McCain Camp Re-Thinking Decision to Not Use Rev. Wright as ‘Wedge’ in Attacks on Obama
In an interview with Republican talk radio host Hugh Hewitt last Thursday, Rick Davis, campaign chair of McCain-Palin ’08, said the campaign is re-thinking Sen. John McCain’s earlier decision to not attack Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on the subject of his controversial former preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
"There is a report in the media, a couple actually, that your campaign is divided over whether or not Jeremiah Wright ought to be an issue in the last three weeks," Hewitt said. "What is the situation? Will Jeremiah Wright be part of the McCain campaign’s appeal to people to consider Barack Obama in the last three weeks?"
"Look, John McCain has told us a long time ago before this campaign ever got started, back in May, I think, that from his perspective, he was not going to have his campaign actively involved in using Jeremiah Wright as a wedge in this campaign," Davis said. "Now since then, I must say, when Congressman Lewis calls John McCain and Sarah Palin and his entire group of supporters, fifty million people strong around this country, that we’re all racists and we should be compared to George Wallace and the kind of horrible segregation and evil and horrible politics that was played at that time, you know, that you’ve got to rethink all these things.
"And so I think we’re in the process of looking at how we’re going to close this campaign," Davis continued. "We’ve got 19 days, and we’re taking serious all these issues."
Hat tip to the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein.
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So Rick Davis is saying if we’re going to be called racists we may as well act like it?
I wonder if Davis will ever get a job after this election.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 20, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
DESPERATION! Let’s compare some of the despicable things said by Rev. Wright to some of the despicable things done by the McCain campaign — EVEN!
Posted by: Kathy | October 20, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
DESPERATION! Let’s compare some of the despicable things said by Rev. Wright to some of the despicable things done by the McCain campaign — EVEN!
Posted by: Kathy | October 20, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
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Foreign And Fraudulent Campaign Contributions And Misrepresentation Of Sources. Will Not Release Information On “Small Donors”.
Excessive Expenditures For Media, Polling And Telecommunications.
Media Bias And Misogyny.
Excessive Race Baiting And Exploitation. Reversed Position On Racism As A Campaign Issue.
Telecommunication Polling Bias. Online Polling Fraud.
Stages Events With Free Entertainment And Transportation.
Frequently Reverses And Significantly Changes Position On The Issues.
Rhetoric Is Not Backed Up With Any Substance On How Promises Will Be Fulfilled.
Past Affiliation With Graft, Corruption And Extreme Leftism.
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Posted by: HP Boston | October 20, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Why does that not suprise me. Ole folksy Sarah the pitbull is licking her chops. She can’t wait.
I guess you need a plummer when you are ripping out the kitchen sink.
Posted by: Omentum | October 20, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Careful there Mccain you might want to think twice before you attack the Vietnam Veteren Pastor,They will have no choice to bring up Pastor Hagleey you know the one that hate Jews! Not to mention Palins Witch hunt Pastor who belives witches roam the world, I DARE YOU MCCAIN! It will backfire big time!!!
Posted by: Angie | October 20, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
1. Rev. Wright is old news.
2. It brings attention to Obama’s amazing speech on Race
HOWEVER:
3. It will bring up Rev. Hagee
4. We can watch Gov. Palin getting prayed over by a witch doctor, Pastor Muthee in a non-stop loop for days on the news channels.
5. We can watch Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon talk about the Jews bringing terror on themselves because they have not accepted Jesus.
6. Or the media can focus on Palin’s church “Pray the Gay Away” program.
This gets better and better………
Posted by: Paige | October 20, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
About time!
Posted by: OxyCon | October 20, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Erratic. Indecisive. Non-Cohesive…shoddy….unclear…confused…negative….whining…….out of focus…..off message…..polarizing….dis-honest….dis-respectful…..unorganized…undisciplined…immature….McCain/Palin 08. We do not stand for anything so what can we attack next. Oh Yea “Our Country First”.
Posted by: Losing Bearings | October 20, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Well, go ahead. Since he’s going to be the White Man history will be made on, he might as well go down with his flaming ship. (Or shall I say flaming plane(s)?)
Doesn’t matter…..HE’S GOING TO BE SMASHED REGARDLESS.
So, let’s see your Hail Mary Version 8.
It’s gotta be hilarious!
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Angie
I agree, they do not want to go there.
I will love for the pastor muthee the witch chaser to come out.
silly season continues. good news … just two more weeks.
Posted by: Omentum | October 20, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
John Lewis didn’t call McCain and his supporters racist. They’re just trying to justify playing the race card.
Posted by: MM | October 20, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
They are keeping all options on the table. No matter how sleazy…
Could you imagine a country run by these people? Where the only limit to ethics is your imagination?
When grocery shopping:
Will I use coupons? Will I pay with cash? Will I use a credit card? Will I shoplift?
Some options should be beyond consideration…
Posted by: Blip | October 20, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
They’re losing–badly–and they know it.
Posted by: AnotherBuckeye | October 20, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
This is almost funny. They have to keep coming up with something else as the previous tactic falls apart and doesn’t work as they’ve hoped. All it does is portray them as incompetent and desperate. NOT a good way to end a campaign. Undignified, but then again, they’ve been that all the way through.
Posted by: counting crows | October 20, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Why does McCain keep saying that Obama didn’t refute what Lewis said?
Obama did. His campaign issued a formal statement that same day.
I think he’s just trying to create an excuse… trying to make an appeal to moral relativism. (Like when he blamed town hall meetings on his repeated mention of Ayers.) He sounds like a four year old.
Posted by: Blip | October 20, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Ever since pig on the lipstick. McCain has been overreacting to any comment (even constructive criticism) has an attack on character or even racism. McCain got his supporters believing this crap and it me mad because it’s not true. And attack on Rev. Wright can only lead to a referendum on MLK a BLT preacher.
Posted by: MM | October 20, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Might as well do it. What the heck he already is by talking about it.
The troubling aspect of all of McCain’s attacks is that he claims that Obama made him do it. I used to say such things when I was kid, that is as a small child, and would rationalize my evry wrong action.
72 and he acts like my Grand Children, not a comfortable feeling.
go ahead and vote for the fool, if he is elected, he will not have the support of the public.
Posted by: Thinking | October 20, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
OMENTUM
I hope they do bring up Rev Wright, I really do he is old news we heard about him all through the Primaries didnt stop anything, Obama still became the Nomoniee but do you know why I want them to bring up Wright, Then Everyone will learn about Mccains whacky Pastors as well as Palins sicko ones MCCAIN I SAY BRING IT ON!!
Posted by: Angie | October 20, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Goosesteppers for McCain
“Christina Bellantoni captures the scene of Republican protesters heckling voters lined up after an Obama event in Fayetteville, N.C. yesterday, and an Obama backer offering a (somewhat off target) defense. The chant in Bellantoni’s second video is “Nobama.”
About 30 cars had their tires slashed during that rally, according to a local press “
Posted by: Ryan c | October 20, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
McCain ..I wonder how many of your followers would vote for you if they knew about your black relatives that you refuse to acknowledge. Bring it on! Maybe it’s time our country really confronted its ugly past! Tuskegee Syphlis Study, Compulsive Sterilization of the mentally retarded and Native Americans from 1907 thru the 1970′s. Rev wright will look like a Rhoades Scholar when we’re through.
Posted by: linda n carolina | October 20, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
yeah those are the words America wants to hear…
an issue is only important if they are losing.
other than that it isn’t important …
disgusting.
Posted by: dl | October 20, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
I was polled on this and said it would be the biggest mistake of the campaign.
there is too much McCain footage for the most ethical flip-flop of his career
Posted by: leaning republican | October 20, 2008, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
Montana is leaning Republican
Georgia is leaning Republican
N. Dakota toss up
Virginia leaning Democrat
N. Dakota toss up
Ohio toss up but 9 pt Obama lead in latest poll
Missouri toss up
Iowa solid Democrat
Florida toss up
Colorado, New Mexico leaning Dem
Obama already has enough leaning states to secure the nomination. That is the only thing that has changed since August. People have started to make up there minds and are going for Obama.
Posted by: MM | October 20, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
“The MCCain Campaign as a Football Team”
Currently down 62-3 with 2 minutes left in the 4th quarter.
HUDDLE UP! Ok, let’s go deep AGAIN with Palin crossin em up across the middle while McChicken does a stutter step and goes goal line. We’ve got that Obama Team right where we want em!
BREAK!
Funny, aren’t they?
Cmon, McChicken. Let’s see your last gasp hail mary Version 22.
POTUS OBAMA – IT IS A LOCK!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
McCain supporters are driven by negativity. Now the Palin effect is wearing off they don’t have anything to get excited about except hatred against others. Latest incident…Obama Supporters’ tires slashed In North Carolina.
Obama supporters believe in a better tomorrow. We are excited about the people on board, people like Warren Buffet, Colin Powell.
Obama runs on hope, McCain runs on fear!
Posted by: CLabs | October 20, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
Keep digging that hole McCain. Your campaign will be the dirtiest ever.
Posted by: helloworld | October 20, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
The true reason is, you’re out of ideas and it’s your last hope…Bring it out!! We’ve seen the loop a million times already, what’s 2 more weeks…After that, just get ready to wave that white flag of surrender at 10:15pm on Nov 4 Chump!
