RNC Hits Obama Campaign for Meeting with Controversial Muslim Leader who Met with Bush
"How many times has the Obama campaign met with groups tied to or connected with terrorist organizations?" asks the RNC today.
The RNC was referring to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal that the Obama campaign "said it was a mistake for an outreach coordinator to join a meeting last month attended by leaders of two controversial Muslim groups as it seeks votes from large Muslim populations in swing states. Minha Husaini, newly named as head of the campaign’s outreach coordinator to Muslims, attended a discussion session Sept. 15 with about 30 Muslim leaders and community members in suburban Washington, the Obama campaign confirmed. Participants included leaders of the Council of American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, which have been cited by the government in the past for ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas…
“Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR, also attended the session, as did the group’s legislative director. The government named CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Justice Department’s racketeering prosecution last year of alleged Hamas fundraisers. CAIR said the designation was unjustified; the case ended in a mistrial, but is being brought again by the government.”
Nihad Awad…Nihad Awad…that name rings a bell.
Oh right, he’s the guy in this photo, to President Bush’s left.
How many times has President Bush met with groups tied to or connected with terrorist organizations? (Other than that time he was holding hands with the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, I mean.)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has met with groups — the ISNA, for example — about whom some allege terrorist ties.
How many times has Secretary Rice met with groups tied to or connected with terrorist organizations?
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What path are McCain, Palin and the RNC on right now?
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., asks, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says Obama "doesn’t see America the way we do," and that Obama "is palling around with terrorists." The RNC alleges that Obama’s getting a lot of money from overseas and then lodges this accusatory question about terrorist groups that could easily be leveled at the president.
Where does this path lead? What will John McCain be asking about Obama in 20 days? What will Palin be saying? What RNC e-mails will be in my in-box?
Politico’s Ben Smith points out today that McCain "didn’t talk about the stock market yesterday, and didn’t put out a statement on it, while Obama did both, and McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was asked about that on a conference call (about ACORN!) this afternoon.
"’There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves,’ Davis said. The campaign, he said, shouldn’t become a "CNBC news show on the stock market."
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republicans meeting with terrorists, and being hypocritical? say it ain’t so Jake……
gosh darn it, ya just can’t trust those Repubs,… I betcha
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
This is getting surreal. The country is facing the absolute worst economic crisis in decades, and all McCain wants to do is try and paint Obama as some kind of terrorist? What country and time am I living in?
They have taken the low road to new lows and it’s appalling. And their loyal minions in the audience shouting for death threats to Obama reveal the true psyche of the GOP in all its disgusting naked glory. They truly are the party of the desperate, the angry, the ignorant, the hateful.
At this point in time for the US, the overwhelming majority of citizens will see Mccain’s pathetic efforts for what they are, desperate smears. Most people don’t care about Ayers, they care about the economy where Mccain is offering no leadership, vision, or plans.
Not only will McCain lose the election, badly at that, but every last ounce of honor and character as well.
Posted by: Justin | October 10, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Gee I am suprised that the ABC bus is the only thing that has gotten stuck in the mud what with all the mudsling going on by the Republicans.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
Hey, who is the real Sarah Palin anyway? I mean, what about her links to far-Right religious and successionist political figures? Will she answer these questions at her next press conference? Oh, wait…
Posted by: Reality-based | October 10, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
I’m not sure if McCain is paying attention to what is going on economically in this country right now. He and Palin seem intent to continue mud-slinging and smearing Obama; yet can’t seem to take the time to focus on the country’s fears right now. Do we honestly want McCain and Palin to lead our country? Is this how they will treat foreign leaders if they disagree? Give it up, John & Sarah.
Posted by: Lynn | October 10, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
President Bush and C. Rice met with the radicals and Muslims to try to get them to withdaw their terrorist/agression ideas against the United States. Senator Obama meets with them because he and his socialist supporters approve the motives of the radicals. Big difference.
Posted by: Marla | October 10, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
Last July, a friend told me that people in her mostly Republican part of town were calling Obama a terrorist. I couldn’t believe it at the time.
McCain & Palin are just feeding into the “he’s a secret Muslim terrorist” radical views already held by some of their supporters.
My question is, since when did fearmongering and hate become family values?
Posted by: cincyr | October 10, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
More distraction tactics from the Desperation Express.
Posted by: Deep Release | October 10, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
Didnt Bush have the bin laden family at the white house for tea?
Posted by: angie | October 10, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
Obama could have addressed his character issues a long time ago. Instead, he chose to play the “race card.” That won’t be tolerated this time.
Posted by: tina | October 10, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
McCain/Palin = EPIC Fail
Posted by: Jim | October 10, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
Obama supports Halliburton, since he is Cheney’s cousin.
See, I can “connect the dots” also.
Posted by: Reason | October 10, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
Amazing. Domestic, and international terrorists, and this is fine with people even though it’s not done in an official capacity? Just amazing.
Call it what you will, but don’t think it wasn’t planned this way. For months Obama sat high and mighty on the throne, confident that the press would not inform the public, on both candidates. Now it comes from other sources, and it’s fear, and hate mongering. He’s associating with terrorists and their organizations. He has plans to deplete the military. Hello! 9/11! Hello? Anyone there? My God. You won’t need to worry about the economy, once we’re attacked again. It’ll be gone!
btw…it’s not only terrorists he seems fond of. But organized crime as well?
One favor political Chicago claims Obama did for the Giannoulias family was in 2006 when, out of the blue, 29 year old Alexi Giannoulias, with no experience, and without ever having voted before, decides to run for State Treasurer of Illinois. Also out of the blue, Barack Obama endorses Alexi Giannoulias for State Treasurer. This was a SHOCK to everyone in Chicago — and Giannoulias would have never become State Treasurer without Obama’s help.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
For you die-hard supporters of His Nothingness. The market crash is a vivid warning of what you will see under a Zero-bama administration.
Zero-bama pushed hard to pass a so-called economic stimulus program, basically giving some of you up to $700 bucks, to “save” the economy. On the contrary, HRC wanted a targeted economic plan aimed at banking and mortgage crisis – this was 12 months ago! Yet, the Congress, headed by his House Mommy and Senate Daddy wanting to show their support and to pick an Affirmative Action candi, went along, ignoring the real crisis and a viable solution at that time, again 1 freeking year ago.
Now, this $700 did nothing, as characteristic to His Nothingness, to the economy; actually it led to the down-slide of more than 40%!!!! in the market. On top of this, this phony still wants to give you $1000 to (1) buy your vote if you vote for him, and (2) boost and rescue the economy if you elect him.
This is a serious judgment problem. Has he really ever made a good judgment call when he has the responsibility of doing something????
Are you blind supporters really as moronic as this phony is!
Posted by: d0 | October 10, 2008, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
Marla:
re: “President Bush and C. Rice met with the radicals and Muslims to try to get them to withdaw their terrorist/agression ideas against the United States.”
hmmmm… I thought talking to our enemies was a big ‘no no’…
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
JUst goes to show you that behind every tree is a trorist! lol
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
d0
go back to your Reagan ‘trickle down’ ..
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
cin -somewhere around Sept 2001 unfortunately.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
Netherlands blogger Michael van der Galien reports that a group of young Dutch Socialists will be flying here to campaign for Barack Obama.
