Rendell ‘Nervous’ McCain Could Win Pennsylvania

Eastern PA Independent for Obama here!
Don’t worry Ed. You just concentrate on upping your game for your Eagles post game duties!

Unity vs. Division. John McCain and Sarah Palin have explicitly attempted to divide America between “real Americans” and everyone else. McCain’s entire campaign is now premised on the argument that Obama is “not like you”. “

I think Obama and Rendell have more than Pennsylvania to worry about!

Obama is going to win PA by “double-digits”. PA has intelligent people that did not go for bush/cheney in 2000 or in 2004.

At this point, Obama has enough good surrogates that even if he doesn’t come to PA there are plenty of other topnotch players to encourage PA Democrats to get out the vote. Start with Hillary, then Bill, Joe Biden could stop by, Evan Bayh could easily do a campaign event, or Bob Casey. Who does McCain have working the crowds for him? Palin?!? The McCain ship is going down…

Ed Rendell is a pro who knows what he’s talking about. It aint over til it’s over. As Obama said the other day, “don’t get cocky.”

I’m sure Obama could make a stop or two in PA. He should be in Ohio quite a bit in these last few weeks, so he could hop over for an event.
Or send Joe or Bill or Hillary or Michelle or…man Barack has a lot of good people working for him!

Actually Obama has shown his birth certificate. It’s McCain who was born elsewhere (panama).

What is McCain doing in NH? Just going through the motions?

From FOX NEWS page:
Al Qaeda-Linked Web Site Backs McCain for President
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.
The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if Al Qaeda wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, “impetuous” Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier,” the message said. “Then, Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush.”
SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Maryland, monitors the Web site and translated the message.
“If Al Qaeda carries out a big operation against American interests,” the message said, “this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it.”
Mark Salter, a senior McCain adviser, said he had heard about the Web site chatter but had no immediate comment.
The message is credited to a frequent and apparently respected contributor named Muhammad Haafid. However, Haafid is not believed to have a direct affiliation with Al Qaeda plans or knowledge of its operations, according to SITE.
SITE senior analyst Adam Raisman said this message caught SITE’s attention because there has been little other chatter on the forums about the U.S. election.
SITE was struck by the message’s detailed analysis — and apparent jubilation — about American financial woes.
“What we try to do is get the pulse of the jihadist community,” Raisman said. “And it’s about the financial crisis.”
Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden issued a videotape just four days before the 2004 U.S. presidential election directly addressing the American people.

McCain campaigning in Pennsylvania
at this time, is another indirect way
of conceding.
Ed Rendell calling Obama to come back
is another tactic.
Am very much impressed how the Dems
are playing the nice game.

when did the obama camp ever attack joe the plumber?
joe the plumber is a registered republican has been his whole life
has donated to the RNC, and probably the mccain camp
he asked obama a question, obama answered truthfully and honestly with the facts as they were PRESENTED BY JOE THE PLUMBER
mccain then brings up JOE in the debate some sixteen billion times
with 60million people watching what did mccain think the media was going to do?
McCain made joe a star…
so the media went to find out who joe is
and what turned up was
joe didnt pay his taxes (but he may not have known)
joes business he was buying would actually get a tax break under obamas plan, and joe admits this
joe decided to do lots of interviews (and why not, if you get fifteen minutes of fame, you should probably run with it)
the obama camp never once attacked joe the plumber…
mccain tried to blame the obama camp for making him a star or something, but even on david letterman john mccain said he was sorry for making joe a star
then the next day (just like the financial crisis with this mccain guy) he changes his mind because his campaign sees a way to demonize the obama camp by tying the obama cmap to the media
news flash people
obama doesnt own the media and the media isnt in the tank for obama
i remember a certain rev wright incident where for three weeks anytime you turned on the news you were watching clips of those sermons and they were rocking obama with it…
if they were in teh tank they would have simply not ran them
if anyone is in teh tank for a candidate its FOX NEWS and DRUDGE

Ed you will see Obama again dang! You know he will win PA… I know you like him but don’t worry – Palin is doing a good job at ruining any chances for John McCain. Let Sarah talk and do more interviews – the rating go up everytime she rumbles with gibberish.

Hopefully, Pennsylvania will not be in dispute as another state where the election was “stolen” by the republicans.
I don’t see how this will happen with
Pedro A. Cortes in charge. He was appointed by Rendell

MadasHelinVA: So true. It’s very clear that Palin is a person driven by ego and who got by on her looks and coasted. She should have been hitting the books and expanding her mind to all the great thinkers and world history and LAW like the rest of us, instead of fixing her makeup and adjusting her sash and crown and heading to church with a bunch of loonies to speak in tongues. She’s a national joke, and the GOP’s going to want nothing to do with her after this race is (officially) over. She will by the new Dan Quayle punchline and nothing but a footnote in history. She’ll write a book and two years from now you’ll be able to buy it in the 99 cents bin at Barnes & Noble, and the way it looks with all the stuff the investigations are uncovering about her she’ll probably be writing that book from jail.

watching from a distance…..
where did you get that from. Fox News wants to know

Omentum,
Don’t tell Fox yet! I need to write a book first. Appearantly if you write a book, then it also becomes credible.
I need to find some tenious, unlikely connections to make my case stick.

If Obama wins this election it will not be on his own merits, it will be because the media (both newspaper and telivision) have protected him, covered for him, left out important facts about him they don’t want revealed, all the while dragging McCain and Palin unfairly through the mud. This is such unfair reporting by the media, everybody knows it and yet nothing can be done about it. So sad. If the media would do thier REAL job by reporting the facts, instead of campaining for Obama, McCain would be winning by a landslide on his own merits, his proven experience, and on the much better direction he would move this country in. It is so obvious who the better leader would be and that is certainly NOT OBAMA but the media will continue to shame themselves to the very end in order to win this election for him. But I am confident that when people actually go in to vote in private, without the risk of being labled a “racist”, they will do the right thing and vote for McCain/Palin. McCain/Palin ’08!!!!

Seems like Mccain is gonna pull Bush trick out of the Hat AL-QUEIDA, I said watch Bin Laden suddenly Appear Didnt this happen 4 years ago with Kerry v Bush Laden was swaming the Air=waves DONT FALL FOR IT FOLKS DONT FALL FOR THE BOOGEYMAN TRICKS! NOT THIS YEAR!

Since Obama insulted the Pennsylvania votes by calling them bitter, hate filled and clinging to Guns and religion, it is not suprising that many voters in Pennsylvania will vote for McCain.
Rendell is a shrewd political operator and knows his state, he predicted Obama’s primary defeat there months before the election.

ONCE AGAIN….FACTCHECK.ORG IS RUN BY THE annenberg COMMITTEE -THE ONE OBAMA WORKED FOR..IT IS NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE…WAKE UP !!!

John McCain has been acting erratically ever since he selected Palin for his running mate. When the economy failed his behavior became bizarre. Stresses on any president in the next few years are going to be extreme . They will be fatal for someone in McCain’s health and mental state. When he steps down we will then inherit his Palin fiasco.
Now Colin Powell has recognized these facts and has endorsed Obama as being a cool-headed and logical leader who is more fit for the presidency.
Kipling said it best:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
He was talking about men like Obama.

Susan:
You’re right. If Obama wins, the democrats will change the law, retroactively, so that he can keep the presidency. Mark my words.

thank God the “creeps and frauds”
are going to finally be thrown out
same team
same tactics
same insults
same bull
same whacked division
9th year.
throw these bums out…
this may be the year that the right wing and McCain Palin finally destroys the republican party…
or actually sends the “real republicans”
back to power in the part…
Reagan conservatives have been usurped by liars and right wing crazies.
finally going to take our country back
and noble republicans may actually bring sanity back to their party after a good washing out of the crazies and psychos.

The Neo-Fascists rear their ugly heads at every opportunity. They want patriotic litmus tests for Congress and for President.
Some areas of the country are the “real America” while others are “communists”.
What next? Will they want poll goers to sign a patriotism pledge before voting?
Because Bush was not vigilant, terrorists destroyed the world trade center but, if we are not vigilant, fascism will destroy our country.

us marine
those are some tough allegations
i doubt there are doners from overseas as i would think they would not accept money from someone who has no legitimate american address, financial establishment card to pay for the donation…
i mean… what exactly are you saying
i would assume that some Muslim or Arabians may have donated money here in the US… but… not all Muslims and Arabians are terrorists… jsut as not all Christians are holy

After 9-11 some serious thought must be given to abuse of power by a right wing government in the United States.
Bachmann must be taken at her word that she wants a loyalty test for legislators and that this is not a publicity stunt for office.
Meanwhile few people realize that FEMA maintains a number of detention camps around the country ostensibly for use with immigrant populations or for relocations in a disaster.
There were contingency planning and redness exercises like Rex 84 and others that pose a potential threat to civil liberties if fully implemented in a real operation. These plans are taken seriously by scholars and civil liberties activists.
In 2008, for the first time an active military unit has been given a dedicated assignment stateside for civil unrest containment. It is assigned to NORTHCOM, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.[7]
NORTHCOM with the support of the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007″ and the Military Commissions Act of 2006
could circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act which substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement.
So the potential is there for things to go wrong in this country if we are not vigilant for threats like Bachmann in our own government.
McCain and Palin would continue the secrecy in Washington that Bush and Cheney have created.
Obama would bring back transparency.

Our family isn’t voting for a candidate that will INVITE an international crisis!
NObama!

Not surprised at all!! I am hearing Philly area are fed up with the agressive and bullying antics of Obama’s volunteers!!

HERES A QUESTION, WHAT CAN WE MAKE OF THIS MCCAIN IS 3-1 PICK FOR THE TROOPS IN A POLL THIS WEEK, HOW CAN YOU BE COMMANDER OF OUR FORCES IF THEY DONT BACK YOU? IF THEY THINK YOU CANT DO THE JOB, IS THIS A GOOD THING? AM JUST ASKING.

>>>Obama would bring back transparency
Obama is the LEAST likely to promote transparency since he’s AVOIDED it all during the primary and general!!
The corporate media and their Wall Street sponsors have CONCEALED damaging info about Obama and promoted him 24/7.
Just what we need – another Puppet in the White House to protect Wall Street.
No thanks!
No one in our family is seeking a father figure in a president that sends a tingle up our legs.
Dems for McCain/Palin

The fact is Obama’s tax plan is just a return to the PROVEN system
Bill Clinton used during the prosperous years of his term in office.
Bill Clinton left office with huge budget surpluses.
McCain’s tax plan is just an extension of the PROVEN failure of the Bush tax system of rewarding the wealthy and corporations at the expense of the middle class. The middle class is now redistributing their wealth to bail out banks.
People like to argue theory and statistics but it’s as simple as this: Are you better off now then you were eight years ago?

Obama has a passport. In order to get a passport, one must present a birth certificate. Enough of this nonsense!

Majority of military in ALL branches of service support McCain.
But hey – if you want to take a chance with the inexperienced naive boy-child that will INVITE a generated international crisis…

This is just great politics. Rendell baits McCain into making a political mistake by going for PA with it’s expensive media markets and limited chance for McCain to win. Meanwhile Obama brings down the hammer in Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Missouri, and Nevada.
At this point I don’t think McCain can win, even if he gets PA, OH, and FL.
Say hi to Bob Dole for me, when you get to the GOP flunky house McCain.

Democrat from PA here.. strong supporter of Hillary and Rendell.. who am I voting for?? McCain/Palin .. Country first! Hero before Zero.
I’m not alone. There are many Democrats for McCain in PA. Check the dumpsters for all the McCain signs the Obamabots have stolen.

If the Corporate media is going for Obama, why are they fronting McCain 2 to 1? Obama wants to raise taxes on corporations. Why would they want him?
Media is not liberal or conservative. It is nothing more nor nothing less than the corporations that own it want it to be.
Wake up neo.

Hillary supporter here going for McCain.

HP Boston
it might be because Palin’s record clearly shows…she hasn’t protected victims of violence and rape.
sorry that’s not spin…she literally hasn’t.

Scabby Nubtail
you might want to reference a newspaper not run by the Republicans when you are referring to the sway of military personel
the army times is just like the bases…who are only allowed to have Fox news on in public areas.
same team
same tactics
9th year
throw these bums out.

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP
Where is our unbiased media?????????????????????
WE, the American people are being manulipated by the self-serving media. The media is no longer credible. Where do we get our news???????
HELP HELP HELP HELP
County in CRISIS……CRISIS
Somebody save us………….

as a white guy from New Hampshire
to say there is no racist areas in the country anymore
well …
is just stupid.

Iraq will not matter Nov. 4, unless Bush can get another contract signed. It looks like that is not going to happen so come January when it runs out all of our men and women and the construction workers will have to leave, otherwise we will be in their country illegal. So McCain at this point has no leg to stand on.

HP Boston
the list of moronic stupid moves by palin
from ignoring if not supporting the charging of rape victims in Wassilla (which is fact please don’t waste time lying that it isn’t)
or that part of her issue with the Police Official she had fired was because he went to washington to get more money to combat the overwhelmingly high statistics of Alaska’s occcurences of rape…in the face of her not wanting him to get additional funding…
and the list goes on too long for a blog comment.
morons fought for Bush Cheney
and the same logic and misinformation is still being used fight for Mccain Palin.

and Dee that 95% of small business filing for individual taxes…
yeah they don’t gross gross 250,000 dollars
once again idiots got us Bush Cheney
and the same logic and misinformation trying to get us Mccain Palin.

If by some twist of fate Obama loses the election, I will be disappointed but no more so than when Kerry lost.
It’s just four more years of Bush crap all warmed over.
However, If Obama wins, I’m certain that many posting here will be twisting like snakes on a hot stove.
My GOD! A BLACK MAN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
(I can hardly wait)

I am a Dem in PA and also voting for McCain. Hillary was dissed big time – the party is way too liberal for me!!

PA for mcCain
I live in NH
I grew up in a majorly white…blue collar republican family…cousins and cousins and relatives for miles… my sister works for the DOD and my nephews are all military… my father and grandfathers all fought for this country in various wars…and my ancestors go back to the revolution…
they are almost ALL voting Obama.
so please the spin is a joke.

“People like to argue theory and statistics but it’s as simple as this: Are you better off now then you were eight years ago?”
Actually I am. Better job, better pay through hard work.
My 401k took a beating recently but that one is hard to pin on either party since they are both in it up to their eyeballs.
But in cash flow, salary, etc., I most certainly am better off.

HP still clings to the notion that her PUMA crowd is significant.
As of yesterday’s poling, 84% of Hillary’s supporters are voting for Obama. (One of the hightest percentages of support from any group polled I might ad)Thankfully, most people care more about issues than petty grudges.
McCain is losing in VA where I live. And Plain and his campaign continues to insult our state when they refer to “communist country”, “real VA”, and “real America”.
We REAL Virginians are not going to let the facist mentality take our country.
McCain can’t win without VA, NC, AND PA. He’ll never get all three.

Look,
I look at Obama and see whether he looks like a white-hating crazy radical. He does not. His crowds consist of people black, white brown, all shades. His running-mate is white. His campaign staff are white. The ACORN thing has nothing to do with Obama. What happened was that some of their volunteers made up names and opened a phone book because they would be paid for people they registered-these people won’t even turn up to steal the election. It has nothing to do with Obama- ACORN doesn’t even work on his campaign.
Ayers? Like I said, Obama doesn’t behave like he has been influenced by Ayers. And the Annenberg foundation was founded by Reagan’s close friend. There are Repubs who served on that board too. Are they palling atounf with terrorists? It was a fleeting acquaintance.
McCain? Keating 5. Associates with a Watergate burglar, no? Affair with Cindy while his wife was crippled? Associates with people who call liberals “anti-American” or consistently question their patriotism? Palin? AIP? Troopergate?

Just to prove that you are unbiased, you are you going to have a blog about Sen. Norm Coleman’s house getting vandalized by democrats.
Remember to include the death threat the Senator received from the Obama supporting democrat in your reporting.

Jake, these people needs more information to help them make a truly informed decision. Start covering some of the important issues and cover both side equally. Point out if anybody is making false or misleading statments. Please, the american people need some help. The lack of credible information is unreal.

Helen, then why will Oblama not just show his true birth certificate?

you know, I have nothing agaist Nader, he seem like a nice guy who needs to comb his hair once in a while but:
IF HE HADN’T RUN IN 2000 WE WOULDN’T BE IN THIS FRIGGIN’ MESS!
(sorry, had to get that out of my system)

another snake twists on a hot stove

“When did the old hippie, radical, leftists take over the Democratic Party from the working class Jane’s and Joe’s?”
When Howard Dean ran. He, Pelosi, Daschle and Frank have done the heavy lifting with Ted Kennedy as the figurehead. The arrival of operatives such as Donna Brazille signaled the boots on the ground. A lot of former Clinton staffers joined the Obama campaign to get even with the Republicans and to get back into power.
Obama was groomed for this run. Otherwise, it is impossible for a candidate with so little experience to vault to the top of a ticket.
What made it work was the sudden rise of the Silicon Valley young wealth who are good entrepreneurs but painfully naive about politics. Feeding the millenial’s almost pathological jealousy of the baby boomer’s cultural successes was all they needed.
Get used to the thought that the Democrats have left the middle class and the poor behind. We have to hope the Republicans have seen the error of their ways and can otherwise be reformed back to the party they were prior to Richard Nixon when it was they who championed social justice and equality.

Republicans have been liberal for years.
They have been liberal in their evisceration of the bill of rights.
They have been liberal in using tax money to fight a useless Iraq war.
They have been liberal in their use of deregulation to collapse and bankrupt the financial structure of America.
They have been liberal with middle class tax money to bail out their banker friends.
They have been very liberal with words like patriotism to cover their actions.
Obama seems conservative by comparison.

Fallon -
I agree with you that mindlessly responding “racist,” genuinely diminishes the seriousness of racism and coarsens discourse.
However, the Saul Alinksy lines you cite as some sort of “proof” of Michelle Obama’s “radicalism” were also used by Bobby Kennedy in his 1968 stump speeches. I’ve never known anyone who thought Bobby Kennedy was a “radical.”

As a former PA resident, I feel Obama will carry PA. However, Ed Rendell knows his state well. The Obama campaign should follow his advice. Obama can spare a day there, add more Joe Biden time and visit by the Clintons would give a nice final boost.

Obama is running his campaign, and so far has been successful. I trust he knows what he is doing.
It sure doesn’t look as if McCain can pull the rabbit out of the hat at this stage of the race. He might find a couple of scarfs though.
Posted by: Thinking | Oct 22, 2008 9:51:14 AM
*I concur

I’m voting McCain Palin and so is my husband. We never forgot what that elitist Obama said about us Pennsylvanians back in April!

IS AMERICAN CAPITALISM IS ABOUT TO CHANGE?
Don’t let politicians, particularly the next President, or Congress, implement legislation that will deconstruct the system at the core of American society.

>>>I’m voting McCain Palin and so is my husband. We never forgot what that elitist Obama said about us Pennsylvanians back in April!
Our Dem family is also voting McCain/Palin.
Obama is the only one who’s ever called us racists.

Obama spent so much money in Penn., he still can not win, what does it mean?
If he is elected, he will be wasting money again like he did in election.
Corruption. We need to stop and prevent it now.
Vote for McCain!

McCain can still pull this off and if he does everone in the media will be with their mouth wide open.
Go Mac!

If McLame wins all of our money will go to Wall St crooks.

I live in Pa… there are DEMOCRAT FOR MCCAIN SIGNS UP AND DOWN THE STREET I LIVE ON AND ALL OVER THIS CITY.. we did not forget that Obama looks down upon us “bitter, gun clinging” people. He is delusional if he thinks he can degrade the people of Pennsylvania and then expect the same to vote for him. Not going to happen here.
MCCAIN/PALIN 08

sorry PA they gonna steal it in Philly ! 1st black pres, philly precints stuffing the ballot boxes u better belive it.

Dee, if you grossed $310,000 and still showed a net over $250k then you need a new tax accountant. You had only $60k in costs ? If you let go of an employee, then it is because you are cheap.
Any good tax accountant will write most of a small business income off. If you are dumb enough to use an idiot tax preparer, you deserve to pay more tax.

Sarah helped give three members of my family each 3269 dollars on Sept. 12. Sarah beat an incumbant repub gov, she beat former 2 term dem gov. She negotiated a 40 billion dollar pipeline. She negotiated ethics reform. She got more money from the oil companys. She has an 82 percent approval rating by Alaskans.

I’m from Philly and I do not trust Rendell as far as I can throw him. He’s dirty and most people who are awake in PA know it. He is loyal to the Clinton’s and when he spoke of the racism in Western PA, he was talking about himself. He used and abused Black support just like the Clintons and I am entirely confident that he would not be sad if Obama lost PA. Please know that Hillary is planning for 2012, which is why her hubby has been a less than wonderful surrigate. YOu know how talented he is and he absulutely has not lent his talent to the candidacy of Obama. The Clintons cannot be trusted which is why Obama should never have thought of adding Hillary to the ticket.
Rendell is not killing himself to bring PA home for Obama. He certainly is not ddoing for Obama what He did for HIllary during the primary. Obama will not out out street money. Obama knows that its expected and I am trusting that his ground game is strong enough to get the vote out without it. Obama needs to owe noting to Rendell.

Rendell is not to be trusted. I remember him from the primary and he is no friend to Obama.