet, completely ignoring huge dangerous issues about Obama.
Bravo McCain, FIGHTING for our country, again!
Americans owe a debt of gratitude to this great man, who has fought for our country to protect it from evil, and even now, doing what he can to protect us from the evil Obama. Look into Obama’s past, for once Obama-supporters, and see how undeniably evil this trash is.
Posted by: liberati | October 6, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
McCain is a dam fool. He needs be addressing the economy, not this mickey mouse B.S.
Posted by: Clint | October 6, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
My God, Jake, it appears to VERY easy for the McCain campaign to direct you where they want the race to go in October.
Please remind what’s happening to millions of Americans right now as a result of our collapsing economy. And focus on what therefore is truly at stake in this election.
Think independent, Jake, please. Don’t let Mr. Schmidt tell you what to report.
Posted by: hank | October 6, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm
McCain was speaking today in New Mexico, doing his usual personal attack on Barack Obama, as the stock market plummeted (you can see the ticker next to McCain on the screen, an apt reminder of what McCain and his fellow Republicans represent), and McCain asked the crowd “who is Barack Obama?” Immediately you hear a supporter yell “terrorist.” McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting. Oh, but McCain does say in the next sentence that he’s upset about all the “angry barrage of insults.” Is McCain losing his mind, or just a liar?
Posted by: Thinking | October 6, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm
Obama may “pal around” with a terrorist as Gov. Palin put it, but she lives with a man who for years was a registered member of the AIP, the political party that wants Alaska to become it’s own country because the USofA apparently isn’t good enough for them.
Real patriotic of her, no?
Posted by: tinat | October 6, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
Don’t care for it anymore, this election is over, negative smearing attacks are the signs of a loser without a program or strategy.
This will backfire for the simple reason… In time of crisis people are longing for authentic leadership, McCain just blew it with his latest move….
Sad, case closed.
Posted by: CLabs | October 6, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
McSame lost all respect and dignity, he does not think that American people are crazzy and will listen to him, thanks God there were 750 people listening to the senile McPalin, a very big croud. Who is McCain? That’s the real question which needs to be answered
Posted by: BKMC | October 6, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
The attorneys for Obama and the DNC today filed a motion asking for a protective order stopping “all discovery” in the Berg verses Obama lawsuit pending the Court’s decision on defendant’s motion to dismiss the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. This is the first time in American history a “naturalized” citizen and/or illegal alien has been allowed to campaign for the Office of President of the United States. The FEC and Democratic National Committee have refused to verify and furnish Obama’s eligibility. All that has been provided is a copy of a “certification of birth” which can be easily made up by anyone. Mr. Obama has NOT and does NOT plan to give any evidence to the American public. Obama is now throwing the American public “under the bus”.
Posted by: Ann | October 6, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
As a Canadian watching todays political events unfold,I am astounded that the media has not condemned McCain for his antics. Is it not over the line when McCain incites such anger…he stood by quietly as his supporters yelled out ‘terrorist’ in reference to Obama in the midst of his speech!! Or when Palins introducer invoked Obama’s middle name to invoke the same sentiment. There is a time when the media should be condeming an opponents rhetoric and inciting such horrible sentiments from its supporters. Quite frankly, its downright frightening. In the name of decency, the media needs to put an end to this type of rhetoric and inciting of hatred!! The world is watching and watching in total dismay today!!
Posted by: Dee | October 6, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
Economy, Economy, Economy!!!
Enough of McCain and Palin slinging mud.
They have no solution to the economic crisis.
We need help, not McCain and Palin garbage. The media needs to make the economy the front story every single day.
Posted by: Dan | October 6, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
Mr. McCain seems angry despite overcoming nearly insurmountable odds.
With a single decision he has removed Dan Quatle as the biggest butt of VP jokes in history.
Posted by: ricky | October 6, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
In the meantime, folks, this is what’s going in our country:
The number of Americans whose electricity or gas has been shut off for nonpayment of their bills is up sharply in many parts of the country as people struggle to cope with higher prices and a shaky economy.
Shut-offs have been running 17 percent higher than last year among customers of New York state’s major utilities, and 22 percent higher in economically hard-hit Michigan. They are up in all or part of dozens of other states, including Pennsylvania, Florida and California, according to an Associated Press check of regulators and energy companies.
Despite stepped-up efforts by state and federal governments, utilities and private groups to help people avoid shut-offs this winter, some worry the problem will only get worse in the coming months, particularly with the downturn on Wall Street.
“I just didn’t have the money to pay,” said Marie Williams, a single mother raising four daughters in Cohoes, N.Y., a former mill city on the Hudson River. “Rent had to be paid, and food for the girls.”
Williams’ power was cut off this summer for about a week, forcing her girls to do homework by candlelight. She became one of more than 230,000 residential customers of New York’s 10 major utilities to have their service shut off for nonpayment through August of this year.
At the same time, people who rely on heating oil instead of gas or electricity to warm their homes are pleading for relief from high fuel prices.
Southern California Edison Co., with 4.5 million residential electric customers, reported residential terminations were up 10 percent through August of this year to 228,000; Westar Energy Inc. of Topeka, Kan., said it saw a 19.5 percent increase in residential shut-offs over the same period. Tampa Electric Co. reported a 19 percent climb in disconnect orders through June for residential and commercial customers.
Michigan regulators reported a 7 percent increase in residential natural gas shut-offs through June and a 39 percent rise in residential electricity terminations.
Posted by: margaret | October 6, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
In April, McCain told Fox News, “Americans want a respectful campaign. Now, people say negative ads move numbers. They may. But do we have to go to the lowest common denominator? I don’t think so.”
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I think McCain was being as honest about that as Obama was in saying they were only releasing their 15 minute infomercial and already-registered website regarding the Keating 5, because McCain hit Obama first.
I also remember when Obama was going to usher in a new kind of politics.
Posted by: MayBee | October 6, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
Ben Smith:
A smaller crowd
My colleague Amie Parnes tells me the McCain campaign says they won’t release crowd counts any more.
And a Florida paper puts the number at today’s Palin rally at a respectable, but non-rapturous, 4,500.
Posted by: sp | October 6, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
Barack Obama – Kimbo Slice
Watch Obama fold like a deck of cards in the last 2 weeks prior to the election.
And yes, this new McCain attack is very effective. Can anyone really deny that any time Obama is asked about things he doesn’t want to talk about he starts insulting the questioner?