Posted by: PoliticsAsUsual | October 20, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
Yes, please do. Go even more personally negative and against your own word in the last two weeks of the campaign. With the electorate saying more and more that they want to hear about issues and not who did what with whom, it’ll be the last nail in the coffin for McCain ’08.
Posted by: Bri | October 20, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
OBUMA is not a socialist, if he was, there will no peril for the country
he is a totalitarian-stalinist-maoist,” he and his gang” want the implementation of a regim similar to cuba´s or venezuela´s, no. korea and the like. he has already given the hint: the spread of wealth, militia,family indoctrination but specially children , his program is to have the children the most time in school, out of the reach of parents, perfect setting for brainwashing
Posted by: HP Boston | October 20, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
McCains own Muslim supporters had to fight the smears so they actually go to a McCain rally. Wow they support McCain is beyond me but God pray that nothing happens to them at one of those rallies.
Posted by: MM | October 20, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
I am kinda upset that Obama hasnt really called McCain on any of his stupidity.
The town halls: If obama would have went to town hall with me …the campaign would not be so vile. What????
So Obama gets Britney, Paris, Moses, Ayers and the list goes on because he wanted to run his OWN campaign.
Obama should repudiate Lewis? That had nothing to do with Obama. Grow a pair and talk to Lewis yourself dirtbag.
laughable
Posted by: Omentum | October 20, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
“The MCCain Campaign as a Football Team”
UPDATED: Currently down 70-3 with 2 minutes left in the 4th quarter.
HUDDLE UP! Ok, let’s go deep AGAIN with Palin crossin em up across the middle while McChicken does a stutter step and goes goal line. We’ve got that Obama Team right where we want em! Right? Errrrr, right? Anyone there?? Uhh, where did everybody go?
(crickets chirping)
BREAK!
Funny, aren’t they?
Turns out this game has been over for over a month now with the McChicken campaign running plays against themselves.
Cmon, McChicken. Let’s see your last gasp hail mary Version 22.
POTUS OBAMA – IT IS A LOCK!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
This is a bad move for McCain. If you think Rev. Wright is bad, you haven’t seen Palin’s pastor from Wasilla Asssembly of God. Americans already know about Rev. Wright. It’s old news. But, Palin’s pastor is NEW. He hasn’t received focus from the MSM, and they will milk it for all it’s worth. McCain is very smart in not wanting to go there.
(Hint- Palin’s pastor got his start fighting witchcraft)
Why is the McCain campaign re-staging all the attacks that did not work for Hillary Clinton? Don’t they have any original ideas? What they NEED is a positive message. Don’t tell me about the other guy. Tell me about YOU.
Posted by: Concerned | October 20, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
ABC News is so in the tank for Barack Obama. Why is the discussion of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright necessarily an “attack”? Sen. McCain will keep this discussion relevant and respectful. The truth of the matter is, for 20 years as a community organizer, Sen. Obama drove droves of people, families and children into the congregation of the Trinity United Church of Christ and the arms of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright… where they were indoctrinated in the ideology of hate and anger. A whole generation of 10, 15, 20 and 25 year olds are wandering around the streets of the South Side of Chicago precisely because Sen. Obama drove them into the arms of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Is the South Side of Chicago better because of the change Sen. Obama brought to it? That’s a relevant question for the candidate of change. Does he regret his lack of judgement? or does he think he did the right thing? When the entire country was denouncing the Rev. Wright, Sen. Obama was defending him. Until two months later, when he finally denounced him, too. Sen. Obama: a day late and a dollar short.
Posted by: Obamacrat for McCain | October 20, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
MY FRIENDS MY DAYS ARE COMING TO AN END!
These are the things I have tried so Despertatley to win
1-OBAMA HAS NO EXPERIENCE(oops didnt work)
2-I KNOW I WILL PICK A WOMAN VP BECAUSE HILLARY WOMAN ARE MAD HE DIDNT PICK HER (Oops that didnt work)
3-I KNOW I WILL BLAME THE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON HIM (nope didnt work)
4-I KNOW I WILL CALL HIM A TERRIOST AND TRY TO MAKE HIM LOOK DANGEROUS(damn that didnt work either)
5 WELL NOW I WILL CALL HIM A SOCIALISIT SOME PEOPLE DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS(thats not working well either)
6 WELL MY FRIENDS I KNOW ONE THING LEFT THAT CRAZY REV WRIGHT (oh but he has already been talked about so much but I will give it a try!)
SINCERLY JOHN SYDNEY MCCAIN
Posted by: Angie | October 20, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Nat Turner: Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Posted by: linda n carolina | October 20, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
Obama praised Wright even after Wright said our chickens were coming home to roost after 9/11.
By the way this is an old interview from last thursday.
McCain this weekend said he would not bring up Wright.
Posted by: David | October 20, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
Anyone who knows our Foreign Policy history…Chile, Iran, Iraq, Guatemala and Viet Nam…knows our chickens did come home to roost that day on 9/11.
Posted by: linda n carolina | October 20, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
Get ready for the gaff of all gaffs of the Palin/McCain ticket.
Palin is truly getting frustrated with losing and the longer she’s with her Suga Daddy, the worse her ratings become.
JUST WATCH PALIN come out and say something sooooooooooo STUPID, it’s going to be jaw dropping!
They’re due for one final gaff maximuso, and it’s coming!
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
This is disgusting. The use of Lewis as an excuse is just absurd.
Posted by: Tungsten | October 20, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
So Rick Davis is saying if we’re going to be called racists we may as well act like it?
I wonder if Davis will ever get a job after this election.
Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 20, 2008 3:22:43 PM
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Of course he will, as Palin’s campaign manager in 2012. How’s that for a scary thought?
Posted by: Mack | October 20, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Obama supporters – remember, we ALL, every last one of us, have to make sure we get to the polls Nov. 4. No excuses. We can’t take anything for granted. Not this time. Not this election. It’s too important for our future as a REAL democracy. As Barack Obama said – remember New Hampshire.
Posted by: counting crows | October 20, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
This is like thinking of whether
to jump from a plane, which is
15,000 ft above sea-level, and
expect everything will be fine.
Posted by: FM | October 20, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Alaskians must be sooooo embarassed!
Posted by: linda n carolina | October 20, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
if ayers is NOT working, what make you think this would work?
now the mccain campaign are the mostBRAINLESS, un-EXPERIENCED campaign like EVER.
why do they ANNOUNCE their attacks before it happens?
don’t they think that when the attack it becomes STUPID?
anyways KEEP IT UP, so OBAMA can get the LANSLIDE VICTORY he deserves.
Posted by: johnosahon | October 20, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
Why does the McCain campaign have to blow everything out of proportion!
John Lewis did not say McCain’s 50 million supporters are racist.
And ACORN is not “now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country”.
I think we can up with worse examples, like actually removing eligible voters from the voting rolls.
Posted by: cincyr | October 20, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
Counting Crows: AMEN
Posted by: linda n carolina | October 20, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
Davis’ misquoting of Lewis’ comments as a rationale to launch another smear campaign reminds me of Russia’s using a Georgian artillary volley on a South Ossetian village as an excuse to invade and attempt to annex parts of Georgia.
Posted by: Pacific moderate | October 20, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
I say do it! The blowback will be incredible and it will only help Obama.
Posted by: dem in chicago | October 20, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Did anyone notice Rick Davis has lost his ability to see things as they really are. Congressman Lewis never called McCain and his supporters racists. Go and check out Congressman Lewis’ statements for yourself.
What I have observed throughout the years is when people repeatedly spreading hatred and toxic misleading claims (lies). Not only they are doing a disservice to the nation, it’s easy for the poison affecting their own blood stream is very high. Once that happens and unbeknown to them, they will lose their sense of right from wrong, lose their ability to relate to people and work, lose their capacity to love and appreciate goodness and beauty in life.
Hope you are not one of these people..
Posted by: educator | October 20, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Rick Davis and Hugh Hewitt. Now there is a pair that I want to spend my time listening to. Hey Rick! Hey Hugh! You have run out of time! John McCain did not take the high road, and this country is not interested in the low road. We have had it. And you didn’t get that at all.
Posted by: Meah Bottoms | October 20, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
I don’t get it.
Poll after poll after poll states that negative adds and comments are turning voters off. Many have stated that one of the reasons they are NOT voting for Senator McCain is due to the negative aspects of his campaign. And now, members of his campaign (notice I did not say Senator McCain himself) are considering going negative again with a pastor and church that Senator Obama is no longer a member of, and in fact dissasociated himeself with because of some of the comments the pastor made.
What is the thought process… If a little mud didn’t work, and a lot of mud didn’t work, and everyone says they are tired of mud, lets try a boatload of mud and maybe that will work? Hasn’t anyone in the campaign noticed that the only ones saying go more negative are the ones that are already voting for him?
Posted by: Marli | October 20, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
Hahahahahahahahaha! That’s going to make news. What kind of President makes decisions based on his emotional feelings being hurt?
John McCain is nothing but an old mentally unstable man in diapers – enough said!
Posted by: Diamond | October 20, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
JOHN MCCAIN demonstrates that HE is not erratic:
o Pretends that Sarah “can’t name a Supreme Court Case” Palin as qualified to be president because she can see Russia; he is proud of her; she is not a feminist.
o Lies on the view that his ads, that portrayed an Illinois state bill to provide age appropriate info re sexual predators as ‘sex ed for kids in kindergarten”.
o Implies again and again that his opponent is a terrorist because he sat on the same ed reform board as the publisher of the Chicago Tribune.
o Suspended his campaign just long enough to give an campaign interview to Katie Couric; took him 21 hours to get to Washington where he had no detectable positive effect; never officially unsuspended his campaign.
o Now he says someone is a socialist if you support the Reagan era top tax range of 39% instead of 36%. Never mind that he said the Bush tax cut (to 36%) was ‘unbalanced in favor of the most fortunate Americans’ and voted against it himself.
o And despite suddenly discovering that American Socialism is the greatest threat to democracy (except registering poor and middle class Americans to vote), STILL WILL NOT step up to the plate and call for the abolition of Social Security, unemployment insurance, federal bank deposit insurance, catalytic converters and safety belts!
o But at least McCain IS CALLING FOR Billions of dollars currently paying for monthly Social Security checks to be diverted to private accounts. Doesn’t talk about that in Florida, for some reason!
Posted by: John | October 20, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
With Palin calling the shots now, you betcha Wright will be used.
Posted by: Dan | October 20, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
What is the thought process… If a little mud didn’t work, and a lot of mud didn’t work, and everyone says they are tired of mud, lets try a boatload of mud and maybe that will work? Hasn’t anyone in the campaign noticed that the only ones saying go more negative are the ones that are already voting for him?
Posted by: Marli | Oct 20, 2008 4:01:43 PM
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Your mud is not working either you silly bot….the mud has been slung far and wide by the OVOMIT machine!
Posted by: HP Boston | October 20, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
About time.
A hero spend his youth in enemy’s prison camp vs. a cocaine user being educated by an uncle like figure, “inspirational” speeches that condemns America, and racial rants against his own fellow democrats and a white woman.
Posted by: Atom | October 20, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
NAT TURNER
I love your post their so funny!
Posted by: ANGIE | October 20, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
So Rick Davis is basically saying that the McCain campaign is seriously thinking about living up to Congressman Lewis’s portrayal of their campaign. How nice.
Posted by: teddymaniac | October 20, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
How sad, how pathetic.
Every time McCain goes negative in 20th-century cold war politicking, his poll numbers go down.
So what is he going to do?
More of the same.
Boooooooooooooooooringggggggggg.
Posted by: clifton | October 20, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Funny how you would go to a lead from the Leftist Puffington ComPost on an interview conducted by conservative talk show host, Hugh Hewitt.
Sheesh…the company you keep, Jake.
Posted by: Captain America | October 20, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
HP Boston…what are you..12? Ovomit indeed!
Posted by: Dee | October 20, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Only 15 days left not 19 days left.
Posted by: David | October 20, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
Let us talk about Wright:
People familiar with the church compare its emphasis on African culture to the way some Catholic churches play up Irish or Italian roots. People who know about the church reject the accusations that the church is separatist or turns away white members.
An actual member who is white tells the story of a group of young Germans visiting the church. Wright met with them before the service and prayed with them in German, she said. Later, he delivered part of his sermon in German and the choir sang in German.
“To me, it’s a testimony that this is not a church that rejects people of other cultures and races,” she said.
Posted by: Mr. Coffee | October 20, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
I hope they do use Wright.
Wright was thoroughly covered in the primaries unlike Ayers, and the media won’t cover it because there’s new to cover on that subject.
It will make them look desperate and the American people will reject McCain just like Powell…
Posted by: Alek | October 20, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
McCain’s motto is Country First. What a joke! If he was Country First we would never have gone the divide and conquer route he has gone to date. Republicans are simply desparate to hold power. They don’t give a damn about America, at least a united America. If McCain uses Wright he is an even bigger fool than he has shown thus far.
Posted by: indy_voter | October 20, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
Are you ready to rumble…..?
I want to see the ravin’, screamin, Rev. Wight (is not all right) jumping from the ceiling saying, “G.D. America.”
Oh, and there is plenty of good stuff available here if the door is opened.
A 20 year association where ObamACORN was sitting in the pews every Sunday is something he can’t hide “in the neighborhood”
Posted by: Captain America | October 20, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
HP ranting about the unfairness of it all again?… and again…. and again……
YAWN
Posted by: Same old blog | October 20, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
Give me that ole time hatin’ religion!!
Posted by: Captain America | October 20, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
Of course they are thinking about it…they are LOSING.
It is dangerous ground to tread. The people just don’t want to hear it and it is one more distraction from the economy.
Besides McCain and Palin have plenty of their own Rev troubles.
Posted by: Hank | October 20, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
“Senator Government has spent more on negative ads alone then McCain has on all his ads combined.”
It should be noted that McCain’s 100% negative attack ad splurge was financed by tax payers.
How lovely that all American got to pay for McCain;s right wing bile.
Media study says 60% of all of Obama’s ads were negative vs 70% for McCain
Posted by: Ryan C | October 20, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
yep,
McChicken is going to skeet the last drop of water in his little water gun.
Obama is shaking in his Birkenstocks while sipping on a good Chardonnay?
B Rock! Can you pour me a glass, brother?
Ahhhhhhhh, poor cynics. Tsk, tsk
If they only had a brain.
POTUS OBAMA – Pass the Bubbly
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
Hint:
Whenever the lefties advise the McCain campaign not to go negative because they will lose 6000% of their voters……it really means, DO IT! IT WORKS!
Posted by: Captain America | October 20, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
More blaming the victim from the McCain campaign. It’s always someone else’s fault.
This is an extreme distortion of John Lewis statement. He never calls anyone racist and never refers to all of McCain’s supporters being racist. He says, rather that they are “sowing the seeds of hatred and division” and that they are “playing with fire.” He recalls the ugly old days of Wallace for the pervasive tone of hostility and hatred of that era. John Lewis may have gone too far, but his statement did not say what McCain says it says. It reads:
“As one who was a victim of violence and hate during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, I am deeply disturbed by the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign. What I am seeing today reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
“During another period, in the not too distant past, there was a governor of the state of Alabama named George Wallace who also became a presidential candidate. George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who only desired to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed one Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.
“As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Sen. McCain and Governor Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all. They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better.”
Posted by: wad city | October 20, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
It looks like many of the people who sit on their rear in front of a computer and do nothing for America are for Obama. Why not? He plans to take money away from the ones who work hard each day to make it and give it to the deadbeats. The deadbeats are too stupid to realize that when small businesses are forced to pay more taxes there will be another flood of companies going overseas to manufacture products. Companies that stay here will have to cut jobs and replace employees who have seniority with lower paid workers. Wake up people! Where do you think the small businesses will get the money to pay more taxes? The government will take from businesses who will in turn CUT. It is a cycle that will trickle down and cause more suffering for the lower class. Ever wonder why so many stay in the lower class instead of grow? This is why. So many of them do not use their brains. Small businesses drive this country forward and keep the masses employed. Punishing these businesses for succeeding is the worst plan ever.
Posted by: Lisa | October 20, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
Pathetic reasoning… Davis wants McCain to ruin his reputation and for what? So Davis can assuage his own ego?
Posted by: MIguy | October 20, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm
The McCain campaign never fails to amaze…they are going to do this why? because Ayres and Palin worked so well for them? Who is advising McCain? Idiots?
Posted by: Grissom | October 20, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
McCAIN MUST USE PASTOR WRIGHT’S COMMENTS
RIGHT NOW…….
AMERICAN VOTERS MUST KNOW THE TRUE
COLORS OF HUSSEIN OBAMA BEFORE THEY
GO TO THE POLLS…..
COUNTRY FIRST……
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
Posted by: Nicholas | October 20, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
I think McCain’s Camp should run ads about Rev Wright immediately after Obama’s 30-minute infocommercial!!
Posted by: Francisco Cardenas | October 20, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm
Of course it was a bad move to lay off Wright. If they wanted to win, they should have been prepared to go all out in dirty tactics. They already hit him on Ayers – Wright isn’t that much of a stretch after that.
Posted by: matt | October 20, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
What percentage of small businesses do you think are affected by Obama’s taxes? How many do you think are classified as small? Do you know how businesses run and how tax burdens are minimized?
Posted by: MIguy | October 20, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
It appears Davis and Schmidt are both so “gone” when this campaign is over that they are now grabbing at ANY straw that might help them. I really think McCain’s well being is not of any concern to them now at all. It’s all about doing what the right wing wants done.
Posted by: Grissom | October 20, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
Francisco Cardenas ….they can’t afford too LOL
Posted by: Grissom | October 20, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm
MI Guy…facts are 260 thousand small business would get a tax break and 16 thousand would pay higher BUT the bigger issue? ALL 5% of the really big business? Would NOW have to pay what they have NOT had to for the last 8 years.
