McCain Adviser Says Northern Virginia Not “Real” Virginia

This has become a common practice with the McCain campaign… where they find they are losing, that part of America is not real and the people there are not patriotic… Palin said the same thing at one of the rallies… these guys are really desperate..its disgusting…

imagine that. an anchore from MSNBC trying to spin something from the mccain campaign. who would hav e seen that comming??!!

Vanessa- please re-read his story to see that northern Virginia is not W.Virginia, she was talking about northern Virginia near Washington DC. Yes W. Virginia is a completely different State, but it was not what she was talking about. The hate continues as campaign signs are comparing Obama to Charles Manson now- gotta love that hate mongering Vanessa- dontcha?
This Nation does not deserve this kind of hate mongering in a time when the great people of the US are facing economic hardships. It is definitely time for a change and time to get rid of the Rove style of campaigning. The American people deserve civility.

RCP Electoral Map:
Obama – 286
McCain – 155
Toss Up – 97
With no tossups;
Obama – 364
McCain – 174

- how about you spend some of your time focusing on a pressing constituional crisis, like Obama refusing to reveal his genuine birth certificate”
ROFLMAO!
Both Fact Check & PoliFact have held Obama’s birth certificate.
Right wing \er love their nutty theories.

I think we are all losers in this election

Joe McCain, John’s brother said that northern Virginia is “communist country”.
These Republicans sure know how to be bipartisan and unifying.

well, liberati your point is valid. Factcheck aka Annenberg is hardly a court of law. I am skeptical of the law suit but I agree that Obama should just produce it.I am not for either candidate but I agree that the Obama campaign is the biggest fleecing of Americans in history..

O Jake, Jake, Jake…I’ll echo some of these comments here. You really are missing the Real Story About The Real Obama.
I mean, didn’t he just say he was from the planet Krypton? Hello! That means he’s an Illegal Alien!!! No wonder that birth certificate story has legs…
All snark aside – good work on covering this race so far, in the big, the little and the miniscule aspects.

tim
Barack healthcare plan gives you the choice of keeping your existing plan or entering in to the same plan that john mccain and Barack Obama have!
if its good enough for them its good enough for me.. Why shouldnt i be alowed to by into the same plan as them ?

I have a question. I guess many people don’t post on here because I see the same 20 names over and over again. So do you guys work here? Ryan C. Vanessa, Ann, Paige, Concerned in OH, Belle Star, Seems strange ABC is a big spot but I only see the same names. You guys should come to CNN or politico. The conversations are more intellectual.

She is correct. Lived there, been there done that. The liberalism “feel good” ideas are trying to overtake the country and will ruin this great nation if they get all the power. Very dangerous.

If Obama were McCain he would be calling on McCain to denounce this comment about the “real Virginia.” But Obama won’t because he’s playing past all the nasty smears, lies, and insinuations. AND HE’S WINNING. When West Virginia is in play – you know the Republicans are in trouble. The comments about Obama having to defend PA and Wisconsin would be more realistic if McCain weren’t defending half a dozen normally Repub. states: Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Indiana, North Dakota, and VIRGINIA.
So the desperation breeds these smears and divisive comments – like the one about the “real” Virginia.

Ann
JOHN MCCAIN HASNT RELEASED HIS BIRTH CERFTICATE SO BEFORE YOU CARRY ON ABOUT BARACKS GET MCCAIN TO RELEASE HIS!
MCCAIN CANT EVEN BE PRESIDENT HE ISNT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!
HE WAS BORN IN PANAMA!!
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii

Walter Annenberg created that school decades ago with goal of improving public education about their governmet.
Walter Annenberg was a friend of Ronald Reagan and served him as Ambassador.
—————————————
duh… these people did not approve of Ayers. These people did not set up these charities to be overtaken by activists who are socialists. It’s the same method ACORN uses. Get real. Ayers and Obama are connected. It won’t be long until he’s exposed.

Has Palin and her husband seceded Alaska from the US yet?

Northern VA isn’t real VA?
Ouch.
All doubt I had about McCain’s incompetence has washed away.

Poor Mike, when there was a question about McCain’s citizenship, he produced it immediately. No big deal, right? That has long been proven.
So mcCain, a war hero, who has fought for this country, had to prove his citizenship, then why shouldn’t Obama, who has done NOTHING for this country and who is rnning for the highest office in the land, supply this one piece of requirement for president?
what is the big deal? Just reveal the thing already.
the more he hides, the more he looks like the criminal he is.

57 Muslim nations?????

People may as well be truthful, part of the citizens here in America are for socialism. The real fight will be to save America.

ROFLMAO
So funny to see right wingers hold onto the Obama not a citizen smear and your full faith that will stop Obama’s likely election.
You’re grasping at the straws of reality at that point.

The “anti-American fake Virginia” will be coming in droves to vote for Obama…LOL!——————— all the little socialists anti-americans you mean and the people that are fooled by the one.

Christie,
Did you know McCain plans to tax employer provided health benefits as income to help fund his tax credit for health benefits for everyone?
Why that sounds like socialism!

“I mean, didn’t [Obama] just say he was from the planet Krypton?”

I guess northern Virginia’s also one of those “anti-American” parts of the country that Gov. Palin was talking about.

I use to think Michael Savage was a nut case. He sounds more on target about Obama.

Obama lied on his bar paperwork where it states have you had any citations or parking violations—He wrote NO. He had 17 outstanding parking citations.
Obama lied on the forms to the Supreme Court as Senator. Question have you ever gone by another name—He wrote NO. He lied again, he had another legal name that he went by for years and year. Do you think he lied again on his paperwork, I would have to say yes, unless the courts look into the matter. Obama would get more votes if he would submit his paperwork and have this cleared up before Election Day. He has hired three expensive attorneys instead of producing the documents that everyone says he has hanging around. For a man that says he loves the country, its Constitution it is REALLY hard to believe he will not show his birth certificate to the courts!!!!!!1

First we have “pro-America” versus those of us who think McCain/Palin is a rerun of the last 8 years apparently being “anti-America” and now we have “real Virginia” versus what exactly?
What country is it exactly that McCain puts first? I must have missed something, is there more than one America. I always thought one of the core values of AMERICA and being AMERICAN as the ability to have a civil discourse. That we could disagree and all of us were still AMERICANS.
These people are fascists and we should all be very afraid. This is very reminiscent of the thinking that was going on in 1930′s Germany.

Wow, I’ve never been called anti-american for voting democratic.
Posted by: annie———————–
If you are supporting a socialist, that’s exactly what you are. either anti american or have been fooled into trusting the one.

So the scumbag news media is twisting people’s words in order to make news and manipulate politics – what else is new? You’re no better.

McCain is not a real
candidate for president.

In the 1930′s there were over 1 million registered communists in the United States of America.
Being an American is not defined by your economic belief system.
If you are born in America, guess what you are an AMERICAN. If you believe the constitution gives you freedom of thought and speech, you ARE AN AMERICAN. Clearly republicans do not believe in freedom of thought or speech, so now tell me who is anti-American.

So a spokesperson for the McCain-Palin campign has now dismissed the residents – the voters – of Northern Virginia? WOW ! Is the campaign truly trying to self-destruct <3 weeks before Election Day?
How incredibly elitist to say to U.S. citizens "You don't count!" What blatant arrogance! THis is nothing less than a slap in the face – a spit in the eye – to the very America Senator McCain supposedly "puts first."
What a sad, sorry, pitiful assembly of those who would see Senator McCain in the White House! Senator McCain has surrounded himself with those who have neither his interests, or those of U.S. citizens, in mind.

