Posted on 09/13/2008 5:49:09 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
The White House campaign faced its second storm-forced disruption Saturday as Barack Obama offered to raise funds from his army of donors for victims of the monstrous Hurricane Ike.
With Ike coming ashore on Galveston Island in Texas and threatening Houston, a major oil processing center, the Democrat appeared likely to tone down a fearsome offensive against what he calls Republican John McCain's "lies."
Obama canceled a planned appearance on the cult comedy program "Saturday Night Live" as he anxiously followed the enormous storm's destructive path through the Gulf of Mexico, aides said.
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The Democrat had been scheduled to hold a joint rally in Manchester, New Hampshire with his vice presidential running mate, Joseph Biden, on Saturday.
But aides said Biden was no longer coming, and it was probable that Obama would scale back his savage attacks on McCain of recent days to avoid a show of overt partisanship in Ike's potentially tragic trail.
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Palin appeared to stumble over key foreign policy questions in her first major network interview with ABC News Thursday. In the interview's second part broadcast Friday, she picked at the scars of the Democratic primary fight.
Obama must now be "regretting" that he did not name Hillary Clinton as his running mate, she said, lauding the former first lady's "determination and grit and even grace."
"Sarah Palin should spare us the phony sentiment and respect," Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said after video footage emerged of Palin, in March, attacking Clinton's "perceived whine" during the primary race.
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is O going to pull the “computer” ad condemning McCain and apologize for such behavior? that would be presidential.
The reason hes not going to be on SNL is some of his people were blogging yesterday and saw quite a few people saying it would be a BIG mistake with the hurricane fixing to hit....Mc could use it against him. Hes doing it because he read he should on the internet....how pitiful is that. Obama is devoid of even the most rudimentary logic in his thinking.
Obama toned it down also right after the 9-11 ceremony he ran up to Harlem to collaberate with Clinton.
Bu##s##t ALERT!
Not to anyone who has read this ...
THE BOLDED & UNDERLINED PARTS WERE EDITED OUT OF THE INTERVIEW
What happen to his Gustav army still MIA?
Obama canceled a planned appearance on the cult comedy program “Saturday Night Live” as he anxiously followed the enormous storm’s destructive path through the Gulf of Mexico, aides said.
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SNL is a “cult comedy program”? I thought it was an NPR talking point program.
“”””...a fearsome offensive against Republican John McCain...”
Bawaaaaaaaaaahahaha........that just made my day.
It was smart not to go on SNL. Why would a man running for president want to appear on a trash TV show? But Ike being the reason makes no sense. I don’t think he gives a damn about a bunch rednecks in Texas.
Why wasn’t the messiah down in Galveston to calm the wind and sea in the first place?
I hope he says something about a chocolate city.
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