Posted by: JA | October 6, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
McCain has NO idea on how to handle the economy. I hope Obama hits him between the eyes with it tomorrow night. No way would I vote for the senile ignorant old reprobate.
Posted by: Clint | October 6, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Quayle. Quayle. Or as Palin prefers to remember it in reference to the current VP’s hunting mishap, “Duck.”
Posted by: ricky | October 6, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Clarke: al-Qaeda May Try to Help McCain
Richard Clarke runs down the speculation that al-Qaeda may try to influence the US Presidential election, saying that “At the very least” we should “expect another Halloween video from the scary man in the cave.” Why intervene?
Even more likely is the possibility that al Qaeda would hope the attack would benefit John McCain. Opinion polls, which, as noted above, al Qaeda reads closely, suggest that an attack would help McCain. Polls in Europe and the Middle East also suggest an overwhelming popular support there for Barack Obama. Al Qaeda would not like it if there were a popular American president again.
Something to keep in mind.
Posted by: levelorange! | October 6, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
“It’s all too little too late for McCain now.
Besides, it’s BS.
The ship has already sunk.
Obama is going to win in a landslide.”
Posted by: Woody | October 6, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
McBush will lose and lose big
the way he ran his campaign this thing
was more like a lark for him …..
he is not able to run the country and
he well knows it….
hey ….. Look at the way he has ran
his campaign … Prof enough …
Posted by: Anita Yova | October 6, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
Let McCain bash Obama. The more he criticizes him the bigger gains Obama gets in the polls. I guess the financial mess, the war mess, the health care mess mean nothing to Mcain and his running mate. The important news is Obama. It ppears to me as though McCain is long past retirement. He should have retired years ago.
I won’t even give waste words discussing Palin.
Posted by: John in Hartford | October 6, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
What are the democrats afraid of? If he is as clean as you claim then prove it! Let the truth come out for everyone not just Palin. Obama is fair game…
Posted by: joey | October 6, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
Josh Marshall: Back to the DSM-IV
Did John McCain really just say that Barack Obama gets “touchy” and “angry” whenever he gets questioned on his credentials or policies? I know that projection is a common psychological phenomenon, especially for those who find themselves in desperate situations. But for a set piece speech that must mean it’s afflicted McCain’s entire campaign.
I mean, you remember McCain’s boil over performance at the Des Moines Register editorial board last week …
And now a member of the paper’s editorial board, who I assume was in the room, is asking whether McCain is just too touchy and unstable to be a safe person to have as president.
From the weekend column …
John McCain is angry.
You can feel it in the clenched muscles in his throat, the narrowing of his eyes, the controlled tone with which he handles a question he doesn’t like, as if struggling to contain something that might spill out. We’ve seen that body language on TV. But around a Des Moines Register table Tuesday, the anger and tension were palpable. And unsettling.
Eeesh …I think the lesson is that it’s hard to take potshots about the other guy being ‘angry’ when you’re in the midst of having your own on-air breakdown with fifty years of anger and resentment boiling to the surface.
Posted by: mcangry | October 6, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
Mr McCain if you wnat to talk real scandals compared to made up one’s here we go:…….
Keating 5 – you had to admit to bad judgement in suppoorting the felon Keating in the largest bamking collapse until this month……….
Troopergate- your VP is under investigation for felonies involving abuse of power……….
Drugs and the DEA – your wife had to surrender to the DEA after forging doctor’ssignatures to steal drugs from her own charity…….
AIP – Todd Palin is a recent member of the AIP a semi-fascist secessionts movement in Alaska ….should I stop now?……….this is compared to Mrs Obama – nothing……Mr Biden, nothing…..Mr Obama – made up stuff like he is a muslim, Ayers (they barely know each other….Rezko – ok will give you that one….where does this lead us…? away from real issues and either way you lose.
Posted by: ringer | October 6, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Like Bush, McCain will be remembered for the most visible aspect of his life.
Adm. James Bond Stockdale was a POW like John McCain, but he earned a MOH and became an Admiral, a level of leadership John McCain was not able to achieve.
While running for the VP slot with Ross Perot, the extremely intelligent Adm. Stockdale attempted to introduce himself to the American public with simple questions (Who am I? Why am I here?) but it came off as cartoonish as Sarah Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric.
Unfortunately Stockdale will be remembered for his poor performance in the debates, not his heroics in Vietnam or his other contributions to our society.
Like Stockdale, John McCain will be remembered for his Presidential campaigns. In McCain’s case it will be for the dishonorable and nasty nature of them, both for the way he treated Obama and to a lesser extent the way he had been treated by Bush in SC in 2000.
One thing that Stockdale understood and that McCain does not appear to accept is that as a long term POW they both suffer with a PTSD known as Stockdale Paradox.
This condition is easily seen when McCain makes comments like ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ or ‘I will balance the budget before the end of my second term.’ (something that sounds positive but that will not happen with a democratic congress since it will require a cut in entitlements in excess of 25% – according to factcheck.org).
I understand the campaigns have asked not to discuss the family but the mental health of the candidates should be open for discussion.
Posted by: 2erudite4u | October 6, 2008, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
McCain. Dishonorable. Despicable.
He should be castigated for whipping the crowd into a frothing frenzy. He has no honor. What a disgusting person he has become.
Posted by: Penny | October 6, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
tinat, what Palin (who accuses Obama of pallin around with terrorists) is doing is called sleeping with secessionists.
Posted by: ricky | October 6, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
The economy is in shambles and all McCain andPalin can do is throw mud.
Posted by: Clint | October 6, 2008, 6:06 pm 6:06 pm
DNC Party Crasher needs to understand, PUMA has already discredited itself with no outside help.
Posted by: ricky | October 6, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
“Obama may “pal around” with a terrorist as Gov. Palin put it, but she lives with a man who for years was a registered member of the AIP, the political party that wants Alaska to become it’s own country because the USofA apparently isn’t good enough for them.
Real patriotic of her, no?”
OK, for the sake of argument I’ll stipulate your point.
Care to explain Obama’s support of the Akaka Bill? You know, the one that grants special status to “native Hawai’ians” over other Hawai’ian citizens.” The bill who’s author admits is a precursor to secession from the Union. That one.
So tell me, after Hawai’i secedes from the Union would Obama have to resign his Presidency?