Now we need the Dutch to teach us how to be good little socialists.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
Posted by: Jeanie |
Giannoulias would have never become State Treasurer without Obama’s help.
without his family’s help, GW Bush would be an alcoholic failure in an ally somewhere in Texas..
without her family’s help, Cyndi McCain.. who knows?
without his family’s help, John McCain would never have entered politics and gotten all the breaks he has….
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN”!! Wow if character counted Hobama would have washed out a LONG TIME AGO!! IF…character mattered.Can all you blindered Dems go…..BAAAAAAA!!
Posted by: commrat72 | October 10, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
Since the Republicans take no responsiblity for the last 8 years. Let them whine.
Republicans are American terrorist!
Iran/Contra scandal (Reagan), Savings and loan scandal (Bush I), Enron scandal (Bush II), Enron loophole (Clinton but Phil Gram wrote it.), Banking deregulation (Phil Gram), Morgage crisis (Bush II), credit crisis (Bush II), Dept of Justice firing scandal (Bush II), Dept of the Interior SEX for oil scandal (Bush II), Troopergate abuse of power (McCain). To think we impeached a President for personal family matters as Americans let this go unresolved.
Posted by: high heels off | October 10, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me,” declares the LORD. – Isaiah 54:17
” I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run.” – Exodus 23:27
The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. – 2 Timothy 4:18
11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. – Psalm 91:11-13
I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. – Luke 10:19
It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !
Amen.
Posted by: Barack Obama IS | October 10, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Another one? What more evidence do you fools need. They’re planning a government takeover.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Dewde….Obama is not Alexi’s family, and Alexi’s families bank gave loans to a man in organized crime.
Giannoulias approved millions of dollars in loans from his family’s bank, Broadway, to Michael “Jaws” Giordano after the latter got convicted on federal charges relating to bookmaking and prostitution in 2004. The loans paid for a casino fleet in Florida in 2005, an odd risk to take for someone who had a record as a pimp and a bookie.
Just one more, to question in Obama’s judgements, and associations.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Marla, George W Bush met with Awad several times, including as Governor of Texas (during which time he also met with the Taliban in Austin).
He was not interested in pursuing terrorism at the time, only business.
Obama has not met with Awad. Rather, an Obama campaign aid attended a community-based meeting where Awad was present.
Bush has met with Awad personally, numerous times.
Can we conclude from this that Bush is a terrorist?
Posted by: Dee Dee Lynn | October 10, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
This is getting STUPID!
Posted by: Brandon | October 10, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
A story from Michael Kinsley about John McCain at the craps table seems to me a perfect allegory for John McCain’s current campaign:
“McCain immediately turned to the woman and said between clenched teeth: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME.’ The woman started to explain…McCain interrupted her: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME,’ he repeated viciously. The woman again tried to explain. ‘DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO?’
McCain continued, his voice rising and his hands now raised in the ‘bring it on’ position. He was red-faced. By this time all the action at the table had stopped. I was completely shocked. McCain had totally lost it, and in the space of about ten seconds.
‘Sir, you must be courteous to the other players at the table,’ the pit boss said to McCain. “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? ASK ANYBODY AROUND HERE WHO I AM.”
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
He’s never met a radical that he didn’t like. He is easily influenced as evidenced by his past drug addictions and the “mentors” that he has chosen for himself.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
“I agree with whoever said that the John McCain of 2000 would not vote for the John McCain of 2008.”
Me, too. I certainly don’t think we should rely on a lost soul to lead our country.
Posted by: chris | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Watch out America – Barbie is getting ready for her voodoo session.
Posted by: Naush | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
“except hope that they[markets] correct themselves”??
Boy, that is the wrong way to apply hope. Hope is something you use to guide a long term aspiration. Not as a vehicle to dismiss yourself of the responsibility to act. McCain and his campaign managers need to call Obama and ask for help with understanding hope in the right context.
Also, McCain needs to stop these town hall meetings. I don’t mean this wrt defending Obama, this is advice to help McCain. These town hall meetings are drawing in extremists that are highjacking these do drive their fascist agendas. Pushing McCain, to turn extreme against his better judgement. Sarah is too stupid to see it. But you can see McCain is getting nervous. He will only lose undecided’s and stir hatred. Time to stop the town hall format.
Brian
Posted by: Brian | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
MCCAIN DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES FACING THIS COUNTRY. INSTEAD HE IS RUNNING NEGATIVES CAMPAIGN. I GUESS HE DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO OFFER TO THE AMERICANS PEPOPLE.
Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | October 10, 2008, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Nice point about the Saudis. They are the real elephant in the room when it comes to the War on Terror.
[See the website: A Second Look at the Saudis}
Posted by: Bill in Chicago | October 10, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
Lesnik and other observers point, for example, to McCain and his supporter’s affiliations with long-time anti-Castro activists like Roberto Martin Perez. Perez, a member of numerous Cuban exile groups who appears in a recent McCain campaign ad, is one of the chief sponsors of a campaign to free Eduardo Arocena, the Cuban exile leader of the alleged terrorist group, Omega 7. Arocena was convicted on 25 counts and is serving a mandatory life sentence for his role in several terrorist incidents including 32 bombings and 2 politically-motivated murders. In his summary of the Omega 7 case, New York Appeals Court Judge Lombard declared, “From 1975 to 1982, Omega 7 conducted a series of bombings in the New York metropolitan area that injured bystanders and damaged homes, businesses, and a church. The bombsites included Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden, JFK Airport, the ticket office of Aeroflot (the Soviet airline), and the Cuban Mission to the United Nations.” Arocena supporter Perez was recently seen hugging the GOP presidential candidate at a recent campaign event. In addition to Perez, supporters of Arocena, whose victims include Eulalio José Negrin, a New Jersey man who died in his 13 year-old son’s arms, include one of John McCain’s closest allies, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. As recently as last July, Lieberman promised Arocena’s wife that “I will carry it [the pardon request] back. I will carry it back. Yeah. I feel…I think of you like you were my family.”
For his part, Lesnik hopes that the Ayers controversy will lead to a wider definition of who is a domestic terrorist in the United States. “He [Ayers] didn’t kill or injure anyone, but these Cuban terrorists have killed many – and killed them inside the borders of the United States,” said Lesnik, his voice screeching with decades of anger. “The Cuban terrorists were convicted and still get support from McCain’s backers. It’s unjust not to designate people who commit terrorist acts as ‘terrorists’” he lamented, adding “It shouldn’t matter that they’re friends of some politicians.”
John McCain
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Governor Sarah Palin’s denunciations of Senator Barack Obama’s alleged links to former Weather Underground member and self-identified — but never convicted — bomber, William Ayers, make Cuban-Americ…
Governor Sarah Palin’s denunciations of Senator Barack Obama’s alleged links to former Weather Underground member and self-identified — but never convicted — bomber, William Ayers, make Cuban-Americ…
Posted by: karen | October 10, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
I thought American people have found the best way to fight against terriorists: select a terrorist to be president.
Posted by: ohh | October 10, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Jake, the point you are making here is frightening and very important. Where WILL the RNC and McCain campaign’s behavior and rhetoric lead???
