Today’s Sams

What difference does it make? You guys don’t ask him any real questions anyway.

Ah, he called you Jake…. the next President of the United States actually recognized you! How sweeeet!
NOW I understand why you had to post this, Jake. Congratulations! Cheers!

Did the news reporters have any luck on
McCains response to Palins talking to
a Canadian radio impersonator pretending
to be a high ranking Canadian Governmental
official?

Jake, the polls AREN’T even tightening, on the contrary!
Look at the Obama surge in the Gallup poll, the 13 points lead in today’s CBS poll, the continuous 51% Obama gets for more than a month now in the Rasmussen poll…
So where were you talking about???
Obama’s RCP average NOW is 50,4 percent of the vote, against 43,6 for McCain…
Bush NEVER did that well at this stage of his presidential races. So again, what kind of question WAS that?
And regardless of the actual polls, would a candidate EVER say anything else than that he’s NOT worried or that he doesn’t rely on polls?…
Relax, Jake. There will be plenty of press conferences during the eight years of Obama’s presidency.

Why should he worry? His got the rightous wind behind him, and ACORN.

At least he knows your name

Congratulations on trying to get some news out of the O-man, even though it is an act of futility. The O-man knows that nothing said cannot get him in trouble. What bothers me most about all this is his lack of confidence. It seems that he really believes that his campaign may fail. That bothers me a whole lot because I don’t want someone who harbors a lot of doubts to occupy an office that may one day decide the survival of thousands or millions of people.
Also, dear Jake, it would be nice if your chat board teddy bear would stop trashing innocuous posts. There will be enough time for censorship when the O-man gets his “civilian security force”.

Wow you sound bitter. He’s talked to you enough. How many more questions could you possibly have left about anything important? And after some of these blogs no wonder he dosen’t respond to the press.What about Palin? You don’t seem to be too upset about her not being available to the press.Unless you’re Fox news or Entertainment Tonight. Seems to me she needs to answer a few more questions than Obama does.

And McCain’s last press conference was…..and how many questions did he allow? Less than five.
And Sarah Palin’s last press conference was….?

Miki – He does sound bitter. Back before McCain became a creature of Rick Davis and Charlie Black, he was very charming to the correspondent. Bush has always been real nice to them too. When is the press corps going to understand that we don’t care if the candidate or the President is their best friend? We’ve just lived through almost eight years of Bush. I care what the man’s policies are, what he stands for, and how he runs a campaign. That’s what the press corps should be worried about too.

I want to know WHY the McCain ticket promotes JOE THE PLUMMER…. HE IS A TAX EVADER and the McCain ticket should not be promoting someone as UNAMERICAN as this guy is! SHAME on the McCain ticket!
Why has the Obama ticket NOT jumping all over this!?!?!?!?
Why isnt the PRESS jumping all over this!?!?
Obama/Biden 2008!!!
Posted by: richard | Nov 1, 2008 11:49:40 PM
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According to court records, creditors have secured at least two liens against [Joe the Plumber] Wurzelbacher, whose legal name is Samuel. Ohio has a $1,182 lien for owed taxes and St. Charles Mercy Hospital has filed a 2007 lien for $1,261.
Oh my gosh he’s worse then Al Capone… Give me a break.
I think we can all agree that this is critical information.
Not because it says anything about Joe the Plumber, mind you. But it does serve a useful function: it warns any future citizen who might dare question Barack Obama that his life will be closely scrutinized for any irrelevant but embarrassing information.
So, you know. Critical in that sense.
Oh — I almost forgot to mention: Martin Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama’s campaign has tax liens. So do his companies.

Dearest Jake — please do ask the O next time:
– “Why does your Kenyan grandmother live in squalor, when you said that it is important to help your family, and why does she say that she witnessed your birth in Kenya?”
– just want to see him squirm

Jake, I guess he was busy talking to Rachel Maddow, Charles Gibson, and the other national journalists who interviewed him this week.
Don’t be petty because you’re just the guy who follows him around.

