Reports: Supporter begs McCain to fight; McCain bungles the ball; Update: Some positive reviews added; plus vid link
Update…here’s the vid via Allah…
I am away from my office, so haven’t seen the video of this yet. But several readers are reporting on a frustrating exchange John McCain had with a passionate supporter in Waukesha, Wisconsin. McCain gets a softball — and bungles again.
Banging. Head. Against. Wall.
Commenter nyc123me:
CNNlive online covering McCain/Palin event in Wisconsin. A guy just got up and begged McCain to take it to Obama in the next debate regarding all his shady associations. The crowd went for it big time. McCain said ‘yes I will’ and immediately started about something else. I don’t believe he will.
Reader Jeff e-mails:
He did it, but he had to be goaded into it. Called out Barney Frank and Chris Dodd when someone asked if he was going to name names and call for investigations. And people shouting ACORN, until he responded strongly about investigating them before the election
Also some guy was so riled up about McCain doing something to fight the socialists – Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid!
Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard reports more details — including something that made me grit my teeth last night when I heard him say it on FNC last night. Quit saying you “don’t care” about Ayers’ terrorist record. Stop that!
In response to a broad question about how Barack Obama “got here” — presumably got his lead — John McCain didn’t name Bill Ayers but spoke of him directly. McCain said “We don’t care about an old washed up terrorist and his wife” who said earlier this decade that he wished they were more successfu. (Several in the crowd chanted: “Yes we do!”)
…The next question came from a black McCain supporter, who reminded McCain of the candidate’s plea at the convention for his supporters to do everything possible to ensure a victory. The supporter said: “I doubt that anyone has taken, pardon me, the ass-whoopin’ I have taken for doing that.” He then implored McCain to go after Barack Obama at the next debate and asked him to raise ACORN and Reverend Wright. “I am begging you, sir,” he said, as the crowd stood and applauded.
McCain, as my readers above noted, said “Yes, I will,” then hurriedly changed the topic.
We’re Screwed ‘08!
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A commenter below thinks McCain did “fine.” But what does it tell you that the man has to be goaded and prodded and dragged into going on the offensive on ACORN/Ayers/Democrat Fannie-Freddie corruptocrats? It tells you what I’ve been saying out loud for quite some time — that McCain has always had much more of a stomach for taking own his own base than he has had for taking on the radical Left.
If there is a special medicine to cure him of this pathology, get him an IV drip of it, stat.
Question for discussion: Is it too little, too late?
Update: Rush Limbaugh has apparently played a few clips of the event and other readers are giving the answers positive reviews. Feel free to chime in.
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Comparing Rick Davis with Jim Johnson, who was a former chair of Fannie Mae, a financial consultant to Obama, and charged with finding his vice-presidential candidate; however, is far from pitiful.
Hey libs on this blog
I’ve got more money than you’ll have in ten life times.
I’ve got more college degrees than you
I’m stronger with 5 black belts
My children are more successful than your children
I speak more language than you
I control more power than than you
I definitely can shoot better than you
I absolutely understand our constitution better than you
AND YES, GOD IS ON MY SIDE
So bring it on libs
I AM YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
IAM A CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey chap … your numbers are way off … here is the report that covers total donations from Fannie and Freddie across 9 years from 1989 to 2008 for PAC and Individuals donations to the Congress critters … #1 Chris Dodd $165,400, #2 Barack Obama $126,349, #3 John Kerry $111,000 … McCain is way down the list at PAC $0 Individuals $21,500 …
Fannie-Freddie Donations to Congress
I didn’t compare Dodd’s $ from the top to Obama’s, so I am confused as to why it is relevant or disproves anything. I have no idea what it is, but I would guess that you are right that Dodd’s would be “top-heavy” as well. but one doesn’t have anything to do with the other.
All I know is that the vast majority of Obama’s $ did NOT come from the officers, lobbyists and directors. And McCain’s did. Agian, that is based on FEC filing. And again, I invite anyone to draw their own conclusions.
IT IS NOT THE ECONOMY STUPID….
stop chasing red herrings….
IT IS about obama’s ayers connection and ACORN…
PLEASE do not get distracted,
simple math obama and dems are convinced and pleased that the lower the markets go they will win.
WHY IS THAT???
seems to me quite a few of you are prime example FOCUS please show some backbone… FIGHT
connect the dots STOP REACTING
if this is all it takes for conservatives to crumble..BAH
BUCK UP
Desert,
Those numbers you cite did not include directors and I don’t think they included lobbyists either, but I am not entirely sure of that.
The numbers I cited listed only directors, officers and lobbyists.
That is why there is the discrepancy.
It’s not too late, and the media is only now HAVING to talk about this stuff ‘coz the candidates are. My admin who is pretty politically active, but doesn’t read the blogs and doesn’t watch FOX, had never heard about Ayers, ACORN, Odinga until this week.
We hadn’t discussed this stuff with each other, since she is a staunch GOP’er, even was a delegate to our state convention.
chap …
my link is to the entire list which the article states is based on the FEC report released on September 2, 2008 … so where are you getting these other numbers you are citing? … got a link for me? …
Going down to ignominious defeat…
We’re again faced with the conservative’s ultimate frustration… that Republicans just don’t know how to play politics. Getting into a match with Democrats in a campaign is for the most part like a high school football team getting on the field with the New York Giants! Most Republicans, like the high school team, just plain don’t have the weapons or the talent to win!
McCain-Palin 2008
being run like
Dole-Kemp 1996
Hey, chap. Mind sharing the source?
Fam,
I’ll meet you in dark alley
ops you are single yes?
no offense to wife or gf.
salt and chap … posts rolled over … go back and check my #200 please …
Blood,
you are a whiner why don’t you FIGHT???
Desert,
you get it!
BUCK UP PEOPLE look over your right shoulder ahuh that is YOUR SPINE.
Directors generally are outsiders, not members of the corporation, and have an oversight responsibility, but no role in the day-to-day function of the company, like, for instance, Raines, and Johnson, both former CEOs. Your claim that Raines isn’t an Obama advisor is disingenuous at best, since Obama has in fact contacted him on numerous occasions for advice about, of all things, housing policy (at least prior to Fannie Mae’s failure).
If Obama was our candidate, the left would be having a field day… the dude is pure trash, associates with trash, has a trash mouth wife and a preacher straight from he!!. wake up you dumba$$ libtards, grow a brain get off the dope and get a life.
Not a whiner, just an observer. There’s not much I can do about McCain and how he performs in debates and what he says and does on the campaign trail. I do my part, but admittedly, it’s a very small part. Do you disagree with my take? If you do, you haven’t been watching Republicans squander opportunities by failing to speak up and call it like it is… for years!
blood …
hang in there … I still say the plan is late attack in order to reach all those that have ignored this 2 year campaign … unlike most of us here …
been saving all the heavy artillery for the major assault …
OT-
dl, check your mail please….
aj … ok … will do …
I hope you’re right! Hopefully somebody on the right has a nice fat October surprise for the Messiah! I haven’t given up hope, but it’s not looking good when our candidate refuses to take the fight to the opposition.
aj … replied …
In lieu of raising his voice and confronting Barack Hussein about anything, he can just walk out there and say, “Listen folks, most of you have already made up your mind, and nothing more need be said by either of us. You have a choice to make. On the one hand you have Barack Hussein Obama who came out of a deep, dark cave and pronounced himself a man of change. Like zombies his followers followed chanting Obama, Obama. But what do you really know about him? He has socialist ambitions, readily admits he’s going to tax millions and expects you to believe it’s only the upper class, his wife admittedly doesn’t like the country, he launched his career in the living room of an admitted domestic terrorist and continued to work with that individual helping to teach children how to hate America, sat in Rev. Wright’s pews as his mentor spewed hate towards all whites and America, and then lied when he said he was there for 20 years and never heard that. This list goes on and on, but there are no explanations, only veiled excuses of someone just being a guy in the neighborhood. A shady character as president and an equally shady democratic control congress and senate. This team will rape and pilage and take everything you own, and then tell you how you’re going to live your life.
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Or you have me and Sarah Palin. My life has been an open book, and you know it all. My record is on display and I have a history of rebelling even against my own party to do what’s right, and so does my running mate.
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The ball is in your court. You know the stakes and you know the choices. Make your selection and pull that lever or mark that ballot. The results will be of your own making. So what’s it going to be? A socialist state or a free and democratic society of unlimited potential. If you vote for them, your life is over as you know it.
There are too many trolls on our Michelle’s blogs trying to discourage all of us. You must vote. Please
You would expect that a self proclaimed maverick would be a tough guy not afraid of taking it to anybody.
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Not a sheep cowering behind a skirt…
40 years with a strong conservative woman.
bloodhound …
the video on hotair of the man talking about how mad we all are about the socialism is good …
but I am waiting for Michelle to post the video of the lady realtor that got McCain to show some real passion and attack the Dem congress and then name names for the real estate mortgage failure … specifically Barney and Dodd
Blood,
I don’t understand you are not an American? why would you identify your self as an observer?
I never said that GOP have not gone for jugular when they could.
Am asking you and others to FIGHT and stop whining. oh and ps I aint going to list my resume of what campaigns have worked for or how good an AMERICAN am.
FACT: there is not a damn thing America ever accomplished by whining….
Fam,
okay she is Blessed
I am waiting for someone to say the following …
Connecting Barack OBama to Bill Ayers is like
Connecting Terry Nichols to Timothy McVeigh
Barry O just bought 30-mins of prime time on CBS and is negotiating with the other major networks. Watch him on 10/29 less than a week before the election.
I can see this really firing up Palin! She loves it that they’re the underdog, and you know what: so do I. It makes us fight even harder to win, which victory tastes ever more sweet!
txvet, my sentiments exactly!
That “black McCain supporter” is James T. Harris, conservative Milwaukee talk show host. I didn’t recognize him at the time, but I certainly stood up and cheered
Fam,
I think MM herself has set the tone of defeat. There isnt’t a darn thing the man can say that she isn’t snarky about.
Have seen this on other blogs, some posters try to suck up affraid to disagree with blah blah blah.
MM is good folk but her bias 2wards JM
on illegals has blinded her in my opinion.
Desert
would be redundant ya just did
bansharia …
IMHO you are selling our hostess short …
Desert,
I shall be very pleased to be wrong.
So do I, but I wasn’t sure how many people would remember that line from the movie, and didn’t want to go into a background explanation just to set up the quote.
But defeatists on our side really do remind me of the “Hudson” character from that movie; I swear if anyone in my old rifle platoon started talking like that, I’d have drawn my sidearm on him. Maybe we win, maybe we lose, but trying to demoralize others with defeatist slogans is infuriating to those of us who haven’t given up and realize what’s at stake.
I’ll always be a Michelle fan, but every time I see her repeat that “We’re screwed!” trope I want to reach across the Internet, pick her up and shake her.
Reg,
I’ll always be a Michelle fan, but every time I see her repeat that “We’re screwed!” trope I want to reach across the Internet, pick her up and shake her.
it is a bit much agree.
Regulus …
Ever think that MM saying that is for the exact purpose of “shaking” some of those that have become defeatist out of their lethargy? …
Just a thought …
Desert,
What? That would require that MM thinks we are all idiots and need such motivation wow is that an insluting theory.
anyway MM has posted in threads for some to leave is they don’t like it…
NO SALE
Fam,
actually I was quoting what REG said but I don’t know how do do that blue box thing.
bansharia …
I do not think that MM would ever insult anyone in that way …
but defeatism like any other malady cannot be cured until you get the patients’ attention …
sort of like getting one of those “V8″ slaps up the side of the head …
to
or the N.C.I.S. upside the back a the head slap.
Desert,
nor do I think that, it was your theory not mine. I am going to back to avoiding packing for my vacation. thread is getting creepy.
Rush was hilarious but do you really WANT someone that has to be dragged over the finish line?
The market is down big today and MC Cain is losing more ground becasue people are blaming the Repubs.
McCain has few answers for the economy and is not taking the bad guys to task. I never thought somebody that tough could be such a wimp.
OT-
Anyone near Philly that can give a weather report???
To be perfectly honest, no. But that’s not inconsistent with keeping a socialist/marxist/America-hater such as Obama out of the White House.
bansharia …
to do a quote in a block click on the “quote” tab (this will put the html code in your comment box) … then copy and paste the quoted comment at the end of the html comment code … and finally click on the “quote” tab a second time (this will add the closing html code after your quoted comment) … when you preview or submit the comment the quote will appear in a box
opps sorry early submit
Yes I agree bansharia,but I think our Michelle is very passionate and has been working too many hours. Most of us share the same value system on this blog and can clearly see whats going on. With all the bad news from the MSM even Michelle can fall.
Regulus, at least Hudson manned up and went down fighting in the end.
Bansharia, most people around here are free thinkers. MM provides excellent insight and provides fuel for debate with topics, but most of us reach our own conclusions.
McCain could win this thing tomorrow. If he took a populist approach and blasted AIG execs getting pedicures while Rome burns, he’d make traction.
Why he doesn’t is baffling.
Experts are have started to sort out the $700 billion bailout and MM was right, it is craptastic.
If McCain stood up and said “What the hell is going on around here”, he would tap into the anger and resentment in the American voter and win this election going away.
Come on McCain, are you a Maverick or a mouse?
Take it from somebody who has been anti-McCain for 20 years – it beats the only other alternative.
Its not pessimism, its being realistic if McCain doesn’t start to bring the fight to Obama himself. Palin can only do so much and the rest is left up to McCain. His comment about Ayers and his wife being nothing more than old domestic terrorists almost made me puke when he said it.
Damnit, it’s not about an old terrorist and his wife, it’s about the pattern of associates Obama has chosen to align himself with. It’s about the organizations he has championed and trained over the years. It’s about his willing membership and participation in a socialist political party. It’s about the people he has allowed to influence him over the years.
Let the press and Obama go after McCain on Keating and his alleged affairs. There is documented proof that McCain was not charged with anything and was cleared by Democrats. McCain should have the gonads to stand up for himself if he worthy of occupying the White House. Palin can handle herself just fine too. What else can the media do to her that hasn’t already been done? Slime her about her family, religion, firing an insubordinate staff member, going after a serial wife beater and abuser, accepting a bouquet of flowers, what else?
It is time for McCain to either put up or shut up. Fight or go away. I am damned tired of watching Bush just accept the ass kicking he gets from Democrats, media, and Hollywood every damn day and just stands there with his finger up his nose. For once, it would be refreshing to hear him come to his own defense and not let this crap continue. Now, it looks as if McCain and Bush are connected at the hip when it comes to fighting back and defending themselves. I don’t want a passive in the White House any longer.
Follow the dots through Obama’s life, connect them and look at the whole picture. If that is not enough to get McCain off his butt and become the so-called fearless flyboy he once was, Michelle is right – we’re screwed but good.
I think McCain will confront Obama directly, and he will do it at just the right moment. If he were to lay all his cards out now, Obama would have plenty of time to counter the argument, and any gains McCain might incur could disappear if he tips his hand too early.
Think back to how the McCain camp handled Sarah Palin’s debate appearance. Going into the debate, no one was prepared for the pitbull attack she engaged in, and many think she won the debate by managing expectations before the debate. If you think that was an accident, I’ve got some acorns to sell you. And now, the chance for Biden to counter her face to face is gone.
The same goes for McCain. Why on earth would he engage Obama on these issues in the second debate when Obama would be able to forge a counter-attack in the third? Remember, McCain is a soldier and is familiar with the art of war. He knows when the right time to push your forces is, and he is not going to give Obama a chance to counter-attack. By waiting until it is closer to election day, he stands a good chance to have Obama reeling on the defense as voters go to the polls. By not waiting and attacking him in the second debate, Obama would have had 4 weeks and an opportunity in the third debate to counter the argument and persuade voters that McCain was wrong.
Remember the battle of Bunker Hill, and its most famous quote: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
Don’t fire yet, John.
Will B.O. call this a distraction? Oh that’s right, it’s directed at the Bush admin so it’s not a distractioin but an issue.
Don’t pick on Michelle for being skeptical. She’s seen enough on this roller coaster ride to earn the right raise an eyebrow now and then.
It’s frustrating for everyone. Michelle needs encouragement from us; let’s see that she gets it.
McCain/Palin ‘08.
Go, Sarah, Go!
I just watched the video.. .McAmnesty is SUCH a wimpy little pansy. No wonder he hangs out with the androgynous lifelong “bachelor” Lindsey Grahamnisty and Joe Liberalman. Between the three of them they almost make a six foot man.
Please folks, We need to keep our eyes on the big long term picture. If nothing else think of the future. Think SARAH.
Chap, could I get a link too, please?
Thanks.
Did you folks hear that Obama has now purchased 30 MINUTES of Primetime on NBC and CBS a few days prior to the election?
He’s trying to broker deals with other networks, etc?
Isn’t that kind of what dictators do to spread their propaganda?
Unbelievable.
No its a recognition that McCain knows better and just won’t do the job his own supporters are begging him to do.
To be a US senator requires cunning and intelligence…nothing they do is just by accident, folks. That is why the opine from MM is “We’re screwed ‘08″, because the GOP knows better, McCain knows better…the leadership just doesn’t want to do the job.
This brings are more gnarly question…where does the current McCain/GOP REALLY want to take the country?
Personally, I could just as well be one of the frustrated supporters in the audience….
Michelle Malkin is doing her job, and I do hope it doesn’t adversely impact her personal life…she is doing the job journalists USED TO DO IN THIS COUNTRY before they became glorified propagandists.
I like the fact she plays no favorites, unlike Laura Ingraham.
Stay aggressive with the Ayers/Acorn/Rezco facts.
Give enough detail for solid foundation.
Ask America: Are you ready for Mr. William Ayers as U.S. Secretary of Education?
The Palin trashing on SFGate, the San Francisco Chronicle website is absolutely despicable.I posted this comment in response:
Palin/Cheney in ‘12
Those popping sounds you heard were several hundred liberal heads exploding.
I am fed up with all Republ;icans this year.; In all the local elections the dems are blaming us for the economy. Why the hell isn’t every Pub making the dems eat this issue?
Could it not be that the stock market meltdown drop of 30%+ in last 2 weeks is the market realizing that Obama is really winning along with an all democratic congress – with all that means for a complete socialist makeover of the US, the last standing capitalist nation?
I have not seen any analysis of this sort- though it makes complete sense to me.
Cowboy, I don’t get it either. Let’s see the Reps have drill for oil, the illegal alien invasion and now the economic bust do to the shenanigans of the democraps, going back to Bubba and continuing on…all corrective action supported by 70 to 80 % of the American populous and all McSahame can do is say…”i get the message” and under his breathe saying “and I’ll do nothing about any of it.”
I agree, BAL. I saw that earlier, too.
McCain doesn’t seem to act like he even wants the US presidency. He’s more like a blocker for Obie. It’s like they’re both on the same team running down the field toward the same goal and McCain is begging the fans to look at him but they can’t tell him from Obie and he hasn’t yet distinguished himself. It’s difficult to see any difference between their ideas and they’re wearing the same uniforms and from what I can tell McCain has yet to begin to act presidential.
If he would show a little backbone and act like a leader instead of trying to be mister nice-guy, he would be way ahead. And he doesn’t do “nice guy” very believably, its more like mister mouse. He has to choose a side but he won’t mark a line in the sand or step down off the fence he’s trying to walk and stop being afraid.
I don’t want a fence walker. I want a conservative!
I want someone who will stand up for the American way. Not try to be a friend to our enemies which they will interpret as weakness. He doesn’t seem to have the self-confidence needed to run a strong campaign or to be president.
video of McCain naming names(Dodd and Frank) http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=192423
Bansharia~ My comments were specifically addressing the McCain campaign, its tactics and strategies. As far as the McCain campaign is concerned, yes, I am an observer. Are you a campaign staffer who has policy, tactical, or strategic input? If so, please pass along the frustrations that I, as well as others have expressed herein. My self-reference as an observer was intended in that narrow vein. You’re damn straight I’m an American, and yes, I write letters, make calls, and talk to people in an effort to enlighten them to conservatism, and have done so since I was in my early twenties. And I vote… every time since I was eligible.
What you call whining, I call venting on this forum, where other like-minded individuals can commiserate. It is my hope that someone within the campaign reads Michelle’s blog, and our comments, and takes the information to heart!
It’s raining Obamanites and ACORNS.
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I Luv the Guv
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
Mdt:
You nailed it. I was just saying the same thing. You are right.
Sorry to all those who wanted a link. I should have provided it in the beginning and before I took off:
I can’t find the direct source for some reason, but this link does explain the source and differences in figures.
Again, one can draw their own conclusions from this, whether or not they think that director’s contributions are meaningful or not or whatever. But I am curious as to what the board perception of these numbers when compared to say, Tancredo or Thompson, back in January or February when McCain pretty much hated on this board.
McAmnesty just said on Hannity and Combs about light in the loafers Ghramnisty….
Oh yeah??????? What habits? A wide stance?
Why does McAmnesty hang out with these feminine liberal weenies???
I’m tired of Mccain. Palin/Jindal ‘08 or Jindal/Palin ‘08. Our country is heading towards becoming a socialist 3rd world nation.
God save us.
I think I’ve found your problem. You’re using NY Times numbers.
It’s hard to believe that Barack got so far as to be nominated. Whoever did the vetting on him should be jailed. Anyone with that many skeletons in his closet should have been prevented from even running a campaign!
Hmmmm…
I’m a little unsure why Republicans have anything to be upset about. It’s not like you’ve spent the past ten years shut out of government. And you’re screaming about Obama being a socialist? That is the problem, as you can identify it? Has it even occurred to you that the people you’ve so enthusiastically supported just haven’t done a very good job?
If so, what does that say about the wisdom of your ideology’s voters, given that they so enthusiastically supported these people for so long?
The NY Times is citing the FEC. Easily verifiable. You can choose to believe it or not.
Well said, alas.
I’ll be the first one to agree that the Rs have done a rotten job! But it is the RINO contigent that is the problem.
We need more conservatives and not leftist pandering, ‘can’t we all just gitalong?’ crap.
I don’t vote for Rs to be ‘bipartisan’, I vote for them to enact conservative policy. They haven’t and I’m pissed.
They had the perfect opportunity and they turned into rabid, big-spending democrats acting like democrat lap-dogs, while still calling themselves republicans.
Enough is enough. That’s why McCain needs to do some flip=flopping and get his act together. He’s win in a landslide if he would.
Why do big-spending Republicans have to be acting like Democrats? Why can’t they be acting like Republicans? I shouldn’t need to remind you that Bill Clinton left office with a surplus, and it’s not like George W. Bush was the only one that spent money like crazy, his dad did it before him, and Reagan did it before him. The last three Republican Presidents have handed in budget deficit after budget deficit, the last Democrat gave us a surplus. Quite literally, the ‘Big-Spending’ label can only be accurately applied to one party, and that’s the G.O.P.
And really now, to say that Republicans have been at all bipartisan or accepting of liberal or progressive ideas in the past 8 years is patently absurd. Sure, they talk about it a lot, but like so much else with them, it’s just hollow political theatrics. You remember when they tried to eliminate the filibuster, don’t you? Yeah, that’s some real bipartisanship right there.
I’m going to a McCain/Palin rally in Va Beach Monday and want to carry a pithy sign. Any suggestions? Something about how socialism doesn’t make the poor richer, it just drags everyone else down, just as it has done this week. Don’t know how to convey this in just a few words. Does Obama realize that just saying “taxing the rich” has already made everyone poorer!
What will a a traitor, who would not fight an election, fight for America (regardless of the military record)? And do not forget, his smily slithering partner Juan Hernandez.
Too bad timid McCain won’t let his wife be his campaign manager; it was something else seeing her restraining herself ladylike from tearing into that idiot Whoopee on “The View”. It’s long due for my man Thompson and the other Repub also-rans to SPEAK UP!!!! for McCain because he’s sure not doing the job!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
A Thompson man forced to vote McCain to keep a socialist monster in his cage.
Reasons to vote Obama:
I want to be part of history!
I don’t want to feel like a bigot.
President McCain wrecked the economy!
Don’t know about pithy, but maybe asking college students who do you want to spend the most of your paycheck; You or a Nanny State? Something like that?
James Greenidge
Queens NY
A Thompson man forced to vote McCain to keep a socialist monster in his cage.
Reasons to vote Obama:
I want to be part of history!
I don’t want to feel like a bigot.
President McCain wrecked the economy!
How about obama’s words: “Did I mention he is black?”
Question for discussion: Is it too little, too late?
Answer for discussion: It’s been that way for a while now.
I know its been a while since I was active, but the last time I was around full time, I made mention about things like McCains attitude, and specifically discussed how he doesnt give a rats behind about how the base thinks or what they want. 30 is right in the fact that people who are watching this go down the toilet WANT McCain to stop being this huge sissy and get something done.
Personally, and this doesnt apply just to McCain, but I seriously dislike when a politician can’t answer a simple question when its posed to them. I like Palin, but her infamous little exchange with Katie Couric about where she gets her information about events from was as frustrating as it was asinine. Hell, I can name half a dozen national newspapers off the top of my head that could be used for that, regardless of whether I actually read them or not. It was one of the easiest softballs I’ve seen where it was effectively handled with nothing but misidrection, for no other reason than she just couldn’t name one. It was sad, honestly.
In total, the fact that McCain can’t, or won’t, commit to going after the garishly obvious points against Oblama in relation to ACORN (or anything else, for that matter)…to me shows he doesn’t want to be President. He wants job security.
McCain, go be a Walmart greeter. At least then, we know you’ll be able to be fake and nice to everyone you meet, while wearing a nifty smock.
A surplus, i’d remind you, that was “projected”, and on paper.
I agree with the fact that Republicans need to act like that’s what they are, and not be a huge spending machine. But if you really want to lump in everything that’s going on with the world of presidential spending and blundering, need we go back far into history to see where democrats have done the same thing?
I didn’t think so either.
I think all of them are corrupt. I just like calling it for what it is.