Posted by: gbhu | October 10, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
High Heels…like it or not, the financial fall, which makes all of your issues pale in comparison is the work and dealings of the Democrats, all the way back to FDR.
Jimmy Carter expanded it, then Bill CLinton, who by the way manned up, and admitted it, and now we have Obama, Reid, Pelosi,Franks, and Dodd.
Bush chimed up 17 times this year alone, and warned them it was coming. Hagel, and McCain 2 years ago, and since that time. None of the Democrats would hear of it. They just kept on their merry way, dragging it down, to what we see now.
True to socialism, I see all the hands out, waiting for the government to hand them their way out, instead of bucking up, and being a tough American, and getting thru this with strength, pride, and perseverence. If my great grandparents, grandparents, and parents got thru the great depression, I think we can handle this, and I’m sure they did it with a lot less whining.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
The hatemongers are coming out of their fox holes. They are visible on FIX NOISE and I love the tantrums!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Naush | October 10, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Barry will soon throw him under the bus too. “that’s not the radical that I knew”
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
I thought America was a country of religious freedom and equal rights.
Such a shame.
Posted by: ictoan | October 10, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
Fear and Smear, Ole John knows the republican way better than most. i thought Bush ran a dirty campaign in 2000, he could take lessons from McCain. Congratulations John, you’ve become the most dishonorable candidate ever.
Posted by: JR | October 10, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
“True to socialism, I see all the hands out, waiting for the government to hand them their way out, instead of bucking up, and being a tough American, and getting thru this with strength, pride, and perseverence.”
They are part of the 40% that don’t pay any taxes, that we have to drag on our backs to work everyday, so that they can sit on their and watch Oprah.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Yes Bill,
It is a good point about the Saudi’s. They fund (directly or indirectly) a good deal of the fundamentalist Islamic activity around the world, including in Europe.
Many in Europe believe that what has been called the “re-islamization” of the younger generation in Europe is the direct result of activities underwritten by the Saudis.
They have also been building mosques and promoting Wahabism throughout more moderate countries in Africa.
I have a friend from Malawi, and he told me there have recently been many many new mosques built there, all funded by the Saudis and they have been trying to make inroads in places like Senegal for years.
Posted by: Dee Dee Lynn | October 10, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Funny thing I have not come across another 72 year old functional person doing anything. Why is that ? Where are they? My grandfather wouldn’t make for a good example. We don’t let him drive.
Posted by: McSenile help me pls. | October 10, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Give the RepubliCONS enough rope and they will hang themselves. No one has to do a thing. Just watch the fun when they go after each other soon enough.
Posted by: Naush | October 10, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
What, are we playing Six Degrees of Separtion? Obama had a campaign staffer attend a meeting. He wasn’t there. Also at the meeting–among many others–were representatives from Council of American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society. Those two organizations have been “linked” in the past to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. THOSE organizations–not the people at the meeting–sponsor terrorists. And all those terrorists know Kevin Bacon.
Enough of the fear-mongering already. We’re not buying it.
Posted by: Enough | October 10, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
IAT said: MCCAIN DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES FACING THIS COUNTRY. INSTEAD HE IS RUNNING NEGATIVES CAMPAIGN. I GUESS HE DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO OFFER TO THE AMERICANS PEPOPLE.
Well, we can’t hardly talk about the issues of the country today, without Obama’s name coming up.
ACORN.
The Bailout
Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac
Goldman Sachs
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
LOL, look at the right wingers in full froth.
That troopergate report must be a doozy.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
jeanie:
lets see now…… Herbert Hoover ..Republican The Great Depression…
FDR.. democrat gets us out of it….
GW Bush & John McCain and Republicans 2008 financial collapse….
Obama……democrat gets us out of it….
amazing how often history repeats itself
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
You cry racism….
I think that’s age discrimination. FOr shame. Barbra Walters works for ABC, and she’s a senior citizen. Same with Charlie Gibson, and Diane Sawyer. Are they useless, and unable to function, think, and be a part of society?
in 3 short years, Mr. Obama himself will be 50, and be allowed to join the ranks of senior citizens, and enjoy all the benefits there to.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
“Obama……democrat gets us out of it….”
With a little help from his friends, and his increased taxes on “the rich”.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Well, we can’t hardly talk about the issues of the country today, without Obama’s name coming up.
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Well, WE can. Just not the smear mongers.
Posted by: Whatever | October 10, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
I’ve been involved in politics for over 30 years now & have never seen such a slimy campaign as McCain has waged in recent days. Its truly unbecoming a candidate for elected office!! It makes one question both McCain’s integrity and ethics. He always speaks of country first…however, it is clear that for him it is winning first. He is willing to tear down the repuation of someone who may very well be the next President of the United States to serve his own selfish ends. Shame on you , Senator McCain…..the voters expected so much better from you! And you are creating a national embarrassment…the world is watching and I am sure shaking their heads over how unpresidential you have become.
Posted by: Dee | October 10, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
jeanie:
Republicans……. crash of 1987
GHW Bush… republican….. savings and loan crash, and bailout
Bill Clinton…. democrat gets us out of it
I’m seeing a pattern here….. Reps screw it up and Dems fix it……. well lets hope there is a very long time ’till Reps are in control again
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
And all those terrorists know Kevin Bacon.
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Hahahaha
Now THAT’S funny!
Posted by: Whatever | October 10, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
“He is willing to tear down the repuation of someone who may very well be the next President of the United States to serve his own selfish ends.’
Are you brain dead? Tear down? Obama chose to associate with these characters.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Is the McCain/Palin campaign eating dirt? Seems to me they haven’t been able to keep it down. It’s pitiful how desperate they are getting. “My friends”, face it, you’re getting a black man for president and he’ll be better than the idiot you provided us for the last eight years.
Posted by: frh | October 10, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
MCCAIN DOESN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES FACING THIS COUNTRY.
Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | Oct 10, 2008 3:05:24 PM
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I DON’T BELIEVE EITHER CANDIDATE HAS
ANY SOLUTIONS…………
DO YOU REALLY WANT SOLUTIONS???????
-REPLACE 535 MEMBERS OF CONGERSS INCLUDING McCAIN,OBAMA,THE ADMINISTRATION,WALL STREET AND THE FAT CATS,SEC CHAIRMAN,CEO’S,EXECUTIVES,
CABINET MEMBERS……
OUTLAW LOBBYISTS,SPECIAL INTERESTS ETC.
PASS STRICT LAWS AGAINST CORRUPTION AND
ENFORCE THE LAW OF THE LAND……
PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
OF U.S.A……….
Posted by: Nicholas | October 10, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
“My friends”, face it, you’re getting a black man for president and he’ll be better than the idiot you provided us for the last eight years.’
We’d be getting a far-left radical. That’s about it.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
Dewde: FDR.. democrat gets us out of it….
If we go technical here, the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the end of the great depression. A lot of jobs were created by our being attacked, and entering the war. And warnings came before the attack, and went unanswered. The belief is, FDR wanted us in the war. Possibly a conspiracy theory, but who knows?
Q1: When did Social Security start?
A: The Social Security Act was signed by FDR on 8/14/35. Taxes were collected for the first time in January 1937 and the first one-time, lump-sum payments were made that same month. Regular ongoing monthly benefits started in January 1940.
