I’m voting for Obama. I know this is nonesense from McCain. But it is also perfect politics. It is exactly what he needs to keep repeating over and over between now and November if he wants to win. It’s clear and concise. Under the ‘If you tell a lie often enough….’ theory, he can get a broad enough spectrum of the electorate to believe this in order to push him over the top.
It’s time for Obama to hit back and hit harder than he has been. Obama needs a line this easy to remember and he needs to start putting the words “John McCain” and “George Bush” together in a sentence at every opportunity. “John McCain is for George Bush’s wars. John McCain is for George Bush’s horrendous fiscal policy. You’ve seen the damage George Bush has done to this country. Can we afford four more years of this?” For a bit of self-deprecating humor and a play on the “Yes we can!” mantra, get the crowd to chant “No we can’t!” in response.
Actually it is not a lie. If you look at the Global Poverty Act that Obama is trying to pass through the senate we will be required to take on a whole host of taxes. He will resuce the income tax, but hat will be offset by the increase of toher things such as the UN’s carbon emission tax and trade tax. Even though it will be the big businesses that will be required to pay them it will be us that has to support them because of the rise in price of their products. We are in trouble with this guy. We will also be force to leave behind our 2nd 4th and 10 amendments in our constitution because this bill will also require us to abide by UN foreign policy research it scary stuff.
Comment by isaac — October 25, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
Can you say Socialism? Can you say “redistribution of wealth”? Can you say Black Liberation Theology? You want to speak of McCain’s association with Bush, how about Obama’s association with a racist by the name of Jeremiah Wright, who says that white people are inherently racist…but not black people? Obama’s says that he didn’t know Wright was racist against white’s, but he and his wife sat in the pews and listened to him for 20 YEARS!!! That’s enough to cause me to vote for McCain by itself. Obama has ZERO experience, questionable associations with organized crime figures, among countless other things, and your argument against McCain is that he is like Bush? I am a veteran and work at a facility that requires a security clearance – Obama could not get a clearance to work here…I surely do NOT want him to be President of the United States!!!
Comment by Kevin Sergent — October 25, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
It still amazes me that people are buying the snake oil that Obama is selling. He is nothing more than a marionette with David Axelrod and other very media-savvy people pulling the strings and making him talk. If he needs to form complete sentences using the names of Senator McCain and President Bush, consider what he said about words as the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin State Democratic Founder’s Day Dinner on February 17, 2008:
“‘I have a dream!’ Just words. ‘We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal.’ Just words. ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ Just words. Just speeches.”
By the way, he plagiarized…oops…borrowed that from Deval Patrick, another marionette from Axelrod’s traveling minstrel show. Patrick’s campaign for Governor of Massachusetts was just a full of empty rhetoric.
Comment by Howard Roark — October 25, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
Guilt by associations works two ways. McCain palled around with Gordon Liddy, who stated it is OK to shoot federal agents between the eyes and Charles Keating who bilked the taxpayers out of many millions of dollars. McCain did this when he was in his 60s, by the way. Palin pals around with her husband, who for years was a member of a separatist group.
Tweaking the tax code to where it was before Bush is hardly socialist, and the ultimate capitalist Warren Buffet wouldn’t be supporting Obama if he were.But keep on using that goofy 50-s style word boys – all it means is more vote for Obama. We have had a progressive tax code for about a hundred years now, and a few percentage points for a couple percent of the population is hardly the difference between a capitalist and a socialist, especially since what Obama proposes was the way taxes were for a long, long time.
As far as experience, the experienced men that got us into Iraq shows it is overrated. It is not Palin’s inexperience that is her main problem, but her lack of intellectual cutriosity (and obviously ability), questionable ethics, and far right wing beliefs, religious inlcuded.
Thank heavens we will be rid of McCain and the vapid Palin in just a few short days.
Comment by David — October 25, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
Uh Howard? He said ‘just words’ because they are just words until someone takes action or reminds others of the meaning of the words.
He did not plagiarize, Get your facts straight. Deval had no problem with Barack using any statement he had ever made. And repeating what MLK and others said is not plagiarizing either.
Comment by kayinmaine — October 25, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
The only thing left to figure out is what to say in your concession speech.
I know you will be gracious to your workers, just do not be overly complementary to Governor Palin. You gave her a once in a life time opportunity (rightly or wrongly) and instead of cooperating and hopefully graduating together she began to act as if she knew better than the professional staff.
Don’t throw her under the bus, just to put her on a pedestal. Its bad enough that you elevated her, just think of her as an ex wife, it works for me.
Comment by al g — October 25, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
Some of those who vote for McCain – are simply voting for him because he is white or that he’s a veteran.
McCain’s policies are disastrous. He lacks knowledge in economy and he only concerns about continuing the war in IRAQ. He flips flops during debates and chose air-head Palin as his running mate.
As a non-black, and a non-white, and non-veteran myself, I guess I can view both candidates fairly and accurately based on their positions, personalities, leadership skills without taking skin color or personal association into consideration.
I will be deeply disappointed if McCain wins the election. Not because he’s bad, but I felt Obama is better. Obama could’ve gone to Wall St with his degree, but instead he chose to serve us in the community as a community organizer -helping the poor, and really bring justice and fairness, since he was young. He then became a lawyer, a professor, and a senator. He’s loved and respected dearly by those around him because not only his personality but also his desire and commitment to the community. Obama is not God, and he wont do a perfect job as a president like anybody else in America, but at least, he has the basic skills, visions, and goal and the support from a lot of people. I personally don’t understand people who don’t vote for him. There are no other better options out there.
Comment by diana — October 26, 2008 @ 9:26 am
In response to all of those who are still drinking the Kool-Aid…any of you ever heard of C-Span? I was raised a Democrat for years and then I watched C-Span (for 3 years) where both parties debated bills on the floor of the House and Senate. What I heard coming out of the Democrats mouths made me want to puke. Not that I believed everything that comes out of a Republican’s mouth either, I at least received my information FIRST-HAND, not from a liberally-biased media propaganda machine. If you are not a veteran, go THANK one!! I am a veteran, an ex-police officer, a hard-working, married, father of two, business owner, and my wife and I both have full-time jobs! I have 3 college degrees, love GOD and my guns. Why does 70 percent of the 9,100 military personnel polled support McCain, including those in Iraq? Obama does not possess the experience to be President of the United States…period! As for the Vice Presidential nominee goes, at least Palin has signed bills into laws, vetoed frivilous legislation, runs the National Guard that operates a 24-hour missile defense system that protects us ALL, among a long list of other things!! She has plenty of experience, a college degree, and is a Governor of a state. For all of those who want to insult her by saying she is inexperienced or is not intelligent, I’m certain she possesses more intelligence than any of you!!! Are you a Governor or even a Mayor? I’m sure you are not. Go ahead and support someone who wouldn’t be granted a security clearance to work at a secure government installation and trust him to protect you! Brilliant. Regardless of whether you support McCain’s ideas or not, he will at least keep our country safe and not force my small business into bankruptcy with the tax increases, not to mention the capital gains tax increase like Obama/Biden wants to put in effect. You go ahead and believe the hype Obama is putting out…tax the rich and give it to those who need it more. When the price of everything continues to go up after he is elected, you will have only yourselves to thank!! It’s called Economics, regardless of what party you support. Get off the Kool-Aid people. If you are a liberal who wants basic socialism, please vote for Obama because he is the most liberal Senator in the Senate. If you wanted a more moderate Senator to be President, you should have voted for Hilliary and not Obama. If you are a person with conservative values and beliefs, there is only one choice! Don’t be fooled by the hype. If you are a liberal, vote liberal. If you are a conservative, vote conservative. As a conservative, Obama does not share even my basic views so I will NOT be voting for him. To you DIANA, I’m sure there are some that are voting for McCain because he is white. Do you actually believe there are not those who are voting for Obama just because he is black? If you want to address that points, you better apply it to both parties or you are no better than any other “race-baiter” that is currently dividing this country. And unless you know Obama personally, you need not provide a media-provided biography of his life!! There is ALWAYS bad that comes with the good, but you have no desire to discuss that do you?
Comment by Kevin Sergent — October 26, 2008 @ 10:23 am