McCain sets the agenda or what we talk about. “The real America, Joe the Plumber, real Virgina,Joe Six Pack, Palin on SNL, acorn”. Meanwhile health care costs are going up – the economy is shambles. Steve Schmidt Cheney’s communication director continues to drive the conversation. We need to get away from this type of politics – and the Bush mentality of governing the country. Obama, in the way he has run his campaign – has more than shown the organizational skills – we will need to get out of the mess we’re now in. McCain just another four years of what we have now. And has being driven by the same people who gave us Bush/Cheney.

ECONOMIC BELIEF SYSTEMS ARE NOT HOW YOU DEFINE BEING PRO-AMERICA.
YOU CAN BE SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST, CAPITALIST BECAUSE THIS IS AMERICA.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT IS PRO-AMERICA.
SUPPRESSING FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND SPEECH IS FASCISM.

Did we not just become socialists as a result of the buying of banks and bailing out of Wall Street companies that Bush and the current regime have caused/instituted?

This birth certificate crap is just that crap. Obama is a natural born citizen and so is McCain. Both are honorable men. They just have different ideas on how to address the economy, health care, the war in Iraq, finding Bin Laden and a whole host of other things. Voters have a clear choice in this election. Decent responsible Americans would discuss these issues and the candidates’ differences only. Anyone else is uninformed, poorly educated, racist and truly un-American.

Belle Starr
Good Priest have a sense of humor and most of all catholic priest that work in the community have to have one because they have the toughest job.

Whilst the Obama campaign has concentrated on issues and what they plan to do for the people of the United States, McCain has lurched from one accusation to another,talk about erratic..from experience to reform,change!!!,country first,to name calling, lies, false accusation of terrorism, and finally, the lamest reason, warning against a democratic hegemony in Washington,surely, the democracts will need a strong mandate to make the changes the people of America are calling for..

GEEEEEEZE, there goes the McCain camp YET again…dividing the Country! “the REAL VIRGINIA”…. OMG!! I’m afraid I am out of the 50c tokens to give the republicans for their campaign efforts!
Go Obama/Biden!

“Did we not just become socialists as a result of the buying of banks and bailing out of Wall Street companies that Bush and the current regime have caused/instituted?”

Anyone who thinks another civil war in this country is not possible better pay attention to what McCain’s campaign is starting to fester. These people are radical as the Isalmic fundamentalists that they condemn.

THIS ELECTION IS THE MEANEST IN MY 61 YEARS OF LIFE!!! :(
I HAVE BEEN CALLED:
1) UNSAVED …YOU CAN’T BE A CHRISTIAN AND VOTE DEMOCRATIC
2) UNAMERICAN …YOU CAN’T BE A PATRIOT AND VOTE DEMOCRATIC …
NOW THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, WHERE MY TWO CHILDREN WERE BORN, IS SPLIT INTO TWO.
…..FAKE VIRGINA AND REAL VIRGINIA ..
AFTER ALL FAKE VIRGINIA HAS ‘THOSE PEOPLE’ FROM d.c. IN IT!
HOW BIGOTTED IS THIS ELECTION GOING TO GET?
OH AND FYI …GET READY IF PALIN EVER IS PRESIDENT, SHE BEING A PENTICOSTAL:
THEY DO NOT DANCE, DRINK, SMOKE, GO TO MOVIES,WATCH MUCH TV, AND GO TO CHURCH 3 TIMES A WEEK.
AND WE WILL BE UNPATRIOTIC, UNCHRISTIAN AND ENEMIES OF THE STATE!!!!

All of those who cry “socialist” are just afraid of change. Modernization of our gov’t is here and it has to happen. If you can’t change – you can’t grow. Progress is good! Embrace it or you will be left behind.

I have seen that Obama ad with McCain saying how he has voted with Bush 90% of the time a zillion times this weekend. It is a great ad and I love it. So happy to see my hard earned money at work.
I am really PROUD to be an AMERICAN and participating in this democratic process. It is a thing of beauty knowing that the little guy took this country back from the lunatic fringe.

Brenda
I guess Arnold supports terrorism too when he congradulated ACORN for its efforts in California. Or McCain too when he went to one of their meetings. Republicans wasn’t against ACORN until they started losing. Everybody knows the fraud has been mainly perpetrated by Republicans with machines counting backwards, and voter caging in Ohio. McCain just appointed a guy who said that if more people vote then Democracy doesn’t work because Republicans would lose….

Don’t forget they’re COMMUNIST, too.
(compliments of brother McCain)

LIBETARI… I don’t know where you’ve been staying the past couple of weeks. Evidently it has no T.V. newspaper or radio or you would know about all those things your haranging about have all been figured out. OR are you just bring them up so you can see your harranging in print… Get a life…
OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12

Obamacrat for McCain
Chicago is not has bad as DC at all. Chicago has some the most hard working nice people in the midwest. I have never heard a Atlantic Coast person say anything bad about are state. Although are politics are divisive, nobody cares if you are republican or democrat. People care more if you are sox fan or a cubs fan. But I guess ignorance is bliss.

McCain 2016
ROFLMFAO!!!!!

Concerned in Ohio–
Obama is not the messiah (he is actually Superman) but I’m pretty sure McCain is the crypt keeper’s daddy.

It’s how you divide people:
Whether the statement causes offense or not, it highlights one important aspect of the McCain campaign that isn’t as loud or obnoxious in the Obama campaign: The tendency to separate people into ‘us versus them’. This entire statement by Pfotenhauer defines differences between people they consider supporters and those they don’t. That division is a holdover from the Karl Rove time of “if you’re not with us you’re a traitor, a liberal, a socialist, a (insert any negative description of a person you want here). This shows a divisive mentality which will not ‘unite’ the country.
Obama is saying, if you want change, vote for me. McCain’s rhetoric seems to be saying, if you don’t vote for me, you’re one of those (insert any negative description of a person you want here). One is a message of hope. The other is a message of division. Which do you think resonates better with the voters when facing economic and political difficulties.?
The upshot of it all is Obama has the image of a cool, calm, collected PRESIDENTIAL candidate, whiled McCain comes across as the neighbor everyone loves to hate for being a crotchety old coot who shakes his fist at everyone who doesn’t agree with him. Having campaign staff members who reinforce this image on national television isn’t helping him at all.

Belle Starr
There is no difference a joke is a joke. “born in a manger” and “messiah” jokes were not inappropriate. I am sure John Paul II would get a kick out of it if he was alive today. He always struck me as a down to earth guy by the way.

lily
LMAO. But in seriousness there are people who fall victim to the smears. Thankfully they appear red states more often then blue. Pacific Coast states are progressive. Midwest states are more morally adjusted and nice. North East Coast is ethnically diverse. So those type of smears wouldn’t work if you are two doors down from a Muslim that who have been friends with since High School.

Jake – I live in DC and all of my friends in NoVA say the same thing! Good grief. Try again.

Way to go Brenda! Yesterday Republcan idiot Congress woman Michelle Bachman said the media should investigate congressional Democrats for not being pro America. Oh yeah, Obama is a terrorist. He’s a Muslim. He’s unAmerican and hates this country. blah blah blah.
The desperate Republicans are trying to exercise some good old McCarthyism into American politics today. If you can’t beat ‘em on the issues then use whispering and innuendo. If that doesn’t work, then stop whispering and start shouting. And if the shouting doesn’t work then just make up crap and post it on some website so some of the no brain Republican base can pick it up and try to make a retarded argument out of it. Make no mistake. You’re just like Sarah Palin. The only people you appeal to are the base of your party. You have those folks anyway.
Never assume that most people are as unintelligent as you are and will read some unfounded drivel and take it as gospel.

Well Real Virgina is only part of whole Virginia on November 4.

100,000 St. Louis – Today
I guess hope is tough to beat.

I guess what gets me is that majority of Americans have bought into what Obama & Dem’s are saying that the Economy is Bush’s fault. If you really want to educate your self and realize that the current economy is REALLY the Dem’s & Clinton’s fault. Franklin Raines was Clinton’s White House Budget Director, he ran Fannie Mae and made $50 million dollars. Jamie Gotelick was Clinton’s Justice Offical and work for Fannie Mae and made $26 million. Lastly, Jim Johnson, who was on Obama’s search committee collected millions working for Fannie Mae. Greenspan is also part of the problem along with the repeal of the Glass Steagall act during Clinton & Dem’s control the Senate. What gets me is that Obama wants to give $25 BILLION DOLLARS to New Hampshire and the 20 other states facing budget shortfalls, so they will not have to raise property taxes or further cut state servics. Another BAIL OUT program, but this is for states that can’t live within their budgets. Where is the money going to come from OBAMA? You will probably go back on your word about not raising taxes on anyone making less than 250,000. What will be the new number anyone making less than $100,000.????

McCain is hiring all the smear agencies of Bushes election campaign. McCain as join with emperor palpatine … I mean joe Lieberman, swiftboat artist, sleazy robocallers, bank lobbyist, oil lobbyist, negative ad peddlers. I bet you want find a single sane economist working for McCain anymore. That is the difference between Obama and McCain
Obama/ Biden 08 Change we can believe in.

Thank you Northern virginia for letting Republican know,No Deal. to a path to no where. Please step across your western border to my home town and spread the News.

GOP = Get Out of Politics

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they’re red, white and blue.
And when the band plays “Hail to the chief”,
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, no,
Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don’t they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, no.
Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, “How much should we give?”
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh,
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no military son, son.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, one.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate son, no no no

55mariposa, Your facts are not accurate. Glass Steagall was repealed during the Clinton Administration in a bill proposed by a Republican and McCain adviser, Phill Gramm. The Senate was controlled by Republicans at the time and the bill had enough voted to overturn a veto. Greenspan was appointed by Ronald Reagan although he served during Clinton’s tenure as well. Greenspan is also a Republican who supports John McCain. Ya can’t just make stuff up.

Belle Starr
Your not making any sense. First of all Obama didn’t have any money until he won the Senate Race. He was in debt from college loans when he wrote the book. I don’t think he had enough influence or money to have a corporation write for him…
Babies love saying Obama because it is phonetically interesting.

Joesmom–
The republican party has lost it’s sole. I truly hope when it rises again, it will be the logical, fiscally conservative, intelligent party of yesterday. The NeoCons need to be sent packing.
I voted for Regan in my very first election in 1980, I was on fired up young republican. Today, I am an independent and voting Obama. I suspect there are far more of us than the McCain campaign things there are.

“-You can work for the Bush Administration.
–And join that sinking ship?” Baldwin to assistant 30 Rock.

This goes hand-in-hand with Palin’s comments about some parts of the US being more American than others. There is a grave cancer in the Republican party. This is getting sickening.

McCain’s creed:
After I insult you, vote 4 me.
This guy, his campaign, his spinmeisters, and his running mate are the political jokes of the century.

david
Spending freeze means no new programs, meaning anything McCain offers is mute.

I’ve been a Republican for a long time, and I also live in N. Virginia. I heard Joe McCain call us “Commies” when he spoke in Lansdowne, and now this. This is not the Republican party of Reagan, this is the new American Taliban party – “If you’re not with us, you are the ENEMY”. I will vote for Obama as a vote for sanity in this country.
Posted by: joesmom
******************************************** I take it that your section of Virginia is not the PRO AMERICA part of the country that Sarah Palin told the crowd she enjoys visiting.

Tommy, I think there is blame for both parties, I’m just correcting inaccuracies from 55mariposa.

joebags
Agree. Not only is Palin geographically inaccurate, she is conceptually wrong. How is one place in America less American then another place?

Oh, oh. That guy in OH is CONCERNED again. Afraid that change is going to bring death & destruction to his family. That is kind of extreme isn’t it? Wow.

Disturbed. Great point!

Hey, joebags & MM Have you ever been to California?

No, Graham introduce a bill that started the deregulation of the Banking industry. Glass Steagall was favored by Greenspan, Goldman Sach partner Robert Rubin…Clinton’s Treasury Sec. 1995,& Sandy Weill’. Clinton signed the repeal. The other contributor to the current crises is the Community Reinvestment Act, sign by Clinton and supported by Greenspan, Sandy Weill & Robert Rubin and passed by the Dems’.
The issue that I still have is the bail out plan that was passed several weeks ago. Why didn’t Congress let the market adjust like it did during the 1980′s. Congress made the RTC company to auction off all the commercial properties that the banks had to forclose on. Why didn’t Congress listen to McCain & other Senators that question the way the sub prime lending companies were lending money to people that didn’t qualify for the loan?
I don’t like either candidate. I think both sides Dems & Rep. have gone way below the belt on all their ads. It is discussing what BOTH parties are doing to the Country. I am tire of not getting REAL answers from BOTH Obama & McCain. That is why I decide to do my OWN research on people that are associated with both candidates. I suggest to everyone to do the same and then you make up your own mind. Remember is you are who you are by the people you associate with.

they were calling Obama a Marxist on the McGlauflin Report last night, even close associates of Obama say he is a Marxist..He will be defeated, he will not get the chance to destroy America

55Mariposa
If you want answer go on both their websites and look for them. Don’t babble on and on about things you have no control over. Yes the market would of corrected itself but the correction is not necessary a good thing. Guess what cause the Great Depression – a market correction…

McCain needs and must win VA, however, insulting their citizens sounds childish and based in angry.
So is Mccain going to call the Triangle area, not the real part of NC? Northern VA has been a growth engine for VA, much as the Research Triangle area of NC. Both areas are big regions of Obama support. Both regiions are ranked a job creators and desirable places to live.
McCain and the GOP should realize the world and the US is changing. No longer do they wish top down central command strucutres, but amphorus open source architectures.

Joe the Plumber I took my McCain/Palin signs down. I don’t want to put my family in danger.
Posted by: Concerned in OH
*********************************************
PLEASE! Joe the fake plumber who isn’t really named Joe, is a regular on the right wing hate radio shows. The McCain campaign heard him saying he would like to corner Obama with a question and make him squirm.
The McCain campaign contacted him by phone and coached him on exactly what to say.
Fox news was there to tape it when Samuel (Joe), got his chance to ask the scripted question.
Samuel (Joe), than chose to get interviewed by Fox news,Couric, Diane Sawyer, etc. etc.
Nobody DID anything to him. He chose to be a phony and a fraud and he was exposed as an imposter.

Badger
Didn’t Nancy Reagan endorse Obama?

