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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
From the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll:
“Registered voters by a 24-point margin, 59-35 percent, now say McCain is more focused on attacking his opponent rather than addressing the issues. That’s grown from a roughly even 48-45 percent split on this question in late August.
There’s far less criticism of the tone of Obama’s campaign: Registered voters by 68-26 percent say he’s mainly addressing the issues, not attacking his opponent, a slightly more positive rating than in August.
The deciding factor, as ever in presidential politics, is independents. They see McCain as mainly attacking his opponent, by 61-33 percent, but Obama as mainly addressing the issues, by 68 -26 percent.”
The diehards on the right will dismiss such findings as more liberal media disinformation. But you can tell by its actions that the McCain camp’s internal polling is telling it the same thing. Attacking Obama is worse than useless — it ends up hurting McCain. But they don’t seem to have a more viable option.
Even the ever-smarmy Bill Kristol — days after insisting that McCain had to go negative — is now preaching a turn to sunny positivism. In his NY Times column, he advises McCain to “do town halls, do the Sunday TV shows, do talk radio — and invite Obama and Biden to join them in some of these venues, on the ground that more joint appearances might restore civility and substance to the contest.”
Kristol goes on:
“The bad news, of course, is that right now Obama’s approval/disapproval rating is better than McCain’s. Indeed, Obama’s is a bit higher than it was a month ago. That suggests the failure of the McCain campaign’s attacks on Obama.
So drop them.”
Of course, that advice comes shortly after Kristol drops this little neutron bomb:
“(McCain’s) campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.”
And speaking NY Times columnists, congratulations to Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics. Not too shabby, Mr. Krugman, not too shabby….
Comments
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
John McSame should just go ahead and fold up his campaign tent — he’s been mismanaged one time too many, and he appears to be peeing all over himself every week on the campaign trail.
Pee-ewwww!
By Bosch
October 13, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this
That’s what McCain doesn’t understand about Independent voters - they are not the true bloods of the party. They read and think. They don’t vote based on what the party tells them too.
In other words, they’re smart and read and think for themselves.
They might listen to this Ayers nonsense, but they can deduct that it’s only an distraction.
By Joey
October 13, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
why would McCain take Kristor’s advise at anytime? Or Bookman’s advise.
Obama’s ties to Ayers, Wright, Resko and Farrakan are all valid issues. As is Obama’s Iraq policy. Iran or N. Korea. Tax and spend policy. Federal Healthcare. Lack of experience. Inability to cast a yes or no vote. Ties to ACORN.
By Bosch
October 13, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Joey,
“Obama’s ties to Ayers, Wright, Resko and Farrakan are all valid issues”
Only to you, who would vote for a rabid monkey if it had an (R) next to it’s name. To Independent voters, it isn’t.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 13, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Joey
Do you know how to use the google?
John Singlaub
David Ifshin
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
I believe that McSame’s ties to Keating, G. Gordon Liddy, Oliver North, GWB, and various other criminals could be used as rhetoric to say that McSame is “not an American like you and me” because he pals arounds with criminals — but, then we’d never get any real problems solved by focusing on that, now would we?
Most Americans have found that’s it’s a lot easier to just ignore the Repug Party and all their petty, hateful rhetoric, because Americans have all got other things on our minds these days…
By paisana
October 13, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
What is the difference between Bill Ayers and Eric Robert Rudolph? Wealthy parents and a team of high-priced lawyers.
By Slick
October 13, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Jay
I have always thought this campaign features a Smart One vs a Dumb One. It was very obvious when Obama (The Smart One), and McCain (The Dumb One) were nominated by their respective parties - and it has continued as a Smart Campaign vs a Dumb Campaign.
The Smart/Dumb analogy was magnified by the selection of VP nominees. The Smart Campaign selected a Smart running mate, and the Dumb Campaign selected a Dumb running mate.
Smart voters support the Smart Campaign. Dumb voters support the Dumb Campaign. This is represented by the TRULY Dumb posters on this blog!! You Dummies know who you are - and so do all of the Smart posters!! Intelligence vs Ignorance!
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Who is John McSame and why does he continue to pal around with criminals?