Posted by: Grissom | October 20, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
Lisa,
Ok, I own 3 retail kiosks in high end malls in Chicago – a small business. I will be out of businss after Christmas if the economy does not improve dramatically. RETAIL WHICH DRIVES OUR ECONOMEY IS DOWN DRAMATICALLY.
I employ people that will be out of a job in a bad market.
Please explain to me how the last 8 years have helped my business and why I hould vote to give tax breaks to the wealth and the richest corportations.
Posted by: mike | October 20, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. 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.”
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help
How about using Joe Biden/
WHhen something happens
“OBAMA’s GONNA NEED HELP!”
Posted by: geevill | October 20, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
I think McCain should ask rantin’ ravin’ Rev Wright (he’s not all right) on the straight talk express tour with him.
Let him endorse ObamACORN on the tour.
Posted by: Captain America | October 20, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
Get real – the McCain camp has intended to use Wright from the beginning, just holding off until the 11-hour because it’s the biggest weapon they’ve got left, and so that the resulting fury dominate the news in the week leading up to Election Day. That’s Campaigning 101.
What’s going on right now is part of their buildup, to say they were forced into it by Obama’s tactics, greater fundraising, etc. You’d think people would catch on after 4 decades of this.
Posted by: billp | October 20, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
Well, since the McCain campaign is broke and unable to match up with the Obama juggernaut in terms of funds, that’s what the real debate is about. DO WE HAVE THE MONEY???
With the GOP having to take out loans just to finance campaigns that are fighting to survive, McChicken is so deep in doo doo, he thinks his name is the Tidy Bowl Man.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
Yeah, McSame, keep throwing everything you can at Obama, it ups his poll numbers. You just don’t get it, do you old man, the more negative and hateful your attack the better for Obama.
Posted by: JR | October 20, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
They may throw Hail Mary passes but I guarantee that none of them will be full of grace. The bottom line on McCain’s utter reliance on negativity will be that it may prove that he (or she) who throws dirt loses ground.
Posted by: bhciapol | October 20, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
Oooooooooo – they are going to talk about Rev. Wright! Jeepers Creepers!
lol
In the words of the twice re-elected REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT “W”:
BRING IT ON! :)
Posted by: Nobodys foll | October 20, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
“high end malls in Chicago”
Obama wants high end malls to close down.Spread the wealth.
Posted by: geevill | October 20, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
McChicken’s Final Circus:
My FELLOW PRISONERS:
For my final act, I will put on doubled panel Depends that have been drenched in gasoline and I will walk through a 30 foot wall of flames.
WAAAAAA LAAAAAAH!!
These clowns are hilarious!
POTUS OBAMA – Still a LOCK
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm
I’d love to see Rev Wright again.
Nothing portrays intolerance, racism, and hate for America like those tapes of Wright.
And to think Obama went to that church for 20 years and never knew. All of Chicago knew but not Obama. Kind of like he didn’t know Ayers was a terrorist–or Rezko was a crook.
Let America see Wright again. The man Obama calls a “great leader”.
Posted by: sam | October 20, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
And another one:
Ken Adelman is a lifelong conservative Republican. Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld’s second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001. Adelman’s friendship with Rumsfeld, Cheney, and their wives goes back to the sixties, and he introduced Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz at a Washington brunch the day Reagan was sworn in.
In recent years, Adelman and his friends Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz fell out over his criticisms of the botching of the Iraq War. Still, he remains a bona-fide hawk (“not really a neo-con but a con-con”) who has never supported a Democrat for President in his life. Two weeks from now that’s going to change: Ken Adelman intends to vote for Barack Obama. He can hardly believe it himself.
(Full article posted at THE NEW YORKER)
Posted by: Paige | October 20, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
DESPERATION! Let’s compare some of the despicable things said by Rev. Wright to some of the despicable things done by the McCain campaign — EVEN!
Posted by: Kathy | Oct 20, 2008 3:25:39 PM
** it’s called being desperate Kathy… they have nothing to run on and they are scared… but most people don’t know McCain is an adulterer… his relationship w/ Liddy.. his wife was a drug addict… amongst other things that really cloud up his “great American” life… He’s a lame
Don’t vote for McLame or Failin…
Posted by: RepubsareSLOW | October 20, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
As it stands now, the McCain camp already tried to smear Obama with Ayers, etc.. and it didn’t work. The American people are losing their job, their homes, and the list goes on. They want someone who is going to help get this country back on track and help them. The attacks are not what the people want!
Obama’s team has not attacked McCain, only to defend. They also issued a statment saying they don’t agree in comparing McCain to George Wallace, inaddition to that Lewis himself said he was not in anyway comparing McCain to Wallace himself, but the nature of the rallies were bringing him back to a time of violence in the US.
AND if they want to bring up Rev Wright, we can also talk about Sarah Palin’s pastor as well!
Posted by: Chelle in Fla | October 20, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
The same Rick Davis that took millons from Freddie?
Posted by: Jwench | October 20, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
Geevil
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help”
Like Bush relied on Cheney, Clinton relied on Warren Christopher, Obama has many good advisers to help him.
To name a few.. senator Luger, general Powell, general Clark, Joe Biden.
And who does McCain relies to… Sarah Palin, who can see Russia from outside her house ? Bomb, bomb Iran….
Posted by: CLabs | October 20, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
Russia’s permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.
“We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his presidential election campaign. In this respect we have to reiterate that neither Russia’s permanent mission to the UN nor the Russian government or its officials finance political activities in foreign countries,” the statement said.
According to Ruslan Bakhtin, press secretary of the Russian mission, the letter dated September 29 and signed by McCain, was addressed to Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s envoy to the UN, and arrived on October 16.
The ambassador’s title was not included in the letter, and was not clear why the letter had taken over two weeks to arrive.
Enclosed was a request for a donation of up to $5,000 to McCain’s election campaign to be returned with a check or permission to withdraw the money from the donor’s credit card until October 24.
Bakhtin confirmed the story to Politico, and wouldn’t comment on the added oddity of the error coming from the anti-Russian McCain. “We just find it amusing,” he said.
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
I guess Senator McCain wants Senator Obama to raise $250 million in October . . .
*Goes to make ANOTHER donation to Senator Obama’s McCain/Palin bold-faced lie fund.*
P.S. Why are so many people more concerned about Mickey Mouse on a voter registration form than sending Minnie Mouse to the White House? Strange.
Posted by: Nobodys fool | October 20, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
The rhetoric by Rick Davis is FAR more inflammatory than the statement made by Congressman Lewis. The statement was referring to the disgusting rhetoric by the McCain campaign for several weeks. Lewis was right, and many people have recognized how destructive that is. Nobody has been doing what Davis said, but Davis is being incredibly irresponsible by saying so. The problem is, that if they keep repeating this crap and socialist crap and lies, a percentage of people will believe it. That’s what they do, spout this nastiness and count on plenty of it sticking. Beyond slimy.
Posted by: shelleyt | October 20, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm
Sure McCain should bring up Wright. White people have a short memory and Conservatives have a bad habit of forgetting and forgiving. Wright is a Vile racist masquerading as a Christian, hiding behind the name Christian. Obama sat in the pews for 20 years, ate it all up and amened brother right along with the rest of the racist flock. People need to be reminded he and his wife both hate white people and they hate America.
Posted by: Carolyn | October 20, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm
If Ayers did’t work, do really think Wright will? It as covered in the primaries.Do you really think that people are going to be shocked. NO.
Anoter desperate attempt by McCain to play fear and smear.
Posted by: Jwench | October 20, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
Hello Everyone,
My name is John “Sissy” McCain.
Please pardon me, if I don’t bring up that Rev Wright guy like I promised, my supporters will think I am a real “sissy”.
Just like I brought up Ayers in passing during the final debate to satify my base, just bear with me, I will bring up Wrighty just in passing.
Please!!!!! Just in passing. My supporters need it. It will soothe when we lose. They will at least feel I tried.
Thaks for your understanding.
John “Sissy” McCain, POW.
Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 20, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
I’ve been wavering back and forth for the last 2 months. We’ve got early voting in Texas, and my husband and I have always voted Republican (sorry–but we voted Bush twice. He wasn’t a bad governor, but by about 2006 a lot of us even in Texas realized the mistake we made in 2004). My husband decided to vote Obama, and he’s taking a lot of heat from his co-workers since he works in the oil industry. I’m leaning Obama too, but it’s tough to admit it when friends in your church are only interested in social issues and you can’t help but fear that a liberal will increase gov’t. But then I’m reminded that Reagan (God love him, but it’s true) grew gov’t and so did both Bushes. It’s easy to hate Bill Clinton, but he did reduce gov’t and control spending. So, I’ve been leaning Obama lately. I just wish the GOP would get off this moral majority nonsense and back onto the Barry Goldwater small gov’t, no interference with the social choices of its people thing. It’s almost like the Dems today are the Republicans of 40 years ago.
I’ve been real put off by the Eyers attacks against Obama by McCain. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that when you are appointed to a school charity board with someone who did bad things 40 years before that you don’t necessarily believe all that bad person’s beliefs. McCain’s got some skeletons in his closet too, but for the most part, Obama’s been respectful enough to not bring them up. So I have to say that if we once again have to listen to more Rev. Wright attacks, I’m done with the Republicans for good.
After this entry, I’m sure I’m voting Obama this time. The dems really do seem more centrist as the Repubs get more and more extreme. Wright said some stupid things, but a lot of it was taken out of context, and that doesn’t mean that Obama believes everything Wright does. If you go to a white Southern Evangelical church, the words spoken are just as passionate and can sound just as racy if taken out of context. Why do we hold a black preacher to a different standard? Adeline. Plano, TX
Posted by: Adeline | October 20, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
Obama may win the election but I will never support him as president.
He willingly sat in that church listening to Wright’s hateful sermons for 20 years.
He didn’t have the courage to speak up or the decency to walk out.
Let’s see the tapes again to remind America of Obama’s judgement and character in case they forgot.
Posted by: bailey | October 20, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm
Enclosed was a request for a donation of up to $5,000 to McCain’s election campaign to be returned with a check or permission to withdraw the money from the donor’s credit card until October 24.
Bakhtin confirmed the story to Politico, and wouldn’t comment on the added oddity of the error coming from the anti-Russian McCain. “We just find it amusing,” he said.
Posted by: Mike NC | Oct 20, 2008 4:38:54 PM
======================
You would have to have a screw loose to believe this story. You would have to have a screw loose to try to pass it off as legitimate. The Democratic party is attracting the most disturbed people with bizzar thoughts. Take Biden for instance. What a joke this man is.
Posted by: Carolyn | October 20, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm
So Rick Davis is saying if we’re going to base our campaign on racism we may as well go all out?
Yeah, Rick the old “Smear and Fear” has been working soooooo, well. Here pretty soon you’ll “have Obama right where you want him”, IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Posted by: JR | October 20, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
The rhetoric by Rick Davis is FAR more inflammatory than the statement made by Congressman Lewis. The statement was referring to the disgusting rhetoric by the McCain campaign for several weeks. Lewis was right, and many people have recognized how destructive that is. Nobody has been doing what Davis said, but Davis is being incredibly irresponsible by saying so. The problem is, that if they keep repeating this crap and socialist crap and lies, a percentage of people will believe it. That’s what they do, spout this nastiness and count on plenty of it sticking. Beyond slimy.
Posted by: shelleyt | Oct 20, 2008 4:40:21 PM
** Plus no one talks about the fact how he was sprayed w/ waterhoses, beaten, Martin Luther King Jr was murdered… Of course he has feelings of that coming back because we see on tv what the republicans are doing.. terrorist? dressing monkey’s like Obama and bringing them to rallies.. who side are yall on?
Posted by: RepubsareSLOW | October 20, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
D
Enjoy these posts while you can. The inevitable Grim Reaper is coming and it won’t be for artichokes and Pepsi.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
Racist? Just look at the blogs where Colin Powell endorsed Obama. Some of you have no room to even talk about Wright. It’s been brought up before and nobody cares!
Posted by: Jwench | October 20, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
The following is from a North Carolina republican rally — We went from “Anti-American to domestic terrorists and now apparently all Obama’s supporters are now atheists. The lunacy just does not stop with this bunch of idiots.
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“It’s like black and white,” someone in the crowd at the Cabarrus Arena & Events Center yelled out, laughing. McHenry let the remark pass and finished his speech. He yielded the microphone to Representative Robin Hayes, who prefaced his comments by saying it was important to “make sure we don’t say something stupid, make sure we don’t say something we don’t mean.” Republicans, he reminded the crowd, were kind people. Plus, he added, the liberal media had shown itself eager to distort such remarks. With the crowd duly chastened and put on best behavior, he accused Obama of “inciting class warfare” and said that “liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.”
Posted by: Hank | October 20, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm
McCAIN has been tested and he has FAILED!
Once again we will watch as his AMBITION TRUMPS ANY PRINCIPLES he may have had at one time!
Posted by: Truth Matters | October 20, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm
Do you hear White Supremacy on it’s deathbed writhing in pain and knowing it’s impending death is on November 4th?
White Cynical America is s******g on itself not sure of its future in America. They’re also writhing in pain by knowing their end is also near.
Enjoy these posts while you can. The inevitable Grim Reaper has an appointment with White Supremacy on November 4th, and it won’t be for artichokes and Pepsi.
Change is always harder for the uneducated and unprepared. White cynics didn’t see it coming and now that they know, they are only acting the same way a roach acts when being eaten on by an African Wolf Spider.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
Carolyn
McCains camp refused to deny the report!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/McCain_camp_hits_up_Russian_ambassador.html?showall
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
The Russians have turned down Sen. John McCain’s request for campaign money — and had a bit of a laugh at his expense. Russia’s ambassador to the U.N., Vitaly Churkin, and several other diplomats at the mission received a fundraising appeal from the Republican presidential nominee on Thursday, according to Ruslan Bakhtin, a spokesman for Russia’s U.N. mission
Posted by: Hypocrit | October 20, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Hi Nat. What do you know about anything. You probably think the Democrats freed the slaves. I bet you think Lincoln was a Democrat. I bet you can’t tell me what party MLK belonged to. Any thoughts on why BO hasn’t called on the name of MLK. Any idea of which party has exploited minorities since the Civil War. What was the party of George Wallace who stood in the school house door. Sir Charles Barkley said poor black people have been voting
for Democrats for 50 years and they’re still poor.
Posted by: Carolyn | October 20, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
Why not you Republican do it on a daily basis.I’ll take Biden over Palin the parrot any day. Ms. Ethics of Alaska.
Posted by: Jwench | October 20, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
I hope they will also bring up Obama New Party connectio:
At what point will the press force Obama to own up to the full extent of his ties to ACORN? At what point will the press demand a full accounting of Obama’s ties to the New Party? At what point will the depth of Obama’s redistributionist economic stance be acknowledged? Barack Obama is hiding the truth about his political past, and the press is playing along.
Posted by: frieda | October 20, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
McCain will be admitted to a Senior Care Facility just after this election as Cindy goes Granny Cougar and gets her a “TALL DARK AND HANDSOME” plaything. wink wink
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Go for it. Wright is the very definition of what he proclaims to hate. Rev. Manning has done interviews about him. Bring in the great Catholic priest Phleger-this time on network news. He’s a garbage mouth that ALL Catholics need to hear. I did’t know priests could contribute money to political campaigns-especially when it comes to the abortion stance. Show Farrakhan calling Obama a Messiah. Lets SPREAD THE WEALTH!
Posted by: RL in Illinois | October 20, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
And then of course there’s the “socialism” of giving working people tax breaks. Mind you, McCain has spent the last year lying about how Obama was going to raise working people’s taxes, but now that he has finally acknowledged Obama will give them a break, suddenly it’s “welfare.”
Posted by: Hypocrit | October 20, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
CJOHN MCCAIN BEGS THE WORLD LARGEST FORMER COMUNIST NATION FOR MONEY… THEY SAY NO
McCains camp refused to deny the report!
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
Republican National Corporation = CROOKS, CORRUPTION, SLANDER, RACISM, CHARACTER ASSINATIONS.
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
Using the right wing standard for evidence, I encourage everyone to look for the video of the Klan holding a vote to endorse John McCain.
Posted by: Ryan c | October 20, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
You liberals are too easy. Just a quivering mass of jello…all you can think of is insults because you have no facts and evidently no education so you could figure out what to do with them if you had them.
Posted by: Carolyn | October 20, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
So, McCain is trying to get illegal donations from the Russian government?
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
Survey USA VA Poll: Obama +6
Susquehanna PA Poll: Obama +8
Morning Call PA Poll: Obama +12.
Posted by: Ryan c | October 20, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm
Here are the things McCain was a disaster at:
1. Air Force School
2. In War as a jet fighter
3. College
4. Marriage
5. Keating
6. Senator
7. First Presidential Run
8. His campaign
9. Picking a running mate
10. Campaign suspension
11. Gimmick Joe the fake Plumber
12. and NOW McCain hitting up RUSSIA for cash!
Now…. WHY on EARTH would I think he would succeed as President?
McCain is a life long disaster who will hide behind the American Flag to create ANOTHER Disaster!
Say NO to Life-Long Disaster McCain
BTW I asked JMart for this list; I’m still waiting on the names of those OVER 200 Retired Generals and Admirals McCain said endorsed him. Maybe you can help me out. Would you please post the names of these said endorsers? Thanks!
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm
I Totally agree, Repubsarelow.
Everyone that I know, people of ALL colors and creeds, are upset, saddened, frightened, angry and disgusted with the tone and tactics of the GOP. They have shamed themselves and possibly divided this country more than most anything in memory. I don’t believe that all republicans are bad or racist, but I do wish they would stop and listen. Everyone, stop and listen. This is not even necessarily a race issue. Incendiary statements encompass most every issue, and we all have to be responsibile, and recognize how destructive and damaging words can be.
Posted by: shelleyt | October 20, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
john mccain: I can see Russia from my bank account
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
You just don’t get it do you Ryan. They know the Democrats have been keepbing Blacks poor and “in their place” for years. . Well your candidate BARAK OBAMA is their NEW MASSA, and I think it’s funny.
Posted by: Carolyn | October 20, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
“all you can think of is insults because you have no facts and evidently no education so you could figure out what to do with them if you had them.”
