The McCain Thread

[redfirebird2008]

Couldn't the same be said for an Obama victory in a few weeks, considering Ohio is one of the most economically stagnant states in the wake of the Bush administration?

Yes. That's exactly the point. If they aren't desperate, they usually elect Republicans.

 

[Hobgoblin]

And I have Schumer and Clinton, both of whom trump your Sherrod Brown and laugh in the face of Ted Strickland.

I've got Obama and Durbin.

FULL HOUSE!t: Read em and weep.

 

[Marx]

I've got Obama and Durbin.

FULL HOUSE!t: Read em and weep.

 

[The Senator]

I've got Obama and Durbin.

FULL HOUSE!t: Read em and weep.

Ah, but I raise you my David Paterson and Andrew Cuomo, which rule out your Rod Blagojevich and [some-attorney-general] cards.

Have I won yet?

 

[Hobgoblin]

Ah, but I raise you my David Paterson and Andrew Cuomo, which rule out your Rod Blagojevich and [some-attorney-general] cards.

Have I won yet?

No fair pulling the Blagojevich and Madigan cards, dammit.

 

[Schlosser85]

My road has a lot of Obama-Biden signs, but overall you see more McCain-Palin signs around here (NE Ohio). My high school was also full of people, including Democrats, who will not vote for Obama in a million years, because he's black.

I remember reading about how some old woman was trying to scare other people at a grocery store. A younger woman had an Obama button and the woman came up to her, hysterical, "I can't believe you're going to vote for the guy with Hussein in his name. You know he's a Muslim right? How can you vote for him?!!"

Our old Republican deliveryman where I work came in the other day saying he doesn't see how Obama can be running for President since he was born in Kenya. My manager corrected that Obama was born in Hawaii. The deliveryman then said Obama's mother changed his birth certificate. Don't ask me how he supposedly knows this, but this is a guy who faithfully listens to Rush Limbaugh. He also said Obama won't salute the American flag. My manager answered by google imaging a picture of Obama saluting the flag.

Couldn't the same be said for an Obama victory in a few weeks, considering Ohio is one of the most economically stagnant states in the wake of the Bush administration?

Well Appalachia in southern Ohio is one of the poorest places in the country, but last election they went for Bush on "moral issues" like gay marriage and abortion.

 

[ManofmyWord]

Geez. I turned on the tv and it's a McCain rally after the speech...There is hillbilly country playing and I just saw a sign that said: "Obama Bin Lyin".

*Shudders*

 

[souvlaki]

Geez. I turned on the tv and it's a McCain rally after the speech...There is hillbilly country playing and I just saw a sign that said: "Obama Bin Lyin".

*Shudders*

I saw that too. This election is just becoming pathetic, mostly on account of McCain and his supporters. His rallies are starting to resemble a KKK rally.

 

[jaguarr]

No fair pulling the Blagojevich and Madigan cards, dammit.

Hahahaaaaa! You got sonned!

jag

 

[Excel]

so what is this about a big comeback speech?

 

[souvlaki]

so what is this about a big comeback speech?

McCain is going to propose his fourth "new" economic plan in 2 weeks. That's the big comeback speech.

 

[Marx]

McCain is going to propose his fourth "new" economic plan in 2 weeks. That's the big comeback speech.

Are you sure it's only four Souv?

 

[Hobgoblin]

Hahahaaaaa! You got sonned!

jag

BANNED.


That out of the way, seeing all of this prejudice lately really makes me wonder about Obama's safety, should he become President.

 

[jaguarr]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/the-early-word-mccain-to-deliver-underdog-speech/

October 13, 2008, 8:58 am
The Early Word: McCain to Deliver Underdog Speech
By Michael Falcone

Senator John McCain, seeking to both acknowledge and change the narrative that has begun to dominate the presidential campaign, plans to unveil a retooled stump speech today. He and his running mate will be in Virginia, a state that has been leaning blue in some parts — and is now considered a breakaway threat from the Republican strongholds in the South.

Meanwhile Senator Barack Obama will deliver a major economic policy address in the critical battleground state of Ohio, according to his campaign.

In a fresh version of his stump speech, Mr. McCain is expected to say that the national media has written off his campaign, according to the Politico’s Mike Allen. Here’s an excerpt:

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.

Over the weekend there were signs that Mr. McCain would come out with a new economic proposal this week, but the campaign now says no new proposals are coming, “unless developments call for some,” according to The Times’s Jackie Calmes.

However, The Politico’s David Paul Kuhn rounds up some advice from Republican strategists who say that the McCain campaign is in need of an “immediate and decisive turn in direction, one marked by an almost unwavering focus on the economy and a sharp break from Bush administration economic policy.”

And Senator McCain is already raising expectations for his performance at Wednesday’s third and final presidential debate, vowing on Sunday to “whip” Senator Obama’s “’you-know-what.”

In the States Senator Barack Obama has been traveling more extensively in battleground states than his opponent, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal. According to the Journal’s Laura Meckler and Easha Anad:

In the five weeks since the fall campaign officially began, Sen. Obama, his wife, Michelle, and vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden have appeared at a total of 95 separate events in states that both sides are contesting.

Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have appeared at 55 events in those areas, with Cindy McCain, the nominee’s wife, adding only one more to the total, according to a Wall Street Journal tally based on schedules provided by the campaigns.

Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, will campaign in Virginia on Monday. The Journal’s Corey Dade reports that their visit is an attempt to “thwart what once was unthinkable: fractures in the ‘Solid South,’ the backbone of successful Republican presidential politics for four decades.”

Inside the McCain Campaign In another installment of The Times’s “Long Run” series, David D. Kirkpatrick writes about how crafting his own autobiography helped Mr. McCain find a personal narrative:

His 1999 memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,” for the first time put his prison camp ordeal at the center of his public persona. In its pages, he recalled the experience as much more than a trial: a turning point from glory-seeking flyboy to responsible patriot, the final resolution of a rebellion against his father’s expectations, and the origin of a drive “to serve a cause” larger than himself.

A descendant of Navy admirals who wrote unpublished novels and quoted Victorian poetry, Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, often surprises aides and friends with his literary musings and bibliophilic appetite. He cites characters from fiction and film as role models.

And The Times’s Jim Rutenberg profiles the man behind the “Obama is a Muslim” and other discredited rumors about Senator Barack Obama. Mr. Rutenberg writes that the man, Andy Martin, has “a history of scintillating if not always factual claims. He has left a trail of animosity — some of it provoked by anti-Jewish comments — among political leaders, lawyers and judges in three states over more than 30 years.”

Inside the Obama Campaign Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe and Michael Isikoff report on the keeper of the Obama brand – the campaign’s chief strategist, David Axelrod. They report that Mr. Axelrod has long been preparing for a campaign environment that has taken a turn toward the negative:

Four months ago—when the presidential race was still in its polite phase—Axelrod conducted war games. Campaign consultants drafted a “vulnerability study,” and produced a series of mock attack ads against Obama, to get a sense of what might be coming. They tested the mock commercials in focus groups. Later they developed a series of real ads to defend Obama and take on John McCain, including several that paint the Arizona senator as being “out of touch” on the economy. When the McCain campaign started blasting Obama on his relationship with Bill Ayers, a 1960s radical with the Weather Underground who later became a college professor, Axelrod’s team had its own attack ad ready to go: a 13-minute Web video (complete with sinister whispers and menacing shadows) about McCain’s relationship with Charles Keating, the disgraced 1980s financier.

And in the New Yorker magazine this week, Ryan Lizza offers up a discussion with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, with new details about Mr. Biden’s desire to be a policymaker in an Obama White House, not a ceremonial veep.

Polls The ABC News/Washington Post poll has Mr. Obama up by 10 points, with Mr. McCain losing ground on some key issues among likely voters.


Campaign Trail Roundup

* Senator Barack Obama delivers an economic policy address in Toledo, Ohio.

* Senator Joe Biden holds a community gathering in Rochester and Manchester, N.H. and attends a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Dover, Del.

* Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin hold a joint rally in Virginia Beach, Va. Later Mr. McCain holds a rally in Wilmington, N.C. and Ms. Palin visits the Richmond International Speedway in Richmond, Va.

jag

 

[Marx]

^Oh dear lord.

:facepalm

 

[jaguarr]

So this is McCain Campaign 4.0, right? How many times have they rebooted this thing? He's back to proclaiming himself the underdog again. I guess, at this point in time, he actually is the underdog since he's losing so badly in the polls. Self-fulfilling prophecy, John!

jag

 

[kainedamo]

I wonder what kind of ads we're going to see now. I mean, now that it is so clear that the overly negative ads backfired.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

This child's campaign has died and been resurrected more times than the Dark Phoenix.

Why is it that Joe and Barack are campaigning separately (and therefore covering more ground) and Sarah and John remain joined at the hip? Doesn't that raise eyebrows for some? It's not like she's new at the campaigning stump concept anymore.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

I wonder what kind of ads we're going to see now. I mean, now that it is so clear that the overly negative ads backfired.

Mark my words, he'll get on the "Ecomony Needs Fixing" bus now. Like the article said, there will be "unwavering" focus on it for the next few weeks. If he had been smart, he would've been doing that all along. Twit.

 

[Marx]

This child's campaign has died and been resurrected more times than the Dark Phoenix.

Why is it that Joe and Barack are campaigning separately (and therefore covering more ground) and Sarah and John remain joined at the hip? Doesn't that raise eyebrows for some? It's not like she's new at the campaigning stump concept anymore.

I also find it a little interesting that they feel the need to campaign in states that haven't voted Democratic in over 40 years.

 

[jaguarr]

I would laugh my ass off if Obama's Campaign ran an ad featuring all the double-digit national poll lead statistics they are carrying and then following that, a picture of McCain (or video if he actually says it in his speech) with the quote "My friends, we've got them just where we want them.", immediately followed by text and a voiceover that says John McCain endorses Barack Obama for President of the United States.

jag

 

[Gilpesh]

I also find it a little interesting that they feel the need to campaign in states that haven't voted Democratic in over 40 years.

It's like the McCain campaign has gotten drunk and is now calling their exes... "TAKE ME BACK PLEASE!!!!! *sob sob sob sob* PLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAASSSSSSE!"

 

[kainedamo]

This child's campaign has died and been resurrected more times than the Dark Phoenix.

Why is it that Joe and Barack are campaigning separately (and therefore covering more ground) and Sarah and John remain joined at the hip? Doesn't that raise eyebrows for some? It's not like she's new at the campaigning stump concept anymore.

It's simply because she draws bigger crowds for McCain.

 

[Marx]

It's like the McCain campaign has gotten drunk and is now calling their exes... "TAKE ME BACK PLEASE!!!!! *sob sob sob sob* PLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAASSSSSSE!"

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

I would laugh my ass off if Obama's Campaign ran an ad featuring all the double-digit national poll lead statistics they are carrying and then following that, a picture of McCain (or video if he actually says it in his speech) with the quote "My friends, we've got them just where we want them.", immediately followed by text and a voiceover that says John McCain endorses Barack Obama for President of the United States.

jag