McCain Camp Touts Ollie North Endorsement
I guess there’s only certain criminals that are acceptable for palling around with, according to the GOP…
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
Tell me again why William Kristol has a job?
By RealityKing
October 13, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Progressive media corruption is the only reason Obama is even in this race. And if he wins.., you liberals can expect a very big let down during next years budget battles and tax reciept collections, not that you really care.
Of course, middle America will once again end up paying, just as it did in the Clinton administration. You know, the one Obama now says he plans on immulating. It will no doubt be called “The patriotic thing to do..”
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
Paisana @ 11:33 — and what’s the difference between John McSame and “Baghdad Bob”??? Why, nothing, you might conclude…
McCain Calls War in Iraq ‘Easy Victory’
By Dusty
October 13, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this
Errr Bookman,
When are you going to start using the POSITIVE APPROACH? Any new dirt on Sarah that you will repeat later today?
By swolf4810
October 13, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
I am an Independant and moderate; therefore I THINK before I vote. Take that, McCain.
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
you liberals can expect a very big let down during next years budget battles and tax reciept collections
Non-Reality @ 11:43 — yes, and we can certainly thank your guy W for the biggest mess created since 1929… what a legacy, yes???
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
I noticed that Commie was flailing around in the dead thread, demanding that I provide evidence that Republicans had done poorly for minorities.
Here it is. There are many big words but all the proof you need is there.
and here is a taste:
“The point of the present report is to suggest that almost all previous analyses have missed what may be the most important influence on the changing U.S. income distribution over the past half-century – the contrasting policy choices of Democratic and Republican presidents. Under Democratic administrations income growth has been more vigorous among the poor than among the rich; under Republican administrations the reverse has been true. The cumulative effect of these differences has been enormous. For example, my projections suggest that income inequality (as measured by the ratio of incomes at the 80th percentile of the income distribution to those at the 20th percentile) would actually have declined slightly over the past thirty years had the patterns of income growth actually observed during Democratic administrations been in effect throughout that period; conversely, continuous application of the patterns of income growth actually observed during periods of Republican control would have produced an even greater divergence in the economic fortunes of rich and poor, with the 80/20 income ratio growing more than 80 percent faster than it actually did.”
Since minorities tend to be over-represented among the lower income population, what I posted stands.
By lrd
October 13, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
If you want to see what is next from McCain’s Campaign, flip over to drudge and look at the “headline” picture. Can see that being used very much like the ” Call Me Add” that brought down Ford in TN during the Senate race. The issue is will the McCain step down to that level? They have the matches and the gas, do they really want to start that fire?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 13, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
Krugman, hahaha.
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Oh, I get it, the liberal house organ and propaganda rag for thee Oblahma campaign would like us to stop the negative attacks because it is hurting us.
We’ll be sure to take it under consideration, yep.
Obama’s minister: U.S. ‘No. 1 killer in the world’ Candidate’s role model claims America made AIDS to wipe out blacks
By paisana
October 13, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
Someone named Goldie just posted a non-sequitor
By paisana
October 13, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Goldie just posted a non-sequitur
By lrd
October 13, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Or how about this Minister and his thoughts on AIDS “AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals” Jerry Falwell
By TW
October 13, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday.
Krugman says ‘Obama.’
Bush says ‘McCain.’
Easy one.
By Mike
October 13, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
“And speaking NY Times columnists, congratulations to Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics. Not too shabby, Mr. Krugman, not too shabby….”
Actually, it’s really shabby. The Nobel committee couldn’t find an economist who isn’t a hateful and divisive partisan?
Apparently, being a mindless liberal partisan is the best method to win an award. We’ve seen the Nobel awarded to Jimmy Carter and Al Gore. Oscars won by Al Gore and Michael Moore. Pulitzers won by Cynthia Tucker.
What to the above people have in common? They didn’t deserve the award they were granted and they were particularly nasty liberal demogogues who felt the need to demonize any who dared not to share their narrow and intolerant view of the world. Krugman is just the latest award recipient selected for his politics instead of excellence in his field. As a result, these awards has become as meaningless as the notion of an honest and unbiased press.
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
Americans certainly cannot trust John McSame, with all of his criminal pals hanging around him…
John McSame — Unfit To Be President.
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
Ird @ 12.06, the 2000 edition of John McCain called Fallwell an “agent of intolerance.”
I kinda liked that John McCain.
The guy who’s desperate to whip up the base and cling to independents by lying about Obama’s tax proposals? The 2008 McCain? not so much.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 13, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
Everybody should go read the comments at the end of the last thread, the peace “loving” liberals have staked a claim to Jesus Christ and have made him an angry God who rips and tears at people because of their political beliefs.
By RealityKing
October 13, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
The good news is that most of us will be elgible to collect the maximum under Obama’s tax cut plans next year, while we’re unemployeed of course…
By Jesse Kally-Williams
October 13, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Now we read that McCain is going to have a new “start” three weeks to the election. One does not have to be an Obama’s supporter to question whether that is how McCain is going to run his White House in the face the crises America find itself in now. Yesterday mistake, today a change of strategy, tomorrow realisation of failure, a day after tomorrow a retract, four days later a new start¨! Can the American socio-economic and war-time situation attune to such a leadership approach?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 13, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Amidst all the volatility and uncertainty in the financial markets these days, one thing is definite: Come October 16, Uncle Sam will announce the cost-of-living adjustment for 34 million Americans who now receive Social Security benefits!!!!!!-Yahoo
Oh, joy!!
That means the average monthly benefit could rise to about $1,142 from $1,079 now, a $63 increase.
Wow, 63 bucks, what will we do with thee windfall!?!?
liberals are the most ignorant creatures that have ever breathed the air of God’s great Earth, they spend their stupid, pointless lives rebelling against authority and then promptly turn their as-ses over to the sorriest authority in the world, the federal government.
You dimwits deserve what you get.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 13, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Pray tell, did McCain spend twenty years in the pews of Jerry Falwell’s church?
Hmmm?
By Goldie
October 13, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this
Americans in-the-know remember Baghdad Bob as a very bad propagandist — very much like John McSame, with his “winning in Iraq will be easy” rhetoric:
On April 7, 2003, al-Sahhaf claimed that there were no American troops in Baghdad, and that the Americans were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city’s gates. At that time, American tanks were patrolling the streets only a few hundred yards from the location where the press conference was held. His last public appearance as Information Minister was on April 8, 2003, when he said that the Americans “are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender”.
Yep, John McSame’s propaganda is about as truthful as ole Baghdad Bob’s was 5 years ago…
John McSame — Unfit To Be President.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 13, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
And check out this claim, Oblahma spent twenty years in a church and didn’t pay attention to the preacher, haha.
Was it all just too much for his little mind?
And the goony liberals just lap it all up.
By RW-(the original)
October 13, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
I can’t imagine why Jay B’s ABC/WaPo poll came out the way it did.
METHODOLOGY – This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone Oct. 8-11, 2008, among a random sample of 945 registered voters including oversamples of African Americans and 18- to 29-year-olds (weighted to their correct share of the population), for a total of 134 black respondents and 142 18- to 29-year olds. Results among registered voters have a 3-point error margin. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, PA.
Nope, can’t imagine it at all.
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Are any reporters back from Wasilla? If so I think they should take a nice Caribbean vacation to , oh let’s say Martinique. Perhaps they could have dinner and cocktails with Vera Baker and find out just what she’s doing stashed away over there.
By Danny the red
October 13, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
All the papers in the UK and Europe and hailing the Krugman nobel prize announcement as vindication for the “Bush critic” economist.
In Germany for example: “Bush Kritiker gewinnt Nobelpreis” (Bush critic wins nobel prize) (http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article2571034/Wirtschafts-Nobelpreis-fuer-Bush-Kritiker-Krugman.html)
I join them in their focusing on that fact.
Nicely done, Mr. Krugman, nicely done.
By lrd
October 13, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Actually, is not McCain now a Baptist, yet for some reason he has never been baptised into the Church. A play on people maybe? I mean you dont think he would be “born again” yet not take the step of being re-born do you?> He could not be that hypocritical now could he?
No McCain was not in Falwells church but labled Falwell as another “agent of intolerance”. UNTIL McCain needed the Rights support, then he stated he spoke to hastily.
By Copyleft
October 13, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
As the debates made clear, Obama has ideas. McLame has complaints.
The results speak for themselves.
By Swami Dave
October 13, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately, Senator Obama would never have to raised any such associations if they existed. The mainstream media would make it story #1 every night and on every front page.
However, when Senator McCain raises the questions that the media should be highlighting in their supposed role as objective journalists, he is “negative”.
Pretty much the same that -if- the media actually described Senator Obama’s economic policies for what they are - theft - nobody (that was not themselves a thief by expectation that they would benefit from redistribution of confiscated earnings) would vote to support it.
For those confused, theft is taking something that belongs to someone else against their will with no exchange in value. Regardless of whether you do it with legislation, with a gun, or with fraud as many on Wall Street recently did, the highlight is the same - you’re a thief!
-Swami Dave
By "The Corporal"
October 13, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
JUST BREAKING IN THE NEWS:
THIS IS NOT AN EASY READ (AND IS BASICALLY A FORENSIC ARTICLE ESPECIALLY THE LAST HALF) BUT IT IS “FASCINATING” IN ITS IMPLICATIONS THAT AYERS (THE TERRORIST) GHOST WROTE OBAMA’S BOOK (“DREAMS OF MY FATHER”) ……………………..
OBAMA COULD PUT THIS ALL TO REST BY ANSWERING A SIMPLE QUESTION. DID AYERS HELP HIM WRITE IT OR NOT?
DON’T LOOK FOR THE MAINSTREAM PRESS TO PICK THIS UP. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/whowrotedreamsfrommyfathe1.html
By Hillbilly Deluxe
October 13, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
I’m gonna vote for McCain as the lesser of two evils but the simple fact is he blew whatever chance he had by running a poor campaign.
By getalife
October 13, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
Forget Buffet, he has a major conflict of interest.
Krugman is the man I listen to.
Lets see what he has to say today:
He says Brown saved the day
By "The Corporal"
October 13, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
Who wrote the book?
Try this again plus the article from the Toledo Blade:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/whowrotedreamsfrommyfathe1.html
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/COLUMNIST14/810119898/-1/NEWS
By Midori
October 13, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
Actually, it’s really shabby. The Nobel committee couldn’t find an economist who isn’t a hateful and divisive partisan?
Irony alert!!!!
that post was posted by a hateful and divisive partisan!!
WHAT WILL WE TELL THE CHILDREN???
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
RW @ 12.22, do you really not understand what the phrase “(weighted to their correct share of the population)” means in this context?
Corporal @ 12.48, do you really not know that last week we already had ourselves a hearty laugh at the conspiratorial “American Stinker” piece you just linked to as “JUST BREAKING IN THE NEWS”?
By Abomi Nation
October 13, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this
Todays Gallup 51%- 41%, Guess Who?
New reality show:
“Guess who’s coming to Dinner: The White House Years.
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
Mr. Deluxe @ 12.42, do you think Bob Barr might more accurately reflect your take on the issues than John McCain?
If so, do you feel it would be “throwing away your vote” to cast it for Barr?
Not a “gotcha”, just curious.
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 13, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
Corporal
Ayers didn’t write Obama’s book…..
John Singlaub wrote McCains last book and David Ifshin wrote the one before that.
They both had a preface by Joseph Mengele and a prologue by Vlad the Impaler.
Hey Corporal….I have some land I can let go of for a real special price, interested?
And this car I want to sell….only driven by a church lady on Sunday’s….
By ByteMe
October 13, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this
getalife: Brown did not save the day. Doing what Britain/Sweden/etc. are doing by re-capitalizing banks is solves today’s problem, but not the underlying cause. The problem is one of transparency, not liquidity. Throwing money at the problem will ease the current credit problems.
However, regulating the derivatives (CDS) market and forcing banks to open up their books so we can see how much risk they have on their books is the only steps that will solve the crisis. And those steps need to be taken by Congress in conjunction with the President. And likely won’t happen until after the election.
By getalife
October 13, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
Thanks ByteMe.
By RW-(the original)
October 13, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
Yes ragger,
It’s explained in the very next sentence and they don’t even tell you the breakdown in party affiliation of their sample.