Is Barack Obama a socialist? A Marxist? It is hard to believe that question could even be seriously asked of a major party political candidate.
Nevertheless, there have been a few times that voters have gotten a glimpse of Obama in unguarded moments. Glimmers that remind me of the left-wing academic whom I ran into a number of times while we were both at the University of Chicago Law School.
— When Charlie Gibson asked Obama in April why he supported higher capital gains taxes, even if that meant less government revenue and thus less money to give to those Obama wants to help, Obama didn’t challenge Gibson’s claim. Instead he said: “I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.”
— In the middle of October, when speaking to “Joe the Plumber,” Obama justified higher taxes this way:
“It is not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everyone who is behind you, that they have a chance for success too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it is good for everyone.”
— A bombshell was released this weekend when a copy of an interview by Obama on WBEZ-FM, Chicago Public Radio, from 2001 was found (bold italics added):
“The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society … and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that. … I think that you can craft legal theoretical justifications for it legally, any three of us here could come up with a rational for bringing about economic change through the courts.”
Class warfare rhetoric is one thing. But as Obama’s comments to Charlie Gibson indicate, Obama disapproves of the very notion that people should be successful. Why is making the wealthy poorer “fairness,” even when the poor also get less money? The goal is not to help the poor, it’s to keep the wealthy from getting too much. It is apparently better that everyone be poorer than it is to have everyone have more money but a greater dispersion of income.
How is simply giving people money a way to make sure that they “have a chance for success too”? Obama might end up giving people who currently aren’t paying taxes even more money than they currently get from the Earned Income Tax Credit. But he will be doing so at a real cost: he is creating a high effective marginal tax rate that will keep them poor and keep them dependent on the government largess.
Obama’s tax credits are phased out as people earn higher incomes — that is, the government takes money away from you as your income goes up. Someone earning an extra dollar at $40,000 will find that income taxes alone will take 40 cents from that dollar.
Obama’s old comments from WBEZ seem impossible to ignore. Put aside that Obama obviously doesn’t believe that affirmative action represents redistributive justice. Saying that the Supreme Court “never ventured” into “redistribution of wealth” rules that out.
Obama’s constant theme is of transferring wealth, to “spread it around.”
There is so much else beyond his statements. Obama surrounded himself with people who were socialists and communists. Obama’s minister of 20 years, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright with his black liberation theology, a religion described as turning “Jesus into a black Marxist rebel.” Father Michael Pfleger, another Obama spiritual adviser, is also quite leftist. And his associate William Ayers apparently told an author, who was writing a book on 1960s radicals shortly before the foundation was set up in 1995, that “I’m a radical, leftist, small ‘c’ communist.”
In April Obama was caught on tape telling San Francisco donors, in a meeting that was closed to the press, that “it’s not surprising then they get bitter, [small town Pennsylvanians] cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” It was a very elitist left-wing statement. But the despising of people turning to religion is certainly something held in common by those on the far left.
During the presidential campaign Obama’s past positions have generally been ignored. Why wasn’t there one single question during the debates as to why Obama has so radically changed his positions on so many issues within just a few months?
Who is Obama going to put on the Supreme Court? With Democrats controlling a filibuster-proof Senate, will we be seeing the most extreme left-wing academics in law schools fill up the courts?

CJ – Thanks.

His arrogance is on full display. His reply to Jake was “pissy” at best. He’s showing his true colors. If he is elected he will bristle at any sign of questioning when he doesn’t want it. Remeber when he got mad last Spring that the press tried to ask him more than 8 questions at a press conference.
The media created this arrogant monster.