Here’s a fact Carolyn.
Obama has the lead in every national poll.
Here’s another fact Carolyn.
Obama outspending McCain by 4 to 1 on TV.
Here’s yet another fact Carolyn
Democrats are dominating early voting in North Carolina with African Americans showing up in droves to vote against your right wing racism.
Posted by: Ryan c | October 20, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
You liberals are too easy. Just a quivering mass of jello…all you can think of is insults because you have no facts and evidently no education so you could figure out what to do with them if you had them.
Posted by: Carolyn | Oct 20, 2008 5:06:55 PM
Carolyn,
I see Republicans post things that are no true on daily basis. When you post fact they either run away or change the subject. I have posted McCain’s associatons and not one of you right wing nuts has ever explained them to me.
Posted by: Jwench | October 20, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
Here are the things McCain was a disaster at:
1. Air Force School
============================
Mike…Mike…Mike
Can’t make a point if you can’t even get the first thing right. McCain was a Navy Pilot…went to the Naval Acadamy at Annapolis.
Posted by: Carolyn | October 20, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
“went to the Naval Acadamy at Annapolis”
Where he finished 894 out of 899.
Thank goodness his daddy was able to get him into pilot’s school.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 20, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
Sure why not. I just hope then at that point the media will be fair and show Sharah’s witch doctor over and over again and McCains, whom made the comments that New Orleans was being punished by God.
They are despicable!!
Posted by: becky | October 20, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
Carolyn I’m still waiting on the names of those OVER 200 Retired Generals and Admirals McCain said endorsed him. Maybe you can help me out. Would you please post the names of these said endorsers?
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
Carolyn: how about this….
His fellow POW’s in Nam called him SONGBIRD because he ratted out classified flight paths to the enemy which enabled them to shoot down our bombers, all the while receiveing preferential treatment by the enemy.
Lets see, McCain is not even a hero, he has lied about that also.
Posted by: becky | October 20, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
CAN IT GET ANY FUNNIER?
Russia’s permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.
“We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his presidential election campaign. In this respect we have to reiterate that neither Russia’s permanent mission to the UN nor the Russian government or its officials finance political activities in foreign countries,” the statement said.
McChicken can’t get donations from home, so he tries to hit up the Russians, and even they say, HIT THE ROAD BUM!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
McCain/Palin have said little to nothing significant on their behalf for anyone to consider them viable to run this country…The American people buying into all this hate speech is divisive, destructive and will ultimately fail. Most unfortunate…speaking of attacks, I thought Limbaugh was off that stuff.
Posted by: KenB, MI | October 20, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
If McCain goes after Wright (who is a symbol for race), then Obama should have zero compunction about going after McCain’s age.
They should open up on this geezer with both barrels.
And throw in Palin’s witch doctor and Rev. Anti-Semite Hagee, just for good measure.
Why not McCain’s affair? Or calling his wife a “c***”?
If they want to go into the dirt, let’s do it.
Posted by: BBpd | October 20, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm
VOTED FOR OBAMA TODAY IN IOWA!!!!! GET OUT AND VOTE – TOOK 10 MINUTES.
Posted by: Helen | October 20, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Gallup Daily: Obama’s Lead Edges Higher NEW October 20, 2008
Gallup Poll Daily tracking now gives Barack Obama an 11 percentage point lead over John McCain in the presidential vote preferences of all registered voters, 52% to 41%. Obama still leads, but by single digits, among “traditional” and “expanded” likely voters.
Posted by: themanwhosawtomorrow | October 20, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
I voted too today in Illinois. What a great feeling! Go Obama!!!
As for Reverand Wright – I don’t even care at this point. Let McCain/Palin say anything they want – it’s the economy that people care about.
Posted by: Michelle | October 20, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
They will use it without any doubt – and the Obama campaign willl ignore Sarah’s with hunter, rise above it and talk about real issues – like how Americans are going to save thei houses, get their kids to college and pay for their parent care.
Meanwhile, the McCain campaign will continue on their Joesph McCarthy witch-hunt, try to rig the election, and tear our country apart – at a time we can least afford to do that. Whatever you do, call and make sure you are registered, vote early and take an ID. The thugs are going to do whatever they can to try to stop th democratic process – and I am not talking about a bunch of street people. I’m talking about men in Brooks Brothers suits who will election machines. Check your vote after you vote and check it again after you pull that lever.
Posted by: mara | October 20, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
So next attack will be Reverend Wright once again???? This has already played out. Rev. Wright was well respected man who volunteered to serve in our military services. He helped to take care of Pres Lyndon Johnson. He had to pass one of strictest security clearances ever to be on this team. Also excellent medical corpsman!! Rev Wright has served America with honor.
NOW WILL SARAH PALIN BE ADDRESSED ABOUT HER WITCH HUNTING MINISTER WHO BLESSED HER. WANTED TO KEEP WITCHES AWAY FROM HER ON HER QUEST TO BECOME GOVERNOR OF ALASKA. ALL ON VIDEO!!!! THEN ALSO ON VIDEO SARAH GIVES HER IMPRESSION OF THIS MINISTER BLESSING TO KEEP WITCHCRAFT AWAY FROM HER. THIS MINISTER HUNTS ALLEGED WITCHES DOWN. MINISTER GOES TO SPEAK AT CHURCH FREQUENTLY, AND WAS JUST THERE RECENTLY IN ALASKA. I still have saved on my computer – Sites from Alaska.
John McCain and Republicans have committed despicable acts during this Presidential Campaign!!!
I have had it with them!!
Posted by: Sharonklim | October 20, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
AND THIS
JOHN MCCAINS PASTOR PROBLEM:
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4905624
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Can you imagine if John McCain ran the country the way he ran his campaign?
* His own brother doesn’t believe he is even in charge of his campaign.
* His #2 was chosen because he couldn’t agree with his campaign manager about the people he really wanted.
* His campaign is full of lobbyists.
* He introduces proposes radical new policies out of nowhere that don’t appear to be well thought out only to drop them a few weeks later.
* He wasted nearly the entire primary season when he was essentially unopposed and let Obama and Hilary dominate the news.
* He completely dismissed Obama’s 50 state strategy assuming states like Virginia, Colorado and North Carolina were safely his – now Obama has a serious chance at winning them and a ground game that has been organized for months he can’t match
* It took him almost a year and the best campaign message he’s been able to come up with is “Country First.” He tried to co-opt Obama’s message of Change which, given the amount of time Obama has been using it was like rowing up a waterfall.
* He seems more interested in winning a news cycle than long-term strategy whereas Obama took a hit in the short-term early in his campaign in order to lay the foundation for a long-term strategy – one that appears to be succeeding.
* He doesn’t appear to like his campaign. Self-hate is never a good thing.
The man is not a leader. He says things like, “I know how to win wars,” but it seems obvious that strategy is not his strong suit. The man can’t see the forest through the trees – he focuses only on short term gains. His focus on pork-barrel spending for instance is a classic example of not being able to see the elephant in the room because the peanuts on the floor are so interesting.
Seriously. Even if you think McCain has better policies, a McCain administration would be a mess.
Can you imagine him sitting down and spending a few weeks or months coming up with a well-thought out plan for solving our economic problems? It isn’t in his nature.
Posted by: johnTX | October 20, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
Never felt better, Natchez. You and boys can learn to spell RICO waiting for sentencing while watching Palin take the oath of office.
Posted by: len | October 20, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
Um. MikeNC? It would have been a teeny-tiny bit difficult for McCain to have sat in Parsley’s church for 20+ years seeing as Parsley is a pastor in OHIO and McCain has been in Arizona and/or Washington DC during that time.
Meanwhile, your guy Obama–DID willingly and knowingly sit in the Black Liberation Pastor Wright’s pew for more than 20 years. I challenge anyone to research the Black Liberation Doctrine and compare it to Marxism and Christianity. See which it is more like.
Posted by: Michelle | October 20, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Michelle
if the play the wright card theres many people that will be offended by what mccain and palin have in their pasts…
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
What about Rashid Khalidi and his wife? According to Obama, they had many dinners together. They donated to each other. The same Khalidi that Bill Ayers helped write his book-just like he did Obama. The voters deserve to know.
Posted by: RL in Illinois | October 20, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
You see folks. Obama has basically crushed the core will of most cynics to the point that they don’t realize they’re speaking in that new Palin dialect. JIBBERISH
POTUS OBAMA -
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
It’s going to be funny to see Obama in the White House in January while those white American cynics are going to be standing on an island looking at each other going WHAT THE FLOOPENMOOOSE??? What happened???
All while………(crickets chirping)
I can see what Graham meant when he said White America is a Nation of Whiners. He was right!
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
Doesn’t surprise me. I think Sen. McCain’s willingness to rehash the Rev. Wright stories is rather pathetic, and certainly reflective of a Republican Party that possesses a rather warped collective sense of entitlement.