Posted by: Woody | October 6, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
What are the democrats afraid of? If he is as clean as you claim then prove it! Let the truth come out for everyone not just Palin. Obama is fair game…
And further to this – McCain foght for all you disrespectful traitors…
Posted by: joey | October 6, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
Who is Obama??? He’s the red blooded American running for president. He would like to discuss the nation’s problems but McCain and the soccer mom running with him don’t have anything of substance to say. They prefer digging up dirt, making up stories and alienating Americans. No wonder this country is in bad shape. Election time has become a time for criticizing your opponent, not talking issues.
What I can’t comprehend is how people can’t see when things are going wrong yet keep doing the same thing over and over thinking it will come outdifferently. It doesn’t work that way. You have to make a change.
Posted by: John in Hartford | October 6, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
No matter what Palin says, ABC, Gibson, Sawyer and the media will pass it off as harmless. It is not just Ayers, It is; foreign donations from Iran, the PLO, connections with Syria, his support of Kenyan mass murderer Raila Odinga, his association with racist muslim Khalid Al-Mansour – who got Obama into harvard, and of course, ACORN. Not a word from anyone in the mainstream media. GEORGE SOROS IS BEHIND THIS ELECTION AND ABC. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
Posted by: joy | October 6, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
Looks like McCain could use a “surge” in his event attendence.
Last week, Obama drew 18,000 in a my hometown of La Crosse, WI
-population 50,000
What a joke.
Posted by: ATO | October 6, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
Is this the honorable campaign John McCain said he’d run? Is this the aversion from negative campaigning he expressed? On “The View” McCain claimed that if Obama had agreed to his idea of having 10 town halls, the tone of the campaign would be entirely different. This is preposterous – and the sulky words of a bully who finds that he can no longer bully. Obama wouldn’t play the game my way, so now I’m playing dirty? What a pathetic answer.
Speaking of pathetic – Palin has been busy insinuating that Obama is unAmerican, unpatriotic, and practically a terrorist. Which leads me to this question: WHERE’S THE HONOR, JOHN?
Posted by: jon in maryland | October 6, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Obama is the guy that beat McCain in the debates. He also has better judgment than McCain.
Posted by: Krista | October 6, 2008, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
Change is not Obama!
Not good change anyway – communism is not as cool as liberals think – your basic rights are gone – and this is looking like it’s heading that way in sneaky way…
Posted by: joey | October 6, 2008, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
Why did the Obama Campaign and the DNC file a motion to dismiss the case brought forth by Berg in PA? He’s only being asked to provide an authentic birth certificate….Whatcha hiding Barack…DNC???? Why spend all that money? Just produce the birth certificate. What’s the fuss about? Uh Oh……maybe he doesn’t have one.
PUMA!
Posted by: SadStateOfAffairs | October 6, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
McCain didn’t do much fighting for us because he crashed a multimillion dollar plane early on, got captured, and spent 5 years in a cage. Maybe that’s why he is such an angry man, and maybe that’s why he thinks we owe him something. We don’t. And we can’t tolerate another ignoramus – yes another ignoramus, or two, counting Palin – in the white house. Did you know McCain finished his Navy school program at the bottom of his class? Well, McCain makes Palin look like Madam Curie. Obama, like Gore and Kerry before him, is a far more intelligent man than poor old erratic John McCain. Country first? Yeah, that’s why he picked Sarah Palin. What a joke.
Posted by: Craig | October 6, 2008, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm
Let me just say to all the scared libs….any reference to Todd Palin as ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN ALL AMERICAN GUY IS USELESS. Really, let it rest…there is nothing you can attach to the Palins that is as bad as all the dirt and shady stuff Obama has stuck to him.
HE’S STINKY….BIG TIME…I CAN SMELL HIM FROM CHICAGO HERE IN L.A.
Posted by: hanna | October 6, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
‘fear of the truth’
I agree 100%. It is not feel good politics or playing the blame game that is going to get us out of this mess but a real hard look at our govt., politicians and even ourselves before we can even begin to move forward. John McCain is not perfect but he never pretended to be. His life, his mistakes what he learned from them is all out there for everyone to see. He wasn’t afraid to look and learn, my question is why is everyone else afraid to honestly look at Obama.
Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 6, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
Dear Senator McCain;
Barack Obama is the next President of the United States.
Thanks for asking.
Posted by: Paige | October 6, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
What are the democrats afraid of?
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I am afraid that the smears and innuendo coming from the McCain Campaign, as Highlighted in his event today that caused one of his supporters to call out that Obama was a terrorist, that one of McCain’s nut case supporters will take it to heart and try to do some real damage.
I am afraid that McCain doesn’t have the courage to stand up to these nut cases, as evident by his lack of response to this nut case, and will encourage such acts.
The will of the people be damned McCain first.
Posted by: Thinking | October 6, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
Josh Marshall:
TODD PALIN WAS A MEMBER OF ANTI-AMERICAN PARTY FOR YEARS…
And though Sarah Palin herself was apparently not a member of this group, there’s no doubt that she repeatedly courted this secessionist organization over the years. In 1994, Palin attended the group’s annual convention, according to witnesses who spoke to ABC News’ Jake Tapper. The McCain campaign has confirmed she visited the group’s 2000 convention, and she addressed its convention this year, as an incumbent governor whose oath of office includes upholding the Constitution of the United States.
The founder of the AIP was a man named Joe Vogler. Here’s what he had to say in a 1991 interview, only a few years before Palin attended its convention: “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.”
He also said this: “And I won’t be buried under their damn flag. I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”
Vogler has also said: “I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
McCain apologists will argue that Sarah Palin was not a member of this group. But Obama wasn’t a member of any Ayers anti-American group, either. And again, Palin repeatedly courted the AIP, and her husband was a member for years.
The main takeaway from today’s Times story is that Obama’s ties to Ayers are, if anything, less substantial than commonly alleged. So if the Ayers association means Obama “palled around” with “terrorists,” as Palin put it today, surely Palin can be said to have “palled around” with a secessionist party whose founder openly professed hatred of America.
Posted by: FlopSweatExpress | October 6, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
I’m a proud, happy, loving liberal. No hate here!
Posted by: John in Hartford | October 6, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble for the McCain campaign.
John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League – the parent organization – which ADL said “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.”
(Paul B. on MTP)
Posted by: Paige | October 6, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
This is the first time in American history a “naturalized” citizen and/or illegal alien has been allowed to campaign for the Office of President of the United States. The FEC and Democratic National Committee have refused to verify and furnish Obama’s eligibility. All that has been provided is a copy of a “certification of birth” which can be easily made up by anyone. Mr. Obama has NOT and does NOT plan to give any evidence to the American public. Obama is now throwing the American public “under the bus”.
Posted by: Ann | Oct 6, 2008 5:58:52 PM
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Bull Here is the truth from Factcheck.org. Now tell another lie….
The truth about Obama’s birth certificate.
Summary
In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document’s authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is “fake.”
We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as “supporting documents” to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.
Posted by: Southern IL | October 6, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Judge has still not ruled on dismissal of Berg vs Obama on the birth certificate issue. Obama needs to just cough it up or get out of the race.
Posted by: Avalon | October 6, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
Obama Campaign on today’s markets
“On a day when the markets are plunging and the credit crisis is putting millions of jobs at risk, the one truly angry candidate in this race kept up his strategy of ‘turning the page’ on the economy by unleashing another frustrated tirade against Barack Obama. And if John McCain is wondering why he’s lost his credibility, he should look no further than the out-of-context quote he took from a 2007 speech in which Barack Obama warned of the subprime crisis we’re now facing. Since then, John McCain has called for less regulation no fewer than 20 times, proving that he hasn’t learned any lessons from the last banking scandal he was involved in and would give us more of the same failed economic policies as the President,” said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.
Posted by: mccain is a walking temper tantrum | October 6, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm
The five states that will determine this election are looking good for Obama but at least 3 points have to always be shaved off for the “Bradley effect”. Florida is a state BO is working hard for and they are pushing early voting as everyday he’s ahead he has a better chance….there should be no early voting as anything can happen between now and ll/4. BO campaign are outspending attack ads everywhere.
I’ve never seen a political machine as the Axlerod team and the kids they have working for them…young and stupid will determine this election.
I will work to change voter age in four years….up to 21 and self employed (anyone supported by mommy and daddy at school or home should NOT be allowed to vote….they know not what they do).
Posted by: hanna | October 6, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
McCain asked Obama repeatedly to have town hall debates, asked by real people about real problems. He voted present. He just wants to sneak into the White House and hopes no one is looking, if he can make it to the finish line without scrutiny he is home free and you are a sucker. It’s the Chicago Way.
Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | October 6, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
OBAMA..OBAMA..
How long will we wait?
one month is too long.
Reign on us Now!
We can hardly wait.
Lead us O phophet, our leader OBAMA
Posted by: Muslims4Obama | October 6, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
Today the stock market fell below 10,000 for the first time in nearly four years. Hard-working middle class people like myself have seen their retirement plans shrink alarmingly in value over the last few weeks.
John McCain hasn’t said anything about it. All this desperate and angry man can do is practice character assassination against his opponent.
Independent and undecided voters don’t want to hear this cr*p. They want to know how McCain is going to address economic issues. They don’t care about Obama’s old associations. And a lot of them are turned off by these McCarthyite tactics.
Bush supporters smeared McCain shamefully in 2000. Back then, McCain WAS a maverick. But he sold out to the religous right to win the nomination, which worked. Now he’s imitating the contemptible smear tactics that sank him in 2000. But this time, it won’t work.
Voters are too angry about the economy to pay attention to obvious desperation tactics.
And the Democrats won’t take this. They’re going to respond in kind, and McCain and Palin have a lot of associations far more troublesome than any connection Obama has with Ayers.
Posted by: Kate | October 6, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
“I’ll lose my integrity before I’ll lose an election” – John McCain
Posted by: Ryan C | October 6, 2008, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
you go john we have been asking the same question for 2 years now. everytime we ask the ‘followers’ accuse us of being racist and the media provides cover. yes we do want to know. i have to provide all kinds of credentials,credit, fingerprint and background checks just to rent an apartment.
Posted by: jupiter | October 6, 2008, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
McCain asked Obama repeatedly to have town hall debates, asked by real people about real problems.Posted by: pennsylvaniavoter | Oct 6, 2008 6:28:10 PM
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Yep, and that’s been McCain’s lame excuse for lying and going negative. It’s a little like saying, “you wouldn’t return my phone calls, so I burned your house down.”
McCain: the walking temper tantrum
Posted by: flop sweat express | October 6, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
Hail to Obama, he’s the prophet and magicman that can solve all problems! He’s the savior for our dying country. Citizens of the world: join hands and sing praise to Obama the most high and merciful.
Posted by: Heavy Kool-Aid Drinker | October 6, 2008, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm
“you go john we have been asking the same question for 2 years now. everytime we ask the ‘followers’ accuse us of being racist and the media provides cover. yes we do want to know. i have to provide all kinds of credentials,credit, fingerprint and background checks just to rent an apartment.”
He wouldn’t even be able to pass a background check for employment with the FBI, although he’s okay to be President.
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
hey Sen McCain..since you are going to go really low…and try to dredge up stuff that is not real…
What did it feel like the day the DEA showed up at you door and handcuffed the Mrs?
Posted by: ringer | October 6, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
Obama had dual citizenship with Indonesia until he was 21 at which time he had to choose. He had travelled to Pakistan with his two Pakistani friends from college (who never allow interviews as all his other bedfellows don’t either). Obama’s Kenyan granny said he was born in Africa (but this is a step-grandma) and his 8 half siblings are all over the place (actually 9 if you count Indonesian half sister).
His dad actually had a kid and wife in Kenya when he got BO’s teenage mom pregnant.
Posted by: hanna | October 6, 2008, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
Obama is laughing big time at his ‘followers’. They know not who they are even following. They are following a man who delivers good speeches. No accomplishments, sketchy background, proven lies, facts omitted from his books in order to ‘paint the picture he wanted to paint’ about himself, denial of associations throughout his lifetime with radicals, racists, and terrorists and yet his followers say, ‘we can’t wait! he is going to save our country!’ What a JOKE!!
Posted by: msa123 | October 6, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
“Obama had dual citizenship with Indonesia until he was 21 at which time he had to choose.’
Good thing he got out of there when he did. Some drug related offences warrant the death penalty in Indonesia.
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
Bull pucky. Here is the truth from Factcheck.org. Now tell another lie….
Unfortunately factcheck.org is not a court of law and the Judge has yet to rule anything. Until there’s a ruling this issue will stay alive.
Posted by: Lefty O'Doule | October 6, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm
“His dad actually had a kid and wife in Kenya when he got BO’s teenage mom pregnant….what a mistake.
Posted by: hanna | Oct 6, 2008 6:34:48 PM
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Those white Alaskans sure are breeders. Am I right, or am I right? ”
How many wives did Papa Obama have?
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
and the liars will lie
just like they have to cover their stank for 8 years
same team
same tactics
same bull.
throw these bums out.
Posted by: dl | October 6, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
How many wives did Papa Obama have?
Posted by: Mack | Oct 6, 2008 6:39:19 PM
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how many did McCain have? didn’t he leave his crippled first wife and three kids for the beer heiress? and file for the marriage license of #2 while he was still married to #1?
yes I believe he did…
Posted by: flop sweat express | October 6, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
Let’s have Jerry Springer moderate the next debate. That would be in the spirit of this campaign.
Have McCain’s old chick from Brazil as surprise guest. Keating coming from behind, a wrestling with his buddy Joe Biden, and Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain having a cat fight.
And most of all don’t mention the word economy or crisis, people don’t care about it.
John, Give me break – all these smear campaigns. Is this what six-pack politics means.
Posted by: CLabs | October 6, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
We are about to make the Mother-of-All-Mistakes. If the conservative movement does not rally behind the only alternative left to us, this country will become a true Socialist State within the next two Presidential terms.
Posted by: Down Mexico Way | October 6, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
“throw these bums out.”
Yeah! And lets give the left-wing radical wing-nuts their chance to ruin the country!
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
Most people don’t reflect upon the fact that the Democrats ruled Washington for over 40 years; it wasn’t until 1994 when the so-called Gingrich Revolution changed – but only for a while. These same people do not realize that it was the Democrats who created the failed policies of the entitlement programs that are now falling apart before our eyes.
Do not think I find the Republicans blameless in all this. They, too, suffer from the ego and greed built into our system. But in the past few months I have listened with growing horror to the railings of the left, calling for yet more giveaways, more promises of a proverbial free lunch. What sums up my feelings – why I am appalled by those in political power – is contained within a quote by basketball legend and talk show host Charles Barkley: “Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years…and they are still poor.”
Posted by: Down Mexico Way | October 6, 2008, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
“how many did McCain have? didn’t he leave his crippled first wife and three kids for the beer heiress? and file for the marriage license of #2 while he was still married to #1?
yes I believe he did…’
Were they all at the same time though? Papa Obama was a rolling stone.
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
Heavy Kool-Aid Drinker .
Do not Mock..
Do not Mock.
The destiny of this world has already been decided.
And you’re 100% RIGHT..
Obama is the CHOSEN.
Obama..Our leader..our brother..the peace maker
Posted by: Muslims4Obama | October 6, 2008, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
We are about to make the Mother-of-All-Mistakes. If the conservative movement does not rally behind the only alternative left to us, this country will become a true Socialist State within the next two Presidential terms.
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Yep, the United Socialist States of America. That’s exactly what Obama wants.
Posted by: Lefty O'Doule | October 6, 2008, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
Now, with our elections, come yet more new promises of change we can believe in, for the future. But if you really – I mean REALLY – listen to what the new messiah is asking for, it is not change of policy or change for the better. This is a warning that he wants our change. And the change you will get will not be the change you expected or wanted. I leave you my predictions of what will happen if the junior Senator from Illinois becomes President, especially if the House and Senate are veto-proof Democrat.
1). Strict gun laws, though he promised he would not.
2). “In God We Trust” will be removed from all currency.
3). He will renege on his pledge to Israel and leave them to the wolves of Islam.
4). Hillary Clinton will be named to the Supreme Court.
5). Tax rates will surge to the highest levels in 30 years.
6. Capital gains tax will be at least double current levels.
7). Retired Army General Wesley Clark will be named Secretary of Defense.
8). Our borders will be open to all comers, especially from the Middle East and South America.
9). Amnesty will be granted to all illegals in the U.S, regardless of status or even gang membership (think MS-13).
10). Our presence in Iraq will come to an abrupt end with tragic results to their citizens and devastating consequences to our military.
My predictions will not sit well with some people. The best we could hope for is that I am wrong. Any bets?
Posted by: Down Mexico Way | October 6, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
the countries been plundered
now the foxes are trying to say…look out for that rooster…
he could hurt you.
wonder if they shoot foxes from helicopters as well
get angry
throw these bums out.
they lied to us over wmd
they lied to us about the economy
they lied to us about Palin’s knowledge
they lied to us about abu ghraib
they lies to us about Libby
they lied to us about global warming
they lied to us about Presidential signing statements
they lied to us about Katrina
they lied to us about tortue
they lied to us about secret prisons
they lied to us about Gonzales
they lied to us about Judicial appointments
they lied to us about Mission accomplished
they lied to us about greeted as liberators
they lied to us about mushroom clouds
they lied to us about afghanistan
they lied to us about …
sooo much
and they continue…
same team
same tactics
9th year.
Get angry.
Posted by: dl | October 6, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
“Make Believe Maverick / Rolling Stone: ‘
The same magazine that glorifies Keith Richards and Amy Winehouse. They just to the right of “high times” magazine.
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
CLARKE: AL-QAEDA MAY TRY TO HELP MCCAIN
Richard Clarke runs down the speculation that al-Qaeda may try to influence the US Presidential election, saying that “At the very least” we should “expect another Halloween video from the scary man in the cave.” Why intervene?
Even more likely is the possibility that al Qaeda would hope the attack would benefit John McCain. Opinion polls, which, as noted above, al Qaeda reads closely, suggest that an attack would help McCain. Polls in Europe and the Middle East also suggest an overwhelming popular support there for Barack Obama. Al Qaeda would not like it if there were a popular American president again.
Something to keep in mind.
Posted by: flop sweat express | October 6, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
Fear and Hate is all they’ve got left. McCain stands up there and smirks while an audience member yells out “terrorist”??
A sitting senator and most likely the next President of the United States is accused of being a terrorist and McCain stands up there and grins? Where’s the honor, the civil discourse, the high road?
It’s over for McCain and the Republicans.
Posted by: thebob.bob | October 6, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
From the NY Daily News …
McCain’s course correction reflects a growing case of nerves within his high command as the electoral map has shifted significantly in Obama’s favor in the past two weeks. A top McCain strategist told the Daily News, “It’s a dangerous road, but we have no choice. If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.”
Well guess what? We’re talking about it…
Dow plunges to lowest level since 2004.
Wall Street joined a “selloff around the world” today, with the Dow Jones dropping more than 400 points and falling to below 10,000 for the first time in four years. As the AP reports, the “markets have come to the sobering realization that the Bush administration’s $700 billion rescue plan won’t work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets, and that many banks are still having difficulty gaining access to cash.”
Posted by: don't talk about the economy! | October 6, 2008, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
“Opinion polls, which, as noted above, al Qaeda reads closely, suggest that an attack would help McCain. Polls in Europe and the Middle East also suggest an overwhelming popular support there for Barack Obama. Al Qaeda would not like it if there were a popular American president again.”
Hah! Barry was endorsed by Hamas.
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
the bologne about socialism
do you know anything about our history and what made our capitalist democracy work?
not a completely deregulated mess.
idiots voted got us Bush
now we see idiots argue for his team’s heir.
Posted by: dl | October 6, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm
Mack….Papa Obama had four wives.
Posted by: hanna | October 6, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm
four wives and some at the same time, Mackl
Posted by: hanna | October 6, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm
“Mack….Papa Obama had four wives.”
At the same time?
Posted by: Mack | October 6, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
McCain: Cut Medicare
Paul Krugman doesn’t like John McCain’s health care plans very much:
Conservative Republicans still hate Medicare, and would kill it if they could — in fact, they tried to gut it during the Clinton years (that’s what the 1995 shutdown of the government was all about). But so far they haven’t been able to pull that off.
So John McCain wants to destroy the health insurance of nonelderly Americans instead.
It seems his deadline must have been too early to catch the latest twist from the McCain campaign. Faced with the accusation that swapping the tax deductible status of employer-provided health care for a $2,500 per person ($5,000 per family) CPI-indexed tax credit would constitute a net tax increase on the middle class, McCain’s people proclaimed that employer-provided plans would be subject to income tax, but not to payroll tax. No more net tax increase. But where’s the money going to come from? Well, it looks like $1.3 trillion over ten years in Medicare cuts is the answer. Igor Volsky observes that this is hardly the first time McCain has taken a stand against Medicare beneficiaries. One might have thought, as Krugman evidently did, that McCain would be too averse to the political risks to take up the mantle of Medicare slasher amidst a presidential campaign, but evidently he was just hoping that amidst his campaign’s oft-shifting story about the details of his health care plans nobody would notice.
Posted by: flop sweat express | October 6, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
Mack…our anti American terriorists (friends of Obama’s) are all sitting tight for the next four weeks….they want a WEAKLING in office. There will be a lull in terriorism like you’ve never seen, in the upcoming weeks. If something happened the tide would shift to McCain.
Posted by: hanna | October 6, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm
Sometimes I wonder if I’ve fallen into the twilight zone….have the liberals totally lost their minds…..Do their hearts bled so profusely that they no longer know the difference in right and wrong? …This could turn into a problem of such magnitude that no liberal or conservative will be able to lead the other home…..
Posted by: realitysbest | October 6, 2008, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
Down Mexico Way
Considering that most of what you “predicted” has not even been suggested, and some of it is not legally possible, I would say it was a fairly safe bet that you are talking nonsense.
Posted by: jock59801 | October 6, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
Heavy Kool-Aid Drinker!!
I wish I can sit with you show you the light. Don’t you see the turmoil around you. The crashing of the market, high gas prices, wars and famine.
It’s punishment.
This is the chance for us to be delivered from this turmoil.
OBAMA is the answer and the fulfillment of the Profecy.
Leader of the oppressed.
OBAMA..OBAMA,..WE CAN HARDLY WAIT .
Try to FAST my brother. This may help you see the light.
Posted by: Muslims4Obama | October 6, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
.Do their hearts bled so profusely that they no longer know the difference in right and wrong? .
ahhhh……. DO YOU?
____________________________________________
McCain was on the Board with this fellow:
John Singlaub. He was a member of the World Anti Communist League which is described as “largely a collection of Nazis, Fascists, anti-Semites, sellers of forgeries, vicious racialists, and corrupt self-seekers.” John Singlaub.
Posted by: Paige | October 6, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm
Get past Obamas glossy cover and you can see he as a community organizer shook the federal money tree as hard and often as anyone else ,votes along strick party lines, must be deaf as sitting in a church for 20 years didn’t realize the rants of a racist preacher and doesn’t know history at all as he didn’t realize that Ayres was a cowardly bomb thrower on par with any thug terrorist.
Having said that, all memebers of the Senate and House should be fired and sent home on the first bus (Mccain and Obama included)for theirs and their associatespitiful jobs as our representatives .
Posted by: david | October 6, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm
If nothing else, we get to see how the next Presidnt might respond to a terrorist attack.
Posted by: Gil Gamesh | October 6, 2008, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm
Chairman Maubama | Oct 6, 2008 7:02:34 PM
10 Trillion in debt
10 Trillion Dollar Bail-out and counting
10 Billion going to Iraq each month when they have an 80 Billion surplus
If you don’t think Mccain will raise your taxes, you are living in Fantasyland or you were Palin’s economic tutor.
Posted by: Paige | October 6, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm
If nothing else, we get to see how the next President might respond to a terrorist attack.
Posted by: Gil Gamesh | October 6, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm
Chairman Maubama | Oct 6, 2008 7:02:34 PM
10 Trillion in debt
1 Trillion Dollar Bail-out and counting (correction)
10 Billion going to Iraq each month when they have an 80 Billion surplus
If you don’t think Mccain will raise your taxes, you are living in Fantasyland or you were Palin’s economic tutor.
Posted by: Paige | October 6, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
ahhhh……. DO YOU?
Who’s not the open book?
Paige
Posted by: realitysbest | October 6, 2008, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm
the truth is the polls look very favorable for obama right now. previously i supported hillary. i just really believe that we have some very difficult times ahead financially. as we lose our status as a world power we will become vulnerable at a national security level. many of obama supporters believe that ‘we can just sit down with our enemies’ and they will love us and we will all live happily ever after. i don’t buy that the world is full of wackos that hate us and i want a president who understands the risks and the vulnerabilities. for me that is john mccain. mccain sees the connection between economic security and national security as do i. for me obama is a big unknown and big risk at that level.
Posted by: jupiter | October 6, 2008, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm
This out-of-ideas McCain/Palin ticket is getting more desperate and dingy by the day! I guess while our country is facing the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression there motto is: If we can’t win on the issues, we’ll smear em! Smearing and mudslinging are the last resort of a desperate out-of-gas campaign. Instead of constructive dialog the McCain/Palin ticket now offers up ‘red herring’ smear propaganda. The only purpose of which is to confuse the real issues and to somehow deceive the American people into thinking Obama has done something wrong. BUT, Obama has done nothing wrong! No more smears, No more distractions and No more Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin!
Posted by: Johnson | October 6, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
obviously most of McCain supporters don’t know the “real” mccain
do you understand what his relationship was in the middle of the s&l crisis with Keating
the last bail out which eventually cost us a trillion the first time.
Do you understand what his role was with the Comm for the Liberation of Iraq…you know the lobbyist PR arm organized by the Bush administration to get us into the war. the one Scheunneman was president of and Mccain one of the chairs…the same committee that saw the largest and first financial gains and contracts as soon as we invaded.
Do you understand how he spoke about reigning in fannie once… by shrinking who they gave those loans to…yet never asked the wall street greed that had supercharged the slime….to be reigned in…ever.
Because that is who John mcCain is…
loyal to the wealthiest of wealthy.
not the rest of us.
Posted by: dl | October 6, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
karl marx can you please provide a link/source for your information.
Posted by: jupiter | October 6, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
Jupiter
I was just surfing and found that update of the birth certificate issue. If that site can be trusted it looks like Obama has only 3 days to come up with a vault copy. I’ll try to get more sources to verify.
Posted by: Karl | October 6, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
I’m confused. The economy goes bad and that INCREASES Obama’s chances to win??? Why – during such critical changes – would we vote for an inexperienced, JUNIOR senator who has voted “present” most of his career and gives new meaning to “flip-flop”? Give me the older, stable, decisive, wiser guy anyday (and I’m a lifelong gay Democrat)!
Posted by: gaypastor | October 6, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
You know the unkindest cut of all by the media in our nation is to not do their job in relation to only one candidate and to take a proctoscope to his opponents, then snip negative when the other candidate has to ask the questions that the media should be asking, and then when the results come in panning them as negative campaigning.
Posted by: L Elion | October 6, 2008, 7:42 pm 7:42 pm
At war the first casualty is the truth. At this electoral race the truth has been killed by McCain/Palin and the Republicans
Posted by: republicans nomore | October 6, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
John McCain Profile:
John McCain hobby? Political stunts!
John McCain dream? Be the president no matter what!
John McCain political ideology? Opportunist!
John McCain cheerleader? Sarah Palin.!
John McCain favorite place? Florida, many elderly residents and you can manipulate the voting results!
John McCain favorite Cable news? FOX spin masters!
John McCain favorite movie? Pinocchio!
John McCain favorite song? Bomb.Bomb..Bomb Iran!
John McCain favorite word.? President Reagan ,my friends!.
John McCain friends? Wealthy people like him.!
John McCain ability ?Regular flip flop.!
John McCain number of houses? Seven!
John McCain Number of cars?Eleven!
John McCain definition of middle class?Under five million dollars assets!
John McCain family business value? Over hundred millions!
Posted by: dontspin | October 6, 2008, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm
John McCain and Sarah Palin want to be elected like Republicans but they are trying to avoid discussing issues critical for the American families. And portraying themselves like reformers because they are embarrassed of the last 8 years of the Republicans –Bush Administration Americans want answers to they problems they want better healthcare they want better pay they don’t want just change because that sounds good on election time, they want change from the Bush policies.
The financial institutions are bankrupt. The dollar super weak
The military are stressed out dangerously. Factories and jobs move overseas.
Home owners become homeless. And John McCain worry about the judgment of OBAMA?
McCain is desperate to be a President! He doesn’t see the disaster of Iraq coming when he vote in favor of War .He support deregulations and then argue about the circus of Wall Street .A person who talk against the Government but he favors the government interference .What you can say about his judgment? Now we know that not only Obama can lead, but also he had a plan for the future of this great country!
Now McCain can snooze tight. Obama can answer the 03.00 am call any time!
Rebublicants can spin like wash machine all day long! The truth is
Senator McCain past actually impairs him from to be flexible and confront the future with open mind. The last days of the campaign confirmed that McCain -Plain are the most inadequate people to run this country!
The same people who gave George Bush a second term should feel responsible for the mess that is occurring today. They are the same ones who today have doubts about the ability of Obama to be a good choice for President. At war the first casualty is the truth. At this electoral race the truth has been killed by McCain and the Rebublicants .
Posted by: dontspin | October 6, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm
I’m confused. The economy goes bad and that INCREASES Obama’s chances to win??? Why – during such critical changes – would we vote for an inexperienced, JUNIOR senator who has voted “present” most of his career and gives new meaning to “flip-flop”? Give me the older, stable, decisive, wiser guy anyday (and I’m a lifelong gay Democrat)!
Posted by: gaypastor | Oct 6, 2008 7:31:29 PM]
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In case you haven’t looked, their is only an older guy. He is not stable, decisive (at least not in a rationale and correct way – driven by facts and information as well as gut – just gut and we know where that goes), wise oand he is the most flip of the flip floppers. Plus he is one foot in the grave given he is so old. And his backstop VP is a juvenile.
You need to face reality. Get your head out of the Rabbit Hole and the ostrich hole. Its time for change – and not McCain’s idea of change – which is to just change the subject.
Posted by: PaulStewart9 | October 6, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm
KEEP UP THE NONSENSE, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN. HERE’S THE LATEST FROM REAL CLEAR POLITICS:
Colorado 48.0 44.0 Obama +4.0
Ohio 48.7 45.2 Obama +3.5
Florida 49.3 45.3 Obama +4.0
Nevada 49.3 47.5 Obama +1.8
Missouri 47.8 47.5 Obama +0.3
Virginia 49.9 45.1 Obama +4.8
Posted by: Blue in Michigan | October 6, 2008, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
Obama has been respectful of McCain, honoring his service, being professional and courteous despite McCain’s open hostility and rudeness. By allowing such a thing to go unresponded at his event is unforgivable. To allow another US Senator to be called a terrorist without a response, such a thing should be unheard of. You don’t agree with his policies, fine, but you don’t sit there with a stupid smile on your face while that goes on. You are not worthy of your position McCain. When you lose this election, I doubt you will be returning to the senate when you are up for re-election sir. You have become all that you have claimed to be against, or perhaps you always were this. Some hero.
Posted by: Danny | October 6, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm
McCain is vile and unpresidential.
Posted by: puat | October 6, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
Actually right now I’m still trying to figure out who is the real McCain. He is nothing like who he once was and that is truly sad.
He has embraced hypocrisy with both arms
Posted by: WeLoveOurBooks | October 6, 2008, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm
McCain’s veep pick Alaska
hillbilly Sarah Palin is
driving him nuts. His
campaign is dying. Unable
to control the storm
raging in his mind, he
keeps lashing out at
his opponent with absurd
and grotesque lies.
Posted by: anon | October 6, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
That John McCain is out of touch with America is evident in his asking who Barak Obama is. The senator from Illinois has been vetted and re-vetted more thoroughly than any political figure in recent history. Every American who reads a newspaper or watches TV knows full well who and what Barak Obama is. The same, though, cannot be said of John McCain’s running mate. The public has yet to know the full story behind her ties with the secessionist Alaskan Independence party, her veiled acceptance of earmarks, her undisclosed government perks, her alleged abuse of power, her anti-witchcraft rituals, her daughter’s shotgun wedding, and so forth. The pit-bull, barracuda, untutored hockey mom from the most sparsely populated state in the nation is the one who is a mystery. Why John McCain chose her over far better qualified candidates as his running mate is also a mystery.
Posted by: Carlos Navarro | October 6, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm
I find what the republicans with McCain and Palin are doing is disgusting. Our country is falling apart. We may be headed towards a depression bigger and more damaging then ever before. We need to hear how the candidates are going to work to save our country. We do not need lies and character assassinations by McCain and Palin. They seem to have absolutely no ideas of what to do to help America so they spew their bigoted hatred and their minions echo this hate all over the news and internet.
We need hope not hate. We need new ideas not the fear of their fascist propaganda. Obama is our only hope to get out of this mess. He understands that the economy must turn around from the failed conservative ideology of trickle-down economics.
If the middle-class and the poor have decent jobs it means more money in their pocket to spend and save. This is what will help the economy.
The republicans only gave to the rich. No more Bush/Cheny/McCain/Palin and the rest of the republicans. They had eight years and all they have done is wreck our country.
Posted by: scott | October 7, 2008, 1:23 am 1:23 am
I go into every election with an open mind. The candidate that appeals to me is the one who when I watch talk, provides an intelligent analysis of the issues. I’ll admit, I haven’t voted Republican in a presidential election for a while, and the John McCain smear/lie campaign has lost me this time as well. He started with the slogan “Country First” and that more or less disappeared when the engine warmed up. It’s been Campaign First and America’s Real Needs Second ever since.
How sad to see his political career come to a close this way.
Posted by: furtherwest | October 7, 2008, 2:47 am 2:47 am
Obama sits on his high horse pointing down at John McCain (true American, Military man, knows the meaning of suffering and putting himself not first but last) for mudslinging? What does Obama he think he is doing? Wearing a halo? I think NOT. Obama is a slimy, two faced scumbag, who tells San Fran elites that Pennsylvanians are bitter, gun clinging, religious fanatics. If you people in PA vote for Obama you are incredibly stupid. He made the biggest fools out of you before the entire Nation.
Posted by: ml | October 7, 2008, 7:50 am 7:50 am
McCain’s behavioral problems
rule him out from holding
any job in government at any
level.
Posted by: anon | October 7, 2008, 8:31 am 8:31 am
The same could be asked of John McCain. A man who has condemned character assasisation politics now embraces them. McCain is a phony and has his own character issues included whether he is mentally stable enough to be President.
Posted by: indy_voter | October 7, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am
Some of these comments are really anti american,do we want a free society and country.Or go to the radical leftist agenda?
The people that believe Obama are in for a very rude awakening,he is No President material,No foreign relations experience, Yet thats exactly where he wants to go.I am terrorized
of his leftist agenda ,which be revealed soon,
He is no Messiah either,Why do people worship him?
Please support this country and our soldiers,By supporting someone who has experience more than Obama,Obama bills will not be good I promise look before you leap!
Posted by: karen | October 7, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am
I think we all need to go back to Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the end of the Democrats’ convention, where he reminded us that “we are better than that.” If you have been reading or watching any of the speeches recently given by Gov. Palin or Sen. McCain, the level of ugliness is truly appalling. Obama is so right — we ARE better than that, and we should reject outright this kind of divisive and rancorous and frankly, scary tactics. Both Obama and McCain have been in the public eye for over a year, so everything that is now being used to malign them has been used before. It’s pointless at this time to try, in such an ugly way, to paint either one of them as unsuitable for the presidency. We know their stories already, and all the lies. But…in the past weeks, I have seen one man remain presidential — cool, thoughtful, calming, still appealing for a new IMPROVED America. The other has seemed rash, unpredictable, angry and volatile, urging his supporters to violence in words — who’s to say what they are capapable of in deed? I know who I want for president, and it’s not the angry one. What the angry one is doing to America is really scary.
Posted by: Ann | October 7, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
Shouldn’t we be asking who is Sarah Palin?? Until a few weeks ago nobody had heard of her outside of Alaska and next month she could be 2nd in command of the most powerful nation on earth? I had my doubts about Obama’s experience to start with but for 2 years he has basically been interviewing for a 4 year job. He has already recieved 18 million votes and has built the most successful political campaign in american history. I know who Obama is…he is a winner.
Posted by: Sam | October 9, 2008, 11:01 am 11:01 am
I’m so surprised that McCain has chosen to run his campaign on fear and hatred. If that’s what’s in store for America for the next 4 to 8 years, count me out.
Posted by: uiuc06 | October 9, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
You all shut up and keep quite. Otherwise, our president Obama will rule you all like a king. Listen, he already has a big plan for you all as he anounced earlier, he will demolish current war loving military and build up his own Obama army in your cities and towns all around the country and keep eyes close on you if you dare to yell, send you to labor camp with no time. You those non sense people. do you do how great our Obama will be. He will rewrite your history!!!
Posted by: John | October 12, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am