By RealityKing
October 13, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity, as if the most daft of us can not see the exact same results. He also writes a regular NYT hate column and blog called “Conscience of a Liberal.” Image that.. And according to the economics prize committee: “Krugman is not only a scientist but also an opinion maker. Krugman’s analyses tend to back free trade and his research gives no support for protectionism”. What!? You mean Krugman’s own analyses goes directly against the Obama liberalism he claims to support!!??
Hmmmmm.., is Krugman backing the free trade ideals of republicanism while covertly using the mindless hate of liberals to advance his own economics career? Not that there’s anything wrong with that..
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
RW, not to get too far into the weeds, but I’m really not getting your complaints about the methodology. I went to the ABC site and found another story about this particular poll, also looked at the backgrounder pdf.
I think this is the stat you’re looking for: “39 percent identify themselves as Democrats, 30 percent as Republicans, the rest as independents or something else. If that holds on Election Day it’ll be a departure from turnout in presidential elections since 1984, in which Democrats have held at most a 4-point edge.”
Are you saying that this is an inherently biased sample? That 39% Dem/30% Rep self-identification is out of bounds, and the results (which claim a 3% moe) shouldn’t be trusted?
If so, why?
By RW-(the original)
October 13, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this
ragger,
I’m afraid you’ve gone so far into the weeds that you got lost and can’t find your way back.
For one thing you’re mixing and matching two different polls and for another your 39%/30% isn’t a sample breakdown it’s what they claim as a result.
By Sam Osborne
October 13, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
The party is over and John McCain seems bent on staggering home with the lampshade on his head—-the poison he and his campaign are desperately pouring around is going to leave the entire Republican Party with a hangover to forget and forget and forget.
By Sam Osborne
October 13, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
The party is over and John McCain seems bent on staggering home with the lampshade on his head—-the poison he and his campaign are desperately pouring around is going to leave the entire Republican Party with a hangover to forget and forget and forget.
By Sam Osborne
October 13, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
The party is over and John McCain seems bent on staggering home with the lampshade on his head—-the poison he and his campaign are desperately pouring around is going to leave the entire Republican Party with a hangover to forget and forget and forget.
By Sam Osborne
October 13, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
The party is over and John McCain seems bent on staggering home with the lampshade on his head—-the poison he and his campaign are desperately pouring around is going to leave the entire Republican Party with a hangover to forget and forget and forget.
By Hillbilly Deluxe
October 13, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
to Mr. Ragger @ 1:14
I don’t think Barr would more closely reflect my views. I’m not a libertarian though they have some good ideas. I don’t think you can just let people run wild. (See Wall Street..haha). Also there is something about Barr that gives me a queasy feeling, always has. Not really rational but sometimes you have to trust your gut.
As for voting for Barr if he reflected my views, I don’t think you ever “throw your vote away” by voting your conscience.
I have yet to make up my mind in the Senate race although I know I won’t vote for Saxby.
And I often vote for people I know are bound to lose in local races. The good thing about living in a rural area though is you know everybody’s character. You don’t have to guess at it.
By AJC/DNC Management
October 13, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
By RealityKing October 13, 2008 1:38 PM Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect trade patterns and the location of economic activity, as if the most daft of us can not see the exact same results. He also writes a regular NYT hate column and blog called “Conscience of a Liberal.” Image that.
Not only that, my man, Krugman is a former Enron adviser.
We all know how well they did.
By "The Corporal"
October 13, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
To HillBilly Ragger
Mr. Ayers did not ghost write my book. I did not cooperate with that “MAN” William Ayers. SOUND FAMILIAR?
ALL HE HAS TO DO IS SAY “YES OR NO”. It’s a very easy question to answer.
By hillbilly ragger
October 13, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
“I’m afraid you’ve gone so far into the weeds that you got lost and can’t find your way back.”
I think it was Lincoln who said he never got lost, but that he was a mite bewildered for three days, once.
I’ll just assume you’re thinking that ABC/WaPo is oversampling Dems—that right?
By Midori
October 13, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Corporal,
perhaps you should enlist the services of The Scooby Doo Detective Agency.
They should be able to get to the bottom of the Ayers question.
As well as tracking down Obama’s terrorist birth certificate, too.
FREE SHAGGY!!!
By "The Corporal"
October 13, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
To Midori
It’s a simple question. All he has to do is answer it. Did Ayers help him write it or not?
By AJC/DNC Management
October 13, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
Obama Tells Tax-Burdened Plumber the Plan is to ‘Spread the Wealth Around’
By Midori
October 13, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
To corporal
WHAT F*CKING DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?????
And this is an issue WHY?
You present a different non issue each week - and you’re getting sillier with each one.
By Midori
October 13, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
McCain campaign attacks Bill Kristol: ‘He’s bought into the Obama campaign’s party line
Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol said John McCain’s campaign has really become “a pathetic campaign.” In his New York Times op-ed this morning, Kristol went further, suggesting that McCain should “fire his campaign” and “start over.” Asked to respond to Kristol’s criticisms, McCain campaign spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer said on Fox News:
Well, you know Bill is entitled to his perspective. And I used to work for Bill. And I can tell you personally sometimes he’s brilliant and sometimes he’s not. And this is one where it’s the latter category. You know, I think unfortunately he has bought into the Obama campaign’s party line.when NeoCons attack!!
By lostindixie
October 13, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
If anyone is interested in neutral investigation of the supposed Obama-Ayers relationship.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/790/
By "The Corporal"
October 13, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
To Midori
Calm down Midori. You are going to have a coronary and I don’t want to be held responsible.
It makes a difference because it’s important to many voters to know if the relationship between Obama/Ayres (an unrepented terrorist) was much closer than we previously suspected.
It’s a very simple question he can answer. Did Ayers help him write the book? Yes or No.
By E
October 13, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this
A question I wish Bob Schieffer would ask McCain in the debate Wednesday night:
Obama was 8 years old when Weather Underground bombed anything.
You were an adult, and a U.S. Senator, when you tried to influence regulation of Keating.
What is the difference between the inaction of an innocent 8 year old, and the action of a participating adult?
Obama/Biden ‘08
By Danny the red
October 13, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
Did someone say “mindless hate”?
By Danny the red
October 13, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
Hee hee. That’s a good one.
By Danny the red
October 13, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this
Hee hee. That’s a good one.
By "The Corporal"
October 13, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
To E
Maybe not to you, but to most Americans a Keating (fraud) is a lot different from an Ayers (treasonous terrorist).
TRY AGAIN !
By Mrs. Godzilla
October 13, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this
Corporal
And McCain’s eulogy at David Ifshin’s funeral?
I mean Ifshin and Jane Fonda in Vietnam….Ifshin broadcasting on Viet Cong radio…..into McCain’s cage….while McCain was in it?
And McCain’s relationship isn’t a question?
By "The Corporal"
October 13, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
To Mrs. Godzilla
Just this one time so you’ll know. You and I no longer dialogue.
You are a veteran’s wife but you crossed the line a long time ago.
By Sick of the Liberal Media Running This Election
October 13, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this
I want all you idiots out there that believe everything you hear from the media to remember that the media talked you into the nightmare that will be an Obama presidency if he wins.
You are mindless idiots who don’t have a single individual thought who listen to the liberal media tell you who to vote for. Well, I’m telling you so now. And I will tell you so again when you are shaking your heads and saying, gee whiz, we didn’t know he was like that.
As far as Acorn and their voter registration fraud goes…….
The left-wing activist group, ACORN, is now under investigation for voter registration fraud in a number of battleground states. ACORN’s political action committee has endorsed Barack Obama and Senator Obama himself has said, “I have been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.” The Obama Campaign even paid more than $800,000 to an ACORN affiliate for “get out the vote activity.” And now we find out that ACORN is suspected of voter registration fraud.
But, the Obama-Biden Democrats would rather sweep these facts under the rug and use their mainstream media allies to bury this story.
When are you people going to get it? Obama was picketing banks in Chicago with Acorn to allow more relaxed standards for poor blacks to get mortgages when he was a Community Manager. And he says it is all the Republicans fault? Get real. It is the truth gonna have to knock you in the head for you to get it?
The man is trouble and he will be trouble for our nation. Don’t be fooled by the media. Think for yourselves and read the real facts!
By zorg
October 14, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this
The Turnaround Begins:
McCain Vows to Stop Voting with Bush 90 Percent of the Time