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October 14, 2008 - 6:40am.
"My friends, we've got them just where we want them," McCain told rallies in Virginia and North Carolina as he tried to breathe new life into his campaign after a two-week tailspin due largely to his reaction to the U.S. financial crisis. He distanced himself from unpopular President George W. Bush, saying: "We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change." With three weeks to go until the November 4 Election Day, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll had McCain down 10 points to Obama, 53 percent to 43 percent, and showed him stalling or losing ground on a range of issues. A Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Monday showed Obama with a 4-point lead among likely voters. An average of recent polls by realclearpolitics.com has Obama up 6.8 points. In Toledo, Ohio, Obama proposed four steps to create jobs and to cushion Americans against the effects of the economic downturn as he campaigned in an area hit hard by the slowdown. Some analysts described Obama's proposals as modest, but they underscored his campaign's sharp focus on economic concerns and the country's financial crisis. The Illinois senator has surged based on his steady response to the Wall Street crash, with polls showing he is more trusted by Americans to handle economic issues, and McCain's standing has suffered as a consequence. "We have 22 days to go. We're 6 points down. The national media has written us off. Senator Obama is measuring the drapes," McCain told thousands of cheering supporters in Virginia Beach, joined by his vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin. Obama's proposals, costing $60 billion over two years, include tax credits for firms that create new jobs, penalty-free withdrawals from retirement accounts and temporarily barring banks from foreclosing on people trying to pay their mortgages. "We can restore a sense of fairness and balance that will give every American a fair shot at the American dream. And above all, we can restore confidence -- confidence in America, confidence in our economy, and confidence in ourselves," he said. DISPLEASURE AT TACTICS Many Republican supporters are expressing displeasure at the McCain campaign's negative tactics, after a week in which his camp tried to raise doubts about Obama by emphasizing his ties to a former 1960s left-wing radical. "It's time for John McCain to fire his campaign," conservative columnist William Kristol wrote in The New York Times. He said the Arizona senator's handlers should "let McCain go back to what he's been good at in the past -- running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate." McCain unveiled a new stump speech that reprised some of the themes from his September speech accepting his party's nomination -- that he has been a fighter all his life and would be ready on his first day as president tackle the problems of the U.S. economy and foreign policy challenges. "The hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch. We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now. We have to fight, and you and I know how to do that," he said. McCain avoided the kind of divisive rhetoric that he employed last week, although he accused Obama of conspiring with the two top Democrats in the U.S. Congress, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to raise taxes in order to pay for ambitious spending plans. "The last president to raise taxes and restrict trade in a bad economy as Senator Obama proposes was Herbert Hoover," McCain said, referring to the 1930s Depression-era president. "That didn't turn out too well." McCain stopped short of detailing new economic proposals to show concern for millions of Americans seeing their savings vanish in the Wall Street meltdown. Aides said he is considering plans along the lines of lowering tax rates for investors, the capital gains tax on profits, and dividend tax rates. (Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed; writing by Steve Holland; editing by Chris Wilson) Copyright © 2008 Reuters
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Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Monday sought to assure supporters he can come from behind to defeat Democrat Barack Obama, who proposed new ways to address the economic turmoil.
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I feel that this displeasure
Submitted by Malibu on October 14, 2008 - 7:24am.I feel that this displeasure that the GOP has for Sen. McCain is bigger than how he is campaigning. Most of us ex-Republicans were fed up with the elder President Bush 41 when he changed the agenda to a One World Order. The GOP had the dog by tail and tried to wag a new platform of Empire building. Without the platform, everything the GOP did or promised became a fraudulent mess.
The meltdown came from a government asleep at the helm. 9/11 came from a government asleep at the helm. Trying to bring the GOP out of their malaise became an effort in corruption. Panic destroyed the RNC and the party ran around looking for leadership. It opened up a reaction from Fox News, talk radio and a complete lack of truth that did finally destroy the Republican Party.
If we can remember the Republican Primary and the emphasis on religion, the agenda was forgotten and any plan for a separation of church and state was hidden under the debate of Rick Warren questioning the candidates from the GOP and the Democratic Party.
America had a choice of which Christian would be the proper leader and somehow we lost all attention to leadership. Poor Sen. McCain didn't have the spine or youth to even try to return to the agenda of the GOP. I know absolutely that Dr. Ron Paul could have returned America to an honest and ethical Nation.
Senator Obama is the strongest leader of the two and Senator McCain is tearing American honor apart with his actions. He helped bring the Republican Party to its knees and if he doesn't know it now, he will in November.
Malcolm
"Tweety" McCain seems to
Submitted by Direct Democracy on October 14, 2008 - 8:25am."Tweety" McCain seems to have done a lot of his best thinking in the Hanoi Hilton. Maybe they'd let him have his old cell back while he figures out a fresh strategy.
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Will someone please tell me
Submitted by JudyB on October 14, 2008 - 10:49am.Will someone please tell me what McCain meant when he said "We have him (Obama) right where we want him" ???
What candidate would want to see his opponent leading in all the polls (still gaining) 3 weeks before an election??
I must be missing part of this riddle, because I just flat out don't get it!
It means the fix is in.
Submitted by woody188 on October 14, 2008 - 12:04pm.It means the fix is in. They only need to keep the polling close, so as to create confusion and make it seem like a McCain win is possible. Then it's a simple matter of flipping the votes from Obama to a 3rd party, and that will make McCain the winner, as I've been saying all along.
Were it a landslide victory for Obama it would be too obvious a steal. Every good dictator knows you can't change election results by more than 10% or the people will figure out you cheated them.
So the media will continue to manipulate the surveys and make it seem like a close race. All so McCain can pull off a stunning come from behind victory and plunge the United States into a new dark age.
Johnny has a new set of
Submitted by bryan mcclellan on October 14, 2008 - 11:15am.Johnny has a new set of recapped tires on the Bus to outa-here and plans to flap,flap,flap all the way to Nov 4...Sources say the constant noise will effectively distract from the bald face lies and further serve to muffle the fetid exhaust of his running mate, Ms Mooseballcrusher.
McCain says; Nobody goes for the crotch like my little pit bull.
Insiders say the flip flop outa-here express will be known hence forth as The Short Hairs Grabby Mobile.
Woody is correct. There is
Submitted by Ladywolf55 on October 14, 2008 - 12:09pm.Woody is correct. There is no real "election". It's been fixed already.. get ready to immigrate or go to a "camp" if you are against McCain/Palin.
'Lets win this for The
Submitted by Kibitzer on October 14, 2008 - 1:25pm.'Lets win this for The Gipper!'
JudyB,
It's an old action movie cliche, or what a coach would do at half-time to rally his team for the second half. It's the equivalent of invoking the spirit behind the saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going'.
He's simply trying to rally the troops for a big Surge down the homestretch. It doesn't mean that the fix is in. Although, after 2000 and 2004.....
No; I don't think even Rove at his best could pull this one out.
Still, considering the loss of momentum this spells to the Neocons and their New American Century...and all those laws quietly put in place for the declaration of Martial Law, and the suspension of the Constitution, 'temporarily' at first...
Perhaps we should be afraid. Or at the least, not let our guard down. Since we have been cursed - or blessed? - to live in Interesting Times.
Me, actually, I take it as a blessing. For one thing this election could do is finish the promise of the American Revolution - what those remarkable Founders couldn't do in their time. A truly republican form of government...of ALL the people....and if 'a black man' can become president of the United States, ANYTHING is possible. The Israelis and the Palestinians; the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland; the Sunnis and Shi'ites in Iraq...piece of cake!
The basis for McCain's
Submitted by Ardie on October 14, 2008 - 1:43pm.The basis for McCain's ludicrous campaign was obviously drawn from the old Batman series in the now famous Batman v. Penguin debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE
I just heard a round table
Submitted by Malibu on October 14, 2008 - 3:31pm.I just heard a round table discussion and the only way McCain can win is if he brings up Rev. Wright over and over. Religious Right voters hate that kind of religious fervor; unless it is their preacher who makes them swoon. But then these voters had no problems with Palin's witch doctor. I have a problem with all of this.
Malcolm
It no more matters who wins
Submitted by griff on October 14, 2008 - 4:19pm.It no more matters who wins this election than it does what color socks I'm wearing (blue today). Elections are a fraud and the popular vote means nothing anyway. It has reduced us to blabbering fools, robots programmed by the media.
Do we really think an entire political party is so dumb as to implode so completely? No - the entire Bush administration was a buildup to this point in time. They've taken their lumps, and will be rewarded handsomely for it.
When the MSM is calling for a New World Order, I think it's time we started taking them seriously. Either candidate - particularly Obama - will continue this march toward global reorganiztion. The "rescue package" was the beginning of the end of American sovereignty. Read it.
Griff, many of us tried to
Submitted by Ladywolf55 on October 15, 2008 - 2:07am.Griff, many of us tried to convince Americans to vote third party this election. We were vilified and laughed at. We were accused of stealing votes from Obama.
That couldn't be further from the truth. The truth is, both parties are two heads of the same beast, with the same goal: The downfall of American sovereignty. PERIOD. And Americans not only let them get away with it, they willingly (however unwittingly) rolled out a red carpet and ushered the situation in.
We're doomed.
I agree ladywolf but it does
Submitted by Malibu on October 15, 2008 - 11:58am.I agree ladywolf but it does not have to mean we cannot fix the problem. We need a strong team of rejuvination and a collaboration with Huffington, the new one called "The Daily Beast" and we can make a difference. I don't say that Doug has to collaborate but we members certainly can.
Malcolm