Lily–
You can hold on to the dream that dems will go into the voting booth and vote Obama, but on 11/5 you will wake up and realize you were WRONG.
The minute McCain picked Palin to be his running mate, he lost this thing. She appeals to the most base of the base but that’s it. Her negatives are now the highest of the four. She appeals only to those that would have voted republican in the first place and scares the heck out of the rest of us.
I was voting McCain until he picked her and I know I am not alone in my switch.

McCain is losing grounds everyday because he insults the intelligence of his supporters.
Did anybody see the 100 000 people at the Obama rally in St Louis?
Now spin this.

He doesn’t have my republican vote anymore. Buckley? Parker? Powell? Hagel? Noonan? NYC for Mayor?————– They are liberals, hello.

Their going to say that’s not real Missouri. I guess fake America provides the majority of the GDP.

“Buckley? Parker? Powell? Hagel? Noonan? NYC for Mayor?————– They are liberals, hello.”
hahahahahaha
the rats are deserting the GOP ship.

Badger–
You are wrong. I am from middle America and guess what, we understood what he was saying. We are most definitely bitter, we have lost our jobs to outsourcing. We do cling to our religion because it is all we have, the government has deserted us. Guns, well he meant the second amendment and you can’t dispute that is a key to how people vote in middle America.
Obama spoke the hard unvarnished truth with the bitter comment. Too bad you don’t have enough self-awareness to realize it. However, he never indicated that we weren’t Pro-America.
Saying some of us aren’t real Americans is far worse than stating a fact.

lily, I appolize for offending you & your son. I think that individuals that volunteer for any organization that helps the less fortunate should be commended for ALL their hard work and scarificies that they have made to make the world a better place.
My question is, is Obama going to make joining the Peace Corp manditory or not?
Yes, I do volunteer for an organization that helps kids,& adults with special needs, from Down Syndrome, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, stroke & autism. My kids have volunteer since they were 6 years old…taking our dog to an assisted living home twice a month. So in no means did I mean to degrade any one that volunteers their time to the Peace Corp or any other organization that help the less fortunate.

“Northern Virginia is not the real Virginia.” That’s like Sarah Palin saying there are Pro-America and Anti-America sections of the country. When will these people learn that we are all one country? There is not a red America and a blue America. All Americans are in this together, especially now that so many of us are without jobs, have lost retirement incomes, health care and so much more. The time to divide in order to win elections is over. We need to unite to face our problems.

Hey Pennslvania I really hope youre not buying into Obamas “that was the biggest bonehead mistake I made” speaking of his elitist comments about smalltowns folk clinging to their guns, etc.
What a complete politician. He said that his real estate deal with rezko was a boneheaded mistake too.
What about Wright , and Pfleger? More boneheadedness?

JR
I know you were trying to prove a point but see my comments earlier.

“I think we are all losers in this election.”

Stupid Comments–
Right on. It’s unbelievable how the republicans USE 9/11 to their benefit and then trash the very people who were most affected. The people who DIED that day were people they apparently find to be Un-American.

Belle Starr
I guess you miss the hint. Secretary Paulson will be fire. “Help out with the Transition”

JR
Don’t hate because I actually read the bible instead of regurgitating what some people say. I was raised by Catholics and Protestants, and have friends that are Muslim and Atheist. I am a proud Christian and know that what Palin is doing is morally wrong. Being vindictive, secretive, untruthful to obtain power is not a Christian trait.

Badger
Muslims are nice people. They actually have a passage that says that Muslims shouldn’t attack Christians because of there faith. I guess you miss that part.

I love how John McCain and Sarah Palin take it upon themselves to decide who are real Americans and real Virginians. And they call other people elitist? If the old out of touch senator and his bumpkin sidekick win we will become the laughingstock of the world.

“More than three quarters of a million dollars for gaming the caucuses and fraud?”

Why’s the fight? the real un-American State is Alaska…. BECAUSE IT IS NEAR RUSSIA… wink, wink… AND SARAH CAN SEE PUTIN HAVING BREAKFAST IN HIS PORCH…everyday, duh!

MCSAME IS ANGRY AT VIRGINIA- so he is venting his anger. He could care less about all the people of this country (except for the rich)- much less all of Virgina. The Repulicans lies are not working and they are angry. I believe they are dangerous. Look they “planted” joe the plummer and told him to lie. aND NOW HAVE MORE PLUMMERS WORKING FOR MCCAIN’S CAMP (MORE LIES)McLame will see who the” REAL VOTERS” ARE IN NOVEMBER. OBAMA/BIDEN ALL THE WAY.

McCarthy’s ugly head,
Thanks for the link. I signed the petition and when I get my wallet in a few, I’m going to donate to her opponent. She’s a dangerous nutjob!

“Would the fifties you long for include McCarthyism?”

Concerned in OH,
We won’t throw the first punch but we’ll throw the last…

“Presidential campaigns are full of hypocrisy, of course,” wrote the New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn. “But I can’t remember the last time a candidate was this brazen about it. It makes you wonder what McCain thinks about the public’s power of perception.”

I’m a resident of Arlington and have been a Virginia resident for almost 15 years. If I’m not a “real Virginia” can I have some of my real money I paid in Virginia taxes back. Becaues as all Real Virginians know, we get taxed on our cars as personal property tax.

Typical desperate republicans, they did their best in dividing the nation, now they want to split up the states as well.

Concerned in Ohio–
Joe isn’t a plumber he was a republican plant. You know it, I know it, America knows it.
Yet another failed ploy of the McCarthy/Palin campaign.

Obviously mccains aide has never been to the iron range of mn)it’s solidly democratic and so is NW WI. mccain shouldn’t be looking for too many votes either place.
And to whoever put the quote
from Audacity of Hope Please state the page number.

“In fact [Obama] may be an illegal alien, subject to deportation to Indonesia.”

The country is on fire and the GOP is still trotting out the same old BS that’s worked for them in past elections. But people aren’t buying it this time. The BushGOPers have been unmasked for the greedy, corrupt flim flammers they are and are going to get the beating of their lives. Let’s hope that the Repubs. learn their lesson and come back next time with a civil, issue-oriented campaign worthy of the American people.
Posted by: hopesprings52
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The “rebubs” should “learn their lesson”. They should be Demorats. That’s the lesson.
Of course you don’t mention the fact that your heroes, the Democrats controlled Congress for the last two years and IF Obama wins the election, in the year 2010 it will be the DEMS who get the “beating of thier lives”.

He doesn’t have my republican vote anymore. Buckley? Parker? Powell? Hagel? Noonan? NYC for Mayor?————– They are liberals, hello.
Hey, Christie, they were Republicans before they endorsed Obama, weren’t they?
And last I heard Powell was only thinking about endorsing Obama and that’s just speculation.

It’s pretty lame the republicans are playing the victims with Sam, the Not Licensed Plumber. Give me break!.
Don’t forget which candidate mentioned his name countless time.
Isn’t it logically that media starts doing what they are supposed to do.. investigating.
Don’t blame the Obama campaign that story falls flat on it face for McCain and now McCain playing the victim. It’s pretty lame and doesn’t show’s leadership.

John McCain is not fiscal conservative:
It’s giving away money to the rich, in the hope they pass it to the middle class and the poor.
This is the redistribution of wealth we’re talking about.
We should have a fiscal/economic conservative program combined with a liberal social program.
Get our troops back from Iraq, stop the bleeding in our economy and turn the tides.

Does McCain realize that if he was elected (which he will not be) that he would have to lead this ENTIRE country and not just those crazy enough to vote for him. McCain should be ashamed of the division he is invoking in this country during our most troubled times. SHAME SHAME SHAME ON MCCAIN.

Why are the main stream media parked outside Joe the Plumber’s house, but don’t see fit to park outside Bill Ayer’s house?

Jake Tapper is completely out of touch with reality if he thinks this narrative of two Virginias is going to hurt the McCain campaign. This is the same narrative that occured in New York State that enabled George Pataki to win three terms as Governor; the “NYC vs. Upstate” battle that painted NYC and its suburbs as fundamentally disconnected with the rest of the State; the “real” New York State. To argue that Northern Virginia is an extension of Washington DC and its suburbs isn’t a “ledge” or precipice, it’s a foundation for a legitimate debate about the changing electorate of the State of Virginia and shows where McCain’s core support is coming from. If anything, this will galvanize his support in the majority of the State by reminding the rest of Virginians about the political ambitions of those who have only just recently started moving in.

Is Obama interested in redistribution of wealth? Is he promoting a national welfare system? I’d have to say yes from everything I’ve heard. There is an easy test for this. Does he want to increase taxes on one man in order to give that man’s money to another man? It is clear that is what Obama plans to do. At least that is what Joe the Plumber was wondering. I am too.

nina: I’m pretty sure Senator McCain understands what his duties as President and “Commander-in-Chief” would be. McCain isn’t creating the division, it’s comments like yours that start the ball of division rolling.One person makes a negative comment about someones canidate , then anaother person responds back with a negative comment – and so on and so on. The majority of Americans involved in politics at this point are getting a little more aggressive.Politics can get down right dirty.

John I have seent hat posting here before
and yes
everyone should read it.

I’ve lived in Hampton Roads for 30 years, and I consider myself a “real” Virginian . . .for Obama. Last week I drove from Petersburg to Lynchburg on Rt 460, then south to Wytheville and back home on US58 . . . about 300 miles. I counted the Obama and McCain signs to pass the time, and the Obamas outnumbered the McCains by 2 to 1. Guess they’ll have to reconsider what the “real” Virginia is.

Well I guess there’s two Americas according Palin and now there’s two Virginias according to the McCain crew. Do these knuckleheads know what country they are in or was McCain and Palin absent when they taught geography and American history. The more you see them both in action, the more you start to see that they see two types of America. I guess one is of rich Republicans and corporations, and the other of regular folks that work for a living. Given McCain’s background of wealth, owning 9 homes, 13 cars, and a private jet, I guess his “America” is the one with money, the “other” America doesn’t count for them. I’m sure all those that serve this country from the “other” America appreciates what McCain and Palin think about them. This crew needs to be sent packing. Nothing but liars, lowlifes, and dirtbags that would sell their souls to get elected.

some of the commenters on here are turning literally…the Republican party into a footnote like “loyalists” during the revolution…

Well Kevin, did try and throw her a lifeline, but she was to far out there.
I agree with the other post.
if mccain says Country First
why is he and his supporters so hell bent on dividing it up.
sarah palin talking about the pro-america states
now this woman.
what next.
I think mccain and co had all just better move to alaska, atart up with the AIP, and leave the lower states to themselves.

“I’ve lived in Hampton Roads for 30 years, and I consider myself a “real” Virginian … “

The Republicans are surely becoming a party of hate and division. Just listen to their tone and message at their rallies, it’s all about dividing America. When they talk about “sharing the wealth”, they are trying to scare people into believing that somebody is going to take away what they have or own. That is so completely untrue and only divides people further. “Sharing the wealth” is about helping those that are struggling trying to keep their homes, put food on the table, and keeping their families intact. This country has an abundance of wealth, yet it is hoarded by the few and corporations. Some even pay less taxes than those with so little. This isn’t right in any way you may define it. If we can “share” this country’s wealth by giving away to Exxon 4 billion dollars to do what they would do anyway, then we can help our fellow Americans too. Matter of fact, that’s who we should be helping, not Exxon who rapes us with their obscene profits. If indeed “country first” as McCain claims, then our people come before Exxon.

“It seems the closer we get to election, the more erratic McCains side and supporters are getting.”

The last person to talk about “real Virginia” was George Allen in the infamous “maccaca” incident.
Way to go, McCain team. Maybe you should learn something from history (and by the way, there’s a lot of great American history in northern Virginia!)

Judging from the frenetic pace of young Jake’s postings today, it might be worthwhile for our resident rabble-rouser to likewise take a deep breath and cool his jets for the remainder of the weekend. All work and no play makes Jakey a dull boy, as evidenced by the latest batch of blog “news” flashes.

Wow – after they managed to get Bush elected in ’04 – I never thought I’d see them self-destruct the entire Republican Party. Not that I’m complaining.

Only actual DEMOCRATS really despise the Obama campaign.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Oct 18, 2008 7:22:29 PM
Gee that’s funny, I am an “actual DEMOCRAT” and have been for 30+ years and I don’t despise Obama.

What is pathetic are the Americans that have invested 100′s of millions on a candidate that is barely winning on an agenda that is molded with a fearful message that you need help and that a Obama government will redistribute the wealth of hard working americans to save you. If you would help the needy by donating in your community then you may see a change. All the waste of investing in politics……..get a scratcher.

I live in Northern Virginia and I agree … this is no longer Virginia up here in the old sense … no one here is from Virginia. I don’t think it is so much that they are all actually northerners as much as the fact that they are people without roots, who have lost their traditions, their community. As such, they are kind of lost, so tend to vote Democrat. If you have also lost your moral compass – you see no problem in being attracted to Nobama. You also think people like Sarah are just awful. Before anyone thinks “racist” …. I am only referring to Caucasian voters. Anyway, I don’t think anyone considers the African American as a “swing” voter this election.

If you have also lost your moral compass – you see no problem in being attracted to Nobama. You also think people like Sarah are just awful. Before anyone thinks “racist” …. I am only referring to Caucasian voters. Anyway, I don’t think anyone considers the African American as a “swing” voter this election.
Posted by: Gerald V. Rush, PhD | Oct 18, 2008 7:47:13 PM
You have nerve to tell us by voting for Obama we have lost our moral compass. That is funny because it is the Republicans calling Obama a baby killer, saying he palls around with terrorists, put out fliers that have him with fried chicken,watermelon etc.
I could go on and on. Sarah Palin is nothing but a vile, hateful piece of work. Alaska can take her back at any time.
If that is the type of morals you think we should have NO THANKS.

“Real Virginia”?? Did it used to be all of Virginia??? Strange kind of happening that a state should split in half and start retreating like that. What do we call the other section – “Modern Virginia” … “Normal Virginia”??

cameotoo: “divisiveness” ? Why is it always the same old song and dance with you Democrats – blame someone else (how about accept some responsibility for your own party’s actions – or lack of) ? We may have a Republican President, but who writes the legislation ? Who is the Majority in Congress now ? THE DEMOCRATS !How about the Democrat majority we have in Congress right now? Senate majority leader : Harry Reid (Democrat) . Speaker of the House : Nancy Pelosi (Democrat). How about the Economical Disaster: Chairman of the Financial Services Committee: Barney Franks (Democrat) . Please let Senator McCain get elected so we at least have someone with Congressional KNOWLEDGE in the Oval Office !

Yikes! First, we’re told that there are certain areas of the country that are pro-American; then we’re told that there needs to be an investigation to root out the anti-Americans serving in the Senate and the Congress;
Posted by: Sally in Dallas | Oct 18, 2008 8:01:56 PM
That is real pro- American at it’s finest. I think they are losing it. Anybody that votes for any of these yahoo’s has serious issues.

Michelle my girl: I hope they treat Mrs. Obama kinder then the New York Times treated Mrs. McCain.

Michelle Obama will cause Obama to lose. I love her!!!!!

Two-cats: I don’t think our “Founding Father’s” wanted one party too have total control ! Be that Rep or Dem. That’s dangerous and that would destroy Democracy . Government is suppose to represent ALL THE PEOPLE … NOT THE PARTY !!! That’s the problem. PS: I’m an Independent who has voted Dem in the pass but I think this Congressional group of Dems are all about party and their own political aspirations. So – I’m voting for McCain and other Reps. to balance out the power in this Congress. I think America should do away with the Dem and Rep party system ! One party — the American Party !

Actually,
Ive lived in the Shenandoah Valley all my life, and everyone here thinks of Northern Virginia as being seperate from the rest of the state. Yes, they are to close to DC. Even people who move out of northern virginia acknowledge this. Virginia in the past was democrat (you just have to look back to Byrd). But I think she was right on with her statement. However, Northern Virginia does have a large population base and has been able to swing the state governor elections in the past.

Know what real anti-Americanism is?
It’s when you accuse someone of being anti-American because they don’t share the same view as you.
Sound like anyone we know?

Man my kids are grown already! Is it too late to teach them that there’s a West Virginia, a Virginia and a “real” Virginia?
I wonder if there’s a “real” working brain anywhere in the Republican party?

As a citizen of a foreign country but close observer of your presidential campaign, I would like to give you my completely unbiased view. McCain-Palin is conducting an incredibly nasty campaign and their strategy of dividing America into good camps (McCain/Republican supporters) and bad camps(Obama/Democrats) can in no way be interpreted as COUNTRY FIRST.

The Republican posts on this site are about such dumb stuff – that it helps explain how they managed to screw things up so badly for so long. The birth certificate – Acorn – (where the problem is registration – not voting) Rezko – Joe the Plumber (who McCain made an instant public figure – not the media) – nothing about the economy – nothing about the war – jobs – taxes – paying for the deficit – nothing about taking some responsibility for the huge war bills they have run up but don’t want to pay – Jesus weeps – keeps them away from the levers of power

Hum you guys seem to be worried about
south side – west side ETC…
I think you may find its the Nation
you have to think about … this thing
will not take long on election day…
be over before you go to bed on the
East cost…..
A Blowout…… No chads for the
Republicans……..lol

I live in Northern Virginia and I often tell people that where I live is basically a suburb of DC, which is valid As is Montgomery County, PG County in Maryland.
It is not anything but a fact that those outside what is considered a DC suburb is conservative. What is the story here? It’s all just fact.

now we’re told that people who live in the northern part of Virginia aren’t really Virginian? (“That’s just metro DC” — is that code for “black”?) Yikes!
Posted by: Sally in Dallas | Oct 18, 2008 8:01:56 PM
Sally, I’m registered Democrat & no fan of McCain/Palin, but I have to point out that the “metro DC” comment refers the the tremendous urban sprawl that has occurred in NoVA. Counties that were rural just a couple of decades ago are now an asphalt jungle that stretches from DC almost all the way to the West Virginia line.
People like me who have moved to NoVA from other parts of the country are not native Virginians, so we’re not “real” Virginians according to some.
I guess choosing to live somewhere that feels “right” has become less American than never leaving the area you were born in.

Palin/McCAIN MOTTO
Rather than lose an election Republicans will destroy the COUNTRY FIRST!

McCain has sold his soul to George Bush’s Karl Rove army: they will do anything to win and they underestimate the people of America. They deserve to lose and they have trashed the political landscape with say anything, do anything speaches…

I don’t ever think I’ve seen a campaign that likes to divide into us and them more than this McCain campaign.

Nancy Pfotenhauer, Supreme Geographic Poobah of the McCain campaign! Someone please give this woman a quarter so she can buy a clue!

Country First, unless you’re an “Unreal Virginian” or an “Unreal Palin American”. This campaign has been been such a train wreck… you just can’t turn away. It will make the Nov. 4th Obama win even that much sweeter.

I am a proud Republican, and today I am ashamed of John McCain. I implore all Republicans who are repulsed by this cesspool of a campaign to call John McCain and urge him to stop these attacks. Republican values of low taxes and small government can win the election, but only if John McCain cleans up his campaign and reins in his out-of-control surrogates. If he does not, I encourage all Republicans who like me cannot vote for Obama for ideological reasons, to vote — like I am — for Bob Barr. Shame on you, John McCain. You are destroying the Republican Party.

As a proude ‘real’ Virginian.
I would like to say the following:
I may not be 100% behind Obama…
but I am definatly 100% agains Maccain / Palin running this country.

Just bring “Joe the Plumber” on. He will be another lead collar around your neck this November. Greedy old man, I would think Sarah Palin is enough to bring you down. Good judgment is crucial to success. I am just trying to help, Sir!

As someone who has supported Bob Barr from the beginning of his presidential campaign, it is heartening to see that there are some Republicans who are taking a second look at John McCain and realizing that he is not the face of the true Republican Party. John McCain won the nomination of the Republican Party based upon winning Florida by about 36%. The pundits declared him the winner and, because he was the media darling of the Republicans, they crowned him the Republican nominee. When Bob Barr announced he was running as an independent candidate, we received a lot of hate mail about how we could possibly damage the Republican Party during this election. In the last few days, these Republicans are seeing that it is John McCain and Sarah Palin who have hijacked the Republican Party and destroying the Grand Old Party. First, McCain could have made a stand against the $750 billion bailout, but he chose instead to answer to his friends on Wall Street. McCain could have won the election on this basis alone. Second, he chose as his running mate a woman who is not by any measure ready to be President. Third, he has set aside his personal integrity to run a campaign that is the nastiest campaign in Presidential history. The most horrific part of the campaign is not the robocalls or the inciting of hatred and bigotry at the rallies, but instead the questioning of the patriotism of Americans. This is not what the Grand Old Party is about. I can think of nothing that will awaken Americans more than having their patriotism questioned. This will mark the death knell of the McCain campaign. Please, if you are a Republican, come on over to Bob Barr. You don’t have to vote for Obama; you can make a statement and vote for Barr. Come on over and join the rest of us who do share your values.

The “Real Virginia”, “Pro America parts of the Country”, “The Real American”. Just divisive talk and we will be united, because we are all Americans. Go away McInsane and the real Americans will elect OBAMA 2008!!

Thank you KP – This story is just another effort to express hate for McCain and anyone who supports him. the mainstream media is cut to the bone dishonest – bought and paid for by the Democrats.

Typical Rebulican rhetoric- If you don’t agree with me, then you are not a real American, you are not a real Christian, you are not a real Virginian…
But you are real smart!
Vote no to Beauty and the Beast.

“the St. Louis suburbs”?! Senator Claire McCaskill lives in a St. Louis suburb. I’m just sayin’….

Bill, this ‘story’ took flight as it came out of the mouth of a McCain advisor. The liberals had nothing to do with it, she walked right into the burning building herself. Jeez, what’s it going to take to get his people to think before they open their pie holes. I’m a liberal, I’m a school teacher, I am not a socialist and I suspect that most of the people using the term don’t actually understand it. It’s pathetic that you have to result to the ‘if you don’t agree with me, you’re not American’ line of rhetoric. Whatever happened to the American precept that “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Isn’t that what our country is all about?

Hummm! Sarah Palin might have a plan for America. Let’s see, if we fracture the country in pieces like Pro- America and Anti-America that would greatly help “Alaska Independence Party” in its effort to have an Alaska free from the United States. She is aware of this motto: “Divided we are weak, together we are strong”. Therefore, she would like to weaken America in bid to achieve her personal goal. “I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE” Sarah Palin said in reference to her vicious attacks against Barack Obama for the last two weeks.

Does anyone else besides me find it amusingly ironic that Sen. McCain’s DC area residence is located in Arlington – in the northern part of Virginia? Maybe someone should let him knows he lives in fake Virginia.

This has become a common practice with the McCain campaign… when they find they are losing, suddenly part of America is not real, and the millions of people there are somehow suddenly not patriotic… It’s exactly what Sarah Palin said at a fundraiser on Thursday, saying to the people at the fundraiser that she “liked being in pro-America AREAS of this great nation.”
Senator Joe Biden, (Obama’s vice presidential choice), had to remind Miss Sarah Palin that Joe Biden had to remind Sarah Palin that people in EVERY STATE of America loves this country. That EVERY STATE in America has sent soldiers off to war, to fight, and have died for America, and that there is no such thing in America a non pro-American area of America.
Joe Biden also said that he was sick and tired of republicans accusing other Americans of not being patriotic! And reminded Miss Sarah Palin that we are all Americans!
– That is why Joe Biden will be a great vice-president! He wants to bring people together, to unite this country!
On the other hand, Sarah Palin, and the rest of the McCain campaign seem to want to divide this country, and pit Americans against Americans just to win their campaign. It is just disgusting. Sadly, we have seen that the McCain campaign are willing to do and say anything to win. The McCain campaign seem to be willing to tear this country apart just to win their campaign. What type of people do that?!!!

How can a man whose friends are all rich and who owns 9 houses and 13 cars identify with the struggling middle class? You want the answer! He cannot..and that is why Obama is going to cream McCain. Obama came from humble beginnings and understands what the struggling middle class is going through. Do you guys really believe that McCain care about the struggling middle class and people in general? Take the muck out of your eyes. McCain and the Republican party is good for the real rich rich people and those who pretend to be rich. The only difference now is that I notice that the Republicans who pretended to be rich are now planning to vote for Obama.. A friend of mine told me that in a rich suburb in Ohio which is exclusively white and historically strong can be found Obama signs in 70% of the lawns..thats a bad sign for rich man McCain and his Republican losers. People are getting wise and those Republicans who pretended to be rich before are now feeling the pinch and is realizing that the Republican party does not have a clue on how to build the economy of the country. It does not take a Rocket scientist to figure out that when the economy of the country is strong that will enhance a strong military and a contented and happy populace but the Republican party are a bunch of selfish people who wants to keep the wealth all for themselves..spread the wealth around! Obama is right! I don’t mind giving $10 a forthnight out of my check so that every American can get healthcare! but the Repubs would not support that concept..they are selfish! Healthcare ought to be a right and not a privilege as it is now. Heaven help us all and save us from those Republicans!

The McCain campaign is seeking to clarify a remark reported from a Sarah Palin fundraiser in North Carolina yesterday in which the Alaska Governor declared that she loved to visit the “pro-America” areas of the country — implying, implicitly, that there were some parts of the United States she viewed as not pro-America.
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This woman maliciously and falsely defiles and debases the sacrifices of all of those brave young men and women who fought and died in the service of this nation. Where are those areas of the country that are not “pro-American?”
Have these people abandoned all sense of decency in their maniacal pursuit of the White House? I, as one who is a new American, am deeply repulsed by these revolting attacks that have no basis in fact or morality. This does not represent the America I read about as a child.

Pro-America, Real Virginia, man McCain/Palin campaign just one word always from “let create our own country”

I’m so tired of these arguments about who is really American. I’m from northern Indiana, I went to school in southern Virgina and central Illinois. In all three of those places, I guess I counted as a member of “real America.” Now I live in the DC area and I am apparently no longer part of the “real America.” No one who lives in a city is part of the “real America–” my mother in Indiana has been receiving mail telling her that Chicago is evil. Chicago. Why because a person lives in a great American city, or in the case of the “fake” Virginians, near a great American city, does that person cease to matter? If I moved back to Indiana today, I would still be the same person with the same ideals, but I would be a “Real American.” Here, in my basement apartment, working towards my graduate degree and working two jobs, I live in “fake America.” When will politicians stop trying to divide Americans based on where they happen to live at the moment and acknowledge that EVERYONE, even those of us who live is cities, is a real American with a real vote that is not going to go to anyone who insults them?

Somebody ought to tell Nancy that one of the McCain’s many homes is in Northern Virginia – so I guess John McCain is somehow unAmerican too?

B.O.B. I never thought I would defend Sarah Palin, but Sarah Palin joined the McCain campaign at exactly the same time they hired Tucker Eskew – the man who slimed McCain. his family, and his baby in SC in 2000. He will do absolutely anything to win and believes that there is no such thing as too much negative campaigning. His assignment was to coach and script Palin. Every nasty thing that has come out of the McCain campaign has the mark and the timing of Eskew. The idea that McCain would hire a man who lied about and ridiculed his own baby is mind-boggling. But the timing of the slime can easily be traced to the date Eskew was hired. That man has hurt America – and done everything he could do to drive us apart.

First the crazy VP inciting violence at rallies; then the nutty Congresswoman demanding that Congress people (other than her type of died in the wool crizies) be investigated for terrorist ties or anti-Americanism or something and now this broad talking about the real vs the “other” Virginia and trying to rake out the “southern” type “sentiments” that will stop any Obama vote in her mind.
Well, I think much more of SOUTHERNERS … BLACK AND WHITE and she has some real narrow-mind!

Christie you proably are the better of mccainiacs who actually talk about what resonates about voting republican than voting against obama, this tricklin’ down economy aint tricklin’ that much anymore, this stupid freakonomics never were made people vote for republican pre-64 most vote against democrats for the civil rights laws they signed mostly in your part of virginia your pastor decides whom to vote for while we here in north virginia decide for ourselves as well as send our children in harm’s way to protect this nation we dont need to vote republican to be called real americans.