We did our research. We listened to the debates, heard what each party supports and what each opposes. We talked to friends, family and neighbors…and America is making their choices…
It’s now in God’s hands.
God Bless our Country.
God Bless America.

lame

If you have not read MBNA Joe – please pay attention if you have not voted.
McCain wants to clean up DC – DC likes all the crooked dealings, they could care less about WE THE PEOPLE. Obama has not been vetted, he is very, very Radical, and I do not believe that most Americans are. He speaks well, but we need more than a good looking suit in DC, we need someone who will represent Country First! The press distort so much. Used to watch CNN, MSNBC and FOX to try to get balance, finally gave up on MSNBC and for the last month posts on CNN have always been closed for comments, go to another site or error message. You see interviews on CNN and they are so out of context They do not want open discussion and it will only get worse with an Obama Presidency. Please wake up before it is to late and we are not allowed to speak our minds and/or vote.

The Media has let the people down this election.
Mr Obama always has gotten Favorable press coverage.
Anything unfavorable was brought up then buried fast.
Any favorable coverage of his opponents was very little. That got buried. The unfavorable was Plaster and ran for days. Even the headlines were horrible.
It truly influenced many votes.
ABC did have the best debate of the election. there should of been more like it.
The People needed to get to know the Candidates, how they answer questions, how they react, what they say. To little of that was done.
Mr Obama remains to be so secretive.
The many lies he has had about major things, That matter. lying about your family and friends. Show a persons Character.
The lies were just brushed away like they were nothing.
It was not campaign rhetoric. it was Character flaws. It was down right deceitful.
The international deceptions. Like the NAFTA deal. That was despicable for a US Senator to do. Tell the American People one thing, then go behind their backs to another countries leaders and tell them, he did not mean it.
Sure That is true Patriotism.
How many other nations has he done that with?
His bad Judgment and lies.
Did he not think someone would know he was lying when he said he barely knew Rezko?
Did he not think someone would know Ayers was more than just a guy in his neighborhood?
Most Amazing one was Wright. Telling the world he never heard his pastor say things like that while he was in Church.
When he got caught in that lie, he was not to happy.
He came back and said he did hear him.
Then went on with his speech which he eloquently called all Americans racist.
What a manipulator.

it was awful nice of you to note at the end that mccain is no more accessible to the press; perhaps an equally comprehensive of his daily ‘sams’ will be forthcoming? just in the name of fairness, don’t you know…

I don’t think the polls have been tightening at all.. they were earlier in the week.. but they went back to what they were after Obama’s outstanding infomercial.

Which polls are tightening? Obama is up or tied in every single battleground state Bush won in 2004 and he has all of Kerry’s states locked.

Welcome Reformed Democrat! Yet another new poster who just happpens to b a new poster and just happened to stop by to tell us he’s changing his vote. By golly, the monikers are almost all the same as if they had been drawn from a list. Let’s count how many McCain talking points you can get into one post 1) elite 2) little people 3) class warfare 4) prosperity (is joe the plumber coming soon or is he in nashvile?) 4) Yeah! Rezco 5) Hurrah! Wright! 6) Pelosi 7) Redistrubtion of wealth (where are taxes?) You missed taxes. And I am SO convinced that you were once a Democrat. After 8 years of Bush, all the Democrats are really, really happy with the Republican agenda.
Why don’t you people just say “I’m a Republican, always have been and always will be. There is no reason on earth to vote for this creature who is completely clueless on the economy, cannot remember from week to week what his position is (or changes it by the week) has fouled his own honor, and has no idea what victory in Iraq will look like or cost and has chosen the most idiotic nominee for VP in our country’s history. But I’m a Republican, so I’m gonna vote for him anyway.
By the way, I’m an independent.

Hang in there, Jake. Your blog is one of the few out there from the MSM that tells it like it is. Thank you for doing your job.

Jake, don’t feel bad. We won’t ignore you. Ask us any question you like, in fact, and I’m sure we’ll be happy to answer it. We’re with you Jake!