The beginning of what has come to be, an enormous burden on our tax payers. That, and the welfare system…and Obama wants to expand on these.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
This RepubliCON has no memory of Keating 5 and McDeranged.
Posted by: Naush | October 10, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
The RNC and McCain campaign are trying to spread paranoid delusions in a desperate attempt to turn the tide.
Posted by: GreggW | October 10, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
Three cheers for Nicholas!!!!
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
“This RepubliCON has no memory of Keating 5 and McDeranged.’
3 of the 5 support Obama. They like what they see.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
I will love the look on your faces late evening Nov 4, 2008…….. Obama , President of the U.S.
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
Why can’t we just split the Union into two Americas: The Obama-nation and the McCain-ites??
Wouldn’t that be better than what we are heading toward with just ONE of these jerks to lead ALL of us–straight to he11?
Posted by: 2 Americas>? | October 10, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
Well let’s go to the kids for Obama parade, and watch the soldiers and children sing Obama’s praises, like the good citizens of North Korea do.
Anger yes. Why? Because of the state of the nation right now? Some people are financially ruined, and who do they have to thank? Obama and his social programs.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
“Why can’t we just split the Union into two Americas: The Obama-nation and the McCain-ites??”
The Obama-nation would be starving in 6months, covered in flies, looking for a handout.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
jeanie:
Possibly a conspiracy theory, but who knows?
that’s all the repubs have to offer….conspiracy theories….
doesn’t matter if it’s today or WW2
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Only 24 more days of this utter nonsense and it will be over — thank God!
I’m so sick of the sleaze and name-calling, the hypocrisy and everything else. I wish I could vote today and just stop it all!
Posted by: Majus | October 10, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
Just like Clinton took a picture with Rezko. BFD. This is why we hate the media.
Posted by: geevill | October 10, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
2 American – I believe thhis was tried in the 1986′s. They called in sucession
and it resulted in the Civil War. You dont like America try Canada or Mexica. Maybe even Alaska.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
the “mentors” that he has chosen for himself.”
Like McCain associates, Frank Keating, Karl Rove, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, Deal W. Hudson, Robert Destro, Rick Davis, Oleg Deripaska, Christian Ferry, Terry Nelson, Patrick Hynes, Jill Hazelbaker, Ralph Reed, how big a list of liars, cheats, criminals do you need?
Posted by: JR | October 10, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Dewde said: I will love the look on your faces late evening Nov 4, 2008…….. Obama , President of the U.S.
I’d love to see the faces of those, who’ve lost mass amounts of their freedoms, and constitutional rights. The faces of those, who have what they need, designated by the Obama government. It won’t be much, but he knows what’s best for all of us. Still hungry? Tough. You got your daily allotment. Need work? Tough. No work to be found. The jobs left, when the taxes went to high.
Need to pull your money out of the market, or an IRA? You can’t. The tax of 28% if worth more than the value of the content of the stock or the ira.
To hot? Don’t touch the a/c. The government gives you what you’re allowed at a comfy temperature. To cold? Put on another coat…if you have one.
Need money for that operation? Get in line. 3,000 people are ahead of you. The wait is roughly 2 years.
Need a good doctor? There are none left. They went away to find better work on the highways. The government wasn’t paying enough to warrant the 18 hour days they were doing.
Need to drive on vacation? You can’t. The Democrats nationalized the gas industry. Either take a plane, train, or bus. Oh wait. Can’t find work, so you can’t afford those luxuries.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
2 American – I believe thhis was tried in the 1860′s. They called in sucession
and it resulted in the Civil War. You dont like America try Canada or Mexica. Maybe even Alaska. I KNOW BIG BAD TYPO. SOrry
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | October 10, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
“and it resulted in the Civil War. You dont like America try Canada or Mexica. Maybe even Alaska.’
Better yet the bots should move to Cuba or Venzuela.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
dewde:
republicans meeting with terrorists, and being hypocritical? say it ain’t so Jake……
gosh darn it, ya just can’t trust those Repubs,… I betcha
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thank you. now finally the truth will start raining down. Thanks ABC, now there is so much more to be told about Sarah and McCain. Please do a good job.
Posted by: becky | October 10, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
The Keating 5? Obama has put out a web ad on that. When asked about it by a reporter, and if he was going to confront McCain face to face about it, Obama got up, and walked away.
The Keating 5 is a moot point. McCain was exonerated. The Democratic prosecutor went so far as to say McCain shouldn’t have been brought up on charges in the first place, but the Democrats wanted a republican to hang for it. Yet….he was exonerated.
Posted by: Jeanie | October 10, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Obama just released an emergency rescue plan to help small businesses.
What has McCain done?
What is McCain talking about today?
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
McCain and Parrot are tring really hard to pre-empt the Troopergate findings.
They’ve already released their own findings. (So did they not know what Sarah Palin did and had to “investigate” it themselves?)
We ALL know why they are working so hard to discredit the report right?
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John McCain PARTICIPATED in the biggest financial scandal in American history.
(He stalled regulators on behalf of his buddy, and CONVICTED FELON, Charles Keating. Keating swindled over $3 billion of American’s life’s savings.)
Sarah Palin PARTICIPATED in the ABUSE OF POWER scandal. We’ll see what the results are today hopefully.
This is not a “guilt by association” accusation. These two were PARTICIPANTS!
And you want to talk about character?
Posted by: Fear and Loathing | October 10, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
“Need to drive on vacation? You can’t. The Democrats nationalized the gas industry. Either take a plane, train, or bus. Oh wait. Can’t find work, so you can’t afford those luxuries.’
At least they would have the satisfaction of sticking it to the “rich”.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
jeanie:
re:”who’ve lost mass amounts of their freedoms, and constitutional rights”
where have you been since GW Bush was APPOINTED president…….you have described his neo-con amerika
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
I just read that McCain crashed up so many planes in the Navy and showed such recklessness and carelessness that it’s unlikely he would’ve been allowed to remain in the service nowadays. (He only became a star when he got shot down in Vietnam.) He’s running his campaign that same way.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | October 10, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
“Problem for McCain’s campaign is that more folks care what’s being said on CNBC than Fox right now, the latter of which is carrying not just the real-time Dow on the corner of the screen but also an image of Bill Ayers.”
That’s the Fair & Balanced GOPTV…err…ummm..FoxNews.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
“Obama just released an emergency rescue plan to help small businesses.’
That looks so good in the MSM headlines.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
Rick Davis proudly claims McCain blew up 1st bailout bill sending our markets into a complete meltdown
“On that Acorn call, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis also credited McCain with “blowing … up” the first bailout package when he suspended his campaign to come to Washington, something McCain’s campaign had heatedly denied at the time.”
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Marla….”Senator Obama meets with them because he and his socialist supporters approve the motives of the radicals. Big difference.”
Wow, you were there to witness this??
Tell, Tell…how can you say those things if you were not there.
Do you have any other proof other then what you have read?
Please, let’s get real.
Obama/Biden ’08
Posted by: Bev | October 10, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
jeanie
“”Need to drive on vacation? You can’t. The Democrats nationalized the gas industry.”
