McCain Again Flubs Highlighted Attack Lines

McCain is losing everything now. It started with his bearings and all the rest simply follows from that.

I’m becoming convinced that McCain is actually trying to lose this election.

ugh, Senator McCain is such a horrid tele-prompter reader. Good thing this election isn’t about teleprompter-reading (or is it?), else Sen. Obama would be the better candidate.

Sounds like it’s becoming a bit too much for the old man.
Luckily enough, if he wins, there’s the brilliant Sarah Palin to take over negotiations with Russia, Pakistan, Iraq and China when the going gets too tough for McCain next year.
She has a passport now, so no problem.

Where oh Where in the liberal media is the Correct report of what Biden said about Obama being tested in the first 6 months of office with and international crisis????? IT CANNOT BE FOUND!! All that you hear is that McCain attacked Biden…..IF the liberal media were not so biased in their reporting we would have the correct report…America is watching you guys and the misuse and abuse of your profession to influence this election….I hope it backfires on you bigtime!!

Since Sarah Palin can speak very well on the campaign trail, you shouldn’t be complaining about her being picked if that is your criteria.

Proverbial slip, maybe. He made the mistake 3 times in 30 seconds. I don’t think W. Virginia is racist, Just very OLD SCHOOL.

McSame and Failin – what more can you say

Just in case anyone is keeping track, the Fed is getting ready to go over the 700 billion bail out. And the bank’s are not using the money to free up the credit market, instead they are useing our tax dollars to buy up other bank’s and speculate in the stock market, trying to make back there losses. And the Fed is letting them.
Ex Republican

Mccain has serious mental issues, it is not even funny anymore….He is UNFIT to be POTUS and Palin is beyond unfit

oh snap. all what’s left for the mccain campaign now is to take advantage of any slip from the obama camp. see how they danced around Biden’s comment. Actually what Biden meant was that there might be a test , but the would would see that Obama got the spine to stand up to the threat. Now thats not like saying Obama is not upto task. What Mccain fail to understand is that he just scored zero on the “3am test” which was the sudden economic melt down. All he did was to become ERATIC AND POSITION CHANGING ON DAILY BASIS. He totally failed to have a firm grab of the problem. He lost that 3am call, my friends.

McCain and Palin had better stop playing games and start listening if they want to win.
Our elected public servants are no longer listening to us. The bank bailout is not the only issue. The vast majority of American citizens have been against our continued presence in Iraq, against amnesty of illegal aliens, against more H-1B visas, against the continued shipment of our jobs offshore, and against more government growth and spending, but the government continues to support these things with legislation and to grow and spend. Almost half of us believe that 9/11 was an inside job, but no one is calling for an independent investigation. We want to wean ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, but Congress and the Senate play with renewable tax credits like they are a volleyball. Who they are listening to is not clear, but it can only be surmised from looking at their lists of campaign contributions.

McCains age and illness are really being brought out by the stress of the campaign.
Grandpa McCain needs a rest.
Please stop torturing the little Old Man.

McCain has real problems, I heard he calls Palin mommy. At least Reagan didn’t fade till the end.
Ex Republican

Apparently the answer to all the above is yes.

Very sad

Obama never visited western europe before July.
But people make fun of Palin.
Obama is running on top of the ticket and says 57 states and the president of canada is the leader of canada.
Obama has never been vetted.
Clitnon campaign had reportedly explosive stuff that they had at the end of the race but didn’t use it.
Obama has never been vetted.

McCain has been having a tough time zeroing in on a clear message. In part this is because he has changed his message so often and in part it is because he does seem a bit confused at times. Every time he tries to make a spontaneous remark he puts his foot in his mouth. The numerous times McCain has fumbled or mumbled himself into a corner over these past many weeks is alarming. Perhaps he is exhausted and this is just too much for him tro handle.

Dan Quayle: “What a terrible thing it is to lose one’s mind”. He was addressing the United Negro College Fund whose tag line is “The mind is a terrible thing to waste”.

This is called DEMENTIA……..He stumbled in a clip after a speech watch closely…..

I think Mac may be relating to this news as Biden and Barack are also.
NB. Sen. Biden’s additional words in Seattle: “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
From the net surf I did .
Military sources cite the new US timeline: By late January, 2009, Iran will have accumulated enough low-grade enriched uranium (up to 5%) for its “break-out” to weapons grade (90%) material within a short time. For this, the Iranians have achieved the necessary technology. In February, they can move on to start building their first nuclear bomb.
US intelligence believes Tehran has the personnel, plans and diagrams for a bomb and has been running experiments to this end for the past two years. The UN International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna last week asked Tehran to clarify recent complex experiments they conducted in detonating nuclear materials for a weapon, but received no answer.
The same US evaluation adds that the Iranian leadership is holding off its go-ahead to start building the bomb until the last minute so as to ward off international pressure to stop at the red line.
This development together with the galloping global economic crisis will force the incoming US president to go straight into decision-making without pause on Day One in the Oval Office. He will have to determine which urgent measures can serve best for keeping a nuclear bomb out of the Islamic republic’s hands – diplomatic or military – and how to proceed if those measures fail.
His knowledge of the challenge colored Sen. Biden’s additional words in Seattle: “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Israel’s political and military leaders also face a tough dilemma that can no longer be put off of whether to strike Iran’s nuclear installations militarily in the next three months between US presidencies before the last window closes, or take a chance on coordination with the next president.
Waiting for the “international community” to do the job of stopping Iran, as urged by governments headed by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert – and strongly advocated Tzipi Livni, foreign minister and would-be prime minister – has been a washout. Iran stands defiantly on the threshold of a nuclear weapon.

WOW!
Do we want fred mertz in the white house?
I will be glad when this is over,
I don’t want to see this man meltdown on the campaign trail.
it is to much.
and i heard a story about sarah palin’ children have been traveling on the state of alaska-footing the bill.
Where are all the good republican’?
why aren’t they coming to mccain rescue.
obama has all kinds of dem party surrogates coming out to. where are the rebublicans?

The Democratic party is the party of inclusion.
Is that why all these people hate Palin so much? I mean…the first day she was introduced, the hate patrol went out on her….and it’s because they’re inclusive? I didn’t know that? Good to know.
Biden gets titles like Oh that Joe number 37, and McCain gets crucified.
Typical !

equalityrpt: psst..no accusations of bias against abc (or the author of this blog)…or poof!

so…. after Obama wins…
what country will all you Republicans be moving to?

The Republicans can go up to Alaska with their Savior….The Palin Factor, they’ve got more than enough room for them there.
Bye bye

OH, come on, Ole John is OLD and OLD people get tired and make mistakes, maybe he just needed his nap.

dewde — this republican isn’t going anywhere if Obama is elected. He will be my President…and this will continue to be our Country. But until November 4th…I will hope and pray that Obama is not elected. :)

Watching McCain and Palin is like watching an old episode of “Get Smart” with Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. It’s the clueless couple out to save the world from evil. God help us.

OK, so McCain as Commander-in-Chief
“Bomb, bomb, bomb; bomb, bomb Iran”
“No, wait, I’m taking 2 days off of my presidency to address the crisis”.
“Take your orders from Palin. She can see Russia from her front yard”.
“Socialists and Terrorists. They’re all Socailists and Terrorists. And I won’t stand for it!”

It’s the increasing frequency of these instances which is worrisome. If people think the campaign is grueling do they think the Presidency is going to be a vacation? Sorry, but it just may be that the age thing is a factor here.

Poor old McCain is losing his marbles. Happens to many older humans. I am not as sharp mentally as I was 20 years ago. lol Can’t remember where I put my keys, etc. and I am only 66. lol We need a young competent mind to run this country, not a debilitated one. McSame needs to go home and enjoy his later years in peace and quiet.

This site is really raising my blood pressure. I may have to swear off for a while.
For openers, while McCain may have flubbed those lines at one event (I have no reason to doubt your reporter), he definitely did not flub them at other stops in the day. I have seen him in clips on cable shows saying the very things you say he was “supposed to” say.
But more troubling is the mix of items Jake is running these days. McCain is flubbing his lines– Obama can dance– Palin is wasting money on clothes– Biden is so amusing when he rambles. This is getting tedious.
Stop the coronation. Vote McCain/Palin.

And once again, ABC shows it’s bias. it’s like you’re not even trying anymore to hide it. You are picking on Palin’s wardrobe expenses now? And yet, you completely ignore Obama violating Illinois law by accepting speaking honaria while he was in the senate?
when will you stop? ARe you being paid by Obama? Are you just one big commercial for Obama? Seriously, I am not kidding. When did you sacrifce your journalistic integrity? I know you are owned by Disney, but comeon , at least your news should not be a fairy tale.
STOP IT, ABC, STOP IT. Even Iran’s news media is less biased than you are.

His tax plan is wrong. His health plan is wrong. His foreign policy is wrong. His running mate is wrong. And now his mind is going.. and yet he still has rabid supporters who care more about seeing the republican ticket in the white house than they do about America. How did we ever get to such a low point in our history. Oh, thats right.. Bush.

This is no job for old men.

McCain was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and now he’s clearly lost a few steps.
PICKING SARAH PALIN FOR VP PROVED THAT McCAIN IS NOT QUALIFIED FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
OBAMA = LEADER
McCAIN = LOSER

Damn,
What a man soweth, he shall reap.
Gramps is starting to fall in the socially pathetic and unable to facilitate the duties of POTUS.
Bow out admirably while you can McCain. You’re out of your league going up against Obama.

With Senator Biden, Senator Kerry and Cong, Murtha spewing out very hateful, stupid and racist words, why would any intelligent person vote for the Democrats at this time. The answer is, they will not. Only the weak minded and uninformed person will be voting for the socialist (spread the wealth around) candidate. He is losing points in some polls. Obama will not and can not tell the truth, ever. It is not in his mindset. Neither Clinton nor Biden thinks Obama is qualified. Those voting for him have their hands out, waiting for their hand-outs or freebies.
The Democrates are responsible for our economic crises and with their spend policies, it will become worse. Obama is wrong for this country. Obama is a SOCIALIST, RACIST, MARXIST.

Mary
Apparently many millions of Americans disagree with your assessment of Obama.
Isn’t democracy great?

TOO BAD McCAIN!
The Alzheimer’s is kicking in, Palin made a fool out of herself on Saturday night live and then got caught stealing from the State of Alaska, again!
After the BIG Powell endorsement on Sunday, this is just to looking like a bad week for you and the rest of the Republicans, huh?
Well as you ERRATICALLY shift from position to position, from attack to different attack on a daily basis, it doesn’t look good for you anymore…
Just think on Thursday you are going to get your A** handed to you by Obama’s Grandma!!!!
Just think of all those seniors across the country thinking, what a good grandson Obama is!!!!
Say goodbye John!!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the truth comes out: Biden makes a HUGE gaffe (bigger than usual) about Obama threatening our national security, and both NBC and ABC sit on the story! And yet, they have no trouble talking about Palins’ wardrobe as front page news?
Honestly, no matter what side you are on, we all should be angered by the loss of integrity of our so called journalists. What happenned? It’s all just so absurd now, we used to be able to trust you, and now, how can we?
BTW, several WSJ articles have called Obama’s tax plan “Nonsense”. It is WELFARE. And in terms of taxing corporations, Ireland taxes it’s corporations 12.5%, and their GDP per capita is second highest in the EU. If we raise our taxes on the corporations, as Obama wants to do, where do you think they will go? Less wages for Americans, less jobs for Americans.
Do you really think that the 5% is going to pay for all that big spender Obama wants to do? We are headed for a financial disaster with Obama. Not if another country “tests the mettle” of Obama first. As big mouth Biden says, Obama will face the Armegeddon that he brought on himself.
God help us.
The facts are clear: Obama will destroy America.

As an older person – I believe I see things much differently than the hot-blooded crusading bunch on these boards.
I’ve long left my anger behind and replaced it with REASON and RATIONALE
This country produces scholars, geniuses and Nobel prize winners. However, they are not the ones who run for political office.
Why? I believe it is because the ones described above are not motivated by power, money or fame.
Therefore, I often ponder…. are those who are motivated by the latter description the manner of men [and now women] we are left with to guide our country?
Probably so – but now and then one comes along who strikes a special cord -and stands out among the other fist waving, name calling candidates.
We may not know all we would like to know, he may not have been in public service for many years…yet we see and feel something right about him. Some of us make a decision from the heart believing he will guard our rights as people and guard our country from harm -
The others who lust too hard for this leadership make some of us very uncomfortable.
A man’s character is the measure of his life. McCain’s campaign’s willingness to bring the opponent to his knees with destructive character assasination – has instead, exposed the shallowness of their own character.
In the early years of this country- one respected the elders. And the elders respected the new generation by “passing the torch” and trusting that it will be carried with pride. That seems to have faded into the past.
BUT picture this:
Just because an older man gets to be president of this country does NOT mean he will be calling all the shots. It is conceivable that today, in this country, the elder candidate does not want to pass the torch – Why? Maybe he SELLS the torch to the highest
bidder[s] – and the bidder[s] [in that party] actually run the country.
All we would see is photo opps of the president and a few speeches- but ……..you fill in the blanks.
With Obama– it will be the REAL DEAL.

Katy,
Very eloquent…
Thank-you!!

I am disgusted with my former political party of five decades, the GOP. The robocalls go too far and they’re trying to start a cultural war. How will that win votes? John McCain is really acting his age. He is older than dirt. And that is becoming more and more a grave issue. Barack Obama will guide us into a new era, a better era for our grandchildren. Please see the light like I did.

I just read a comment where someone mentioned that ever since Palin became “popular” with SNL and all the Democrats “shifted” their attack. You don’t think that it maybe had something to do with the fact that the report that’s been pending about her possibly abusing her position finally came out? Couldn’t be. Must be evil democrat magic. And Obama’s mysterious overseas contributions?… Show me any election with any candidate that there isn’t some big flap about campaign finances. It isn’t important, ACORN isn’t important (or directly connected with Obama), and even this article isn’t important to the election. They’re just noting that McCain is already way behind, and he’s not holding it together to come back. McCain is a decent guy (for a non-Arab, cough cough) but he knows he’s losing in an uphill battle. I just wish some of the people voting for him knew how to lose with some poise and dignity.

HIGH PROFILE Feminists (yes, feminists!!) Endorse Palin (McCain/Palin)
PALIN HENDERSON, NV RALLY
LIVE
HENDERSON, NV
At a rally in front of thousands of cheering supporters, Palin spent
most of her speech talking about women. She started by mentioned some
female endorsements: First, Prameela Bartholomeusz a small business
owner and a member of the Democratic National Platform Committee…Linda
Klinge the former Oregon president and now Vice-President of the
National Organization of Women…Shelly Mandell President of the Los
Angeles chapter of the National Organization of Women here with us today
and Lynn Rothschild you may have seen her on television a whole lot
lately. She is a member of the Democratic Platform Committee. She is
with us here today and Elaine Lafferty a former editor in chief of Ms.
magazine they are here today to endorse the McCain-Palin campaign.”
The women were all sat behind Palin on the stage and she then said that
the Democratic ticket “presumptuous” thinking that they have won the
women’s vote. She brought back her glass ceiling line and hit BHO for
not considering HRC and compared to the problems of the average working
woman: “When it came time for choosing someone how Barack Obama just
couldn’t bring himself to pick the woman who got 18 million votes in his
primary and that seems to be too familiar a story isn’t it? How it is
for so many American women that the qualifications are there, but for
some reason the promotion never comes. There is always some long
explanation for why they got passed over or some unseen barrier, some
excuse and that’s just one of the things I so admire about John McCain
he is not someone who makes excuses.”
She then asked why there has only been two women on presidential tickets
in American history: “Why did it take 24 years, an entire generation
from the time Geraldine Ferraro made her pioneering bid until the next
time that a woman was asked to join a national ticket. In the long
history of our country 74 people have held the position of President or
Vice-President and why have the major parties given America only two
chances to even consider a woman for either office?”
She hit BHO for not paying women as much as men his Senate office: “Out
on the stump he talks a good game about equal pay for equal work, but
according to the Senate pay roll records women on his own staff get just
83 cents for every dollar that the men get. That’s 9,000 dollars less
every year that he pays the guys. 17:06 Does he think that the women
aren’t working as hard? Does he think that they are 17 percent less
productive? And Barack Obama cant say that this is just the way that its
always been done around the Capitol, because I know one senator who
actually does pay equal wages for equal work, Sen. John McCain.”
Hit BHO on his tax plan, but gave it a female peg: “”17:09:19 The
working women of this country, those who work inside the home and
outside of the home, they’re overlooked by politicians in Washington and
Barack Obama hasn’t given us a single reason to believe that he would be
any better. A company’s balance sheet tallies up just the same whether
it’s a man who owns the business or a women (sic). And women want the
same opportunities as men. And they’re entitled to the same rewards.”
She praised Title IX and also promised that is she becomes
Vice-President she will help women across the world: “there are still
places where women are subjugated and persecuted as they were in
Afghanistan, places we’re they’re bullied and brutalized and murdered in
honor killings, places where women are sold
like commodities in the nightmare world of the sex trade, and places
where baby girls are unwelcome as a matter of state policy and their
mothers are forced to have abortions. Now no one person, no one leader,
can bring an end to all of those ills, to all of the injustices
inflicting upon women, but I can promise you this, if I am elected,
these women, too, will have an advocate and a defender in the 47th vice
president of the United States.”
See below for time codes and verbates
VERBATES:
ENDORSEMENTS:
“Today I have another question that is especially for the women in this
audience and all across our great country. Its–are you ready to break
the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America? (cheers).”
“It is such an honor for me today to have up here on stage some very
independent, very courageous, very accomplished women and I am so
honored to get to introduce you to these women who have broken a few
glass ceilings of their own and I ask you gals to stand up here as I
introduce you. 17:00:35 First, Prameela Bartholomeusz a small business
owner and a member of the Democratic National Platform Committee. She’s
with us today. (Cheers.) It is my honor to have with us also Linda
Klinge the former Oregon president and now Vice-President of the
National Organization of Women. She’s with us here today and Shelly
Mandell President of the Los Angeles chapter of the National
Organization of Women here with us today and Lynn Rothschild you may
have seen her on television a whole lot lately. She is a member of the
Democratic Platform Committee. She is with us here today and Elaine
Lafferty a former editor in chief of Ms. magazine they are here today to
endorse the McCain-Palin campaign.”
“We’re honored. We are proud and I thank them for their confidence, for
their support and especially for their courage. Thank you so much. Thank
you thank you.”
17:02:20 “Our opponents think that they have the women’s vote all locked
up which is a little presumptuous. Little presumptuous since only our
side has a woman on the ticket so. We won’t ignore any of the men in the
audience but again this is for the women in the audience here. When it
came time for choosing some how Barack Obama just couldn’t bring himself
to pick the woman who got 18 million votes in his primary and that seems
to be too familiar a story isn’t it? How it is for so many American
women that the qualifications are there, but for some reason the
promotion never comes. There is always some long explanation for why
they got passed over or some unseen barrier, some excuse and that’s just
one of the things I so admire about John McCain he is not someone who
makes excuses.”
HRC NOT VETTED/ONLY TWO FEMALE CANDIDATES ON A TICKET:
17:03:13 “You’ve got to ask yourself why was Senator Hillary Clinton not
even vetted by the Obama campaign? Why did it take 24 years, an entire
generation from the time Geraldine Ferraro made her pioneering bid until
the next time that a woman was asked to join a national ticket. In the
long history of our country 74 people have held the position of
President or Vice-President and why have the major parties given America
only two chances to even consider a woman for either office? 88 years
after women gained the right to vote and 83 years after Nellie Tayloe
Ross of Wyoming became the first woman governor in our great nation and
60 years after Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the Senate this glass
ceiling it–it is still there, but it’s about time that we shattered
that glass ceiling once and for all. (Cheers.) 17:04:40 See-see–see
there is a difference–there is a difference between what Barack Obama
says and what he does and his primary opponent wasn’t the first one to
notice this.
BHO EQUAL PAY:
Out on the stump he talks a good game about equal pay for equal work,
but according to the Senate pay roll records women on his own staff get
just 83 cents for every dollar that the men get. That’s 9,000 dollars
less every year that he pays the guys.
17:06 Does he think that the women aren’t working as hard? Does he think
that they are 17 percent less productive? And Barack Obama cant say that
this is just the way that its always been done around the Capitol,
because I know one senator who actually does pay equal wages for equal
work, Sen. John McCain..
See this is just another reason why American women, Democrat,
Republican, independent, should not just let Barack Obama take their
votes for granted. And let me give you a few more reasons, starting with
his plan to, as he puts it, spread the wealth around. That is how our
opponent defended his so called tax cut to Joe the plumber the other
day. Or Wendy the plumber’s daughter, there you go. Now this spreading
the wealth around really is just a scheme for income distribution. Joe
didn’t buy it. Joe the plumber, he would have none of that. He called
him on it. In fact he said that he sure thought that sounded like
socialism. Joe the plumber.
WOMEN SMALL BUSINESSES/BHO TAX PLAN:
17:07:52 And the rest of us shouldn’t buy it either, especially the
millions of women in America who own small businesses. Women start as
many new businesses as men start, and they are entrepreneurs, trying to
make a better life for themselves and for their families. And trying to
make payroll for their employees. They’re women, just like Erma Aggier
(sp) is her name, she owns a restaurant close by. She dreamed for years
of owning her own restaurant and she made it just a year ago. Erma, she
owns the La Madonna Mexican Restaurant, right here in Las Vegas. She
employs 20 people.
17:08:33 And she’s exactly the kind of small business owner whose taxes
would go way up under the Obama tax plan. And the healthcare fines and
the mandates that our opponent would impose aren’t gonna help her much
either. They’re gonna force her to let employees go if they are too high
and they could even put her out of business. And our opponent thinks
he’s got problems with Joe the Plumber, well, he should talk to Erma the
restaurant owner, because she’s voting for John McCain too.
17:09:19 The working women of this country, those who work inside the
home and outside of the home, they’re overlooked by politicians in
Washington and Barack Obama hasn’t given us a single reason to believe
that he would be any better. A company’s balance sheet tallies up just
the same whether it’s a man who owns the business or a women (sic). And
women want the same opportunities as men. And they’re entitled to the
same rewards.
17:09:50 See, the point here, the point here is that women would suffer
just as much from the massive tax increase that Sen. Obama proposes. And
you know, there are a lot of families in this country with no father
present. And when we make laws in Washington, those laws need to
understand that, they need to serve the mothers who are taking care of
their families.
17:10:13 I’ve been very, very blessed to have a husband who’s supported
me along the way. He’s a great dad who doesn’t disappear at bath time or
run from diaper duty, and I appreciate that. But a lot of women have it
much, much harder than I’ve had it. And they need child care, which
today can cost some families a third of their household budget. And they
need reforms in labor laws that allow greater flexibility in the
workplace, including more tele-commuting. And they need a tax code that
doesn’t penalize working families. (applause)
They need health care that the family can take with them when they move
or change jobs. And they need better choices in retirement plans, and
worker retraining when things get tough. Women also need equal pay for
equal work, and not just be a talking point (applause)
17:11:30 Really, it is that simple. It’s a matter of fundamental
fairness — fairness in this country. And to make all this happen,
working mothers need an advocate, and they will have one when this
working mother is working for all of you in the White House. (applause)
TITLE IX:
17:11:50 “When I was a kid, Congress passed a law that’s come to be
known as Title IX. And that law allowed millions of girls to play
sports. And over time, and over time, that opened more than just the
doors to the gymnasium. Along with other reforms, Title IX helped us to
see ourselves and our futures a different way. Women of my generation
were allowed finally to make more of our own choices with education,
with career, and I have never forgotten that we owe that opportunity to
women, to feminists who came before us. We were allowed to be
participants instead of just spectators on the achievements of others.
And I was lucky to have a lot of support at home, too. Now among the
many things that I owe my parents is one simple lesson, and that was
this is America and every woman can walk through every door of
opportunity. The belief in equal opportunity is not just the cause of
feminists, it’s the creed of our country-equal opportunity.
HELPING WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD:
17:13:30 “And if I’m given the honor of serving you in the White House,
I intend to advance that creed in our own nation and beyond because
across the world, there are still places where women are subjugated and
persecuted as they were in Afghanistan, places we’re they’re bullied and
brutalized and murdered in honor killings, places where women are sold
like commodities in the nightmare world of the sex trade, and places
where baby girls are unwelcome as a matter of state policy and their
mothers are forced to have abortions. Now no one person, no one leader,
can bring an end to all of those ills, to all of the injustices
inflicting upon women, but I can promise you this, if I am elected,
these women, too, will have an advocate and a defender in the 47th vice
president of the United States.”

Isn’t anyone concerned with Palin’s connection with the Alaska Independence Party? They are a separatist militia. Their founder and president was killed in a botched attempt to buy plastic explosives in 1993. This same blog just reported that the following year Palin attended their convention. The next year, her husband, Todd Palin, joined and began his long affiliation with them. To cap it off, you can all watch Palin’s videotaped introduction to the AIP’s 2008 convention.
And she is talking about “Real America”?
While I wholly condemn the comments of Rev. Wright, you’ve GOT to listen to the recorded comments of the AIP and their founder. SCARY stuff. Really. They hate us.

hope they dont leave mccain alone in the parking lot—he would be amoung the missing—the guy is really losing it.

mccain is against taxing the rich and giving to the poor—-ROBIN HOOD HE IS NOT.MCCAIN IS CONCERNED THAT HE WILL PAY MORE TAXES.

During a week in which the Republican ticket is trying to highlight its connection to the working class and promoting its newest campaign tool, Joe the Plumber, it was revealed that Palin’s fashion budget for several weeks was more than four times the median salary of an American plumber ($37,514).
To put it another way: Palin received more valuable clothes in one month than the average American household spends on clothes in 80 years.

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: And Then It Was Ten . . .
Obama 51.6%, McCain 42.0%
Curiously enough,
It’s not like this is the first time we’ve seen this.
Polls always have the democrat ahead.
In 2000 CNN had Al Gore ahead of George Bush 51-40 in October:
Oh… And, Ronald Reagan trailed Jimmy Carter by 8 points in mid-October in 1980…

ACORN Watch: Project Vote, partisan antics, and illegality
Well, lookee here. The New York Times, of all places, reports on an internal assessment of ACORN’s shady relationships with its affiliates and its inextricable ties to Obama’s old employers at Project Vote.
For months, ACORN watchers have laid out the incestuous ties between the two groups.
Now, ACORN’s own inside review lays out the questions of illegality. Oh, and there’s that million-dollar embezzlement issue. And the IRS breathing down the fraud-friendly group’s neck.
Waiting for Team Obama to condemn the Times for publishing another right-wing, negative smear distraction…
by MM

Performances like this are only going to make voters look toward the Republican bench and visualize a President Palin.

you WANT to see the “ONE” ?
MONEY FIRST !
Obama to media: pony up for election night access
“(Crain’s) — The best-funded political campaign in American history says news organizations will have to pay — in some cases almost $2,000 each — if they want to cover Barack Obama’s election-night celebration in Chicago.
A memo sent to news organizations on Tuesday by the Obama campaign says credentials will cost $715 to $1,815, depending on whether electrical and phone lines are needed and whether an indoor or outdoor seat is requested for the event, which is expected to be held outside the evening of Nov. 4 in Grant Park.
The only free admissions are for a “general media” area. But, the memo says, “Please note that the general media area is outdoors, unassigned and may have obstructed views . . . standing room only.”
The area also does not include access to top Obama campaign officials, whose statements likely are to be in hot demand on Election Night. They apparently will be available only in the “press file” tent, to which an additional admission fee of $935 per person is being imposed. “

McCain’s campaign will go down as the most unprofessionally run strategy in history. What a bonehead group of people. They deserve to lose big time.

McCain is uh, uh, uh… Oh, isn’t that tweetey bird pretty? Oh Yeah, McCain is uh, uh, just the sort of intelligent fella we need now in this crisis. The only thing better would be that Palin gal.

Hey Hero,
If you’ve donated to the RNC, how do you feel that it is reported that they spent $150 000 on Sarah Palin’s clothes and make-up?
Average hockey mom? Average American? You don’t fool us, Sarah!