Can you be at all serious about a tough interview for Obama on MSNBC. They are the least credible of any “NEWs” on TV.
Olberman is pure hateful, his rants are as bad as O’Reilly to Barney Frank (D)(however had I been allowed to interview Frank I would have been worse as he has cost most Americans a lot.
Matthews gets chills up his leg when he hears Obama speak? This is a news person?
For those of you who have just tuned into the election, the Main stream media has covered up or very briefly covered anything that did not show worshipful news regarding Obama.
Obama believe in communism,-to Marxism. If this is not what you want for our Country, do some research on him before you vote.
Don’t let them take away our freedoms, they have started even before he is elected and it will be much worse if he is allowed to buy the White House.
Posted by: pbatrs | Nov 2, 2008 1:46:57 AM
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blah, blah, blah. Ya sure, whatever.

And Letterman asks: And what about G. Gordan Liddy?
McCain’s response: Who?
In 1998 Liddy hosted a fundraiser at his house for John McCain’s re-election campaign at which guests could have their pictures taken with McCain and Liddy.[7] Over the years, Liddy, who has referred to McCain as “an old friend,” has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator’s campaigns — including $1,000 in 2008.

I don’t know if this will get through the censors, but I’ll try anyway. There are a couple of great pieces at the NYT – and I am not always a big NYT fan. They could use a backbone again. But they are acting like there is an election in 2 days and they are acting like journalists.
The first is by Dowd, who can be trivial and vicious – but it is a paen to the John McCain of 2000 – a man I admired, respected and supported. I believe that the lead of this site did as well.
The second ends with this passage, and I wish that all journalists were treating this election with the gravity it deserves. This election is certainly not about the hogwash that has been spewed as news, it’s not about candidates being cozy with journalists, and it’s not even all about us.
“Vote for the candidate you think has the smarts, temperament and inspirational capacity to unify the country and steer our ship through what could be the rockiest shoals our generation has ever known. Your kids will thank you.”

Is there a point here somewhere? You do have the one liner at the end telling us McCain is just the same. I still don’t see why anyone speaks to much of the press, since you don’t look for an answer anyway. All I want is to have the election over and have my candidate dig into the rubbish heap Bush has made of the executive branch and the Constitution.

—Jake—
Do a day in the life report for us what you can do! who you talk too! what info they give you!! and what you report..
It would be interesting!

OBAMA’S ‘NATIONAL CIVILIAN SECURITY FORCE’ CALL:
IT MAY COST HIM THIS SUPPORTER’S VOTE
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/obamas-national-civilian-security-force-call-scary-11th-hour-revelation
OR http://members.nowpublic.com/scrivener

This is just the portent of things to come. Obama and Biden don’t like “tough” questions and have gotten a pass from the MSM.
Will Obama be able to get back to you once he’s in office and you ask him a pointed question, Jake?
I think Obama is in for a big wake up call once he takes office.

I hope Americans learn a lesson from this election. This isnt American idol and the collaspe of an Obama Adminstration will being with anti-war left he is bascally your pick remember when the bombs start flying because he will protect this country, dont say nothing. I understand this better than any democrat on this site. Once your base stops the checks and the big crowds, who will he fall back onto, us moderates, the conservatives, young folks, Obama is walking into a trap I feel sorry for him he is about make everyone second guess their vote just give it time

to Paul Newman
I am my brother’s keeper, blood is thicker and than kool-aid

At this point in time everything relevant that could be said has been said. At this point, It seems to me reporters are looking for copy, not truth – and would love to have a “gotcha” as a bonus. Everyone stay calm – the candidates wanting to reduce risk of a “gotcha” in the last 48 hours makes perfect sense. We know each of the candidates as well as we need to.

Jake: You’ve been going along with Obama for almost two years, and now you’re complaining? If Obama is elected, I hope you take responsibility.

It sounds like you’re fishing for controversy. Modern day criticisms of the news tend to be that it’s too liberal or too conservative, but I think the problem is that it’s focused on sensationalism. Perhaps it’s always been that way, but there’s certainly little substance to go along with the sound bites and controversy that reporters seem to relish. I’m wondering what kind of in-depth analysis you expected on the question about the polls?

You’ll soon have to address Obama as Mr. President.
“Mr. President how does it feel to be President?”

Better to get used to being demeaned now. If O is elected you will be shouting a lot of questions you won’t get an answer for. In all though, no worries because this (Obama)is what the media wanted…right?!

“Vote for the candidate you think has the smarts, temperament and inspirational capacity to unify the country and steer our ship through what could be the rockiest shoals our generation has ever known. Your kids will thank you.”
Sounds like right about now we can use a man who proved his metal by sacrificing 5 years of his life in an absolute hellhole for his country. I call THAT inspirational.
Hmmm… Now, who could that be?
I wish that guy still existed but, alas he doesn’t he allowed his handlers to turn him into someone else. I wouldn’t vote for that guy for Dog Catcher.

scooterfoot: Come now, anyone who has sat through a college Journalism class knows that the purpose of Journalism is to “Make a Difference”

Ask why he voted against legislation shielding homeowners from liability who protect their families with a hand gun from an intruder that breaks into their house? Ask why he voted against it 4 times!

Obama can’t answer w/o his teleprompter. William Ayers was the author of Dreams of my father. Just pick up a copy of Ayers’ “fugitive days” and “Dreams.” Jack Cashill has more research on his web site.

“Vote for the candidate you think has the smarts, temperament and inspirational capacity to unify the country and steer our ship through what could be the rockiest shoals our generation has ever known. Your kids will thank you.”
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Unify the country, now that right there is funny!!! I’ve never seen us more divided. As for stearing our ship, he’s got us headed straight for the rocks, tax increases in a recession = depression (go back and read your history books 1920′s). My kids will thank me for giving my vote to a man who will leave them a country and that is John McCain.

I am ever-intrigued and amused by “journalists” like Jake Tapper who feel an entitlement to information from anyone, just because they ask.
The sooner the public the media understand and accept there is no entitlement, the better off we all will be. Should someone, like a candidate for public office, choose to respond to questions from a journalist, that would be a blessing for the interviewer.
Journalists should stop their whining and complaining when they don’t get what they want. It makes them appear to be a 3 year old who throws a tantrum.
Quick! Someone dial 911 and ask for a “Waaaaaaaambulance!”

may be responsible for the death of 132 sailors.

Here’s one Jake: “Senator Obama…how do you expect Jewish Americans to vote for you when you are on tape toasting a PLO Terrorist?”
Here’s another:”Senator Obama…how do you expect Jewish Americans to vote for you when you have worshiped with Louis Farrakhan, the most anti-semitic religious leader in the USA?”

Here’s one Jake: “Senator Obama…how do you expect Jewish Americans to vote for you when you are on tape toasting a PLO Terrorist?”
Here’s another:”Senator Obama…how do you expect Jewish Americans to vote for you when you have worshiped with Louis Farrakhan, the most anti-semitic religious leader in the USA?”
Posted by: MBNA Joe | Nov 2, 2008 8:32:09 AM
Here’s one for McCain:
“Senator how do you expect Jewish Americans to vote for you when you were on a board that funded a PLO Terrorist?”

george —just go wet start your engine—WATCH THE CREW SCATTER AND LAUGH—–get a freaking truthfull education—-mccain was a total dissapointment to his father–

wish someone would come up with some of mccain speeches when he was the hanoi songbird——VERY INTERESTING.some of the things he accused the usa of.

ADMIRAL MCCAIN COMMANDER OF THE PACIFIC FLEET——DID ANYONE EVER WONDER WHY MCCAIN DONT TALK ABOUT HIM——mccain quite simply was a dummy and caused his father a great embarassment–he saved mccains butt–he was a great dissapointment to his father—you or i most likely would have been shot not a hero no way no how.

I stood in line 3 hours Tuesday to hear Obama in Norfolk, Va, 4 hours Thursday in Virginia Beach to hear Obama and 3.5 hours in Virginia Beach yesterday to vote for him. We do not hear Obama ridiculing McCain or Palin. Come on folks, we need to be GRACIOUS WINNERS!

Quick Election Recap on Obama Coverage:
Only “man of color” worthy of Obama’s metrosexual pedigree is Colin Powell – all others thrown under the bus. Media codes black members of Obama’s family the “paternal branch”. Vetting of Obama abruptly ended following “race-baiting” Clintonian tactics. Paying reparations or electing the less experiences candidate via affirmative action? Could Obama have survived Palinesque style interviews? SNL defers stuttering, inarticulate “off script” Obama in favor of bubblehead beauty queen Palin. Is America really prepared to be “bamboozled” into electing a man based on rhetoric over his record? White liberals openly appear to be provoking race riots, from the safety of their GOP-governed gate communities, to vent their frustration in case of Obama loss. Has America ever been less informed about the true record of ANY presidential candidate? Would video of Obama running from the rogue paparazzi trump Dukakis’ tank photo? Will Obama election be liberal media’s first coup since Nixon’s resignation?

HAMMER
OBAMA HAS BEEN VETED TO NO END–WHAT IS NEXT A RECTAL EXAM.

Of course he won’t answer any questions! Afterall, when he asked Joe for a question, Americans know what he is up to!
Did you hear about his 2001 radio interview? He definitely doesn’t agree with the Founding Father?
Obama doesn’t know that his aunt lives here illegally, just like he doesn’t know much about Khalidi, Ayers, Wright, Rezko, Thomas Raines, Frank Davis, Acorn etc, or that there are 50 states in the US, or he voted against Born alive Act. It is scarry how much this guy doesn’t know or his voters dont know much except that they will get tax refund at the end of the year.
Also, we don’t know any of his days at Columbia U or Harvard. No papertrail. What about his cocaine years? What about his trip to Pakistan during the year that Americans were not allowed to travel there?
Axelrod is very sleazy. What about the right of Joe the Plumber’s tax privacy? After all, Obama was the one that ask Joe for a question.
I guess that is okay to invade Joe’s private life but Obama’s aunt living here illegally for four years and using taxpayer money… how dare that comes out. How many millions more illegal donations did Obama get from illegal aliens or permanent resident instead of citizens and not to mention people who donate over the limit? Where is the check and balance and the public right to know who donated to this guy. The media is so pro Obama, it is embarrasing and Obama is buying young votes. The White House and the Presidency is being bought. More welfare handouts to those that do not earn them! I came from Asia to the States 24 years ago to achieve the American dreams and I am worried what Obama will do to this awesome country.
I expect the media to send their swat teams to the Boston Public Housing and camp there as they did to Joe the Plumber!!
Quickly go find the Woman and interview her why she breaks the US immigration Law. This needs to be front page of all media outlets just like Joe the Plumber story or Sarah Palin wardrobe… I am waiting for some action here!!!! Hurry Media people. Need to see your people fly to Boston and your vans park in front of her apartment.
This is not so much about her aunt being here illegally for four years and broke the immigration law but about Obama’s lies and hypocricy and media bias!
Obama was called upon to visit the military this summer. He skipped one of the stop. However, he did a detour and talked to the German as “Citizen of the World”. I believe that the $700,000 of campaign money used to pay a German event producer to buy the world votes should be put better use to help the injured veterans, or help Blacks at the Housing Projects or war torn African nations family and children. What about the 832,00 to ACORN voter fraught? Let’s spread other people’s wealth but let’s spread Obama’s wealth to promote Obama. That’s all this guy being doing all his short years in Senate.Obama is a Hypocrite and his supporters are ignorant!
Instead, please world “Worship the One”
Obama supporters, please drop to your knees and chant this word….
‘We are not worthy, we are not worthy
Why is it when the people have legit questions about Obama’s fishy association, we are called “Racist”. I can never understand that!