I though old ‘GW’ Bush and his ARAB buddies were gonna keep the oil thing cooled out, and
Iraq’s oil was also gonna pay…
gosh darn it….. wink wink….. you betcha
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
“Davis expressed outrage that, “in the middle of the greatest disaster in our financial system that we’d had in our lifetime, that the Democrats in the United States Senate would actually link payments to ACORN in the bailout package that they promoted — prior to Sen. McCain coming to town and actually blowing that package up. So we can actually say that in addition to saving taxpayers millions of dollars, and we’re very happy that no more taxpayer dollars were added to the pile of money going to ACORN.”
After the initial bailout package failed, McCain’s aides blamed Obama:
“This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country,” adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said”
The McCain campaign think syou should believe their claims but after so many lies, why should the American people trust John McCain?
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
What happened to John McCain? That man used to have honor, now nothing but idiotic vitriol and lies. That’s what happens when you trust your soul to Karl Rove’s brand of political scorched Earth. Steve Schmidt should be tarred, feathered and run out of America on a rail, what he’s doing is disgusting.
Posted by: Peter Jackson | October 10, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
Jake, you are really on top of these things. It’s why I enjoy reading your blog.
Posted by: Reality-based | October 10, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
But the campaign of Obama’s Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, argued that Obama’s call interfered with U.S. efforts to reach a “status of forces agreement” with the Iraqi government.”
EVERYTHING ABOUT OBAMA IS SO CORRUPT AND BACKDOOR SLEAZY
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Yes, McCain says it was bad so it’s “sleazy”…great logic.
Naw, McCain wouldn’t have motives to say that or anything right?
Posted by: Whatever | October 10, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm
The country is facing the absolute worst economic crisis in decades, but McCain is not the only one pointing fingers, what is he suppose to do stand there and take all the junk that Obama is dishing out. Vote McCain if you want our country to survive.
Posted by: barbara gooch | October 10, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
The Keating 5 is a moot point. McCain was exonerated
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Not exactly. He was let go to spare John Glen from getting prosecuted as well.
McCain aided Charles Keating, he stalled regulators, he used Keatings beach house, he vacationed with Keating, he took over $100,000 from Keating.
So he wasn’t “convicted”? Neither was Ayres. Try some more hypocracy perhaps?
Posted by: bump | October 10, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
This creep (obama) will have the Highest Level of Security Clearance. Oh, this is very scary!!!!
Posted by: Polly | October 10, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
Every time a read something put out by the McCain campaign, I have to double check to make sure I am not reading a script for “MEAN GIRLS”. Is McCain running for President of the US or Class President of the most obnoxious High School in the country?
Posted by: Paige | October 10, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
“Again, what lies?”
Stopped the Bridge to Nowhere
Foremost Expert on Energy Issues in the Nation
Obama is against clean coal.
Bailout included money for ACORN
McCain had nothing to do with the bailout bill collapsing.
McCain was the catalyst for the bailout bill failing.
We have nothing to hide and will cooperate fully.
Obama voting against the troops sent a cold shiver down my spine.
Obama is a terrorist.
Obama is intimately linked with ACORN.
And those lies are just from the last few days from the McCain campaign.
He has also released over 30 commercials that have been called misleading to outright lies.
The McCain campaign is a micro chasm of right wing best articulated by Goebbels. If you tell a big enough lie and repeat it, people are gullible and will believe it.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
Hey Jake,
You were the reporter who warned us about CAIR when you wrote for Salon.
Remember this?
Were we unfair to CAIR?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls Jake Tapper’s report “shoddy”; Tapper responds:
“Also notice that Hooper continues to refuse to clarify CAIR’s position on the “innocence” of the civilian victims of terrorism. Fundamentalist supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah are known to consider Jews and Israelis evil, and therefore justify murdering them, even children. They do not consider it to be terrorism. But instead of clarifying that that is not the position of CAIR, Hooper writes that that the group does not believe in a “hierarchy in which some civilian victims of terrorism are ‘innocent’ and others are not.” Again, why the obfuscation? If CAIR believes killing civilians — including Jewish and Israeli civilians — is terrorism, and wrong, why not just say so? Surely most American Muslims would have no problem condemning bin Laden with no qualifications. Why can’t Hooper? “
Posted by: troy | October 10, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
McCain and Palin are inciting rage and hatred amongst fellow Americans. Yet they deride the Islamic extremists for inciting hatred and violence against Americans. Does John McCain have to borrow a leaf each from Karl Rove and Osama Bin Laden in order to win this election? Where is John McCain’s conscience while he makes a lame attempt at portraying Obama as a terrorist. This is going too far.
John McCain and Sarah Palin have to be called to order before they turn us all against each other. This has to STOP! Americans must rise up against this politics of division. We have a nation to rebuild.
Families are hurting right now under the crushing economic burden and all John McCain offers is to use Osama Bin Laden’s tactics of fear? So who is the real terrorisist now? Osama Bin Laden? John McCain, Sarah Palin or all there? America, you decide!
Posted by: becky | October 10, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
OK so what? Are we going to stp talking to people because they are Muslums? Does this make Bush a Muslums….
OMG people, this is America, the melting pot.
Posted by: thetruth | October 10, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
“but I do wish George Bush would stop asking God to bless America. Every time he does, we seem to be visited with another plague, suggesting divine wrath over our president’s evil ways. How else to explain the persistent calamity that has marked this administration: a pointless but very costly war over nonexistent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the devastating New Orleans flood, the betrayal of the nation by the money-changers—from Enron to Goldman Sachs—that Bush welcomed into the temple of the White House?
What’s next? Pestilence, frogs, locusts or incurable boils? Dare we risk four more years of catastrophic misrule by a “W” alter ego? “
Posted by: dewde | October 10, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
Polly..Yes and so will McCain who just called us, ” My fellow prisoners” this week.
Posted by: militarymom | October 10, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
then so is Bush and Rice, right?
Posted by: hang | October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
McCain is proud of his lunatic supporters.
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers
“Barack Obama’s attacks on Americans who support John McCain reveal far more about him than they do about John McCain. It is clear that Barack Obama just doesn’t understand regular people and the issues they care about. He dismisses hardworking middle class Americans as clinging to guns and religion, while at the same time attacking average Americans at McCain rallies who are angry at Washington, Wall Street and the status quo.
Even worse, he attacks anyone who dares to question his readiness to serve as their commander in chief in chief. Raising legitimate questions about record, character and judgment are a vital part of the Democratic process, and Barack Obama’s effort to silence and shame those who seek answers should make everyone wonder exactly what he is hiding.”
All we have to do is show the videos Brian and people will judge for themselves.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
More of the same crap from John McCain and Sarah Palin campaign.
John McCain best days are behind him.
Posted by: lookup | October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
Adolph…yes, kind of an eye opener wasn’t it.
Unfortuately I haven’t seen any stories about this, when the stories abound about Obama and Ayers.
Posted by: thegoodtimes | October 10, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
Polly…I think if they were Dem plants Mccain and Palin would have said something…out of descency. Kind of proves what they have for character either way.
They both stood there and smiled…
Posted by: militarymom | October 10, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
I come over to ABC’s website to see if there are any stories of ACORN and I can’t find one.
Am I missing it? Uh, does ABC not find this a big story? Nationwide voter fraud through a group with BIG ties to Obama?
Geeze, it’s bizarro world out there. I thought you were a news site.
