McCain rallies in Lakeville; wants to be 'respectful' (Groan)

The Minneapolis Star and Tribune ^

[DocT111]

Republican John McCain is telling supporters in Minnesota to stay respectful when it comes to Democrat Barack Obama.

McCain interrupted boos at a town hall meeting Friday in the Twin Cities suburb of Lakeville after he said he admired Obama and his accomplishments.

McCain says he wants supporters to point out the differences between what Obama says and what he has done in the Senate, but he wants them to do it respectfully.

About 2,000 people came to Lakeville South High School for an event that was part campaign rally, part town hall meeting.

Earlier today, he appeared at a rally in La Crosse, Wis., exhorting a crowd to help him win the White House and promising a balanced federal budget before "the end of my term in office."

"We have 25 days until the day of choosing a president," McCain said. "Are you ready to help me and [running mate] Sarah Palin win the state of Wisconsin?"

The crowd in the La Crosse Center's South Hall responded with a defeaning roar of support.

[DocT111]

I just saw clips of the MN Town Hall Meeting. Some people in the audience asked if he was going to go after Obama. McCain said "Obama was a decent family man" and told the public not to boo him.

Gosh - what a difference from this morning in LaCrosse - I don't know what to make of this...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Did anyone here watch the video of the entire event?

[unspun]

After the indictments and convictions, let's be just as respectful as we are to any Enemy of the State.

Make signs to tape on inside of top or bottom of back window (no obstruction of view -- or inside back window of car

VOTE NO ACORN
VOTE NO OBAMA
GOP THIS TIME

The only way Barack Obama will be elected President is for us to fail to tell enough voters.

The Post American World of Barack Obama

The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria

...connecting the dots to show Barack Obama's long-standing,
continuously developing, anti-American alliances...

Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Listen to this Interview of James Simpson, by Sandy Rios, Tuesday 9/30 - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL
From http://www.culturecampaign.com/culturecorner.aspx

Simpson documents his research in his article, providing Web links. He provides a rough flow chart.

"CHANGE"

Further corroboration on Obama & The Cloward-Piven Strategy:

Obama, Voter Fraud & Mortgage Meltdown, by James H. Walsh, former federal prosecutor.

On Barack Obama's Marxist connections in Chicago

Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of [Marxist] Socialist 'New Party' In 1996

On Alice Palmer, the South Side's Marxist State Senator, Who Hand Picked Barack Obama to Succeed Her

More on Obama's Marxist alliance with Radical Islamists:

Barack Obama campaigning with taxpayers' money for Raila Odinga, Marxist & pro-Islamist, despotic leader in Kenya

Barack Obama & Khalid Al-Mansour (old Black Panther comrade of Ayers & Dohrn and likely of Alice Palmer) who raised funds to get Obama into Harvard

And then there are... Herbert and Marion Sandler, the Pritzkers, and the "loose lips" of Charles Schumer and Harry Reid (and Henry Paulson is not above suspicion, with his control-freak power play and Goldman Sachs cronyism).

Get these breakthrough items out to everyone you know (or anything even more informative that comes up) -- voters, media, officials and staff of both parties, everyone. We have time if we act now.

[donna]

When are McCain, Obama, and Biden going to resign from the Senate like Bob Dole did?

[period end of story]

There’s a time and a place for everything.

If McCain is still trailing in the polls after the third debate-and he probably will- then I think you’ll see him get after Obama.

[DataDink]

Remember - due to the “Kill him” comment made at a recent rally, the feds are doing an investigation. That may be why McCain is trying to calm things down. Or he could be giving Hussein a false sense of security.

[Hones]

The clip that Carl Cameron showed on Fox was enough.

[Man50D]

McCain interrupted boos at a town hall meeting Friday in the Twin Cities suburb of Lakeville after he said he admired Obama and his accomplishments.

It's no surprise one socialist respecting another.

[period end of story]

I love that pic.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

That’s what I figured.

[DocT111]

Here is a link to the town hall meeting - excerpts only

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S612756.shtml?cat=1

[razorback-bert]

He isn’t known as McLame for nothing.

[xcamel]

Nov. 5th?

[Aria]

I bet his testosterone is too low - he’s lost his fight.

[hinckley buzzard]

he said he admired Obama and his accomplishments.

What accomplisments might those be, John?

This dreck is why I say and mean that McCain is better than the obscene Obama fungus but he is not presidential material. We're screwed unnecessarily no matter who wins.

[CatOwner]

For those Freepers who criticize me because I think McCain has run an ineffective campaign, here you go.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

I respectfully suggest to McCain that people need to earn my respect — and Obama has earned none.

[popdonnelly]

You can be respectful, but you still have to point out the differences between yourself and the other candidate. If you don’t point out who Obama is, you give him a free pass to create any myth he wants.

[Libertarian4Bush]

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GOD I DON’T EVEN BELIEVE IN... HE IS NOT LOSING. A rational analysis of the polls has us at 296 EVs. It’s no reason to stop fighting, but let’s put this defeatism away. Dems aren’t gonna get 47/33 turnout on election day, ACORN or no ACORN.

[hinckley buzzard]

Did Dole resign from the Senate or just the Majority Leader position? Not that it mattered in the end...

[Chet 99]

and if the crowd goes out of control, the legitimate attacks on Obama get lost in the shuffle!

[stockpirate]

There are reporsts that it’s Obama trolls yelling and chanting at the rally’s.

[Ulysse]

A question to be asked to McCAIN:
What does he respect in Obama as a candidate?
That he is a human being?
What does he respect among his “accomplishments”?

