Conference Call: McCain to Outspend Obama in Final Week

Fabulous! I think we all needed this good news.

I agree. Thanks for posting this…I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been a little down in the dumps over this election lately. This post cheered me up a bit! I hope McCain can pull this off!

As I’ve said from the beginning, it’s been odd here in S. FL. In the past three presidential elections that I’ve lived here, this ‘blue’ town was papered with the Dem candidate’s yard signs. This time? Hardly any – I mean maybe on every mile or so max. I think it’s a sign that the people aren’t buying it – or at least I HOPE it’s a good sign.

Also, a local business has a sign as well that’s interesting. On the ‘billboard’ section of their lit sign, it says essentially “If Obama wins on Tuesday, this business for sale on Wednesday”.

This town is ALL small business and Obama is oh-so-bad for small business – and we all know that.

No matter what happens and what the polls say, just make sure you go out and vote Nov 4, come hell, high water or Obama trolls. JUST DO IT!!!!

I liked this ad, much better than the RNC ad. (Man, they have tanked!)

This one is good.

I think McCain is playing his cards very cleverly and is right.

I noticed last night that I stopped feeling annoyed by political ads. It’s a case of “just a few more days” syndrome. I’m not automatically tuning them out.

Hey guys have you heard that 3 news reporters will be butted out of the Obamaone plane? Per FOX

The Washington times

New York Post

The Dallas Morning News

All three are out by Sunday.

”You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

A. Lincoln

That is AWESOME NEWS!!! C’mon John & Sarah, GO GET EM!!! You have so many people supporting you, even though the MSM ignores us, we won’t BE ignored on election day!!!

You know, your post illustrates that for the FIRST time in my life, people truly are respecting the role that small business plays in our country.

They have so been pounded by national politics.

And yet…I’d wager that 70% of the people I know in real life are working for them.

It’s time. Their time has come.

Either we give them a lift up, or we’ll all be sorry.

Very good ad!

Obama calls $1 Trillion tax hike a “small adjustment” by re-defining $97K family income as “upper class”

I found a video clip in which Obama totally redefines what middle/upper class income is and who should pay more taxes. He is quoted on video. I think this is newsworthy, given the current focus on Obama’s plan to tax a larger number of families. The video shows Obama directly stating this. It is far less difficult to interpret than, say, the Chicago NPR audio-only about redistributive change. This is a video that’s ready-made for a campaign spot and for video news releases. All people will understand it.

In this video, Obama defined $97,000 family income as “upper class” and subject to $1 Trillion in tax increases in debate within the last year and in policy proposals. He also makes a similar claim in writing in an Op-Ed (see below).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SavgJlBLA

The key minute: Watch from 1:15 to 2:15 for Obama’s remarkable claim that $97K family income is “upper class”

Of course there are other videos of this same debate, Nov 2007, Las Vegas from which you can clip these quotes, but this one just puts in the context of Obama/Biden redefining Middle Class income from $250K to $200K to $150K to $97K is “upper class.” and the top group—and subject to big tax hikes.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3638710&page=1

I wonder how many families with 2 or 3 kids in middle class suburbs of our major cities would consider their $97 K income to be “upper class.” If any of those kids plan to go to college, the families will hardly be living like the upper class on $97K.

Obama’s Op-Ed

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/09/21/opinion/opinion/doc46f35dac127eb409456532.txt

“… raise the cap on the amount of income subject to the Social Security tax. If we kept the payroll tax rate exactly the same but applied it to all earnings and not just the first $97,500, we could virtually eliminate the entire Social Security shortfall.” – Op-Ed by Barack Obama, Quad City Times, Sep., 2007

Don’t “MESS WITH TEXAS” and the DALLAS COWBOYS, THE NEW YORK GIANTS, or THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS”.

I gotta laugh. The Dallas Morning News has pounded Obama.

Just pounded him.

I love their writers.

RUSH ON FIRE!

Earlier this week he said he didn’t have a gut feel for this election. Today he opened with a roar saying he now had a gut feeling and he launched into a diatribe on how the polls are biased for Obama and that has been the strategy from the start. he said the Obama campaign is based on selling an illusion but it isn’t working. Up to 80% are refusing to participate in polls and we know why! He said what many of us here have said and what leaks from the Obama campaign have confirmed – that they need a ten point lead to win and they don’t have it and they are frantic!

O is for over!

Good news for all of us supporting McCain/Palin. I love the sign in Florida from the business-For sale on Wednesday after election if Obama wins. As to the newspapers being kicked off of BO’s plane. This is just the beginning of the tactics of BO if elected. If he doesn’t like the message-get rid of the messenger! I will never vote or Ohitler.

spread it around!

Yes, the Repubs have always been known for their powerful end game…these next few days will tell the tale.

It’s time for all true Americans to come to the aid of their country…vote McCain/Palin on Nov. 4th.

We can do this folks…the Repub base, the die-hard Hillary supporters, women who want to finally shatter that glass ceiling, families with special needs children, many, many Christians, hockey moms, little league moms, soccer moms and all who resonate with Sarah because she’s “just like us” and on, and on and on…

in the words of John McCain: Stand up! Fight for your country! Fight! Nothing is inevitable.

The state polls this morning are reflecting the national poll tightening.

However, McCain is right. It’s now really time to move into an “ahead”.

I fervently believe that McCain closed so well that he absolutely stopped any momentum vote for Obama.

It’s a horserace now, and everyone knows it.

The fact that McCain “untipped” the “tipping” point is HUGE.

People should ask themselves.

You might not OWN a business, BUT, when you go to work today, where are you going?

How many of us WORK FOR a business?

It’s not only the small business owner (and “small” can cover a lot of people — I prefer just “business”), it’s the people who work there who should also be very, very concerned.

Larry,

This is great news. Now talk to your McCain people to get them to RELEASE THE WHITEY TAPE! Or, if you can get a copy otherwise, GET IT OUT THERE.

TODAY IS THE DAY. If McCain is holding back we need to put the pressure on to make them release it.

We know what Michelle said.

Thanks to Larry this story WILL NOT BE BURIED!

Would you rather have a check once a year from the government, or a steady, reliable job all year long? That’s the question Obama voters need to ask themselves.

Obama’s economic policies will kill businesses and throw people crumbs to keep them where they are.

McCain’s economic policies will create more businesses and prosperity for everyone.

That’s a fact.

just checked the cnn live video

ACK

GORE & Tipper are pimping for Barry!!!!!

That’s got to be the final last ditch dying call of a losing campaign.

They have drug out EVERY possible DEM no matter whether Barry believes what they believe or NOT

shame on AL
you were such a MAN at one time
r u hooked on the koolaid, really?

argh

Thank you Bud! This is fabulous news! Mac can still pull this one out. Obama just can’t outclass a man of true courage and character like John McCain. I look forward to seeing Obama give his concession speech on election night.

In 2000, the news networks declared the Florida polls closed an hour before the polls had closed in the majority-Republican Western Panhandle (different time zone than the rest of Florida). Some folks there thought it was over and didn’t bother to vote. How many? Who knows. I don’t have a guess.

News networks (one or more) had done the same thing in 1988 or 1992, I forget which year. In 2000 the error was general since the networks were working from the same news pool organization.

Remind any Western Panhandle voters whom you know.

How do you feel the (much mentioned) Jewish population in S FL is affected by the associations, mainly Khalidi, of Obama?

Will it sway their votes?

Gore and Tipper, oh no. All my heroes have gone astray.

they had Kerry ahead

they had Gore ahead

we didn’t have as many polls when Bill ran and on the net either but

just judging from the last TWO failures in polls to be at ALL accurate

I’d say they are probably wrong now.

just don’t know how bad and in which direction but hoping it’s in the direction of sanity with Mack.

What I didn’t see when I went to vote was a young crowd of voters. What I did see was a long line of mature voters, and from the way they dressed and acted they were not KoolAid drinkers. Another thing I noticed was lots of McCain/Palin signs but only two Obama signs.

Barack Obama: Dreams From My Aunt

They will probably do it again to benefit BO.

Mitt Romney said Mccain needs to tell people Oblah will kill jobs while Mccain will create jobs. He said people need to hear it in language they understand.

I agree

I just hope there are no far left crazies or zealots for bambi with their fingers on the trigger of any big gun or launch code after their HERO LOSES!!!!

I know this is NOT a 3RD World Country (yet)

but does anyone really think his NUTS will just give it up again to the republicans??? w/out creating a mess???

I don’t (all of a sudden)
after seeing the way they treat dissent
it’s a bit off putting
ok scary

Great quote!

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Thanks for the good news!

I made some calls for McCain the other day from his website. (I made thousands for Hillary) and it was fun and pretty easy. You can choose the state you want to call so I called Nevada.

MAKE CALLS TODAY AND ALL WEEKEND TO SWING STATES!

I’m getting bombarded with local Marin County Dem emails about huge phone banks for BO to battleground states and I want to counter balance all those latte- drinkin’, Prius-drivin’, chardonnay-sippin’ old friends of mine! I used to like those people

The youngsters are not going to wait in a line for hours for nothing! Trust me, they will not! I have 2 teenage boys and they are lazy. If anything takes them away from the tv or video games or computer for more than 15 minutes, they will try to get a parent to do it for them or they will just skip it. Even now a days if they want concert tickets, they go on ticketmaster and have them in 5 minutes. Remember when we were their age and you waited in line all day, or even over night to get those tickets. We know how to wait in line. They do not. Anyone under 30 lives in an instant gratification world. They are not going to vote if they can’t do it from their room on their computer. Plus, if they think Obama is a shoe in as the media has been saying, they will stay home because everyone else will do it for them. Hell, my 17 year old can’t vote, but if it wasn’t a school day, he might not even be out of bed by 4 pm to go vote and he’d have to do his stuff first. If it is a school day, he usually takes a nap after school.

If they ever really want to get young voters, they’ll have to leave the polls open until 2 AM or find a way to do online voting.

Another theory I have about first time voters, age 18, they don’t know what they are doing and are a little afraid to look stupid so many of them won’t go.

Listening to Limbaugh – Bill Richardson while speaking on the campaign trail for Obama now has lowered the Obama’s tax plan’s definition of rich to $120K. It’s a reverse auction!

http://www.news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/17/aol-straw-poll-oct-17-24/

New poll for the week….

I have 2 teenage boys and they are lazy.

You sound like a terrible parent.

Send it out to Hannity; Rush; Glenn Beck etc……

Anyone at fox news.

You put your finger on the truth. They really are a bit scared of the voting deal.

That’s why so many don’t live up to their own nonsense on-line.

I think it would IF the info gets out. THe mainstream media has effectively muffled anything anti-Obama.

LOL*…..love that comment.

Can’t get honest in a debate. Let it “seep” out.

I love this type of comment from the supposed “progressives.”

What complete judgmentalism.

The new left is nothing more than old right…..flip side of the same coin.

Both sides…..far right, far left….nutcases.

Neurotic.

Judgmental.

Rigid.

Unable to compromise.

We are going to go into Tues with the polls still showing Obama ahead. We all just need to learn to make the mental adjustments to those numbers to bring them into reality, which is that McCain has already taken the lead and will widen it over the next four days.

Jason sounds like an adolescent.

You can all help me to send this…I don’t have all the right addresses, but I think it’s very newsworthy.

The Obama rich threshhold went from $300K to $250K to $200K to $150 K and now we see him saying $97K is “upper class” family income!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SavgJlBLA

Jason…How’s Gaza these days? You better hope that OHitler doesn’t win and put all of your local Starbucks’ out of business cause you’re gonna need another job November 5.

It is good news…check out Sarah’s new ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqm9V0odGgo

Obama will soon start his own media O-outlets and hire his own O-reporters.

Thank you! I think you’re right about McCain v Obama’s character.

No, I don’t like it. It relies too much on prior information and prior conclusions.

Dangerous ad.

Who’s in charge of this group?

This election is about getting out the vote. If everyone who prefers McCain votes he wins

It pays to be nice and polite when calling – 0bama supporters are pushy, intimidating and nasty on the phone and people don’t like them at all.

It’s good to let people see (hear) the contrast between the 2 campaigns’ callers/supporters.

I thought he already had: ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and almost all the newspapers in America,except of course, the ones he is now banning from his airplane.

Reminds me of Joseph Stalin and how he would “erase” pictures of his enemies from photos after he had them killed.

Joseph Stalin, like Barack Obama, was also a very little man.

Ha Ha, I think you’re right. They definitely won’t wait in line for hours.

I think the down-ballot Dems are in for a little surprise, too, because all those people who idolize THe One will only vote for president and don’t even know there are more names and propositions on the ballot!

he has already lowered his expectations of his presidency if he wins. Heeeellllloooo? They don’t call him backtrack barack for nothing!

You are correct regarding the # of polls. According to a Fox show yesterday, ther were more polls run this October than all of the “04 race combined.

I’ll bet that Obama will refuse to give a concession speech and instead declare himself emperor of the US of A.

Obama thugs are trolling for votes however they come. They are taking buses to old folks homes and group homes with seriously mentally impaired individuals, taking them to polling places, filling out their paperwork, and voting for Obama for them. A woman who had a seriously impaired loved one in a group home was horrified when she visited him one day and he had a an “I Voted” sticker on his shirt. She was furious and asked the people who ran the home. It is this kind of crap that is disgusting lots of people. Not only is it unethical, much of it is outright illegal.

Can’t face the truth, Psych-ops Troll? Obama is the flip side of GWB. They are both fascists adhering to their own ideological spectrum and fantasies.

I am having trouble getting on talk radio abc 77
anyone else? Obama take that down too?

yeah! thanks for the update!!!

Jeri Thompson (Fred Thompson’s wife) and lots of WOMEN!

I liked it, it was funny…wink wink. But of course you don’t like it Anni from California. You know, I used to live in northern Cal and was depressed and cynical all the time too. I moved to Colorado, so perhaps you should do the same. The thin air here helps me think clearly. All that smog can cloud ones thinking. Just sayin.

I think someone on Fox mentioned Citizen Cane syndrome. Yikes.

Speaking of media. Can someone HELP ME OUT HERE.

Watch the man in Obama’s 30 minute commerical, at 5:39 minutes/seconds into the commerical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0JhEtzch4Y

Is this the SAME dude who was the “heckler with monkey” at Sarah Palin’s rally?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_7mEWoWI8

If so, and that’s a big if, I would like to find that guy and find out his REAL story!

Is he a paid Obama PAID supporter?

Thank you so much for this post! Excellent!

Barry is not a Closer, according to Rove. At the end of the day, people will go with their gut feel and Barry gives them a stomach ache.

I am. i’m a racist, too!

Maybe you need to get yourself some teenagers and see. Teenagers are lazy.

Oh, wait. you must be an obot. You don’t know what the real world is like. I hope you enjoy finding out on Tuesday.

Rove said 76 polls compared to 30 or something like that.

Jason,

I must apologize for my nasty comment to you. You probably will never have teenagers because in the country you live in they have sterilized all the women so they can’t reproduce. Or did they sterilize you?

Again sorry to be insensitive to a one from a foreign land.

TO; Comment by ck | 2008-10-31 12:43:20 Can someone HELP ME OUT HERE.
Yeah, that looks like the same jerk. What a turd standing there with a monkey. I won’t even say what I really want to right here.
You might want to contact the Obama campagin and tell them you want to publish a thank you letter in some local paper, your a writer and think the guy did a great service to this failing nation and what’s the guys story.

What were George W. Bush’s “tax rebate” stimulus checks, if not a grudging recognition that spending by regular Americans is what keeps the wheels of the American economy turning?

Putting more money in the pockets of the wealthy won’t do it. Why should we think they’re going to use that increased wealth to create new jobs and factories and businesses when existing factories and businesses are working under capacity, or sitting idle and empty?

It’s the demand by regular Americans for the goods and services they themselves provide and produce that keeps America rolling. The wealthy owe their good fortune to that. If they’re allowed to extract and keep too much, the wheels slow down and eventually stop turning.

I agree with Shiloh. McCain may still be behind a few points come election day. But it wouldn’t worry me.

In addition to the controversy about partisan weighting of poll samples, Obama’s tactic of charging any opposition as racism has caused poll results to be unreliable. I have no doubt that many likely voter respondents have lied or claimed to be undecided merely to avoid the label of racism.

I have two kids, they are smart but lazy. Is that better Jason? What’s wrong with stating the truth? What do you know about that person’s parenting style? You don’t.

I know it’s a longshot to post ideas for the McCain campaign here, but a message sent via the McCain website seems unlikely to be read. But maybe the campaign keeps on eye on No Quarter. Or if anyone has any connections or a better idea where to send this, let me know. Here’s the idea:

A TV ad that includes a prominent message like this, with each line spoken by a different middle class person, each in his or her workplace (factory, office building, store, doctor’s office, construction, post office, etc.):

Person 1: MANY OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA MAY BE VOTING THEMSELVES OUT OF A JOB IN THE MOST DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES IN OVER 70 YEARS. BARACK OBAMA WANTS TO RAISE TAXES–A PROVEN RECIPE FOR JOB LOSS.

Person 2: BY RAISING TAXES ON FAMILIES, SMALL BUSINESSES, AND CORPORATIONS TO PAY FOR THE TRILLION DOLLARS IN NEW SPENDING HE HAS PLANNED–TO “SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND”–BARACK OBAMA WILL FORCE BUSINESSES ALL ACROSS AMERICA TO CUT MILLIONS OF JOBS JUST TO STAY AFLOAT IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES.

Person 3: ASK YOUR EMPLOYER THIS: HOW WILL THEY DEAL WITH THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN NEW TAXES BARACK OBAMA PLANS TO IMPOSE ON THEM? UNDER BARACK OBAMA WILL YOUR JOB BE SAFE?

Person 4: JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN’S RECORDS ARE CLEAR: THEY CUT TAXES, DRIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION, ERADICATE GOVERNMENT WASTE AND SPENDING, AND FIGHT CORRUPTION, BOTH IN THEIR OWN PARTY AND ACROSS THE AISLE.

Person 5: JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN AREN’T GOING TO SPREAD YOUR WEALTH AROUND. JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN ARE GOING TO TURN THE ECONOMY AROUND AND CREATE MILLIONS OF JOBS.

Person 6: UNLIKE BARACK OBAMA, MCCAIN AND PALIN BOTH HAVE RECORDS OF BIPARTISANSHIP ACTION–MCCAIN AND PALIN GET THINGS DONE.

Person 7: SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE YOURSELF OUT OF A JOB WITH BARACK OBAMA? OR ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR THE PROVEN ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP OF MCCAIN AND PALIN?

Thanks! Keep fighting…

Embrace your future. President Barack Hussein Obama.

Did you see the aerial shot of early voting lines on CNN this morning? People are standing in line for hours. People down there were obviously highly committed and determined to cast their vote. What the view didn’t reveal is exactly who it is that’s so highly motivated. That will remain a topic for speculation until Tuesday night.

Complete judgmentalism? This woman just went on the internet and criticized her two sons as lazy, among other things.

How else does a child wind up lazy but bad parenting?

Please, explain how this makes me nueurotic and unable to compromise?

You’re a genius, that is the same old codger!!! The best sign of this is the shape of his skull, especially the way his forehead slopes backwards (kinda like those Native Americans [Mayans?] who put their kids head in boards).

Actually he loses. There are less McCain supporters than Obama supporters by every measure. Weird how that works, isn’t it?

Ann
I pray that you are right. The small business owners need respect and to have their voices heard.
However if the Dems get a super majority then these tax hikes will be vetoed by McCain and over rode by this super majority. So more republicans need to be sent to both houses to prevent this. Man, I wish there were TERM LIMITS on all of those bozos in congress!

Of Course AnninCA doesn’t like it. Could we ever expect anything different?

I’m starting to treat AnninCA’s posts like Obot posts.

I posted on another thread yesterday with an ice cream/undecided voter analogy. Undecided voters what something new, different and exotic. They’re just like people in the ice cream shop line who are tempted by banana nut or creole cream cheese. They agonize over their choice, but once they get up to the counter – they order the tried and true chocolate. Something they know they can live with and won’t decide later they don’t like.

The undecided voter in this election is going to go for the tried and true. Not the candidate with a murky or unconventional past who is promising stuff they know can’t be delivered on without a miracle. The candidate is inspiring and exotic, but the undecided chocolate ice cream voter is leery of anything new without a track record. When it comes down to crunch time, in the voting booth – the undecided voter is going to choose Senator McCain over Senator Obama. This voter has waited for the past year for Senator Obama to give him a reason to trade his chocolate sugar cone for a strawberry cheesecake waffle cone and if Senator Obama hasn’t persuaded this voter by now, he never will. At the counter, the voter is going to vote for Senator McCain.

The polls this past week have shown that the closer the undecided people in the ice cream line get to the counter, the more they are choosing chocolate over pineapple macadamia. Change is tempting, choosing what they know over the unknown is comfortable and the undecided don’t like to risk their comfort level on the unknown – no matter how tempting it is.

I second that comment on a great set of statements by Abraham Lincoln.

hey asshole until youve raised children and i mean teenagers you have NO right to call anyone a bad parent so go crawl back from under the rock you came from.btw i have 5 kids from 29 to 8 all with the same mom.we are going through hell right now because oor 13yr old is severly bipolar and refuses to go to school.we have behavior coaches,case mgrs ,probation[truancy],counselers et al and its still a battle daily,so dont you dare talk to anyone unless youve walked a mile in their shoes.

Agreed!

I voted for McCain today and met a bunch of PUMA’s in line.

We are getting together on election night for a McCain/Palin victory party!

Thank you, PUMA’s for making this possible.

Reagan Democrats = McCain Democrats will
bring victory to McCain/Palin in 2008!

Hillary 2012!

sorry the above post is from me not my daughter.

I think you left out Muhammed.

It’s the same guy!! I guess there is a shortage of Actors in Obama’s gang of idiots.

seventeen years old, tops

Catholics aren’t going for n0bama.

Most Americans are aware of Bill Lear, because of his Lear Jet
business; however, he has accomplished much more, as you can see at
this link: William P. Lear — Britannica Online Encyclopedia
(http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/…20Encyclopedia).
His opinions are worth a read:

A Humble Plea to McCain and Obama Supporters:

Dear friends,

I am truly astonished by the ignorance Obama supporters have displayed
in their quest to get someone – ANYONE – into the White House. Now,
wait a minute. I can well understand your dislike or even hatred of
our clown, GWB, but he is not the root cause of all of our problems.
Our Congress is. And a change there would be welcomed by all. You
ain’t gonna get it done with Obama. You gotta fire the whole damnable
crooked Congress. (Read my book, ‘BERNIE’S WAR!’).

Perhaps I’m looking at all of this from a different perspective than
you because my life experiences have been so different from yours. I’m
80-years old and have traveled the world where I’ve seen a great deal.
I spent five years on active duty as a fighter pilot in the USAF and
another seven years flying with the Air National Guard in California
and Texas as well as a few years flying in the USAF Reserve. I spent
three years on active duty in Germany flying Czech border patrol with
‘cold guns’ in aircraft inferior to the MIG during the Korean ‘Police
Action’ when it was thought that Korea was a diversion for a Soviet
invasion of Western Europe.

I lived abroad for a total of 28 years. Three years in Germany, twenty
years in Switzerland and five years in Great Britain where I was based
doing ‘spook’ work for the U.S. behind the Iron Curtain before it
fell. During that era of the Cold War I ventured to Moscow, Prague,
Warsaw, Bucharest, Peshawar, Pakistan and Bulgaria posing as a Swiss
French-speaking arms dealer purchasing weapons we surreptitiously
supplied to the Afghani Mujahedeen in their successful fight against
the Soviets – all of which came back to haunt us. I’ve been there and
done that and have had close associations with top government people
in Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain. I’ve had more foreign
affair experience than Obama could ever dream of and, yet, wouldn’t
have the temerity to deign myself ‘Presidential’ material; although I
feel eminently more qualified to judge who would NOT be best for our
country. My long-time world experience should count for something in
my plea to you to abandon t his miscreant flake. You will only be
doing yourself and our country an enormous disservice if you persist
in your support of this flash-in-the-pan opportunist. On this, you
MUST trust me.

I’ve associated closely with European royalty and African politicians.
I’ve traveled to the Far East to observe their cultures. My point is
that Obama, although formally well educated and a brilliant orator, is
a neophyte when it comes to understanding the world and is uniquely
unqualified for the job as President of these great United States. His
knowledge of economics is nil and his tax proposals absurd and
life-threatening to the U.S. not only in economic terms but in
preserving our national security as well. I don’t want a ‘citizen of
the world’ to be President, I want a citizen of the good old USA to be
President. Screw the rest of the world as they have well and truly
screwed us. The time has come for us to awaken and start looking after
ourselves. Now THAT would be CHANGE if that’s what you’re looking for.

While McCain has abstained from playing ‘the race-card’, Obama is
playing it to the hilt even though he’s technically not an
African-American. To qualify for this distinction you must be at least
one-sixth black. Obama is only one-eighth. His father would be, as he
was one-sixth. No, Obama is more Muslim than black yet he trades on
his blackness.

The larger question I have about him is that we really don’t know much
about him other than what HE tells us, what we read on blogs and from
some serious non-partisan investigators whose factual reports are,
unfortunately, generally ignored and which receive precious little
media exposure.

I, as a registered Independent, a military veteran and a patriot,
beseech you to put aside party considerations and vote for the lesser
of the two evils. Yes, I am NOT a McCain supporter, but he is, at
least, not a flake, doesn’t carry Muslim baggage and is a PROVEN hero
and patriot WITH experience. It’s not a party issue. It’s all about
electing the best we can trust with what we’ve got to work with. Mr.
Obama is NOT that guy.

Please, please rethink your voting position. Thanks for reading my
innermost thoughts. I care about all of you, but I care more about our
country. Please help me to do both.

William P. (Bill) Lear, Jr.

A phone number and email was there was there to.But,I can not give that out.

OK
this is interesting

why do the n0b0ts ignore this one?

Rendell worried about Pennsylvania:

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Rendell_says_race_is_closer_than_polls_indicate.html

2008. The Year the One … Lost.

Keep this moving quickly…

PBS has an online poll posted, asking if Sarah Palin

is qualified.

Apparently the left wing knew about this

in advance and are flooding the voting with NO votes.

The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by

mainstream media. It can influence undecided voters

in swing states.

Please do two things — takes 20 seconds.

1) Click on link and vote YES!

Here’s the link:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

2) Then send this to every McCain-Palin supporter

you know, and urge them to vote and pass it on.

The last thing we need is PBS saying their viewers don’t

think Sarah Palin is qualified.

your remark that early voting and absentee voting in florida is in john mccain’s favor is simply untrue. according to TIME today,

How Early Voting Could Cost McCain Florida

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1855049,00.html?imw=Y

then please take it upon yourself to print out some articles pointing out who these associations are and take them to the Jewish American Centers in your area. if they won’t let you bring them in and hand them out, then go to the parking lot and stick them on the windshield every car. Go to the local Synagogues, as well. Israeli jews are perplexed at the support that Obama has received from American Jews. There is sooo much out there you can share. We need you Florida ex-Dem, and anybody else in FL, be it Jew, Catholic Evangelican…vet, Biker or Shrimper…we need to end this thing NOW. I don’t personally want to spend the next four years still obsessed with exposing Obama. Do you?

My family of five (two kids in college, one will be in college next year), makes about $120,000/year. I will tell you that we ARE NOT RICH. We are comfortable but we have NOTHING EXTRA. So whoever thinks we’re rich needs a schooling.

obama’s total early voting tally is about 55%… check out CNN’s early voting map:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/27/early.voting.map/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Maybe in the same vein (or in this case vain) as Oprah, he can have his own monthly magazine “O” with him on the cover of every issue…I think he may already have tested the waters on that idea, too. It’s a Publication called Rolling Stone Magazine, used to cover Music, now apparently it only covers Obama. I don’t know though, is a monthly magazine issued often enough for us? Maybe it should be a weekly publication, like People. Afterall, Oprah is great, but Barack is “The One”.

Wait. Today is the 31st, not the 27th! Furthermore, they are not allowed to release real exit polling tallies, so this data is bogus.

P.S.

If it is only 55 percent in early voting, that isn’t to good for precious who told all of his supporters to take off of work to vote.

Well, I can tell you from personal experience–97K plus 2-3 kids in college, mortgage and all the expenses of normal living is “not” [trust me on this] upper class.

It’s a joke, right? Not a very funny one. And geography is everything, whether you have kids in school or not.

This is the sort of class warfare and envy that this campaign has consistently waged. It’s not healthy and it’s wrong. And for the small business man and woman, the people who generate jobs and opportunities throughout their communities, it’s disastrous.

It would be great to have a picture of that sign and have it sent to Hannity.

It’s true that McCain is going to be on par with Obama in advertising in the final few days, but the problem is his ground game.

Top level republicans and people close to the campaign are admitting that the advertising is being done at the cost of GOTV effort. They’ve scaled back the ground game BIG TIME. McCain told his veteran organizers that they were on the own in the filed and had to pay their own way to get to battleground states and get hotels.

Even the RNC is admitting it has scaled back the “72 hour” campaign considerably. They are only paying for 750 people to be sent out nationwide for GOTV organizing.

McCain is hoping an air war can win it alone, without the accompanying ground forces.

Where are you getting this information? You sound a bit Botish!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004167.html

I heard a confirmation of csuzeq’s thoughts on radio this afternoon [can't remember which station]. But they were talking about the incredibly long lines down in FL for early voting. The youth vote so far is way below the

McCain will be in Springfield, VA tomorrow in the a.m. I’d love to go but it’s playoff’s for my boys.

Go McCain/Palin 08!
Go Raiders!
Go Vikings!
Go Dolphins!

Oh, and to the team with my heart, but none of my sons, Go GA Bulldogs! Repeat 07 plus one additional score for good measure.

Happy Halloween, y’all

Okay, I take the botish comment back. I don’t know if this is a smart move though. Hope it works.

It strikes me as a terrible move by McCain. The reason Bush was so successful was the legendary “72 hour campaign”. Without the huge commitment to the GOTV effort on the ground, Bush loses.

Ads don’t drive people to the polls. Relying on your ads to be some sort of “magic bullet” is lazy. It’s amazing to me that the GOP has gone from bringing bus loads of evengelicals to the polls to completely ceding the field in 4 short years.

If anything, the story of this campaign season is going to be that McCain got outworked by his opponent.

It’s the WaPo

take it with a grain of salt. McCain/RNC have devoted more resource so ground game than any Republican campaign:

“Specifically, one thing I’d like to make a point of is that in the course of the general election period, since the end of our convention until today, the combined amount of spending between the RNC and the McCain Campaign, not counting any state dollars whatsoever, is $325 million. Many people do a lot of work to try to figure out the math on how much Barack Obama raises every hour on the hour, but I would like to say that, from my perspective, one, this is the most amount of money ever spent in a two month period in Republican Party history and it has been significantly distributed amongst the important party lines. I would say, and we’ll recap this later on TV, that the splits that we’ve been able to accomplish, where we have used our resources both in cooperation with the RNC in hybrid advertising and in our own, have been significant, but it is also significant that the RNC has spent over $50 million on independent expenditure advertising that has had a significant impact on this election. So, I think that when you are looking at all the various amounts of money spent in this campaign, you’ll be surprised to learn that we have been very competitive in some of our spending areas with the Obama Campaign and ahead of any other presidential campaign in our party’s history.

“That being said, two, that the devotion of resources to the field game has been incredibly substantial and has grown every week that we’ve been able to exceed our fundraising goals at the RNC.”

Dawnelle
I am afraid they are not going to loose with some kind of disturbance. I am talking to some latinos for Obama trying to convince them and they have told me stories that white people in middle Fl are already buying guns, so that when Obama wins they will start disturbances.

I told them maybe we are getting them for protection, for after watching these Bama man militia, we have to prepare for whatever happens.
Now, the Obama people are including also the latino and making them fearful. I is pitiful how race is an issue and not the real issues itself.
I got hung up 3 times from relatives. This election is way too divisive and the people are so edgy (specially the Obamians with the race issue) that it will take a big miracle for nothing to happen. We have to stay low, work in the shadows and VOTE, VOTE, and Pay and Pray.
Mc Palin 2008/Country First
Hill 2012

This letter from a distinguished American sounds eminently sensible to me. The fact that it cannot be considered partisan gives it even more weight as far as I am concerned.

It is interesting that there seem to be very few McCain endorsements from notable people on the airwaves or the internet. I don’t think that is necessarily bad because they are not badmouthing him either. In fact, quite a few Democratic leaders, including Hillary and Bill Clinton, have publically stated how much they respect John McCain AS A SENATOR AND A PERSON.

Maybe the Republicans should run a few of those ads in these last few days. We cannot trust Obama and we don’t know where he stands. That is not personal politics…that is a matter of record.

They haven’t scaled back on 72 hour campaign. In fact, it’s bigger than ever.

yes urr right bout mccain vetoing everything that would be bad for us but regreatably if obama gets in so will all his dems.and they will be able to outvote the repubs..theres alot of open seats..but we must stay focused that mccain will win !!

Where do you get this? Comments from the RNC seem to refute this statement.

RNC officials said the party would be picking up the slack for a portion of the Election Day field effort, but it would not be running the entire operation as it did in 2004. The RNC will pay per diems and travel costs for 750 volunteers who fanned out to battleground states yesterday.

amen to that liz !

I see a lot on how much they spent on ads, but little on how much was spent specifically on GOTV efforts.

I’ve been reading the 538 “On the Road” series a lot in the last few weeks because I find first hand accounts fascinating. Time and again though, they document a lack of ground game on the McCain side of the ledger.

The Republicans know what they’re doing. McCain is outdoing 2004 ground game a huge margin:

“We did 1.3 million phone calls and door knocks yesterday alone. That is an incredible day for us. To put these numbers in perspective, 2004 was certainly a gold standard for turnout probably for either party- in the same week in 2004 we did 1.9 million phone calls and door knocks. We did over 5.3 million during the same week this year and did almost that obviously in one day. Even this week we did twice as many phone calls using our online tools than we did in all of 2004. I think that what this show is we’ve been able to really expand year after year building our technology and using that to increase and enhance our grassroots program. We’ve done over 24 million targeted contacts to date. Again, very targeted voters. This is not canvassing ever single door or anything like that. These are very targeted votes. I project forward that we will probably do in the neighborhood of 17 million or more contacts over the final days of the campaign just by volunteers. We’re using thousands of deployed volunteers into target states as part of our 72 hour program. Also, one of the things that Senator McCain’s strength of support in non target states and I think the passion that our volunteers in non target states often show where we have phone banks up in non target states calling into target states that adds to our capacity and certainly make sure our volunteers in all 50 states can be helpful. Just a few examples: we have phone banks in New Jersey calling into Pennsylvania. Phone banks in Utah calling in to Colorado and New Mexico, phone banks in Massachusett s and Rhode Island calling into New Hampshire, scores of phone banks in California calling into Nevada. We have also deployed volunteers from Oklahoma and Texas going into Colorado. Those are just a few examples. We have 1.1 million active volunteers at this point and we predict will be helping us out over the final weekend and we are over the last few weeks have been in the process of dropping 200 million pieces of targeted direct mail to help boost our turnout. I think those are some things.”

Hey Paul, and any of you who do the great videos

This morning Judas of New Mexico said Barack is going to keep taxes the same on those earning under $120k. I think it’s be a great ad. Barack Obama said $250k, Biden says $150k and Judas now claims it’s $120k. The old flim flam game. No need to show their ugly mugs saying it…a voice over would do. Focus would be on how can you believe what they say?

http://www.thenextright.com/patrick-ruffini/obama-opens-the-gotv-firehose

Again, even the conservative commenters think McCain is getting outworked here.

Possible combinations for 97k per annum:

(Philly metro)
Two income household:
1.Spouses both middle school teachers

2.Husband machinist, works some overtime, wife is admin assist.

3.Wife is full time RN, Husband is a shipper/receiver

-or- On one income:
Husband is senior manager at large corporation, wife is stay at home mom.

If the above couples are DINKS, then one could make the case that they are “comfortable”. However as Peggy Sue stated, add 2 or 3 kids to the mix and it’s a whole different ballgame.

The Senator from Illinois doesn’t know much about the middle class, his representations notwithstanding.

McCain will be in Springfield, VA tomorrow in the a.m. I’d love to go but it’s playoff’s for my boys.

I have not been able to attend ONE of the numerous McCain events in my area due to my status as a working stiff. I have to wonder how many more people would be at their rallys if so many of us weren’t gainfully employed!

It doesn’t matter what people “think”. The numbers show that Obama can’t get Hillary’s voters and McCain is targeting them big time:

AP:

“One in seven, or 14 percent, can’t decide, or back a candidate but might switch, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll of likely voters released Friday.

Who are they? They look a lot like the voters who’ve already locked onto a candidate, though they’re more likely to be white and less likely to be liberal. And they disproportionately backed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s failed run for the Democratic nomination.

“She got cheated, I thought,” said Chris Markle, 25, who’s from Schenectady, N.Y., and now leans toward McCain. “I’m kind of upset about that.”

Remember the Tortoise and the hare. Truman v. Dewey.

PUMA all the way – Country First.

NObama.

The stats in this article are current as of Tuesday October 28. (it’s in the article)

Bud’s article follows a conference call that occurred this morning. His numbers include ballots that have been counted on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

Our local GOP hasn’t scaled back on GOTV efforts. They’re doing the same as 2004.

And this year a lot of the enthusiasm for the GOP ticket is fueled by disaffected Democrats.

Buck O’Fama,
I hearby pronounce YOU the winner of the BEST nickname of the NQ blog comment section..lol..I’ve had many good giggles over the nicknames here.What will we do when it is Øver?

I’m in the Bay Area, too, made calls all around the country for Hillary.

I’ll be phonebanking for McCain to GOTV. I’m looking forward to it, even though my partner wants me to swear not to tell any of our friends.

It’s maddening, this election. All of my friends, feminists who pride themselves on being on the side of the disadvantaged, working for fairness and justice, etc., are for Obama. Lefty gay women, disparaging Sarah Palin and swallowing the media bias like, well, like Koolaid.

I’d like to point out that they’re on the wrong side on this one, but not a single friend will listen.

This election is a lonely experience, but I’m tapping the Midwest roots that keep me grounded in truth-telling, honesty, fairness, plain hard work, and doing what you said you would do. That’s what I insist on from a President, too. And hopefully, a majority of Americans want that, too.

the statistics on cnn’s map are updated as of yesterday.

the statistics on cnn’s map are updated as of yesterday. the breakdown is by voter registration, D or R.

would ANY evidence convince you that mccain is behind in early voting in fla?

I have no idea why this reporter is saying this. Coral Reef Library (Palmetto Bay) is a 99 percent black neighborhood area. I live in the nearby and I would never for a moment would believe this is mixed neghiborhood.
This is the most irresponsible form of reporting, because they look for a day, without knowing the neigborhood composition, and areas, and inform tidbits that is not a true representation. This is like when they said the Gore won without finishing the rest of Florida. Wait till they go upstate. Surprise surprise!!!
Mc Palin 2008/ Country First

You sound more like Pennsylvania Green to me.

BTW, my four boys are my main job. I have a husband who works about sixty hours a week, so that I can work Part Time. That is what HE wanted, and for now, it’s what I want, too.
The grass is always greener on the other side…
I drive a School Bus for a Christian School and take the students to their various Field Trips. That allows me to Volunteer for the Football League, PTA, and the McCain campaign. I am sorry, truly, that you have not been able to go see any of the events.
Here’s hoping you get some free time to enjoy one in your area in the next four days.
No sour grapes here, I know I am blessed. I hope that you are, too.

Wise decision.

Sorry to put a damper on things, but we probably won’t see kids in line because Obama thinks of everything. that is why we will have record numbers of absentee voters in this Election. Lots of kids were told to declare being Students and that they would be out of the voting area on Election Day. The good news, they have already done those votes, so if the states have been processing the Absentee Ballots, you have probably already seen the majority of the youth vote already.

I met some Obama supportors yesterday, and i am not trying to say that they fit a stereotype of his kind of supportor, but they were a few AA’s that are friends of a friend of mine. Only one is voting on Tuesday. Two are felons apparently and can not vote, the other person said they aren’t voting because they think that puts their name into a big Govt. Computer somewhere.
I don’t know how many people are following this line of thinking, but ex Felons in VA apparently CAN vote, but from what I hear, most did not register in time, and are afraid of committing voter fraud and having some sort of parole/probation violation.

Barry has never “won” a real contest — NEVER.

Every contest he has “won” has been rigged.

State Senator — rigged.

US Senator — rigged (release of Ryan’s divorce records sunk the GOP campaign).

Dem candidate — rigged by the DNC & gaming the caucus. (Hillary was the real winner — both the popular vote & electoral vote.)

Barry is not a closer — never has been. He is a loser — the DNC have hitched their wagon to a loser.

Barry is a cheater – and he always has been.

He already started that on Wednesday.

Would make a great ad. Get in contact with: http://www.nationalrepublicantrust.com It seems they are raising millions of dollars (7 million in just 3-4 days) to run last minute ads.

CNN is one of the most in the tank network for Obama. Why do you think we here call it the Communist News Network?

At the risk of sounding politically correct… The term “buck” has historically been used to describe a black male. President Regan used this term – I am looking for the cite – to push for welfare reform, describing the ire felt by ‘hardworking’ men and women at the grocery story ‘and up comes some strapping buck’ and lays down his food stamps.’ We all knew the picture he intended to paint.

Bud, it is a bit like BO asking an Oujia board if he will win.

In ALL cases BO has never won anything or any race on his own merits. He has never closed a deal. Even his own house was a favor.

I so appreciatte your clarity and consistant framing of the issues.

Poor MO; someone just moved the goalposts and she ain’t getin’ nada.

THIS IS NOT THE SAME GUY!!!
Jeeze, the guy seated has much less fat on his face, the guy standing at the rally wears different glasses and wears them much higher on his head above his ears.
Additionally the standing man’s hair is much thinner and nearly white behind his ears whereas the seated man has darker gray hair.
Definitely not the same guy.
This is why eye-witness testimony is really such a weak link…

Thanks for the Boost, I just sent Obama another $50

Since the MSM calculated that 28% of Hillary supporters would vote for McCain and that over half of Democrats voted for her, that would mean that @ 14% of the Dems already voting have voted for McCain. This calculates to almost eight percent of the total voters.
Now take the 7.7% of total voters who cross over to McCain and add them to the Republican total while, obviously removing them from the Dem total and guess what?
(note: Jim Jones used about a one thousand to one ratio of cyanide to Kool-aid… for future reference)

Why not? After all, Obama’s spent $600 million campaigning and still can’t close the deal. So your $50 should put over the top – right?

Teak,
See my above post and check my math, wouldja?

Gore showed up at “The Greek Temple” in July which was bad. Now, this is worse…He should have stayed out of it and kept his “statesman” role instead of acting like party hack…

Rudy Guiliani slipped in for a rally tonight at a park in Mesilla, NM (southern NM) ..no news yet.
There was just a small squib in the local rag and on their website today…

Time magazine is one of the most biased in the nation. I know. I subscribed. I look at it. There is never anything good about McCain or Palin. I laugh…I throw it into the garbage.