Posted by: Jo | October 10, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
MCSHAME is worse then karl rove and thats saying alot!
Posted by: angie | October 10, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
Today’s Obituatary:
Journalism
RIP
Posted by: Jo | October 10, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm
“Polly…I think if they were Dem plants Mccain and Palin would have said something…out of descency. Kind of proves what they have for character either way.
They both stood there and smiled…’
Sort of what Obama did while sitting in the TUCC pews while his mentor was railing against America and white people.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
It’s understandable Barry Hussein Obama would research his father’s heritage, etc., but ethnicity with violence? Please! It’s notable that this country’s former presidents probably never could boast such associations prior to being elected, but here is a man trying to minimize this kind of association, with not just with one, but with two — both home grown, radical extremists, plus 20 years with Rev. Wright, hell bent against the U.S.! I’m trying to get it for how B. Hussein Obama’s noble rhetoric on behalf of his proposed U.S. policies eclipses these former associations! Two things additionally — Notice BHO’s facial expressions against Hillary and McCain? Overconfident, arrogant, smug, for a political newcomer? Ahh, nothing like confidence that the loyal members of the Islamic World will be behind you, especially is small, bogus contributions, by the millions, competing with the newest generation of voters for fervor! Obama is a duplicity in action. I now worry that Osama Bin Laden’s assurances to his followers was right, when he said something like “Be patient, the end of the U.S. Infidels is near!” I voted for Hillary – not perfect, but a helluva lot safer!!!!!
Posted by: MCN | October 10, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
Have you seen the newest ringing endorsement of Obama?
Go to Drudge and see Louis Farrakhan at a recent speech calling Obama “the Messiah.”
If that doesn’t send a cold chill down your spine, nothing will.
Obama will lose in a landslide. Because people know that ABC & all the rest of the Obama cheerleaders are full of crap.
Posted by: Jo | October 10, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
So Republicans are so embarrassed by the lunatics in their crowd they have to call them plants by Democrats.
Much like most Republicans here are too embarrassed to admit it so they pretend they are Hillary supporters.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
Christopher Buckley, conservative writer and son of William F. Buckley, today endorses Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States.
“John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?”
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm
“Christopher Buckley, conservative writer and son of William F. Buckley, today endorses Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States.”
So has Farrakhan and Hamas.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
Awww mack is surly today.
Could it be polls have yet to show any results of your right wing hate campaign?
Could it be the American people are tired of the lies of the right wing?
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
Oh yeah they are changing the polls and all the money people are bailing
Posted by: Bishop | October 10, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
“Awww mack is surly today.’
Shouldn’t you be out helping to register the dead?
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
Mack – Is CNN bad too? Here is a report from CNN:
Some audience members are openly hostile to members of the traveling press covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida, on Monday.
And at a McCain rally in New Mexico on Monday, one supporter yelled out “terrorist” when McCain asked, “Who is the real Barack Obama?” McCain didn’t respond.
So far, neither Palin nor McCain have explicitly called on their supporters to tamper down the attacks. Watch as McCain ramps up his criticism of Obama »
Posted by: Paige | October 10, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
Hey Mack,
All one has to do is watch the video taken of the line waiting to get into the WI townhall.
Hateful comments after hateful comments gleefully offered up by the brownshirts waiting to get inside.
That video should be shown over and over and again so people know who the Republicans party is and what they actually stand for.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
‘Jeanie’, maybe you’d have less fear and be less bothered if you stopped listening to Republican lies, rumors and innuendo.
I don’t know anyone in Chicago who’s afraid of Farrakhan and Wright. I don’t know anyone who thinks the Illinois State Treasurer is doing a lousy job.
As for the rest of your incessant ooh!ooh! comments…you need a nice cup of tea. You’re delusional.
Posted by: Tom J | October 10, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
“Shouldn’t you be out helping to register the dead?”
Naaah the dead vote Republican.
You must be sweating Mack, the Troopergate report is gonna hit the air any moment now.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
Parker is so two faced I don’t care for her no mater who she is talking about.
Posted by: Bishop | October 10, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
“Mack – Is CNN bad too? Here is a report from CNN:”
I’m not sure if you could call them bad, but they have shown and have been proven to be biased. They may as well come out with their endorsement of Obama. I personally can’t really stand to watch them anymore.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
“You must be sweating Mack, the Troopergate report is gonna hit the air any moment now. ‘
Shouldn’t it have been out by now? What’s the hold up? Are they busy burning Palin in effigy?
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
“Shouldn’t it have been out by now? What’s the hold up? Are they busy burning Palin in effigy?”
The report is being presented to the legislature first.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
The McCain camp has pretty much given up.
The only thing they are doing now is trying to convince the dead-enders that the election was stolen, or Obama cheated.
They have nothing left. Nothing.
All they will accomplish is to create more Timothy McVeighs.
Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
“The only thing they are doing now is trying to convince the dead-enders that the election was stolen, or Obama cheated.”
Give that man a cigar!
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
You all painted Bill a racist I guess all is well now put Hillary down cheated to get your guy where he is so please give me a break you said all kinds of things about the Clintons Dis his eight and so did Obama I was a democrat I voted for Hillary. But now its McCain and the polls lie because there are still plenty of voters that are going to vote for McCain /Palin
Posted by: Bishop | October 10, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
“The only thing they are doing now is trying to convince the dead-enders that the election was stolen, or Obama cheated.”
ACORN
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Hey what do do people think of Norm Coleman pulling all his negative ads?
Is it a noble effort aimed at a return to civility?
Is it a political move to offer him cover from a recent scandal?
Or is it a mixture of the tow and quite possible a brilliant move?
Or is it a foolish move to stop hitting Franken in a close race?
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Darn Wall Street Journal:
The McCain campaign has famously spent the past week trying to increase doubts as to Mr. Obama’s nature, background, intentions. Their crowds have been irascible. Here is a warning for Republicans: When your crowds go from “I love you” to “I hate the other guy,” you are in trouble, you are on a losing strain. Winning campaigns are built on love. This is the time for “McCain is the answer,” not “The other guy is questionable.”
Posted by: Paige | October 10, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
“But now its McCain and the polls lie because there are still plenty of voters that are going to vote for McCain /Palin ”
They are worried that they don’t have a big enough lead(Bradley effect) so they are attempting to discourage people by posting only the outlier polls that show Obama with a big lead and acting as if the race is over. They are hoping that people don’t show up to vote.
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm
“They are worried that they don’t have a big enough lead(Bradley effect) so they are attempting to discourage people by posting only the outlier polls that show Obama with a big lead and acting as if the race is over.”
The race being over is indicated by the flailing about by the McCain campaign not so much the polls (though the polls look very good for McCain).
I see your Bradley effect and I raise you young & African American voter turnout.
“They are hoping that people don’t show up to vote.”
People who don’t show up to vote because their candidate is losing have a pretty poor sense of civic duty.
But hey they’re right wingers.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
Sub-prime mortgage legislation proposed and signed by the Democrats is to our economy what Katrina was to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. It makes one want to cry, then become very, very angry.
SOCIALISM IS EVIL AND UGLY. Obama and the ranking democrats support the socialist agenda. Socialism has no honor or decency.
Posted by: Marla | October 10, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm
“This is about trying to intimidate minority voters. There is zero evidence of voting fraud. Zero.”
Of course it is Mike.
Already the fliers have begun to appear in minority neighborhoods warning people that if they have outstanding parking tickets or warrants, they will be arrested when they show up to vote.
“Young voters at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Penn. have already been targeted, with students reporting that flyers have been posted around campus warning that undercover police will be at the polls on Election Day looking to make arrests.
Political experts say the Drexel flyer is a classic example of voter suppression – a practice that involves scaring, angering, or confusing voters so that they stay at home on Election Day.
The basic idea is that you intimidate people by saying that law enforcement is using the polling place to catch scofflaws…criminals…whoever. It’s basically a deterrent to keep people away from voting,” said Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative who went to prison for three-months in 2006 for his involvement in a scheme to jam the phones at headquarters of the Democratic get-out-the vote effort in New Hampshire in 2002.”
“
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
“Now McCain is going after Michelle Obama.”
What?
He’s going after his opponent’s wife?
Is he insane?
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
Is it true McCain did not know the housing bubble burst until reporters asked him how many houses he owned?
Posted by: ricky | October 10, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
The case ACORN brought against its former employees is commonly referred to by the right wing media as the “indictments of ACORN”, or slightly less disingenuously by the MSM as the “ACORN indictments”.
It pales in comparison to the Republican operation in Nevada four years ago which threw 300 registrations into the garbage because the people had opted to register Democratic.
Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama’s past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama — even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.
The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers’ wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.
That’s the entire attack. We wish we were joking. But we aren’t.
(Josh Marshall)
Posted by: Paige | October 10, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm
“Now McCain is going after Michelle Obama.”
What?
He’s going after his opponent’s wife?”
Ryan, he goes after all women at least twenty years younger.
Posted by: ricky | October 10, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
“Murtagh didn’t even bother alleging that the two even knew each other, instead suggesting that they might have. If so, he said, the Obamas have known the two longer than suspected.
“If it is true” that the two women knew each other, Murtagh said, “the relationship is almost a decade older than Senator Obama has acknowledged. And that can very easily be resolved by Senator Obama, by Mrs. Obama, by Mr. Ayers and by Ms. Dohrn.”
“And incidentally, I would emphasize that we’ve all been focusing on Senator Obama,” said Murtagh. “I think we need to speak to his wife.”
Keep in mind that this wasn’t any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides. And so another once-cherished McCain principle gets junked in the service of self-parody. ”
McCain should be pelted with fruit wherever he goes.
He is a national joke.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
>>>>>”‘There’s very little a candidate for president can say and very little the president can say about what’s happening in the stock markets except hope that they correct themselves,’
Exactly! but Obama will wear a suit to distract from his Empty Suit and tell voters lies about McCain.
And the dumbed down American Idol electorate will believe The Messiah.
But Oblahma hasn’t hoodwinked this Dem family!
Posted by: joseyJ | October 10, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
“It pales in comparison to the Republican operation in Nevada four years ago which threw 300 registrations into the garbage because the people had opted to register Democratic.”
Or the phone jamming scheme to stop Democratic GOTV efforts.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
“Ryan, he goes after all women at least twenty years younger.”
Ricky, normally I appreciate your off beat brand of humor but now is not the time for laughter.
McCain is a scumbag.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
A Democrat in the WH and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress is much more FRIGHTENING in terms of government spending, than a Democratic-controlled Congress with a Republican in the WH who DOES want to cut out pork and over-spending.
McCain WILL VETO such pork-stuffed bills – Obama WILL NOT!
In less than 4 years, Obama has requested almost ONE BILLION in earmarks for Illinois.
McCain has NEVER requested an earmark!
Dems for McCain/Palin
Posted by: joseyJ | October 10, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
McCain’s moves continue to be impulsive and ill-conceived. The problem with putting Michelle Obama in the mix is:
Obama defended Palin’s family from the media.
Cindy McCain’s past is ugly.
It is classless.
Posted by: Paige | October 10, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
“A Democrat in the WH and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress is much more FRIGHTENING in terms of government spending,”
I love how right wingers say this and then pretend to be Democrats.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
Norm Coleman is refusing to attend a campaign rally with McCain in Minnesota. Even the GOP knows McCain has gotten toxic.
Posted by: Paige | October 10, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
McCain is now attacking Michelle Obama over ties to Bill Ayers despite FOX poll results showing ties to Ayers do not move many independent voters away from voting for Barack Obama. Guess McCain really does need a weatherman to know which was the wind blows.
Posted by: ricky | October 10, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
Jeanie – “impending high tax on capital gains”
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On what.?.?
Posted by: Use Your Brain | October 10, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
Ryan, I don’t plant my barbs for your amusement. I’m still trying to shame that all important PUMA vote into repentance.
Posted by: ricky | October 10, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
After a week of negative attacks, McCain did nothing but drive up his negatives and drive down his own numbers. The senile fool and Caribou Barbie are down to 39 in the Fox poll. 39!!!. Keep it up, geezer.
Posted by: Bill | October 10, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
Let’s show Jake the love and respect he seserves and get bak to his thread.
Jake, your analysis left me confused.
Is the RNC attacking Obama over Nihad
Awad in order to distance themselves from Bush? Or are they trying to drive down Nihad Awads poll numbers by linking him to Bush in order to regain traction in Michigan?
Posted by: ricky | October 10, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
The only thing funnier than the right-wing mob’s impotent rage and unfocused attacks is picturing the faces of these morons on election night. Newsweek 10/10: Obama 52, McCain 41. Obama up 8 in WV! Up in VA, NC, MO, OH, FL! This will be a landslide.
Posted by: Seamus | October 10, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
“Ryan, I don’t plant my barbs for your amusement. I’m still trying to shame that all important PUMA vote into repentance.”
I understand that Ricky.
And I do appreciate what you are trying to do.
It was more my being so angry at the time that I was no in the mood to laugh.
And you more often than not make me laugh.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
Every time I hear the right wingers spout this “Messiah” stuff, I can’t help it I just imagine J. Edgar Hoover in an evening gown snooping on Martin Luther King Jr. Thats exactly the way they used to talk about him, and it seems nothing has changed.
Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
“A man in the audience stood up and told McCain he’s “scared” of an Obama presidency and who he’d select for the Supreme Court.
“I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States,” McCain said as the crowd booed and shouted “Come on, John!”"
The right wing lunacy is out of the bottle and McCain can’t put it back in.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 10, 2008, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
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Every time I hear the right wingers spout this “Messiah” stuff’
I believe that Farrakhan referred to him as the Messiah just the other day. Are you disputing your leader’s proclamation?
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Palin has raised the interest of and revitalized right wing Repubs that would endorse any breathing human who is born-again and anti-abortion. A stick with a hat on it with those words printed on it would be welcomed as a breath of freash air. The train wreck that is Sarah Palin is fueled, oddly enough, by the same media that put Britney Spears on tv every night. Palin “is just like me – a hockey mom a joe six pack.” Keep her on the air every night. The base loves her – no one else cares about her. The polls show that McCain has not gained any women voters because of Palin and has not attracted much if any independents. She’s popular only with those who were already going to vote GOP but were lukewarm to McCain. This is the best the ultra conservative base of the GOP has to offer because it has such narrow, out of the mainstream beliefs. I can believe in God and Country and not be a Republican. The fringes of the party which for some reason now control John McCain, believe that is an impossibility. The right wing ultra conservatives Republicans gave us George Bush and now want to give us Sarah Palin – who will not even be the President. John McCain is not what they want and he has never represented what they demand. Did anybody hear him say he was a maverick bumping heads with his own party – not afraid to take them on. What do you think he was bumping heads over – abortion issues, the war and many other matters that the far right hold dear – that is why he got a reputation as a maverick. You dont reach across the aisle to join together with Democrats to get Roe v Wade overturned or legislate anti-abortion issues. That McCain is no longer around. Now, as his second campaign for the White House slips away he is taking Palin with him every where he goes to get a crowd that would not a large crowd to cheer him without her there. He has sunk so low that the greatest issues this country have before it are shelved for soap opera – Ayres is more important that the $3 trillion dollar loss in our pensions and 401k’s. The rest of the country worries about that – McCain and Palin no longer seem to find that important or at least not as important as seeing what this Ayres thing is all about and that is because the leaders of the right wing conservatives doesnt care about the important issues for the country, just get McCain elected so they can continue to have the run of the White House. As that gentleman in the crowd urged McClain and Palin yesterday “You two do something – Obama and his thugs cannot be winning – how can that be. You have Ayres and Rev Wright – do something.”
Country First? C’mon – it’s winning first even if hurts the country. This is pathetic.
For Gods sake isn’t there one Republican who is aware of what George Bush has done to this country, it’s people, it’s reputation around the world and wants it to end. Wake up. Obama may not be the answer, but McCain/Palin have shown that they are definitely not the answer – they don’t even know the question any longer and nor do a majority of their supporters.
Posted by: David | October 10, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm
An Obama Presidency would be like having your life controlled by the DMV. If you want healthcare, go stand in that line, if you want to join the Obama quasi-military force, if you are seeking employment in Obama’s phony green collar job initiative, go stand in that line….go stand in that line…and on..and on
Posted by: Mack | October 10, 2008, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
Mack,
I can see how you actually do believe that, yes.
Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
My question is, since when did fearmongering and hate become family values?
Posted by: incincyr | Oct 10, 2008 2:43:02 PM
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I think it began when Obama whipped out the race card and let it fly!
Posted by: klondike kate | October 10, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm
You have to be exceptionally privileged to believe that standing in line is the worst thing in the world. I’d much rather wait in line to see a doctor than have to choose between a doctor and heating my house. But I can see how the over privileged would have a hard time with that.
Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
For crying out loud, how did General Petraeus accomplish much of his success in Anbar province?
By talking with, as well as giving arms and cash to, militants, some of whom were insurgents who had been previously fighting American troops!!!
His negotiations with these tribes, some of whom had been lethal enemies of America, helped turn Anbar turn around!!
Didn’t General Petraeus also just yesterday say that we may need to have talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan?
McCain’s campaign has lost its compass.
Posted by: Danny | October 10, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
Where does the path lead? OK, here’s a new ad for you. Begin with tape of Louis Farrakhan proclaiming Sen. Obama is the Messiah. Throw in a couple of Rev. Wrights more incendiary comments. Mention that Sen. Obama was a member at Rev. Wright’s church for close to 20 years. Mention that Sen. Obama’s church gave Louis Farrakhan a life time achievement award. Last, you McCain’s image and he says “I’m John McCain and I approved this message because the liberal media refuses to vet Sen. Obama.”
Hmmm. Maybe I could’ve been a political consultant. :-)
Posted by: Stevereno | October 10, 2008, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm
Palin and her husband have
strong ties to the Alaska
Independence Party(AIP).
Both are avowed secessionists.
The AIP founder said in an
interview in 1991: The fires
of hell are frozen glaciers
compared to my hatred for the
American government.
Palin keeps palling around
with this kind of treasonous
and anti-national criminals.
Posted by: anon | October 10, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
Mcshame and Palins rally’s remind me of the videos of Germans just before world war 2,Chanting and inciting people to riot against someone not just like them.They should both be talking about the economy.Palins ratings have slowly but surely been going down and i think with her lates rants they will go down even farther.
Posted by: maryjane | October 10, 2008, 11:38 pm 11:38 pm
NBC news is reporting that the Obama campaign is under fire for links with some hard core Muslims considered suspect by the FBi, Obama campaign has denied it saying it does not know the background of the people involved in the outreach.
Lets face it, Obama has feigned igorance whenever his involvement with radicals is exposed.
Posted by: Greg h | October 11, 2008, 1:14 am 1:14 am
Well we know that McCain will not meet with anyone. All and I mean All must bow down before him before he will meet with him.
A discussion with McCain will be one way.
McCain and his campaign are absurd.
Posted by: Thinking | October 11, 2008, 2:15 am 2:15 am
Obama’s judgment is sorely lacking. He never met a terrorist he didn’t like. It is unfortuniate that ABSleeze is didn’t vet Obama and only campaigned for him. Obama is a socialist he wants to redistribute our hard earned income and turn it into unearned income for the 45% of Americans who pay no taxes. Obama is lieing to the american people when he says that 95% of americans will get a tax cut. You cannot cut taxes on people who do not pay taxes. They are not taxpayers they are tax takers. Obama wants to give more money to the tax takers in america. His plan will force our company of 5 to lay off an employee. I certainly and not going to change my lifestyle because he wants to give my money to the tax taker. I will make sure I send my employee to Obama so he can explain that it is better to have $1000K than it is to make 45K a year.
Posted by: ubu1991 | October 11, 2008, 8:16 am 8:16 am
He didn’t know Ayers was a terrorist. Then he did. Then he didn’t. Then he did but figured he was “rehabilitated”. He didn’t know that he didn’t report the $800,000 he gave to ACORN.. Just a “clerical error”. The money he collected from the three brothers in the Hamas Compound and didn’t report to the FEC was also just a “glitch”.Now a second Muslim outreach person for Obama gets caught with Hamas – and Obama “didn’t know”. Boy, he sure has bad luck with Muslim Outreach appointees, doesn’t he?
Then he pimps the management of his campaign as an example of his leadership abilities.
Posted by: CrystalD | October 11, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm
Obama may (God forbid) win this election.
But his “Mr.Nice Guy” reputation is gone.
And all that is left is a radical, corrupt, Chicago thug with terrorist ties.
And the idiots that are voting for BO just because they hate Bush are going to see the real Obama whether they want to or not.
Whatever becomes of America because of Obama will be their fault for ignoring the truth.
I figure BO supporters must hate America as much as he does.
Posted by: sam | October 11, 2008, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
One thing that is clear is that the Republican right has a cadre of workers who do nothing but send in comments to these blogs. This is the third time I’ve seen it (Washington Post Blog and NY Times Blog first).
The first comment out of the box is always God help us if Obama gets elected. It is not a coincidence.
Posted by: john Dowd | October 11, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm
ah… the racism is back.
Posted by: tennisguypitt | October 11, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
Democrats love and defend racketeering, voter fraud and domestic terrorists.
And they want to lead our country.
Help us all.
Posted by: Pub | October 14, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm
ah… the race card is back.
Posted by: Pub | October 14, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm