Looks Like John McCain Heard You * Open Thread
By Ani on October 13, 2008 at 8:40 PM in Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin
There has been a great deal of second guessing of John McCain’s campaign these past few days, prompted perhaps by anger and fear on the part of many Americans who are looking for genuine leadership and concrete policies that are going to steer us out of the mess in which we currently find ourselves. We certainly are not getting any of that from Senator Obama.
We not only want solutions. We want retribution. And many are now looking to Senator McCain to see if he can provide strong leadership, sensible policies and commit to the accountability we are seeking. For those of you raising your voices up, it looks like John McCain heard you.
His response comes in the form of a speech he delivered earlier today at a McCain/Palin rally in Virginia Beach, VA:
Three weeks from now, you will choose a new President. Choose well. There is much at stake.
These are hard times. Our economy is in crisis. Financial markets are collapsing. Credit is drying up. Your savings are in danger. Your retirement is at risk. Jobs are disappearing. The cost of health care, your children’s college, gasoline and groceries are rising all the time with no end in sight. While your most important asset — your home — is losing value every day.
Americans are fighting in two wars. We face many enemies in this dangerous world, and they are waiting to see if our current troubles will permanently weaken us.
The next President won’t have time to get used to the office. He won’t have the luxury of studying up on the issues before he acts. He will have to act immediately. And to do that, he will need experience, courage, judgment and a bold plan of action to take this country in a new direction. We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change. The hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch. We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now. We have to fight.
I’ve been fighting for this country since I was seventeen years old, and I have the scars to prove it. If I’m elected President, I will fight to take America in a new direction from my first day in office until my last. I’m not afraid of the fight, I’m ready for it.
I’m not going to spend $700 billion dollars of your money just bailing out the Wall Street bankers and brokers who got us into this mess. I’m going to make sure we take care of the people who were devastated by the excesses of Wall Street and Washington. I’m going to spend a lot of that money to bring relief to you, and I’m not going to wait sixty days to start doing it.
I have a plan to protect the value of your home and get it rising again by buying up bad mortgages and refinancing them so if your neighbor defaults he doesn’t bring down the value of your house with him.
I have a plan to let retirees and people nearing retirement keep their money in their retirement accounts longer so they can rebuild their savings.
I have a plan to rebuild the retirement savings of every worker.
I have a plan to hold the line on taxes and cut them to make America more competitive and create jobs here at home.
Raising taxes makes a bad economy much worse. Keeping taxes low creates jobs, keeps money in your hands and strengthens our economy.
The explosion of government spending over the last eight years has put us deeper in debt to foreign countries that don’t have our best interests at heart. It weakened the dollar and made everything you buy more expensive.
If I’m elected President, I won’t spend nearly a trillion dollars more of your money, on top of the $700 billion we just gave the Treasury Secretary, as Senator Obama proposes. Because he can’t do that without raising your taxes or digging us further into debt. I’m going to make government live on a budget just like you do.
I will freeze government spending on all but the most important programs like defense, veterans care, Social Security and health care until we scrub every single government program and get rid of the ones that aren’t working for the American people. And I will veto every single pork barrel bill Congresses passes.
If I’m elected President, I won’t fine small businesses and families with children, as Senator Obama proposes, to force them into a new huge government run health care program, while I keep the cost of the fine a secret until I hit you with it. I will bring down the skyrocketing cost of health care with competition and choice to lower your premiums, and make it more available to more Americans. I’ll make sure you can keep the same health plan if you change jobs or leave a job to stay home.
I will provide every single American family with a $5000 refundable tax credit to help them purchase insurance. Workers who already have health care insurance from their employers will keep it and have more money to cover costs. Workers who don’t have health insurance can use it to find a policy anywhere in this country to meet their basic needs.
If I’m elected President, I won’t raise taxes on small businesses, as Senator Obama proposes, and force them to cut jobs. I will keep small business taxes where they are, help them keep their costs low, and let them spend their earnings to create more jobs.
If I’m elected President, I won’t make it harder to sell our goods overseas and kill more jobs as Senator Obama proposes. I will open new markets to goods made in America and make sure our trade is free and fair. And I’ll make sure we help workers who’ve lost a job that won’t come back find a new one that won’t go away.
The last President to raise taxes and restrict trade in a bad economy as Senator Obama proposes was Herbert Hoover. That didn’t turn out too well. They say those who don’t learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Well, my friends, I know my history lessons, and I sure won’t make the mistakes Senator Obama will.
If I’m elected President, we’re going to stop sending $700 billion to countries that don’t like us very much. I won’t argue to delay drilling for more oil and gas and building new nuclear power plants in America, as Senator Obama does. We will start new drilling now. We will invest in all energy alternatives — nuclear, wind, solar, and tide. We will encourage the manufacture of hybrid, flex fuel and electric automobiles. We will invest in clean coal technology. We will lower the cost of energy within months, and we will create millions of new jobs.
Let me give you the state of the race today. We have 22 days to go. We’re 6 points down. The national media has written us off. Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.
What America needs in this hour is a fighter; someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people. I come from a long line of McCains who believed that to love America is to fight for her. I have fought for you most of my life. There are other ways to love this country, but I’ve never been the kind to do it from the sidelines.
I know you’re worried. America is a great country, but we are at a moment of national crisis that will determine our future. Will we continue to lead the world’s economies or will we be overtaken? Will the world become safer or more dangerous? Will our military remain the strongest in the world? Will our children and grandchildren’s future be brighter than ours?
My answer to you is yes. Yes, we will lead. Yes, we will prosper. Yes, we will be safer. Yes, we will pass on to our children a stronger, better country. But we must be prepared to act swiftly, boldly, with courage and wisdom.
I know what fear feels like. It’s a thief in the night who robs your strength.
I know what hopelessness feels like. It’s an enemy who defeats your will.
I felt those things once before. I will never let them in again. I’m an American. And I choose to fight.
Don’t give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight.
Fight for a new direction for our country.
Fight for what’s right for America.
Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting and selfishness in Washington.
Fight to get our economy out of the ditch and back in the lead.
Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.
Fight for our children’s future.
Fight for justice and opportunity for all.
Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. Nothing is inevitable here. We never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.
Now, let’s go win this election and get this country moving again.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like he may also be channelin’ him a little Hillary!
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Excellent! Exactly what we wanted.
Details. Substance. Who said they don’t win elections?
The invasion of inevitability trolls and poll trolls.
I really like Senator McCain. Having been a lifelong Democrat, I wouldn’t even have listened to word one if it were not for the sneaky, subversive tactics undertaken by the dNC and the important Kennedy members.
Barry Soetero, if elected, will not have to study up on anything as Bill and Bernardine will tell him exactly what to do in an instant.
Right, Ed Rendell? Your guy is “closing in” according to Hillary. Cool. Are you guys going to work for Odinga next time, too?
Imagine the pair of them sleeping over in the Lincoln bedroom… Bill wearing the ring made from the metal of a downed U.S. fighter plane… Bernadine just digging it.
Can’t wait to read their new slop. It will probably be mandated anyway.
James-
Ditto to everything you said and…
I would add one more thing- V I S I O N.
This is a wonderful speech.
This is what I was waiting for Sen mcCain to say.
Written from the heart. Not just puppeted words.
I loved this part too. You believe what McCain says unlike Obama. McCain has lived a life that defined him clearly.
Yes, it was beautiful, but the statement immediately following it was even better:
Would you give a security clearence to someone in your cabinet who was raised in Indonesia, had a Pakistani roommate, can’t divulge former friends’ names from college, can’t give an address where they lived while attending Columbia University, traveled to Pakistan for 6 weeks, friends with Ayers, Farrakhan, Rashid Khalid, Cousin to Odingo, and smoked crack cocaine?
Need I say more?
If you’ve never filled out an application for a government job, you might not know this (I have):
On you application, you have to fill out Completely all the places you have lived, by date, with complete addresses; you have to give all of your employers, complete with dates. If there are dates you weren’t employed, you have to account for them. I still have the last application I filled out — you never throw that stuff away because you might need it down the line. Evidently, to be President of the United States, you don’t need any past history information. I also had to release my transcripts to my prospective employer.
If there was a period of time that I traveled and was not employed, that time had to be accounted for.
So, what’s with Obama, that he can’t even provide the bare minimum of information.
How transparent will his administration be?
Since my husband and I have both held government jobs, we have a file where we keep all our addresses, and the other info we have needed when filing for whatever the government has asked us for.
Why doesn’t Barky have this? Especially in the information age?
and who probably can’t pass a pee test
I know what fear feels like. It’s a thief in the night who robs your strength.
I know what hopelessness feels like. It’s an enemy who defeats your will.
I felt those things once before. I will never let them in again. I’m an American. And I choose to fight.
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John McCain will be a great President. He has paid a great price for his experience but he is ready on day one to lead this great nation out of its troubles.
Couldn’t agree more….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D0×0TtOZPo
If he was really listening he’d have heard:
1) lay off abortion and embryonic stem cell research restrictions - most Americans are a) pro-choice & pro-embryonic stem cell research and b) DON’T WANT GOVERNMENT LEGISLATING RELIGIOUS ISSUES
2) are ticked off that after we were responsible, sacrificed, and saved, we have to bail out people who have good jobs and KNOWINGLY signed on the dotted line for a free lunch mortgage - this isn’t an abstract, we all know people like that who put no money down and said we were dumb for saving up 20%, people who bought McMansions they couldn’t afford without a crazy loan THEY UNDERSTOOD and cashed out and bought SUV’s and said we were dumb for not doing the same.
Real people are saying all these things. Is he listening? I wonder.
msindy:
Please do not leave out the Sellers and what their part was in this. They knowingly sold or flipped a house they bought for $70k and sold it for $650k. Any home/land sold for more than 5 percent a year annual appreciation (the historical norm) should be investigated and prosecuted.
On all failed mortgages, the government needs to go after sellers who profited despite loan fraud. In all cases, the US should prosecute these profiteers and the realtors involved should give back their commissions since a valid, legal sale was not the result.
And yes, he is listening. Part of his mortgage plan is to make all mortgages recourse loans which is a deterant to the “walk-aways” on the non-recourse loans.
imo, a permanent black mark should be placed on the credit profiles of all those who’ve been foreclosed on from 2005 - 2015. Never again should any of them who contributed to this world crisis be able to secure a home loan. Let them pay cash.
MG-PUMA
There we go again. Blame the borrower or broker.
Downthread (recent archives) explains who is really to blame..Can you spell WALLSTREET CEO’s & FHA?
Read shutuey’s thread from a couple days ago. The analysis is all there of who is to blame and how it occured. This is the most accurate compilation of the problem. Stop blaming the little people please.
lisa in va -
bizarrely i cannot link to BBC since u made your request for URLS on justin webbs blog articles. they are always midway down the homepage on the left-hand side where it has all the other US election headlines. webb’s stuff is quoted underneath the headlines and you click there. once you open his latest piece “pilot” etc, you can click “previous” at the top and find the “getting angry” one. anyways, here they are - i simply got them in a google search tho i cannot then open them. wonder what is happening!
also i just tried to post this comment with the URLS but it didn’t work so am now posting part of the URL and you put http://www.bbc.co.uk/ in front. okay.
blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/2008/10/pilot_in_tailspin.html
blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/2008/10/getting_angry.html
How’d you know I was just reading this? God, is my computer bugged? lol!!! Or is it just that I can’t keep away from this site & read just about everything? hummmm?
Thanks for the info I’ll give it a try!
By the way, great speech McCain! Wish dh & I could have been there to see it. Alas, no one to watch the kids & I wouldn’t have dared dragged them past the obscene obot protestors (would rather keep their young eyes & ears innocent for a few more years:-)
Compassion is the key to a voters heart.McCain has picked it up and he can make it golden and turn it in the nick of time.
He has a great heart and he is about to share it.
elle — what we need right now is a president with a great heart. We cannot afford another president who flies over our pain–we need a president who understands what we feel and leads us beyond it. John McCain is that man.
We must have President McCain! As a democrat, originally for Hillary, I am truly thankful that John McCain is the Republican nominee. I genuinely like John McCain and sincerely believe he will be an awesome President. I will truly be crushed if he is not our President.
Intesting documentary on Sundance called The Return of the War Room about Bill Clinton’s run against George Bush Sr. Shows political manuvers. On now.
Sorry, interesting (typo)
We have a Republican who does what is right for the people even if it means attacking other republicans. Tons of experience.
We have a democrat that is far left of the mainstream democrats who tows the party line and does not buck the system since that may get in the way of his career plans. Very little experience.
People are frustrated with Bush and want to punish republicans. But at what cost would that be, people have to ask themselves.
I hear you but you are preaching to the choir here. We get it.
OMG, you just reminded me of an old high school history lesson! I remember (might be a bit off on the facts), that after WWI, the US & rest of the powers wanted to punish Germany, to teach them a lesson. So they didn’t help them rebuild and isolated them. In the end it was like cutting off your nose to spite your face. The Germans were demoralized, struggling economically & that left an opening for an unknown little man to energize the youth, bring back their own form of nationalism and eventually lead to WWII.
I don’t believe Obama is like Hitler (Hitler was a nutjob; I think Obama is just lost). But the parallels to their rise in power and consolidating their political bases are very interesting.
Read “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg.You will see many ideological similarities It is well documented and truly frightening as if we are allowing history to repeat itself.
‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.’
The more things change, the more the stay the same.
‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.’
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yep, the stock market crashed* just as the Austrian smooth talker became popular and beloved by all the youth in Germany.
* When FDR was not President on TV all day long calming everyone down, per Joe Biden with the drop dead gorgeous wife.
Obama’s 95% Illusion
It depends on what the meaning of ‘tax cut’ is.
Oct. 13, 2008 - WSJ editorial
One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.
It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”
continued —
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385651698727257.html
tows> toes the party lineSorry… I teach English.
The was in reply to Senator Blutarsky.
You know that could be — tow the line –
This is a nautical term — line is also a rope.
Tow the rope — tow the line attached to the barge.
toe the line is the land luber version — as in keeping the toe on the line in a race.
How the nyts reported on mccain’s speech:
McCain: American Way of Life ‘in Dire Crisis’
In a stump speech notable for large paragraphs of pessimism, Mr. McCain said: “These are hard times, my friend…
How the nyts reported on obama’s speech:
Obama Expands Economic Plan
Senator Barack Obama on Monday expanded his economic platform, including proposals to spur new jobs, to give Americans penalty-free access to retirement savings to help them through the downturn…
Notice how mccain’s speech is supposedly all doom and gloom and obama’s is about giving us jobs and tax breaks? First two sentences of obama’s speech: “We meet at a moment of great uncertainty for America. The economic crisis we face is the worst since the Great Depression.” obama speech is doom and gloom for four long paragraphs. Much more doom and gloom than mccain’s. The “liberal media” is in all out war on mccain. Need more proof? Here is how time mags mark halperin covered mccain’s speech: “McCain Indicts Bush in Comeback Speech.” Does that sound like the speech mccain gave today to you? With three weeks to go it’s all out war on mccain.
And then Kristol and Krauthamer also with their stupid criticism, like ’should fire his staff.’ McCain is fighting everyone in the media except Hannity and Greta and Cavuto.
For several weeks I’ve thought that conservative pundits and presstitutes naively want Obama to win to give them something to write against for 4 years and to rebuild the Repub brand that Bush has destroyed.
I also think it’s a stupid move.
I wonder that too. Why does O Reilly love Obama so much?
This is why I’m smoking again — utter and complete intellectual dishonesty. Absolutely disgraceful.
FoxNews seems to be setting the stage for Obama/Odinga story. Brief piece on Hannity and Colmes about new documentary depicting radical Islam’s attempts to bring Sharia law to Europe and the U.S.
A well redacted Obama / Odinga story would destroy Obama to pieces because Odinga is a real life terrorist that kills his enemies without mercy.
~ and his cousin Barry is on record campaigning for Candidate Odinga on US taxpayer’s money.
They even have that catchy tune, ‘Senator Obama’.
So much for the AIG “junket”.
The University of Chicago - 2006-2007
Islamic Law In The Modern World. Laws 80202.
“This seminar will provide and overview of Islamic Law……… we will assess the burgeoning interest in drawing on Islamic Law and other non-western legal traditions in order to develop an international law that is more representative of global multiculturalism.” Student grades will be based on a series of short research papers that will also guide discussion. Spring(3) Bianchi, Robert
also note the article of June8/2008 at
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5225
I hope it comes out. Fox is going for it. Yeah!
This is an open thread and everyone stayed on topic. Go figure.
Here is my off topic. Andy Martin is getting more death threats from Obama Campaign. It apperas that the threats are coming from his gaza supporters?
It’s a Muslim name?
And-this site is hijacked and someone is watching. I can tell. It was monitored in the past by Barfy’s google minions.
Andy says:
We are notifying appropriate law enforcement,” Martin will state. “We have no way of gauging the seriousness of these threats. But people were already concerned for our safety. Receiving threats does not make it any easier. Some of us have a feeling we are heading into a hornet’s nest of secret evidence involving Obama’s concealed past; that is the reason why he has been smearing me using his media puppies during the past week. In any event, we take threats very seriously.
“Obama’s campaign is led from behind the scenes by people who have a history of extremely violent action. His authoritarian personality also lends itself to violent support. We will exercise all appropriate security precautions.
“And we will not be intimidated from seeking the truth in Hawaii about the mysterious Mr. Obama.”
COPIES OF THREATS:
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October 13, 2008 at 9:43 pm edit Damned racists and hatemongers.
Obama is legit and a son of Hawaii.
If you’re gonna trash someone from Hawaii, then stay away from Hawaii if you know what’s good for you.
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i heard Sen McCain today and he was on fire. there was fighting words, and defiance of the msm status obama quo.
if he brings it to obama’s face on wed night, there should be no doubt in the fence sitters’ mind who to vote for in nov.
hopefully the bobo thugs aren’t threatening to eat Mac’s first born if he does bring it.
i understand this sort of thuggery has been going on for some time now.
we are not amused.
Many here including myself have wanted Mac to kick The Precious’s scrawny ass in the debates. I think we are about to get our wish granted! Mac has set the stage with his ads on ACORN, Ayers, etc. View them here.
I read that he lashed out at John Lewis for saying that his criticism of obama would cause race riots,
How much of this crap are those people voting for Mac going to have to take? This riot threat nonsense implies only black people will riot. That’s racist! And do they think Mac supporters will plant flowers if Obama steals the election? To be perfectly clear I am not suggesting Mac supporters should riot if he loses. I am against violence of any kind. But I think you see my point.
Imagine four long years of playing “go fish” with a race deck.
Let them riot, whoever they may be…let’s see their true colors.
Let’s see the Obamas, Ayres’ and Axelrods’ call for the peace in advance since they are such great unifiers and organizers.
Who is the young lady working for Hugo in Venezuela? Anyone have a clue?
Correct me if I am wrong but the notable people making the threats there will be riots are black. Do you think this is an accident? I’ve read about the recreate 68 folks. I don’t think that is who they want us to think about.
Anybody who thinks rioting is the answer better be damned well ready to face the consequences both immeadiate and longterm.
They won’t riot. They’ll be disappointed and microwave some chicken strips for a snack and then turn on the cartoons. This is not the 60’s.
It’s against the Federal law to incite riots and that is what John Lewis is doing!
He should be taken to task for what he said. Stinky Brazille about got arrested for inciting a riot. She shut up in a hurry. We haven’t heard a peep from her since.
Wednesday is critical that McCain a) have a few zingers by counting all the promises and tax cuts … look… if I was McCain, Wednesday he needs to actually mock and deride Obama for the many promises and tax cuts he has been promising to different groups of people and make fun of all the contradictions.
The only thing he needs to explain is his health care plan. Other than that he needs to get in Obama’s face and mock his tax and spend policies in a very stark contrast.
If he doesn’t come prepare to unrobe Obama naked, he might as well stay home. Because Obama will throw more than 1 trillion in tax cuts and more than one trillion is spending initiatives. And that my friends is quite attractive to anyone stupid enough to buy it.
Personally, I would have preferred if McCain kept his strategy quiet. It might have worked better if he appeared complacent in the days leading up to the final debate & the tore into Oblahblah, leaving him surprised and flustered. Now he is prepared. And McCain now has to really live up to this hype.
Yes Silverfox, finally we have some real “fighting words.” McCain ended his convention acceptance speech with a rousing call to “fight with me,” and we were all ready to fight. But he kinda dropped the fighting spirit after that and we were all wondering what happened. Sarah can’t fight Obama’s machine by herself. McCain has to lead the fight, and it has to be a FIGHT, because the opponent is powerful and ruthless. Ani is right, we “want retribution,” and if we lose this, there had better be some bloody noses to let the opposition know they have been in a real donneybrook.
Now McCain has to bring that same fight to the last debate this week where millions will hear him. He has to lay it on the line for the American people, specifically and ideolgically. If he doesn’t have the money to buy the air time BO’S buying then he better make the most of the debate.
I have a plan—-but what is it?
To preserve what it has taken us 235 years to build.
To keep the United States intact as well as our beloved and traditional symbols.
We know who he is - an American through and through whose friends and associates work in the daylight and don’t need to crawl in and out from beneath a skanky rock.
keep the change.
Yes, Yes, Yes - that’s the John McCain I know! That’s the kind of speech he needs to give and that’s what he needs to say at the end of the next debate.
Whatcha want to bet this gets no downstream media play?
None, nada, zilch!
Okay, on Hannity tonight a pollster was saying that the only thing that would help McCain is if something big happens, like a negative story, for Obama, before election day. Then he said something odd. He said, “like if that young man captured on the Pakistan border talks”.
What the heck is he talking about? Does anyone know this story? It would have just come out today!
From a tip, Bush managing to capture Bin Laden?
I heard that too and didn’t know what they meant. I also guess the Fox canceled Corsi tonight. Maybe FOX just doesn’t want to go with the story?
Corsi is ill and did an internet radio show earlier today from his bed. I hope Hannity will have him on in the next few days.
someone USA citizen was picked up on the Pakistani border but that was all I heard early today on fox
I heard that Fox cancalled the show. And for that matter where is the Odinga story hannity promosed Sunday night? I think it got pulled too.No word from Hannity, like nothing happened, running Dick Morris. Something is up and it isn’t good for JM or us. Fox is in the tank for the Fraud I beleive. Big money has spoken and they have said Obama. BillO has said that JM is not going to win and is not covering anything. This is a scary time
Fox may have gotten death threats. Remember Obama Camp is violent.
Ck this out
Hank Williams Jr for McCain and Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S81brjpteDk
OMG!!! Okay, I’ll be honest, I just can’t stand country. I’m sorry. I can’t count on 1 hand how many country songs I’ve liked in 43 years. This one is now my favorite! Great song!!!
There are all kinds of ‘Country’ music.
Country Rock
Country Blues
Country boogie
Country doowop
Country folk
Country Gospel
Country twang
and more
Anybody know about the young man captured on the Pakistan border today and how it relates to Obama? Was breezed over on Hannity tonight and he intimated it was a “big story”!
I don’t know - I was watching Hannity but I can’t stand Colmes and turned it off in the middle of Rasumussen, the pollster (is he the pollster?).
Anyway, with BO, you never know — he has so much absolute garbage in his life — it could be any sordid thing.
Barack Obama and his thug friends: an endless parade of human debris.
Colmes was trying to get Dickie morris to say that McCain’s supporters were mob like and all I was thinking was where the hell is the Sandra Berhart comment about Palin getting gang raped and the tee shirts with the c-word? Thankfully, Greta did an Obama supporters greatest hate video roll of Madonna, Matt Damon, Sandra B. spewing their hate and for Palin.
beth — on Hannity’s radio show today he said that Zogby told him the polls all all phoney. They over sample Democrats by 10%. In truth McCain is within striking distance of Obama who because the Republican brand is tarnished should be 20% ahead. Maybe this will be Americans November surprise for the boy king wanna be.
I’ve been saying this all along.
They over sample Democrats so of course the polls are going to be skewed. And he’s right, Barry should be 20+ points ahead in this climate of an unpopular sitting president and an economy that’s in free fall..BUT HE IS NOT. There’s a reason for that and we all know what it is.
I watch Zogby. There the only ones who called the 2004 election correctly. If their polls say McCain is within striking distance, I believe them.
beth — on Hannity’s radio show today he said that Zogby told him the polls are all phoney. They over sample Democrats by 10%. In truth McCain is within striking distance of Obama who because the Republican brand is tarnished should be 20% ahead. Maybe this will be Americans November surprise for the boy king wanna be.
I think they over sample dems because there is still a myth that the dem are ahead of the repubs by 7 percent, but we know they lost all the Hillary voters.
OT:
For Immediate Release
October 13, 2008
ICYMI: McCain-Palin Campaign Conference Call On Barack Obama’s Economic Plan
“Barack Obama today proposed a 90-day foreclosure moratorium. Obama, himself, when Senator Clinton proposed such a foreclosure moratorium, labeled it a ‘disastrous’ policy and proceeded to rail against it. Now he’s proposing it.”
– Doug Holtz-Eakin
ARLINGTON, VA — Today, the McCain-Palin campaign held a press conference call with former Congressman Rob Portman and senior policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin to discuss Barack Obama’s economic plan:
Rob Portman: “I think Americans were hoping today that Senator Obama would tell us that he has now decided the economy is bad enough he is not going to move forward with his tax increases.
“You recall that earlier in the campaign he’d indicated that he might not move forward with his tax increases if the economy were weak. The economy is certainly weak, and it’s weakening every day. Instead what we heard today were a lot of new promises for new spending adding to the $860 billion in additional spending that he’s already promised during the campaign and that is not the way we are going to get ourselves back on track. More spending in fact is going to make the situation worse. It’s one of the reasons we’re in the trouble we’re in. The deficits mounting every year and the debt has hurt our economy in a very direct way by hurting the value of the dollar and increasing the costs for everything from the price of imported oil to our groceries.
“Instead what Senator McCain is focused on is pro-growth, pro-jobs tax relief while keeping spending under control. And one of the things that I thought was interesting about Senator Obama’s proposals today was the talk about changing the way in which people can withdraw funds from their defined contribution plans, their IRA’s or their 401K’s. And as I read his remarks it sounds like he was saying that people would be able to withdraw funds out up to $10,000 without penalty.
“Some of you know I spent a lot of time working on this legislation when I was in Congress and of course there is currently a hardship withdrawal for 401K’s and most plans permit that. There’s also withdrawal by the way for first time home buyers and there’s also the ability to get a loan up to $50,000. So I’m not sure what impact that would exactly have except that is would be taking out of retirement savings, assets at a time when those assets are likely be at a very low value. So it’s not clear that there is the need for any new policy in this area because of the consistent ability to deal with hardships and to take out a loan but second it seems like it would be just the wrong thing to encourage American families today who are already struggling to figure out how they are going to be able to prepare for their retirement.
“The final thing that Senator Obama said that I thought was something that we should all agree with which is that we need a new ethic of responsibility in this country and Senator McCain has been talking about that the entire campaign in terms of personal responsibility with health care for instance and allowing people to keep more of their hard earned money. But if we are talking about a new ethic of responsibility, it seems as though we should start with the federal government and it certainly would not be a new ethic of responsibility to have us not only begin spending over $860 billion in new programs under the existing economic plans Senator Obama has laid out but now additional spending at a time when we are facing big deficits in part because of the economic situation we’re in and the lower revenue, and the debt that has built up that is requiring us to borrow more and more money including from foreign governments and banks that’s putting pre ssure on the dollar and therefore hurting the economy.”
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Doug Holtz-Eakin: “I think what we saw today was the hypocrisy of Barack Obama’s economic policy continuing at the very same time he’s threatening the weak American economy with tax increases, explosive spending proposals, expensive health mandates, a weak energy policy and protectionist trade inclinations. He pretends to offer a, quote, rescue package to Americans, when in fact the rescue is simply from the threat of his own policies. If you look at what he proposed today, I think it reveals the genuine problem. He already had the Tax Policy Center, a group he likes to tout as the non-partisan arbiter, say that John McCain’s policy is better for growth, and we can see why in what he put out today.
“He proposed a New American Jobs tax credit. That would be a $3,000 tax credit per new job in the United States over the next two years. This is going to be a very expensive proposal that’s going to cost about $170 billion had it been in place in 2007. But think about what it’d have to do. He’s going to offer a $3,000 credit at the same he’s proposing an expensive $12,000 per employee mandate for health insurance, and while the credit would last for two years, the mandate would go on forever. Indeed, at the current rates of inflation, that’d be about a $15,000 mandate at the time it expired. You will hardly undo the damage with a $3,000 credit.
“He’s, at the moment, dead set on raising the top marginal tax rates, raising dividends and capital gains tax rates. Those top marginal tax rates will affect the small businesses. They create 56% of small business income. Small businesses, those under 50 employees, have created 331,000 jobs in the United States in 2008, despite all the weaknesses out there. They are the only businesses that are creating jobs. They are the only ones doing, on their own, what Barack Obama ostensibly wants to accomplish with this job credit. He wants to raise their taxes. He would be better off dropping the jobs credit and simply stopping the tax increases, letting these folks do the job that they’re doing. His plan with the expensive mandates from health, has been estimated to cost more than 225,000 jobs. It would force employers to lower wages by more than $3 an hour. John McCain’s tax policy, in contrast, would provide a very flexible, even-handed subsidy to all for ms of private insurance, provides for portable insurance that’s not linked to employers, and will not cost Americans their jobs.
“Barack Obama today proposed a 90-day foreclosure moratorium. Obama, himself, when Senator Clinton proposed such a foreclosure moratorium, labeled it a ‘disastrous’ policy and proceeded to rail against it. Now he’s proposing it.
“Senator McCain doesn’t want people in foreclosure. He’s taken an aggressive stance to use a portion of the $700 billion that the American public has devoted to financial and economic rescue to make sure that we simultaneously accomplish the goals of keeping Americans in their homes, supporting housing values for every homeowner in America, and stabilizing the value of the toxic mortgage-based assets that’s plaguing the financial system.
“So, Barack Obama would be much better served to solve the fundamental problems than undertake a ‘disastrous’ policy that would only be a band-aid after the fact. So, we’re seeing more of the same from Barack Obama, lots of talk, nothing that’s going to substantively help the American economy, and tomorrow we’ll hear from John McCain.”
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“Tomorrow, however, he will now turn to the economy, to the pressures facing American families and businesses and we’ll talk about the specific new measures to address those hurt worse by the financial crisis, unlike Barack Obama who has stood on the sidelines at moments of great national crisis. John McCain has consistently addressed the issues that have faced Americans throughout this period, with proposals that will make their lives easier and more bearable in the times of great financial distress, and so we’ll look forward to John McCain’s remarks tomorrow.”
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it is time for john to get mad as hell along with the american people and start kicking ass and calling names. no more nice guy. i loathe obambi because he is just so damn wussy in looks and in every way. it’s time for mccain to grab the bull by the horns and quit being politically correct. there is no time for that bullcrap right now. john needs to get up and dust himself off and fight with all he’s got. he’s gotta fight. kiss ass john. kiss obambi ass back to kenya or wherever his wussy whiney ass came from!
After this speech, I finally joined the McCain team. I guess I keep holding out for a Hillary comeback after Precious is somehow eliminated.
But this is the second time that McCain stokes my patriotism during one of his speeches. The last man to do that was Reagan.
McCain fought for us (20 year military service) and our country. Now we must do the same.
“McCain fought for us(20 year military service)and our country.Now we must do the same.”
Thanks VetGirl!…you’ve just stoked my patriotism!
I hope that is in You tube?
He should have done that rally at night so more people could have seen it.
It reads like the speech of his life…
Repeat
Repeat
Repeat this speech McCain.
WOW.
YES!
Go, John, Go!
Now tell me more about how you’re going to rebuild my retirement savings, which is *MY* biggest asset.
I’m that Renter gal, who’d just as soon see home prices go down to affordable rather than having you prop them up. But I figure that not letting speculators in on the bailout will help some with that, as we have a lot of speculators in this area.
I really want to hear what you’re going to do for my retirement savings.
If his health plan can lower premiums substantially, then retirement savings would grow also substantially.
Alas, my job pays for all of my health insurance, copays, etc., and it has a very high lifetime cap on payments.
It’s one of the best health insurance plans in the country, from what I understand.
So I think if it became taxable, I’d use that whole $5000 to pay the tax on it.
see, that where people does not understand McCain’s healthcare plan. you will not use the whole $5000 to pay the tax on it. you will simply not get the tac deduction on your health benefits from your job, but will get $5000 as a tax credit. do the math, how much of a tax decution have you been getting for your health benfit at work? I get around $3000 tax deduction for it, so if I’m going to get a $5000 credit instead of a $3000 tax deduction, I’m well ahead of the game.
then comes the competition part of the equation. as the health insurance industry is opened up you will see more companies offering health insurance and they will then try to offer more for less in order to beat the competition.
you would probably get better health insurance for $5000.
it has been analyzed by a third party that McCain’s health plan will enable a net gain of 13 million people to afford health care that they couldn’t afford before and it didn’t take a big tax hike to do so.
for families, it will be an even better deals, since each of the married couple will get the $5000 credit plus additional child tax credit. for me, that’s a net gain of money in my pocket while still being able to buy the same coverage for my whole family.
now look at Obama’s health care plan, if an employer doesn’t provide health care, they will get fined. if a parent or parents doesn’t provide health care for their kids, they get fined. how’s that going to help. it will force people to sign on to government run healthcare that wouldn’t even be as good as the worst HMOs. Obama’s keep saying that americans will have the same health care as what senators and congress reps get, that’s simply ludicrous. Obama’s health care will push people towards hospitals like Cook County Hospital in Illinois where it would take you 6 hours to see a doctor during an emergency room visit. Obama can take that health care plan and shove it.
It’s a rallying cry…..it’s a get your pitchforks and torches because it’s time to storm the elitists castles and take them back for the people of this country. I love it, I love John McCain. I think he is just what we need, a true and honest leader. A great man that sees the greatness of the people of this land, the true American spirit we have lacked for too long now. He is the man I will follow, into hell if need be.
He speaks from the heart, to the hearts of Americans that are ready to stand up and work hard. The Americans I know are ready to follow him. I am ready, John, just point me in the right direction and let’s get moving again.
He’s a lot like Hillary: country and people first.
cough cough.
no comparison.
She’s for Barfy now.
I have a whole host of complaints but I’ll spare you.
If you are gay and you support obama you are crazy:
McCain ’08 Shows Gay Pride By Snubbing Hartsuch
The McCain ’08 campaign refused to allow Senator David Hartsuch to speak at the John McCain rally today. According to a representative of the McCain ’08 campaign, the national campaign office would not approve Senator Hartsuch to speak because of comments which he had made two years earlier in defense of traditional marriage. …
According to Sen. Hartsuch, “Marriage is not merely the State’s endorsement of a romantic relation, but rather the State’s endorsement of an institution intended to bring up the next generation of children as moral individuals.”
Senator McCain voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have defined marriage as only between one man and one woman. At that time, Senator McCain called such prohibitions “Un-Republican”, and “inconsistent with the core values of the party.” In 2002, Senator McCain supported Richter Elser, an openly gay GOP candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives by sending a fund-raising letter to Elser supporters. According to advocate.com, McCain wrote, “Our party’s strength, like our country’s strength, comes from inclusion, not exclusion.”
learfield.typepad.com/radioiowa/2008/10/hartsuch-says-h.html
Cool stuff. Another reason to love Mac! He ain’t no homophobe like The Precious!
I get the feeling there is a chance all Amercians would get a fair shake with mccain. With obama no chance.
If you are black and you support Obama you are crazy.
Yes he will put more money in people’s pocket but that same money will bring in more illegal aliens.
McCain is the real deal. We need a fighter. He says he is a fighter. He shows he is a fighter.
*** By the way, anyone catch Representative Wasserman “Schnauzer” Shultz recently on the MSN? She has been off the chain lately! Barely able to contain her contempt at anything anti-Obama.
I think it is self-loathing turned inside out. She was such a huge Clinton supporter and here she is angrily shoving Obama at us.
It has got to be a horrible year for Democrats who don’t support their own candidate.
Excellent, thanks for posting this speech. I e-mailed it to 20 or so friends. I saw him deliver this speech and although he isn’t as pretty as our Hillary, he sure did inspire me to stand up and cheer.
Thanks John McCain for giving us hope (if nothing else that we won’t have to settle for Barack Obama).
Young American arrested in Pakistan near Afghan border
October 13, 2008 16:25 EDT
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say they’ve arrested a 20-year-old man near the Afghan border who says he’s a college student from Florida.
A police spokesman says the young man was wearing traditional Pakistani clothes but offered an American passport at a checkpoint. He’s identified as Juddi Kenan. Pakistani police say Kenan told them he was in the region to see a friend.
The place where the young man was arrested is an area where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants. It’s believed a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and other foreign extremists. The young man did not have permission to be there.
Police say he’s been taken to an unknown location for more questioning. A U.S. embassy spokesman says he has no information on the arrest.
Thanks for the link Ben. Florida? Again?
Hmmm, Obama went to Pakistan when he was 20, too, when Americans were not supposed to be there.
Man, the hatred of Obama runs so deep, it’s kind of scary. People will engage in the weirdest, guilt-by-association, innuendo-based assaults to see his political destruction.
Speaking of which, when is the Michelle Obama “whitey” video supposed to be released again?
I am more interested when is Obama going to re-institute the draft? And when are all these young brash supporters of his going to go to Pakistan? Obama has a thing for Pakistan.
What the hell does any of your post have to do with McCain’s speech? Do all of you guys have ADD or something? All you guys do is make off topic comments that serve only to try to deflect the discussion. Unfortunately for you guys you aren’t even good at that.
And Obama supporters like you don’t understand WHY.
You don’t care to know why.
So you’ll just lazily, brainlessly and stupidly blame it on “racism” and “Hillary’s loss.”
I’ll just be glad that Obama will finally be out of the picture and NO WHERE NEAR the White House in three weeks.
when is the Michelle Obama “whitey” video supposed to be released again?
perhaps you should call and ask your messiah to give Berg the full birth certificate. Hmmm, his campaign hired a top notch lawyer for top dollars but for only $20, he coulda had the birth certificate sent from Hawaii. Doesn’t sound like Barry Soetoro knows much about the use of campaign money.
How about “When is Obama ever going to tell the truth.”
Most people dont care about Ayers, Wright, Rizo and his other nice associates, The problem is that he wont tell the truth about his relationship with them and that just maybe he made a mistake. The stories about his associates change so often I bet Obama doesnt know the truth anymore.
Interesting contrast; Perhaps there is a cure for the Kool-aid after all.
Very interesting article on BO’s socialist trajectory. It causes me wonder at what velosity the “change we need” might occur. It is very clear that the punch line to the Wall Street three card Monty, being played in front of the Park Ave entrance to Central Park, is about to occur. It’s a suckers game and I am not buying.
I am curious what the ties are to Amrish Mahajan and the Mutual Bank of Harvey, and Giannoulias and the Broadway Bank and Mrs. P’s Superior Bank and Northern Trust. In that mix you have Rezko, the Nesbitt brothers Obama and all kinds of in the “greed we need”.
Northern Trust? OMG They are big crooks. Wow you wouldn’t believe how many borrowers they beat $ out of.
American man arrested in Pakistani border region
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 10/13/2008 12:46:09 PM MDT
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants, police said.
Officers were investigating what the man was doing in the border area, which is believed to be a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and other foreign extremists, said one officer, Pir Shahab.
He said the man—identified on his passport as Juddi Kenan—did not have permission to be in the region as is required by Pakistani law. He was arrested at a checkpoint trying to enter Mohmand agency, Shahab said.
“He is holding an American passport, which shows him as a resident of Florida,” Shahab said.
Another police official, Marjan Khan at the station in Sarrokali, said the man was wearing traditional Pakistani clothes and appeared to be a civilian. “He has told us that he was a student at a community college in Florida, and wanted to enter the tribal region to see a friend.” Khan said the man carried a laptop and a travelling bag, adding that he had been shifted to an unknown place for more questioning, also by intelligence agencies.
A U.S. embassy spokesman said he had no information on the arrest.
Asked whether he was believed to be a journalist, a tourist, a researcher, or a suspected militant, Shahab said: “These are the questions we are trying to investigate.”
Militants in the tribal regency are blamed for rising attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistani authorities often claim to kill or arrest foreign extremists, mostly from Afghanistan, the Middle East and Chechnya, in the area.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10710292
Seems some people in Great Britain are catching on –quicker than some media in our country.
Ms. Philips seems to share our concerns and she’s sharing. The comments are very interesting, as well.
Take a Peek:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1076957/MELANIE-PHILIPS-Everyone-destroy-Palin–Obamas-past-examine.html
Gotta be more than Youtube. McCain has to deliver this message to the widest audience across the entire USA, not just to a campaign rally in a single city of supporters who are going to vote for him anyway. That means new commercials or an an entire 30 minute primetime TV bloc running across major networks at the same time.
He gave a good speech the day before the last debate as well and we all know how the debate turned out. I am sorry to be skeptical but I have to wait an see if there is anything that will happen on Wednesday.
While I agree that McCain needs to do well in the debate I think you are dead wrong in your assessment of the last 2 debates where he actually wiped the floor with Obama. Are you one of those people who let cable news punditry and MSM spinners tell you what to think or did you arrive at your conclusions all your own? I remember your posts from the speech and you really, really sound(ed) like a concern troll.
Actually from the last debate thread.
No mention of Corsi on Hannity!
Can’t he just eat his waffle:
Obama’s rescue plan
The plan is a striking sign of how far this crisis has moved, and a sign that Obama has shifted toward a more populist approach. In February, after Hillary Clinton proposed a similar foreclosure moratorium, the Los Angeles Times reported that Obama condemned her plan:
In San Antonio on Tuesday, Obama said that Clinton’s foreclosure freeze was potentially “disastrous,” rewarding “people who made this problem worse” by benefiting banks that profit from high mortgage rates.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/From_disastrous_to_part_of_the_plan.html
And don’t ya just luv ben smith’s reporting? obama didn’t just trash Hillary’s excelent plan when she came out with it more than 9 months ago because it was Hillary’s plan. No of course not. According to smith the ‘crisis has moved’ so now Hillary’s plan that obama used to call “disastrous” is now obama brilliant idea. Great reporting smith…
I liked it better when obama’s plan was ‘call me if you need me.’
I have been pouring over pages and pages of the
Freedom Information Act
Federal Bureau Investigation-Weatherman Underground
Foreign Influence-Weather underground
Summery – It seems that the FBI has been on to an international Communist plot to overthrow the US government.Ayers is key player and it seems he is attempting to complete his dream of the destruction of Imperial USA thru a network of Communist countries, black panther groups, Islamic terror groups all bent on destroying USA.I come to this conclusion after reading pages of FBI secret documents released by freedom of information act. This explains Ayers intent and also the huge amount of overseas funds. I have forwarded all of my research to RNC and two news networks’ almost certain the gov knows of this plot and have stopped it in its tracks. I think the next phase is to calm the public’s fears and not cause mass rioting. This becoming public would be a major embarrassment to the US government. My best hopes are that they have a manufactured defeat of Obama in the works and he will bow out gracefully after the election rather than cause riots. All is not as it seems.
Steven,
Interesting post. You seem to have a fair bit of experience in this line of work.
Further,
“A manufactured defeat” could explain many imcomplete narratives currently active:
His BC and citizenship.
His ties to Rezko who apparently is singing.
Charges involving ACORN and voter fraud.
The Republicans’ inquiry into potential illegal oversea sources of funding.
The posts above about ?Pakistan border arrest.
In any event, this entire election has “not been all as it seems”.
Wasn’t Obama’s grandfather a communist and his mentor Frank (something or other) was a friend of Bill Ayers father?
When you were looking through this info, did you come across any that said where Ayers was hiding out from 1970-1980?
My personal feeling is that Obama, at the latest, met Ayers at Columbia. If its true that Frank was friends with Ayers father, then its probably that they were introduced that way. Not 15 years later like he is saying now. Also, if someone knew that Ayers and wife were hiding out in Hawaii in the 70’s, I wouldn’t be surprised. And then I’d say Oblahblah met him even sooner & that was the reason he left Occidental and joined up with Ayers at Columbia.
Alice J.Palmer Dem state senator 13h district served as an executive board member of US peace council which the FBI identified as a Communist front group.An affiliate of the world peace council an international Soviet front.Palmer hand picked Obama to fill her new senate seat.The only trick was distancing herself from him, so they ran against each other,wink wink.To clean Obama from Communist affiliation.All in FBI memos.
Wow- MORE MORE MORE please!!!!!!
Oh yeah. Didn’t want to say before but Palmer is a socialist/communist. Many in the Senate and House currently are and belong to the ‘New Democrat Party’ which is socialist/communist.
The Universal health care plan is like what they have in communist countries. You work for it though but it appears that it’s for free. When you take home only 40% of your paycheck you KNOW you are paying for the ‘hand-outs’.
lisa in va,
This my gut instinct, too. If it’s true that Frank Marshall Davis knew Ayers’ father, then the possibility that he could have been in hiding in Hawaii is very real. As is it possible that a young 0bama being mentored by Davis introduced the two. 0bama may not have known who he was at first, but it could be possible that Ayers’ was around on the ‘mentoring’ sessions with 0bama and maybe just maybe 0bama was a willing student.
I keep saying this: there are just too many coincidences in 0bama’s life. His life seems to follow Ayers’ footsteps. Hawaii?/Occidental College in CA/Columbia in NYC/Chicago. Come on, that just doesn’t happen.
i think this has been posted previously, but for those who didn’t hear it, make sure you listen. it shows obama supporters thinking sarah palin is BO’s VP, how they agree with all BO’s policies, even tho the policies that are mentioned are all McCain policies. truly frightening. this is what you are up against.
What Happens When You Ask Harlem Why They Support Obama?
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=iCipmnYCKB0&feature=related
Hey if you would like to watch that speech by McCain it is on the homepage of his site.
It is much better to watch it than read it, honestly.
It had me sniveling at the end. It really is a speech that makes you proud of this nation and proud to be on a true patriot’s side.
Some of the video speech is not included above.
I really suggest you go to his site and watch it.
Send it around to family and friends.
That is the type of message that will mobilize and motivate americans behind McCain.
I do not agree he has to go nuclear. Palin and the RNC and his ads can do that.
His job is to lay it on the line like he did there.
McCain trusts americans will make the right choice.
I know when dealing with scumbags like Obama and the DNC that may not be wise.
For McCain i think it will pay dividends and we are going to witness for the 2nd time this election cycle John S. McCain rise from the ashes to prove EVERYONE wrong.
Just to let Everybody know McCain and Palin had two rallies to day. One was together and each had one separate. McCain was also in Wilmington NC. and Palin was in Richmond Va. The crowd sizes were enormous. The Virgina Beach on had a est. crowd 16-18,000. The Palin rallies in Richmond had an est. 25,000 more or less. The Wilmington one I forgot to look up. sorry all. So my guest emit was a total of all the rallies for the day was around 45,000. Now that is alot.
I certainly have heard those words before, from a great American woman and leader. If she had started this narrative a month earlier she would be our nominee. It works and coming from Hillary or McCain it’s genuine.
Cooney — Lord knows I love Hillary to the moon and back. But I hate to tell you that she could have started whatever narrative she wanted a month earlier or two months earlier — the DNC was determined to fix this for Obama from the beginning. They did not want her and kept moving the goal post in mid stream.
Even as the race ended the way it did — can you ever imagine that the candidate who won all the big states, save his home state of IL, all the battleground states, had the electroal map in her pocket, the majority of the Democratic base and won the popular vote should LOSE the nomination to man who won the some of his contests through caucus fraud — in states we would never carry in the Fall anyway? With delegates weighted more heavily in a state like Kansas than Pennsylvania.
Forgive my rant. But unfortunately, together with the mugging that occurred at the RBC meeting on May 31, and the disenfranchising (illegally) of MI & FL and many other little tricks, I begin to wonder if there is anything that would have made a difference.
Although I certainly agree with you that her “I’m a fighter” mantra would have sserved her well back in January — it would have had to have started waaaay back then. Even still, I’m not sure this corrupt cadre at the DNC wouldn’t have found some other way to hand this to him.
Yes, my cynicism is showing, but the corruption we witnessed this season really was beyond the pale.
AFL-CIO must be full of white racists. At least it seems that way according to union officals:
National Public Radio’s Don Gonyea had a terrific story on “Morning Edition” today on how labor leader Richard Trumka [secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO] has been challenging white union members who are reluctant to vote for Sen. Barack Obama for racial reasons.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/10/obama_union_ally_confronts_rac.html
McEntee is president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and a leader in the AFL-CIO’s $200 million 2008 election program. Speaking at a labor rally in Ohio recently, his frustration about the reluctance, or refusal, of some white union members to support Obama spilled into the open.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/13/king.ohio.race/index.html
So the secretary-treasurer and president of the AFL-CIO are pretty pissed at white union members that won’t vote for obama. AFL-CIO is so riddled with white racists trumka has been giving his same hate filled speech for months. Who’da thunk it.
Is the Union president pushing Obama because he made a deal Hillary wouldn’t make….a law to make the votes open instead of by secret ballot. John McCain eluded to it today in his speech and McGovern has TV ads. I don’t know the whole story, but seems to be an attempt at intimidating the ranks by not allowing their votes to be private? Now the ranks are being called racist, go figure.
If I was a union member, I’d be outraged if someone wanted to look over my shoulder when I voted. I’d like to know more about this story.
Speaking of Communism, big brother watching…….
yup. this site is being hacked.
More Obamanation Stalinesque Reign of Terror madness. Remove privacy from the voting booth so you have to vote for His Royal Lowness or get a beatdown from a rabid Obot. Kind of defeats the purpose of an election.
Thanks for posting McCain’s great speech! That’s the kind of speech I want to hear. The best thing about it, I think, is that he will really work hard at implementing these plans
McCain/Palin
Hillary Clinton 2012
Don’t know where else to post this, but has anybody seen the new Obama flag? This is crazy. Look there is an American flag behind Obama but two Obama flags.
Outrageous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2vqjc5lyvo
Yes, I saw it and it is the official Ohio state flag. The way they had it positioned was to sear into our brains subliminally.
Let it go - they’ll be calling us out for criticizing Ohio’s flag.
I know, I’m with ya.
Thanks for clearing that up. I gotta tell you though, when I saw it I thought it was another one of those Obama new designs. I’m laughin’ at myself for falling for it.
I bet Obama’s bummed that he didn’t get the design for himself.
that is really creepy.
Just got back from letting my dog outside to take a barrack, and notice Chris here with the same old troll barrack.
Idiot Alert!
ROFLM PUMA AO!!
a barrack and did it do a MEchelle too? lol
Wonderful speech…let’s hope he gets to deliver it again during the debate….
Finally, Senator McCain seems to be getting a clue. [Maybe the email I sent him yesterday helped a little?
]. I have hope for him again. I caught the tail end of the speech today and it would be nice if he could show more emotion in his fight ending. But I’m one of those people who finds it difficult to express emotion too, so I understand why it isn’t second nature to him.
Hopefully his campaign can work on the emotion, to bring life to his fight. It seemed too wooden and emotional-less today.
If Senator McCain remembers in Wednesday’s debate that we already know about energy independence, that we’ll get a tax credit for health care, he’ll cross Congressional aisles, and instead tells us about his plan to resolve the economic crisis and stresses how Senator Obama’s plans will continue our freefall - he has a good chance of leaving Senator Obama in the dust.
After sending Senator McCain a critical email yesterday, I probably should go send him one with positive reinforcement. I’m sure what ever unpaid volunteer who is reading my emails to Senator McCain would appreciate it.
Let John be John. He’s not ever going to be Mr. Emotion.
Sarah has plenty of emotional oomph for that ticket.
I can’t think of 2 drier men in life than Biden and Obama. I can’t even picture either of them having sex.
(That’s my guage. *haha)
One thing that may be effecting McCain and his emotions is his POW days.
When I was on active duty, I was medical and stationed in CA. We had POWs come in for appointments. All of them sat motionless in the chair, eyes front, and had no expressions, whatsoever. When they were called in to see the doctor, they would walk in an absolute straight line, 90 degree corner and very slow.
So, in my ignorance of any new facts, I think John McCain is doing excellent in the emotions department.
I agree, his POW days left him very practiced in not showing emotion. There’s nothing wrong with it. But don’t forget that more than one candidate in the past has lost an election because the emotion people feel from them doesn’t match the words they speak.
Senator McCain is holding back. He knows he’s holding back. I get it, I’m a person that cloaks my emotions and holds them back from public viewing.
If Senator McCain is going to win this campaign, he can’t hold back. He has us in his corner even if he spends the next three weeks reciting the Manhattan White Pages. At best he’s polling at 45-47% right now. He needs to raise it to over 52%. To do that he has to capture the imaginations and emotions of the undecided and the moderate Democrats who are leaning towards Senator Obama.
On Monday he harnessed the anger America is feeling into a fight. That’s a good step. Now he just has to try a little harder so we feel what he’s feeling. If he gets that down in the debate on Wednesday night, there’s no stopping him.
Woof, EXCELLENT SPEECH MAC.
Yes,m I agree Ani.
Time for that surge of looking for real leadership and the undecides to make it President McCain.
I know what fear feels like. It’s a thief in the night who robs your strength.
I know what hopelessness feels like. It’s an enemy who defeats your will.
I felt those things once before. I will never let them in again. I’m an American. And I choose to fight.
I watched him give the speech this morning Live on FOX. These particular lines (above) were very eloquent. I hopped on Riverdaughter and said exactly what you thought: sounds a lot like someone else we know! That’s what HRC & McCain have in common–they are both fiesty and really do care. It’s genuine, not just politically expedient, like that other guy…
Is there anyone here that knows anything about legal issues in regards to campaigns?
Philip Berg video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyspCRmJv7w
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The Post Gazette reports that Obama wants to require women to register for Selective Service (McCain is opposed to this naturally). Why has this not become a campaign issue, especially among women voters?
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08287/919582-470.stm cmpid=elections.xml
Great speech, but think back two weeks ago before the last debate, he gave a great speech then also. Unfortunately that guy who gave the speech did not make it to the debate. I hope he learned his lesson then and won’t repeat it.
Mac held back at the debate and if he was seeking a draw or a slight edge that’s what he got. I hope he doesn’t hold back next debate.
mccain rawks!!!!!!1!!11!!!!!1!!!
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Barack Obama’s campaign has managed to paint Geraldine Ferraro, Bill Clinton, John McCain, and Sarah Palin as racists. Meanwhile, how dare anyone suggest that Obama’s voluntary association with a racist pastor for 20 years, and his lame defense of the association, raises character questions.
“Will the lib media be upset if we quote Aristotle, whose insight seems useful in this context?
“Those, then, are friends to whom the same things are good and evil; and those who are, moreover, friendly or unfriendly to the same people; for in that case they must have the same wishes, and thus by wishing for each other what they wish for themselves, they show themselves each other’s friends.” (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II, Chapter)
We choose our own friends and associates. And this is significant in Obama’s case in particular as we are trying to get a sense of who he is and what informs him.
from Mark R. Levin
I’ve gone from being angry at the DNC to considering voting Republican to exploring McCain’s character…
to feeling really good about voting for this ticket.
I honestly do believe that McCain will set the Republican ticket on a good course as well as do the right thing now for the people.
It’s pretty neat to feel good about my vote.
I have heard him say many of these things before, but never have I heard him say so much with such clarity amd finality. This speech was so much more than any other time. It was absolutely beautiful and perfect in every sense; a real deal closer. He spoke to every concern possible in the electorate. And he addressed each concern with explicit and definitive acknowledgement and understanding and then unequivically stated his view and described what he offers the country - a leader who clearly believes that America is her people and it is the people who are to be served.
This was a truly inspiring speech given by a man who unquestionably believes in the strength and promise of our country. He left no doubt that he can and will lead us to a safer, more prosperous nation while restoring our trust in the Presidency to put the people first. There was a clarity in this speech that really left me with a feeling of security in our future - a feeling that I think many of us have not felt for a long time.
With this speech Senator McCain said “I get it” while reassuring us that we can still believe in the promises and greatness of America, that patriotism is still cool, and that he can lead back on the right track. Too bad that so many won’t acknowledge it. Tomorrow you can bet that the Obama machine will be out pounding the pavement with the line about how Obama is the only one who talks about the things that Americans care about. Too bad that he doesn’t get that what I care about most is having a President who I can trust, who I know really loves America, who puts Americans first, and who has the right experience to make America great again.
The polls today show Obama 49% McCain 43%
Undecided 7%
On election day, 70 to 80 % of undecided voters will go for McCain. Subtract 3- to 4% of the voters claiming they will vote for Obama but won’t (Bradley effect).
McCain wins on Nov. 4th with 51% to Obama 49%
You can take it to the bank.
Which polls?
This morning, one major poll was within 5%. Granted, John is behind.
But…..man, he’s tightening.
Today On FOX: Former UT law grad sues Obama, questions citizenship
http://www.myfoxtoledo.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics/Detail?contentId=7637353&version=6&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.14.1
EXTRA: Extended Berg interview
http://www.myfoxtoledo.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=7637919&version=1&locale=EN-US
This is the McCain we saw at the convention that delivered that inspiring speech on the last day. Way to go! We know the polls are all cooked and the silent majority will never trust this country to Obama. Just get out there and vote.
Has anyone heard what is the status of the Berg vs Obama lawsuit? This suit challenges Obama’s eligibility to be President since it appears he was born in Kenya.
zogby shows it at 4 pts.
I’m a bit late to the party, folks. I’d read the speech earlier here, but I just had a chance to watch it on youtube.
What a great close! McCain spoke honestly and seemed to be tapping into the core of who he is, particulary in the last few minutes of the speech. (I think Cindy McCain knew it, too.) And being able to that — and actually HAVING a core to tap into, rather than being a “canvas” on whom people project their dreams like Obama — is a source of power for McCain that his opponent, despite lots of fancy rhetoric, can’t easily match today. Most people know the difference between a good speech, and speaking from the heart.
Oh, I hope he does this at the debate on Wednesday.
I hope McCain says this in his ending speech at the debate and I PRAY that he’s the last one to speak, although he was the last to speak in the last debate. I guess Obama will be the last one to speak in THIS debate.
Drudge is reporting Zogby today will be Obama by 6 again. McCain’s surge may be short lived- we’ll see after another day or so.
Zogby today has Obama up 6 reports the following:
OK, why are conservatives not supporting McCain. They better go out and vote that’s all I can say.
As of today, if he is able to capitalize on it, McCain just won the ENTIRE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES. He unleashed his biggest asset and has struck smack dab in the heart of the southern voter.
McCain got BOCEPHUS! Hank Jr is campaigning with him, he can’t lose now.
Watched the McCain video at his website. That man is sparkling giving that speech. I see what Cindy saw in him! One terrific human and one sexy man!
Well, this is bad, but they all seem to subscribe to the idea of artificially maintaining home “values”. It’s hideously wrongheaded. Of course, so is Obama’s plan to encourage people to raid their own 401Ks–JEEBUS is that stupid!!!–or his other half-assed measures.
Neither one of them is good on this issue, really. Neither one of them is saying, end our insane wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and spend the money here at home. Neither one is talking about job-creating infrastructure programs. It’s all sweet talk about taxes, houses, bla bla bla. Yeah, I’m still not voting for BO but they both still suck on this. I’m still royally pissed.
McCain’s plan just released this morning.
From the National Review Online:
The (New) McCain Plan [Byron York]
Today, John McCain will unveil what he calls the “Pension and Family Security Plan.” The major elements, from a McCain email sent out a few moments ago:
SENIORS: Lower Taxes On Seniors Tapping Their Retirement Accounts.
SENIORS: Suspend Tax Rules That Force Seniors To Sell Their Stocks In The Midst Of This Financial Crisis.
SAVERS: Accelerate The Tax Write-Off For Those Forced To Sell At A Loss In The Current Market.
SAVERS: Reduce Capital Gains Taxes For 2009 And 2010 To Raise The Incentive To Save And Invest.
HOMEOWNERS: Purchase Mortgages Directly From Homeowners And Mortgage Servicers, And Replace Them With Manageable, Fixed-Rate Mortgages.
WORKERS: Eliminate Taxes On Unemployment Benefits.
McCain and the Republicans are starting to make the case for Divided Government, i.e. there will be no checks and balances if you have BO with Pelosi, Reid, et al. I think that this could prove to be an effective strategy.
I also wouldn’t mind if they used a Bill Clinton quote from a Charlie Rose interview during the primary where he refers to Obama’s election as “a roll of the dice”. Think that would work well for them too.
Based on the VA rally, McCain seems to have his MOJO back. Hope it lasts for the remainder of the campaign.
lol, i love Johny! He reminds me so much of my father, & they are both very close in age. While i don’t agree with all his politics, he is an American i just respect immensely. it just seems right for him to end his political career with a term in the White House.
& Yes, i think divided government is exactly what we need right now, & Senator McCain is the right man for that job. Consider how difficult it is going to be for a Repub Pres in a radical Progressive senate/house that is filibuster & veto resistant. McCain’s president will likely be thankless -a labor of love that would be a career destroying move for any other Republican.
He will likely get little done aside from slowing the tide of progressive legislation. People will likely condemn him as ineffective without appreciating the political obstacles he faced & the disastrous alternative of an Obama administration in 2008-2012.
All the more reason to admire the courage & sacrifice of this great Patriot! Thank you Senator McCain, you make me so proud to be an American!
Country First! God Bless America!
This was truly presidential and inspiring. Yes!!!
Wow! I have heard McCain speak well before, and he is believable!
I have no doubt that he will give 150% for his country!
Unfortunately, he needs a re-inforced hummer to level the stockade the media have placed around the messiah!
Step up Sarah!
McCain/Palin!!!!
Damn! John just gave a great speech this morning! Just saw it on FNC.
i never thought i’d say this in my life, but,
GO McCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God, that felt good.
KICK HIS BUTT
Hi there,
This post really helped me in writing some thoughts about John McCain and his self awareness. The piece was about leadership and McCain’s own style. I tried to do a pingback, but I’m not sure it worked, so I thought I’d say hello the old fashioned way!
btw, the piece is online at http://www.fourgroups.com/blog/archives/19/john-mccain-and-self-awareness/