Thanks for the info, usedtolovemccain. I’m quite sure the DNC has all of this and it is to their (and Obama’s) credit that they haven’t brought much of it out, except the bit about charles keating, even after Palin’s blabbering about “palin(g) around with terrorists”. Clearly Obama is a man of decent principles. God willing America will finally elect a president worthy of the job. And God bless General Colin Powell for asking the right question, the question any American who truly believes in the Constitution should ask: “So what if Obama is a Muslim?”

McCain’s never been accused of being a master of the English language or able to speak with any kind of authority or confidence. When the Republicans look back on this race while Obama is being sworn in they’ll analyze and scrutinize everything that went wrong this election from the robocalls to the flubbed lines from their candidates…
…and do it again in 4 years.

I just read this article and laughed so hard I cried. I cannot figure out which one is funnier McCain or Palin. They have truly made this election funny and entertaining.
Thank you so much. I have never laughed so hard.

5th from the bottom out of 799 in military school or………
Tops in your class in Harvard Law?
Kids, stay in school. In the LONG RUN, it surely pays dividends.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK

Nothing like “twisting the truth” when you’re “blowing in the wind”! McCain is stumbling toward the finish line of a huge campaign LOSS where the loss will not only include his hopes of a win, but will also include his loss of “integrity, morality honesty, and decency”.
For a one day [11/05/08] compilation, that’s one hell of a LOTTA LOSS!

I think that being negative all the time is getting to old man McBush. If he wants to retain his dignity and his maverick (whatever that meand) identity, he should run positive the last two weeks. But, I have no faith tht he will do that, since negativeness is all he has left. Also, on Imus old man McBush sounded like Dole.

hahahahahahhahahaha. oh my lord. i feel sorry for the old man but enough is enough.
President Obama, T-13 :)

It is simple. He is 72 years old.

To whomever said Sarah Palin’s only involvement with the Alaska INDEPENDENCE Party was giving a speech — how can you be so deceptive? Sarah’s husband, Todd, is a long-time member. This is Todd her soulmate and Todd who helps run the governor’s office. They are in this deep and AIP is uglier than anything Rev. Wright every thought about saying. They want Todd near the White House so he can influence policy through activitist VP Sarah (you heard her say Tuesday that she will “manage” the Senate) and when something happens to McCain’s health, it’s Sarah and TODD in charge of the U.S. THEN you’d better quit worrying about external terrorists and look at the enemy within.

McCain was funny and charming at the Al Smith dinner, and I kept thinking that man was going to show up to take back control of his image and campaign. Instead he is going downhill. He seems really isolated and surrounded by a really bad team, feeding him terrible advice. He’s reckless, he chose them, and I don’t want our country as badly as badly managed as this campaign.

It IS simple. GrandPa needs some milk, a Valium, and rest. Lets get this clown off the stage. John McCain has become the blue haired driver on the highway, where only their hands can be seen. We better get out of the way before he makes another unsignaled lane change

McCain’s entire campaign is like an SNL skit with Tom Cruise playing his “Maverick” character from “To Gun” 50 years down the road, running for president.
All I hear whenever I see McCain making funny faces is the “Danger Zone” track.

Poor old guy keeps getting exposed to all the opiates on Cundy’s lips.

Maybe this is like that show “My Own Worst Enemy”, you know, the one about the assasin with the split personality. BizzaroMcCain keeps mounting erratic, out of touch and dishonorable attacks while his other personality, McCain2000 if you will, tries, in vain, to save him from himself. Wouldn’t be a bad reality show except for the whole finger on the button angle.

This guy can’t even run a computer! Why should he know how to read? American education! Can you belive that this runs our great country? They say the younger generation is not educated, whatever! I don’t know how they were educated in the stone age but now if you don’t keep learning your screwed! I think thats what our friendly repubs want! keep us dumb and in the corner! well change is comming!
OBAMA-BIDEN 2008

Barbara Boxer said on Ed Schultz show that with McCain, you never know which McCain is going to show up.

Check the last year. Whenever McCain has not been allowed to rest on weekends, he has problems.
Seriously, for months Obama and Hillary were still battling in the primaries. During that time, McCain took weekends off. It wasn’t until July or August that McCain couldn’t afford to relax on weekends. Since that time, he’s had problems.
I really feel sorry for Senator McCain. It’s clear he is past his prime.

McCain won’t last the final days–the man is too old. His mistake will get worst as the days go on. I am over 50 and know how hard it can be to try to keep up with the pace of a much younger person. If you notice his wife, daughter or Palin has to always stand by his side, while Obama is often campaigning without his wife or other people, he does not need someone to hold him up and keep him from making a mistake.

Tracey, excellent workup of the tax diffs. Too bad 0% of us can even understand the tax code.
McCain is all Sound and Fury (signifying nothing)

So delivery is paramount…and the issue of a VP candidate casting doubt on his choice of commander in chief is secondary to “thoughtful” media pundits. YIKES indeed.

DDayDawg,
I am voting for Obama. That being said, I think deep down McCain is a good man. I truly believe that part of the reason he is having so many problems is because he is saying, and doing, things he doesn’t truly believe in.
Pandering to the religious right is not John McCain. Inciting racism and dissent is not the John McCain we have seen over all these years. Deep down he is a good man. But, he has picked horrible advisers, made horrible decisions, made a disastrous VP pick, and that makes him unqualified to be President. So sad to see the down fall of a good and decent man.
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I agree with you one hundred percent. I think McCain is an honorable man who is just having a difficult time expressing his true self amidst the “hate” spewing from his party.

PA Dem,
I’ll bite. But I notice that after admonishing us to talk positively about our own candidate rather than run down the other, you turn around and run down John McCain. Double standard, much?
You wrote– in all caps to get our attention:
“THE ONLY THING McCAINS CAMPAIGN HAS ATTEMPTED TO DO TO DATE IS TELL US WHY (MAYBE) WE SHOULDN’T VOTE FOR HIS OPPONENT – WHAT HAS JOHN McCAIN DONE TO GARNER OUR VOTE ?”
Actually, that is not the only thing McCain talks about, its just the only thing you and the media focus on. He talks about his economic plans (mortgage buyback plan, capital gains cut, IRA/401K rules temporary rules suspensions, business tax rate cuts, need I go on?), his energy plans (strong emphasis on nuclear, offshore drilling, all-of-the-above support, a competition for an improved electric car battery), his foreign policy (modified surge in Afghanistan, etc.), his trade policy (remember how Obama was completely wrong in his statements on COlumbian free trade agreement?), his tax plans (increased child credit, make bush tax cuts permanent, business tax reductions), and on and on. Those well-reasoned, pragmatic proposals are the reason I am voting for him.
Got to respond to this little rant of yours as well:
“He’s isn’t as smart (fact) as Obama
He can’t pick a running mate worth a damn. He is ill-tempered ,compulsive and hot headed. He doesn’t have a clue about the economy.”
None of these are facts– they are opinions, and I do not agree with any of them. So, having answered your questions, do I win a prize?
And he can’t fly planes too well either.

McCain’s advisors try to explain the talking points (all negative, it seems), but it seems McCain must not understand the nuances. If he completely understood *how* the talking points turned into benefits for his own campaign, he wouldn’t blunder; he would at least get through the (negative) talking points.
McCain’s problem since the Palin pick was foisted upon him is that he has become only a puppet of the RNC and his advisors. He has become something *other* than his true self, and he is having a hard time embracing the dark underworld of the *dirtiest* politics.
While McCain might have lost if he had followed his own true wishes; if he had picked Joe Lieberman for a running mate, he would have remained true to his own self, and he would not be flubbing his handlers’ talking points. That would have been a “respectable” campaign whether he would have won or lost, and in that sense EVERYONE has lost.
The “wise men” political advisors (and we have seen enough of their antics over the last eight years to last a lifetime) should be tarred, feathered, and run out of the political scene forever.

Okay,a few comments.
1. Presidential campaigns are grueling, especially this one, which has been going on forever. Not surprising that McCain is losing his bearings; he’s an old guy.
2. The presidency is even more gruelling. Clinton and Bush Jr both came out with a lot more gray in their hair then when they went in. It requires youth and vigour.
3. McCain talks about having been tested during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That was 46 years ago and he wasn’t calling the shots himself. Good thing too; He was 26 at the time.

Well gosh, those pesky teleprompters can be as tough to handle as a fighter plane! Opps.

This may not be taken very well by the person who suggested outlawing lobbying. However, as I understand it lobbying itself falls under constitutional protection as “the right to petition the government for redress and grievances”. I am not certain that is the exact wording, but to petition the government does fall under the title of “lobbying” as well. What we need is reform on how it is conducted, though things have improved somewhat I believe.

Sir,
I am a Vietnam Veteran, who spent two and a half years in the friggin jungles of Vietnam in a Marine Recon unit. I learned a great lesson in war…that war is not about who is right…only who is left. Apparently you do not know McCain as well as those who were in the POW camp with him. Do your homework. Once you know the truth…perhaps you will comprehend more. We will never promote ‘democracy’ thru firepower. We cannot nuke away the ideals of others. We cannot swap steel with those who have a differing idea of the world and be the ‘winners.’ There are no winners in war. There are only mothers who have lost their sons or daughters and only wives or hsubands who sleep alone and tell their children what a great person their father was. John McCain supports the EXACT same ideas if George Bush. ‘If we don’t agree I will not even talk to you. And if you press your opinions on me, I will bomb you into non-existence.’ I, sir, have a pretty box on the wall with a lot more medals and ribbons than John McCain has…and it don’t mean a darn thing to anybody but me, and to all those friends who I left behind in Vietnam. Do some homework and study the words of those who spent time in the same POW camp with Mr. McCain. It may open your eyes.