This is crazy. What you all don`t seems to understand is….. This election is not about Obama!!!
We have trusted the republicans for the last 8 years (yes that means Bush and Mini-bush) and look where that`s got us. We the people have simply been raped!!! Not once, but twice!!! The joke is really on us.
They convinced us all the politics of taking from the poor and giving to wealthy is fair and good for the economy. (If your boss gets tax cuts than, you get wage rises and we can create more jobs….remember that promise) If the last eight years have proven anything, it just doesn`t work. Yeah sure you might like the bush economic policies that favour the wealthy only, if you are wealthy….but the rest of us want to balance the books again. Remember the Clinton years…. America was doing great…compare that to today…. Ask yourself has your bills increased? How`s your 401 k plan doing? When was the last time you had a wage rise? How’s your home doing? Can you send your kids/you afford college today? Know anybody that`s been laid off recently?? (Why? cause their job got shipped abroad)….
I don`t want to be lied to for another four years.
All those Republican promises 2000/2004…. heard them all before.
- Cut spending????? = what about Iraq…10 billion a month + more bridge to nowhere programs than in the Clinton years… (Fact)
- What happened to less taxes for the wealthy = more jobs…..?????? We have lost more jobs in the last 8 years since the great depression…all the while the RICH get richer…..according to CNN “Ferrari in the states has got a one year waiting list”….wonder who that`s for? Let’s get real here…..we are getting raped in daylight…..wake up!!!!!
- Health care????? Don`t get me started on that one….
- Foreign policy????? We have lost respect globally and what happened to taking care of business….bin laden is still out there.
- National debt???? we were in the green before the republicans took office, now look where are we….it`s worst than ever.
Not to mention all the lies P bush has feed us about weapons of mass d????? The real weapon was and is the republican economic policies, which Mc Bush supported and still supports…….
Enough is enough!!!!!
I get sick thinking about what has happened to this great country in the last 8 years…..and all you republicans want to talk about is Obama`s birth certificate. Do you honestly think he would be in the senate if he wasn`t vetted.
What about Mc Cain’s ties to domestic terrorist Gordon Liddy or the economic terrorist Keating ( he cost us the taxpayer ….3 billion dollars…all the while sipping champagne and having caviar in one of Mc Cain 7 houses?
Why Obama? Because the people want to send a message…..and it reads……
ENOUGH!!!!!!Time for a change.
Obama/Biden 08

Wow Pfotenhauer, I suppose all those 100,000 people who rallied for Obama in Missouri are all fake Americans!
This is shameless. Any McCain/Palin supporters living in that area should be furious that just because the whole state is leaning Democratic, it is not considered to be “real”.
Will the McCain campaign please stop insinuating that people who don’t support them are somehow less “American” or patriotic? This is not the first time they have said something like that. Patriots don’t stand by a certain leader, but stand by their COUNTRY. Who gave you a monopoly on patriotism, Johnny? There are Democrats who also fought in the Vietname War, the Gulf War, and are fighting in Iraq alongside Republicans and Independents.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”-Samuel Johnson

I was born in Arlington about 50 years ago and lived mostly in Fairfax County since then. McCain is absolutely right that, politically and culturally speaking, Northern Virinia is not “real Virginia”. The larger part of the state is southern and has the primary identity of Virginia. Northern Virginia where I lived is more of an extension of Washington DC — everyone who lives here either works in Washington, or works for a federal agency in Washington as a contractor. The area is extremely high in Democrats and in “independant” liberals who tend to vote that way. Different from the entire rest of the state. That other comment about “communist country” is a little overblown and offensive, because we’re not as liberal as Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it’s fairly accurate.
Speaking as one of those un-real Virginians, who has lived in Northern Virginia all his life, I’m voting for McCain.

GUESS WHAT:
Fake Virginians have the EXACT same power as “REAL VIRGINIANS.” Think about that on voting day, when all of those fake virginians show up, just because you have excluded them from your importance.

I love the way the pro-Obama media twists everything Obama’s opponents say while suppressing Obama’s actual comments about taking people’s hard earned money via higher taxes and “spreading the wealth around” to those who don’t pay taxes; and Obama’s comments about people “clinging to their guns and religion”, etc., etc., etc. Cut the crap you pro-Obama media.

What I really dislike about the McCain campaign other than Stupid Sarah is all the negativism. We need to be brought together as a nation and not torn apart.

I wonder? is N VA part of the real USA?

Life in Perspective – I’m divorced with three children, I’m trying to finishing up my college degree, I work part-time, my refrigerators is bare, and I have quarter of a tank that has to last me until next Friday. I really wish McCain and Palin would stay focused on issues that really matter!

I am so shocked at what she says!!! She is saying certain Virginians are not real Virginians??? All proud Virginians are real proud Virginians!! How can she do this??

When given a third chance to clarify her remarks denigrating Northern Virginia after the election, Nancy Pfotenhauer pointed to the map of still”red” Georgia and said “As God is my witness, I’ll never leave Tara again.”

More insults from the Rep’s or McCain’s campaign spokeperson. Nice, lose another state for McCain.

Being in Charlottesville, I apparently live in “real VA”? (Another stupid comment following the one by Palin. Are they intentionally trying to alienate voters?)
The enthuisiam for Obama here is like no other election I’ve witnessed. The old school Pubs are fading away and there is no new support for them. Democrat’s numbers are WAY up!
We’ve voted for Webb(Dem), former Gov Warner will most likely take the other Senate seat(Dem), and Obama will take the state in the Presidential race!
VA IS TURNING BLUE!
As a side note: Dave Matthews is doing a free show in Richmond to support Obama. HUGE SHOW. Dave is from Charlottesville.

This is a FAT hanging curveball for Obama to wack out of park. He’s got to do a rally in NoVa and introduce some veterans, PLUMBERS, firefighters, and teachers who live and work in NoVa and support him.

Where does he get these Advisers from?
It appears that most of his advisors talk before thinking.
So much for judgement!
“Birds of the same Feathers”

Ridiculous. I’m from NoVa, and I’m a real Virginian.. who is REALLY voting for Barack Obama because of absurd statements like that. When did being democratic become ‘anti-america’ or ‘fake america’ total b.s.! painting american citizens who want change and exercise their right to vote as unpatriotic is pathetic. Kind of like the McCain campaign and Nancy Pfotenhauer.

I was born in the “real” Virginia. Two of my ancestors were governors of Virginia. I am so happy to be living in “Northern Virginia,” whose citizens embody the ideals of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and other distinguished Virginians as much – or more – than do those in other areas of the Commonwealth.
In her snide and artificial divisions, Nancy Pfotenhauer only betrays the sub-human American that she is. Maybe Wasilla would be a better place for her to live than Oakton.

To stoop so low in order to get votes.
Next the McCain people will issue terrorist threats just as Bush’s people did….twice… before the 2004 election. It all came to naught just like the Saddam threat.
Remember the Baltimore native, H.L. Mencken, who said: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

What can you say…the McCain campaign really knows how to pick a winner….over and over again.
They all seem to be wearing their hair up, have ear to ear smiles while saying the most hateful, stupid things, and seem to live on another planet…one that does include only those who look like themselves.

Born and raised in Herndon here (5 minutes from Oakton). The state has long been red, even in NoVA until recently. If you look at the population EXPLOSION in NoVA over the past 2 decades, you’ll see that a great percentage of the current NoVA population are indeed transplants. Virginia may be changing, but she’s right that historically, VA is GOP all the way, and that a major factor in the political shift are non-native Virginia’s. Regardless, presidential elections these days are pretty lame.. this whole campaign-by-sound-bite deal makes it impossible to get a good picture of the actual policies in question. Presidential Election = beauty pageant/popularity contest.

Pfotenhauer is probably too young to remember that the “democrats” from D.C. that’s she’s talking about “moved in” to northern VA (and elsewhere) about 4 decades ago. The exodus from Washington, DC began in the early 1960s, and ended long before today. If anything, some folks are moving back.
The woman says she lives in Oakton, which is about as red an area as you’ll find in NOVA.