Does he think that Obama would be as good a POTUS than him?
Why is he running if yes?

[paul544]

Agreed. All we need is an Obama ad stringing together a bunch of angry tirades to make us all look like loons.

I read on another thread that McCain said we shouldn't be scared of an Obama presidency. Don't know that I would have gone that far, but he needs to keep things from getting out of hand.

[donna]

Yes, he resigned and then gave the seat to his wife. We have Royalty.

[period end of story]

Put up the numbers.

[Kevmo]

If McCain is still trailing in the polls after the third debate-and he probably will- then I think you’ll see him get after Obama.
***It’ll be way too late by that time.

[aroostook war]

“he admired Obama and his accomplishments”

Which would be....?

[donna]

I didn’t mean literally gave the seat to his wife. It was a different state - funny how Liddy got elected from a state she didn’t live in while married to her Senator husband from a different state... That’s what I meant about Royalty - the Senate seats are handed down in the family.

[Libertarian4Bush]

my spreadsheet is at home, but do a little thought exercise for me.

take the internals from the last three national polls that provide them, plus a 38D/36D/26I turnout. I used Time, ARG, and ABC, all since 10/7 - one was missing the numbers for independents, so I derived them - I forget which. anyway, as of today, Mac Attack is up 2.1%.

from there, adjust each state’s numbers to it’s departure from the national tally in 2004, discard the outliers (i.e. forget OR, PA, IA for JM, forget FL for BO), and add up the rest. as of today, it’s 296.

you’re falling for the sauce. it doesn’t mean y’all have won - far from it, in fact, but this panic mode BS has GOT to stop.

(I say y’all because I’m not a republican)

[Libertarian4Bush]

oops - I misspoke. forget MI, not PA, for Johnny Macs.

[Cheetahcat]

“Obama was a decent family man” SOB so was Stalin! and Pol pot this guy is the enemy of State nothing less!

[patriciamary]

That’s why McCain will LOSE.

[period end of story]

Some up-to-date EC news.

Electoral College: Obama 255 McCain 163

[BubbaJunebug]

Crap....I didn’t know bob dole was running again

[Libertarian4Bush]

Some up-to-date EC news.

based on what? polls that don't weight for realistic turnout and have 4% margins of error on top of that? keep falling into the media's trap. I'll wait for the polls to "normalize" just prior to the election for credibility's sake. or, of course, the Bradley effect/excuse.

[wac3rd]

Dear Senator McCain,

The NVA and Viet Cong were Communists who starved, beat and tortured you for 5+ years in Vietnam.

Barack Hussein Obama is a Communist, cut from the same cloth as the Trotsky/Marx/Mao/Lenin/Castro’s of the world.

Barack Obama wants to place a totalitarian, God-less, class-less society on the American people.

Please stop him.

Sincerely,

wac3rd, a FReeper

[pgkdan]

Is he giving up???

[DemonDeac]

He finally starts hitting and then wimps out again. Is this purposively out to run the worst campaign possible? He seems determined to lose. It feels like the South Park episode where the kids hate baseball so both teams are trying as hard to lose as possible. I swear that none of the above would cream the two candidates.

[period end of story]

Hey, I hear ya bud. If you have better numbers than RAS then knock yourself out.

[Libertarian4Bush]

it’s just that I’m not dumb enough to think EITHER party is going to get even a 5% turnout edge on 11/4, let alone 9 or 10.

do I resent the media’s attempt to encourage people to get on the imaginary bandwagon? absolutely! but my response is to educate people. I started explaining to one person on Thursday at work and wound up lecturing seven.

[Ann Archy]

Where’s the SPINE???? Sarah is the ONLY ONE WITH BALLS! Where was she today??? He is so damn WOBBLY!

[Ann Archy]

Kill Him is done be a DEMOCRAT PLANT!!!!! Just like “Iron My Shirts” was a Hillary Plant and the noose in the college was done by a Black guy plant!

[Finalapproach29er]

A lot of R’s are still registared as Dem’s due to operation chaos.

I’m worried about fraud putting him over the top in a few key states.

Then, McCain won’t have the balls to challange him; he’ll quit “for the good of the country”.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” Is he giving up??? “

He is.
His wife, the mother of his two sons serving in the military..is not.
I took the Lord’s name in vain tonight when I saw McCain saying we should not fear Obama as CinC.
( That image makes me silently take the Lord’s name in vain, again.)
I threw McCain’s latest plea for money in the trash.
McCain still believes that “ honor “ will win this thing.
The number of politicians who ran honorable campaigns are in the huge ash heap of losers.
Giuliani, Romney and Thompson understood our enemy and his legions.
McCain thinks he’s just another fellow Senator.

[riri]

I honestly can not imagine a much bigger election nightmare scenario than the one we have going on right here.

[Libertarian4Bush]

I’m worried about fraud putting him over the top in a few key states.

turnout, turnout, turnout. if it ain't close, they can't cheat. trust me when I tell you McCain has a shot here in PA, and if he wins here, there's NO WAY bambi wins the EC.

[biff]

I think Mac is the perfect example of the guy that showed up at a gunfight with a knife.

[ckilmer]

Calling the Old Media: Five Million Illegals Have Illegal Mortgages in U.S.A.!

It gets better: Look at the map where those who owe more than the house is worth. Notice any similarities to the unemployment picture and concentrations of illegals

[dusttoyou]

“If McCain is still trailing in the polls after the third debate-and he probably will- then I think you’ll see him get after Obama.”
Man, whatever your smokin must be good. Care to share?
Personally, I am so tired of hoping and hoping and then see mclame having a Mr. bi-partizan moment again.