Posted by: Donald from Hawaii | October 20, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
John Lewis did not call McCain and Palin racists — he warned that their portrayal of Obama as someone treasonous and unpatriotic and frightening was stirring up hate and the potential of violence in the same way that George Wallace stirred up hate and violence in the civil rights era. THE POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE was his concern, and it remains a concern. ——— I hope Rick Davis knows is deliberately mischaracterizing what Lewis just to provide an excuse. I’d hate to think he and McCain are do dumb they couldn’t even understand what Lewis was saying. ——– Anyway, if they bring up Wright now, after having worked up their supporters up into a frenzy of hate and fear (complete with tire slashings, hung effigies, etc.), then the result may be quite different than they are hoping. In fact, the result may be so bad that they prove, once and for all, the truth of Lewis’ warning.
Posted by: Elizabeth | October 20, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
It’s ok. I am a Democrat. I realized he was a Republican plant last spring. No Democrat would work that hard to make their candidate look that bad. As racist nut jobs go, he does serve as the emblem for persistence of stupid in the face of progress.
Posted by: len | October 20, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Just as it took the Republican party 17 years to bounce back from Goldwater’s gutter tactics, it’s going to take at least 20 for them to rebound from McCain’s debacle.
The old Repub leadership has to die off first in order for the new to germinate and blossom.
Man, how will you cynics live for another 20 years in a Socialist country?
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
What gave it away ?
McCain Palin 08
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Guess who’s starting to lay the groundwork for their own landslide??
Pappy McCan’t!! Listen to this……..
MCCAIN: ‘DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR ME… I’LL GO BACK TO ARIZONA’
He failed to mention that he’ll be enjoying the rest of his life while sipping on tall glasses of warm buttermilk IN ARIZONA!
Mmmm, tasty.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
CNN: McCain camp have given up on Colorado!
Posted by: Mike NC | October 20, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
EARLY VOTING IN NEVADA:
“Of the 25,000-plus who voted early, 15,644 were Democrats and 5,721 were Republicans, according to Clark County Election Department records. If that trends holds, this won’t be a wave; it’ll be a tsunami.”
Not a landslide, but a Tsunami??
MY FELLOW PRISONERS: Please shoot me NOW!
John McChicken Flip Floppy McCain
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
The returns from Pennsylvania early voting are in Obama 61%, Mccain 36%
Obama will win this in a landslide.
Stay home Republicans and save yourself a trip.
Posted by: Deb | October 20, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Now Deb,
Don’t be mean to the children. We love the kids…….
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!
Posted by: Nat Turner | October 20, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Michelle: You must have missed Sarah Palin’s annointing by a witch-hunter who believes that Catholics are agents of Satan. Or McGee, who John McCain called his spiritual advisor and also thinks Catholics (all 70 million of them – and a bunch in swing states Catholic). Or Sarah Palin’s interview with the Christian Broadcasting Newtwork. She didn’t say anything that surprised me – but the fact that a woman who is running for VP, and claims to be tough as it gets, has given 3 interviews, and on of them to the CBN does not seem good for American. I want this woman to be allowed to speak for herself. Her statement that the Iraq war is a “task from God” makes me want to know a lot more. Maybe she should take a look at some of the Iraq children and babies who ave been killed, disabled, and deformed by our endless war.
Posted by: mara | October 20, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
Okay so sarah can go back to Alaksa with her down syndrome baby.
Posted by: Deb | October 20, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm
Michelle, Correction – McGee, McCain’s spiritual advisor has called Catholics agents of Satan. My post sure didn’t make that clear. It’s a little hard to imagine my 70-pound mother as an agent of Satan – and I imagine it’s hard for 70 million Americans to see themselves that way too.
But there’s no doubt that we’ll be seeing lots os Rev Wright. Tucker Esew, who slaughtered John McCain in SC, is not tops in his campaignm and he is sewage. The fact that that they are using a real American hero – John Lewis – to rationaize their sleeze makes it even worse.
Posted by: mara | October 20, 2008, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm
Deb – I’m not a Palin fan, but I don’t think that rumors about a 17 year old kid help Obama.
Posted by: mara | October 20, 2008, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm
I believe the McCain campaign would be using the “un-American” Wright at their peril. Witness the Bachmann Backlash.
Posted by: TNeedle | October 20, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
Adeline I hope for your husbands sake Obama and the dems don’t nationalize the oil companys. Your husband just may be out of a good, high paying job. if I were you I’d send Obama some money.
Posted by: coNf1689 | October 20, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
Deb, a source please. No state should be counting or releasing early voting results yet. If Pennsylvania is doing so, please provide a source for your information.
Posted by: marylou | October 20, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm
I think it is more than fair game to bring up Rev Wright again, and I can not believe this ever went away. Also I find it so amusing that everyone is frothing at the mouth at the endorsement of Colin Powell…why? Many accomplished Politicians have endorsed Mac Cain and yet they are not covered or seen on meet the Press.What I find really amaZing is that Powell pretty much sold us ON the invasion of Iraq and Obama was against that.war..and btw Biden aLSO voter for the war. Strange bedfellows in this political BOUDOIR.
.Now Powell will be an adviser if BO wins the election. OH MY!!, I never ever believed in a Liberal Press Corps but I do now. I also wonder if all this adoration is because the press does not want to appear racist, why else would they let Rev Wright and his sermons go away. I think we will be shocked when the gap between BO and MAc dwindles and I am beginning to think this election will not turn out as many think it will.
Posted by: i am so I can!!!! | October 20, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
“McCain’s spiritual advisor has called Catholics agents of Satan.”
Not possible. He only has one agent. I know her personally and she says Satan and Dylan are her only clients. She is not a Catholic. She is a Disciple of the Spaghetti Monster, aka, Yogsoth.
Posted by: len | October 20, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm
Please Sen. McCain save us from Sen. Obama! You are already getting blamed by the drivebys. Rep. Lewis already compared you to George Wallace. Rev. Wright and Obama’s church were anti-white and anti-jewish. Obama knew Wright for 20 years and were very close. They gave a life time achievement award to Louis Farakhan. Both Wright and Farakhan have said AIDs was invented by the US Government to kill blacks. Sen. Obama stayed at this church for 20 years.
Posted by: Stevereno | October 20, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
John McCain and Sarah Palin are asking for problems. It won’t be Obama – Biden that will attack them with negative info on them. It’s going to be honest people that are tired of these hatred filled attack videos. Lots of shocking videos about McCain and Palin out there. I have saved them all.
I don’t approve of what McCain and Palin are doing. But if they implement still another old dead attack upon a minister of God that said some words that were taken out of context – I will be posting links about these two!! I don’t like to but possibly I may need to rise to defend.
Economy is in meltdown. I want to talk about issues. This is 2008 and this Republican has had it with their hatred induced campaigning. America is much better than this.
Posted by: Sharonklim | October 20, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
Wright ‘wedge’=A Swing and A Miss
Posted by: BOB GIBSON | October 20, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
Oh, I get it…it’s all John Lewis’s fault.
Can we all stop pretending that John McCain is an honorable man? He’s not.
Posted by: jill | October 20, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm
Deb…Pennsylvania does not have early voting.
Posted by: jill | October 20, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm
I have Sarah Palin on video getting blessed to protect her from witchcraft by the visiting Bishop Thomas Muthrie at her former church the Assembly of God Church in Wasilla. Bishop Muthee believes in witches. He has intertwined his beliefs in God and witchcraft. This assembly of God Church practices “tongue”. I have this video as well.
The beliefs of this church are so much more scary than most can imagine!!
And they will be sent along with all the other info aoubt some of the craziness about her. Will also send all the garbage aobut John McCain!!
Barack Obama has always tried to be a gentleman. He does know how to defend and fight for himself. But for 2+ years he prefers to run honorable campaign.
I realize many of you may not vote for him because of your own reason. That is your choice. This is what makes America great. Please educate yourself about some of your claims. They are all nothing.
Posted by: Sharonklim | October 20, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm
Don’t know why Tapepr has not reported it, but the Obama campaign has been suspended. His grandmother is dying – and he is cancelling events through Saturday.
I don’t pray much – but here’s one to his grandma. I hope you can hold out to see the Man you raised become the first black President of the United States. He holds more promise than any candidate in my lifetime, he has conducted himself with grace and dignity, and you should be proud. You must be a remarkable woman.
Posted by: mara | October 20, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
Which surrogate gets to say…USS Forrestal. McCain killed 133 sailors. Hid below deck while ship burned. … James B. Fowler. Indicted heroin trafficker. McCain asked to help get him out of jail… F i r s t ?
Posted by: kravitz | October 20, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm
If Obama had such information would his campaign have any problems using it?
Nah, didn’t think so. Step into the fire Democrats, it’s getting intense.
Posted by: Chuck | October 20, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
McCain says the reason campaign has gotten so negative is because Obama did not agree to town hall debates. Now he’s floating idea of using Rev Wright because of statement by John Lewis, a man who was there when people like Wallace created a a climate of violence so perhaps he might have some very legimate insight. Isn’t clear that McCain is using any excuse to go negative? In fact his campaign has been talking about how they are not going to use Rev Wright for weeks – a very slick tactic that keeps it in the news without appearing to be talking about it. I can’t help thinking that McCain’s campaign will be looked back on as one of the dirtiest in a generation. I can hope that we will be looking back on it from an Obama administration.
Posted by: kid | October 20, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
Let McCain bring up Wright and he will be seen as a TRUE RACIST but we already know that!!!!!
I’m voting EARLY tommorrow!!!
VOTE EARLY!!!
NOV. 4TH = OBAMA\BIDEN08
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 20, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
kid
you must be one…because the first president bush ran a nasty campaign that so9me of us never got over
Posted by: staniam | October 20, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
Which surrogate gets to say…USS Forrestal. McCain killed 133 sailors. Hid below deck while ship burned. … James B. Fowler. Indicted heroin trafficker. McCain asked to help get him out of jail… F i r s t ?
Posted by: kravitz | Oct 20, 2008 10:10:05 PM
+++++++++++++++++++
You have no idea what you are talking about. McCain did not kill 133 people, he barely escaped his plane before it exploded after an electrical problem discharged a Zuni rocket (didn’t come from his plane), on the flight deck. 143 people were killed and McCain’s aircraft was hit, he escaped by walking down the nose of his plane with seconds to spare.
Get your facts straight, you sound ignorant.
Posted by: S Adams | October 20, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm
Vote fraud in the early voting in West Virginia:
Posted by: Mike | October 20, 2008, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm
At least Americans will know what they are getting when they vote for Obama.
Rev Wright will be in the White House if Obama is in it
Posted by: slim | October 20, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm
While I am sickened at the thought of seeing Rev Wright spew his anti-american hate and racism about whites and Hillary in particular knowing that Obama and Michelle had their 2 little girls listening in the pews, I think it is important for the American people to know who mentored Obama.
If Barack Hussein Obama is going to be trusted to lead this country, we have a right to know where his moral foundation came from and what he saw that was so great about Rev Wright and his good friends Louis Farakhan and Father Phlaegar.
My gut feeling is that Obama is only telling people what they want to hear, once he is in, he will just be a puppet to Pelosi and the other radical liberals in the Senate. We have all suffered for the last 2 yrs under their rigid agenda. They have not lsitened to the American people when they were in favor of drilling or creating nuclear energy, thus creating more jobs.
Obama has no record for us to go by, we are just suppose to except his word that he will do the things that he has promised. Something just doesn’t smell right with this and Pelosi already planning for Obama to be president and writing up and expansion of the welfare system before he is even in just sends chills up my spine. They are planning the biggest government expansion in history. And frankly we cannot afford it.
Posted by: S Adams | October 20, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm
re read the next to the last para.
just because john lewis said what he said, mccain made his statement of his displeasure with what lewis said. and lewis appol. for it.
if they are now thinking about using wright (not that it really matters, or will make much difference,) except, it is going to make mccain look like a vindictive type of person also.
as a person who has admired mr. mcain, and always did see him as a pretty stand up kind of guy, i hope he does not choose to do this.
Posted by: B.O.B. | October 20, 2008, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm
it will only hurt him
Posted by: B.O.B. | October 20, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm
Vote fraud in the early voting in West Virginia:
Posted by: Mike | Oct 20, 2008 10:47:30 PM
Are you surprised?
Posted by: Questioner | October 21, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am
Let McCain bring up Wright and he will be seen as a TRUE RACIST but we already know that!!!!! sister smearest
–
Right!
Clinton is a racist, and McCain is a racist…. but Wright is not a racist… nor is Obama, who has played the damn race card from the very inception of his run!
Many years ago, McCain adopted a black daughter with a harelip, and he and Cindy made her whole and beautiful and gave/give her their love.
Have YOU done as much for the white race?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Posted by: Questioner | October 21, 2008, 12:24 am 12:24 am
Why on earth will right thinking People want to stay Republican?
I have asked myself a couple of times but I don’t seem to be getting answers.
May be the GOPers on this thread will be willing to tell me why they are still in a Party that spread so much hate and lies?
No Country can progress without love. If there is so much hatred from a group of People such as this, how can we justify the motto “In God we trust”
Isn’t God about Love? Didn’t the Bible say Love is the most important of the Commandments?
Why do we have so many Evangelicals in the Republican Party who are pro-life but who so willingly kill with their thoughts and words?
Why is their so much hatred from this group for a fellow Christian, who may, If GOD ordains it, be the President-elect of the United States of America in a few days?
Has God’s name become just a tool to garner votes now? Is he no longer in our hearts?
We can disagree without being disagreeable.
Whatever the outcome of the Election is, America will remain one and indivisible.
But let us not guile ourselves, we can’t continue with so much hatred i our hearts and expect prosperity to abound.
I wonder how one can have so much love for Dogs, Cats and other Pets and yet have so much hatred for a fellow Human being.
What hypocrisy!!!!
I reckon they must be worshipping another God than the one we read about in the BIBLE.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | October 21, 2008, 4:01 am 4:01 am
“He made me do it” is usually the justification of a ten-year old school yard bully, not a Presidential campaign. When McCain started going negative, he claimed that Obama made him do it because he wouldn’t attend his town meetings.
John Lewis’ comments on the tenor of some of the campaign’s rallies are now making the McCain campaign reinject Rev. Wright into the campaign.
What’s next? Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!
Are there any adults left in this campaign?
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 21, 2008, 6:01 am 6:01 am
I have never liked Rick Davis. In fact, I really dislike him. I watched his interview with a FOX NEWS anchor where he was being plain rude to the guy- this is Fox News, as I’ve said, when he was asking whether they could have Sarah Palin do an interview on Fox.
This low-life, in a Fox interview with Axelrod and the same anchor kept trying to shout down Axelrod when he was talking and kept on rudely interrupting him, while Axelrod did not do that. Even when the Fox News anchor told him to tone it down when Axelrod was talking, he continued shouting. These kind of people who try to drown out their opponent by shouting them down- well, that’s pathetic.
Davis is a lobbyist for Freddie and Fannie who was getting quite a bundle of green from them, eh? This liar, when confronted in that interview over the negative ads, instead of attempting to explain himself, said “The Obama campaign does it too!”
What an idiot.
Davis, I’ll love to see your face turn the same interesting shade of blue as Virginia and perhaps Missouri turn as the votes are tallied on November 4th.
Posted by: Grey Matter | October 21, 2008, 8:09 am 8:09 am
Just stick to the facts and stump! None of this sideshow stuff has any bearing on the population that will decide this election!!! Former Senator Robert Dole, Senator John Kerry lost with respect, If it is to be it will, but dont go down in flames in a shameful way…It just goes to show you what would have been or would be in he is elected…
Posted by: David Jay | October 21, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am
If you think the McCain camp has waged a despicable campaign, I am certain they have saved the worst for last. I hope McCain loses in a landslide.
Posted by: hamishdad | October 21, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am
McCain run with the Jeremiah wright issue “____America” It’s obvious it would crush obama.
Posted by: DJ | October 21, 2008, 11:13 am 11:13 am
Folks, these are the statements Congressman Lewis made (below). In no way does he say “McCain & Palin are like George Wallace”. He expresses his legitimate concerns for the tone of GOP rallies and lack of leadership McCain & Palin are showing to control hateful outbursts in their rallies. That kind of dynamic can progress into horrible actions. Putting a STOP to that kind of language and hate is critical to preventing a progression of hate and violence. There is nothing wrong with an African-American man in the South feeling afraid when he sees similarities between the 2 situations. Let us never, ever forget that the South engaged in systematic violence against African-Americans for decades.
From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched. These numbers seem large, but it is known that not all of the lynchings were ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only 27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes.
“What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history,” Lewis said in a statement issued today for Politico’s Arena forum. “Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
Lewis didn’t accuse McCain of imitating Wallace, but suggested there were similarities.
“George Wallace never threw a bomb,” Lewis noted. “He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.”
Posted by: Facts | October 21, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am
VOTE EARLY!!!
NOV. 4TH = OBAMA/BIDEN08
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 21, 2008, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
Rev. Wright is definitely relevant. Do you really want a president who subscribes, or is influenced, by those views? Oh, but to bring it up is to be “racist and negative…” Oh, the irony is so rich! By claiming that, you are saying that what Wright spewed was NOT racist or hateful. It’s all very sad that ANYONE would listen to that for 20 years; nobody I know would have sat there for 20 seconds…
Posted by: AuntieKiki | October 21, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
McCain really is determined to go down in a beautiful sunburst of flames with Caribou pulling the sleigh ever-downward as Rudolph did for Santa.
Bachman to McCain: throw ME some coal Santa!!!
Posted by: Dallas | October 21, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
Let’s hope McCain holds onto his last island of honor in the sea of muck he has allowed his campaign to become.
Posted by: Myron | October 22, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am
Re:sisterdearest09
“Folks, these are the statements Congressman Lewis made (below). In no way does he say “McCain & Palin are like George Wallace”.”
Then she says,
“Lewis didn’t accuse McCain of imitating Wallace, but suggested there were similarities.”
For your information, similar and like are synonyms.
Obama is like a bad boyfriend. He’ll tell you whatever he thinks you want to hear. The only way to get to the nitty gritty & really know the heart of the man is to look at his history.
Well, Wright is a BIG part of Obama’s history.
The liberal based media is like the sucker girlfriend that believes everything the bad boyfriend says. Hit me again,…please.
Posted by: girlfriend | October 24, 2008, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm