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Obama: McCain Wouldn't 'Say It to My Face'
Fox News ^ | 10/09/2008 | Fox News

Posted on 10/09/2008 4:39:03 AM PDT by Dallas59

WASHINGTON -- After forgoing character attacks during the second presidential debate, Republican John McCain sought Wednesday to sow doubt about Democrat Barack Obama's background and character. Obama, meanwhile, accused the McCain campaign of trying to "score cheap political points."

Both candidates tried to play into voters' worries about the other with a mere four weeks to go before Election Day. McCain is perceived as being weak on the economy, and Obama continued a line of attack against the veteran senator for saying recently that the fundamentals of the U.S. economy were strong.

McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, challenged Obama's campaign claims, stressed his lack of experience and said his ideas were dangerous.

"We've all heard what he's said. But it's less clear what he's done, or what he will do," McCain told supporters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

McCain's remarks about Obama were interrupted with shouts of "socialist," "terrorist" and "liar."

Palin said there were too many questions about Obama's past: "John McCain didn't just come out of nowhere. The American people know John McCain."

And for the second time in three days, a speaker at a Republican rally invoked Obama's middle name, Hussein, in an apparent attempt to feed lingering fears about the Democrat's background.

Lehigh County Republican Chairman Bill Platt twice used Obama's middle name before McCain and Palin arrived at the campaign stop in the town of Bethlehem. The campaign quickly issued a statement saying it did not condone "this inappropriate rhetoric."

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bo; democrat; democrats; mccain; obama
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Link to new McCain campaign commercial about Barack Obama's and terrorist William Ayers
1 posted on 10/09/2008 4:39:03 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
Sounds like Obamah is challenging the old, crippled, ex-POW, war hero to a fight?
2 posted on 10/09/2008 4:41:14 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Dallas59

It would be my pleasure to talk with Barack Obama face to face. Really.


3 posted on 10/09/2008 4:42:20 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (MSM Lied, Journalism Died. RIP 2008)
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To: Dallas59
Obama: McCain Wouldn't 'Say It to My Face'

Yes, Barack, that's it. John McCain, a combat veteran who survived hell in the Hanoi Hilton, ... is afraid of you.

LMAO!

4 posted on 10/09/2008 4:42:50 AM PDT by The G Man (The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
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NEWSMAX.com: "OBAMA CAMPAIGN RUNS AFOUL OF FINANCE RULES" by Kenneth R. Timmerman (October 8, 2008, 8:25 pm)

NY POST.com: "NUTS! How ACORN Got Me Into Vote Scam" by Jeane MacInTosh (Last updated October 9, 2008, 7:18 am)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "OBAMA's EARMARK FOR FR. PFLEGER" by Tom Fitton (October 9, 2008)

Video - "Obama's Friends" (July 2,2008)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "BIDEN'S SECRET DIPLOMACY" by Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Of course, when people's reputations are at stake, a natural question is: how far can we believe a document written by a communist?") (October 9, 2008)
TOWNHALL.com: Washington - "PALIN vs. BIDEN" by Emmett Tyrrell (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "How is it that an attractive woman who has been involved in state and local government since the early 1990s without much controversy is passed off in the media now as an airhead? Yet her opponent -- long known as an airhead, a braggart and even a plagiarist -- now is passed off as a statesman? I have in mind Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware or Scranton, Pa., or wherever he now claims to hail from.") (October 9, 2008)
VoteNovember2008 - blog: "RULES BE DAMNED!" (October 8, 2008)

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Embeds - Blog - FoxNews.com: "McCain Camp Sends Out Statement from Ayers Victim: "OBAMA'S FRIEND TRIED TO KILL MY FAMILY."" (October 8, 2008, 2:21 pm (Eastern)

FOX NEWS.com: "CONNECT THE DOTS WITH BARACK OBAMA" by John Gibson (September 30, 2008)

FOX NEWS.com: "PALIN'S E-MAIL HACKER INDICTED Democratic state representative's son indicted by Tennessee grand jury" (October 8, 2008)

INDICTMENT (pdf)

US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release: "TENNESSEE MAN INDICTED FOR ALLEGED HACK OF GOVERNOR SARA PALIN'S E-MAIL ACCOUNT" (October 8, 2008)

INDICTMENT (pdf)

HUMAN EVENTS.com (JIHAD WATCH.org): "OBAMA WAGES WAR ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH" by Robert Spencer (October 8, 2008)

CHRON.com - THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE (COX NEWS SERVICE): "SECRET SERVICE QUESTIONS LUFKIN WOMAN OVER ALLEGED OBAMA THREAT" by Jessica Savage (October 6, 2008)

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[Post no. 9] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (October 8, 2008 -- Click Here.)

5 posted on 10/09/2008 4:43:55 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Dallas59

Barry’s bowing up huh? Bring it on then, tough guy.


6 posted on 10/09/2008 4:44:34 AM PDT by ovrtaxt ( One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a Congress. --John Adams)
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To: TexasCajun

Obama’s next tactic is to yell, “And your mother wears combat boots.”

Equally mature.

Sheesh, how can nearly half the voters in this nation be seriously thinking of voting for a Chicago street thug to be president? HOW?


7 posted on 10/09/2008 4:46:35 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Dallas59

AND if he had? McC would have been damned for that too...


8 posted on 10/09/2008 4:46:59 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher (We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
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To: Dallas59

I’LL GET IN OBAMA’S FACE... NO PROBLEM...


9 posted on 10/09/2008 4:48:12 AM PDT by just me (JELLY BEANS AND WINKS...)
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To: Molly Pitcher

Precisely. If McCain had brought it up, Nobama would have said, “THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS DEBATE IS ALL ABOUT. MCCAIN ISN’T STAYING WITH THE AGREED FORMAT.”

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.


10 posted on 10/09/2008 4:49:30 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: Dallas59

“Obama, meanwhile, accused the McCain campaign of trying to “score cheap political points.”

I would think that cheap political points are a more efficient use of campaign resources than expensive political points.


11 posted on 10/09/2008 4:50:29 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: Dallas59

The Girly Boy Man Child is trying to be macho again. How funny.


12 posted on 10/09/2008 4:51:19 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Dallas59
I guess McCain is just one of those “typical white people” eh, Obama.
13 posted on 10/09/2008 4:52:32 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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To: TexasCajun

Obama making digs at McCain’s torture injuries?

Frankly, you know, Senator McCain ended up lurching from place to place on this issue,” he [Obama] said

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=5985237&page=2

Biden said you cannot lead the nation when you “lurch so rapidly from one fundamental position to another.”

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/09/just_call_him_l.html


14 posted on 10/09/2008 4:54:39 AM PDT by Puddleglum
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To: Dallas59

I want to say this in the most delicate way possible.

This reaction from Obama wont play well with mainstream white america. Hopefully this can stay on the news cycle today.


15 posted on 10/09/2008 4:56:11 AM PDT by housedeep
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To: TexasCajun
Obama's Friends....
Bill Ayers



His Lovely Wife Bernardine Dohrn



An offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society, the Weathermen—later called the Weather Underground—devoted themselves to stopping U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. Underground members took credit for two dozen bombing attacks on buildings they called "symbols of American injustice": the National Guard offices in Washington, D.C., the Capitol and the New York City Police Headquarter.
Dohrn acknowledges that she and the Underground "made a lot of mistakes," but neither she nor Ayers would admit regret about the violent actions the group committed.
"When you look back at the extreme situation of that illegal, immoral war," Dohrn says, "and the kind of incredible racist behavior at home, and you think of how relatively restrained the opposition was, I think that's remarkable.
"There weren't people attempting assassinations, there weren't people kidnapping, except for Patty Hearst. There weren't people putting bombs and chemicals into public subways.
"Of course, I wish we'd done things better, tidier, nicer. I wish we'd spoken more articulately. Our rhetoric was way off the charts. I mean, we thought revolution was imminent. We thought U.S. imperialism was doomed, and this was the turning point in the U.S."
16 posted on 10/09/2008 4:58:18 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Just Say NObama!)
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To: Dallas59

Barry took the bait!

His paid, professional lair, Burton, was on F&F. Slamming McCain’s housing plan.

Aaron Tippin sings Drill Here, Drill Now” Great song!

Feds conducting RICO investigation of ACORN

Corsi has the goods on Odinga and Obama

Obama is on the ropes and he knows it!


17 posted on 10/09/2008 5:00:02 AM PDT by Islander7 (The only thing Obama has to fear is the truth!)
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To: Dallas59
Lehigh County Republican Chairman Bill Platt twice used Obama's middle name before McCain and Palin arrived at the campaign stop in the town of Bethlehem. The campaign quickly issued a statement saying it did not condone "this inappropriate rhetoric

So real middle names are VERBOTEN...but this does not apply to any other United States Presidential candidate or President in the history of this country....

Isn't that special.


18 posted on 10/09/2008 5:01:17 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: Jemian

Precisely. If McCain had brought it up, Nobama would have said, “THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS DEBATE IS ALL ABOUT. MCCAIN ISN’T STAYING WITH THE AGREED FORMAT.”

...THAT’S precisely what McCain NEEDS to do next debate. Break format and tell everyone what this pathetic excuse for a human being is all about. Early. Not later when everyone’s watching “Sanford & Son” reruns.


19 posted on 10/09/2008 5:03:21 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

I agree with you, al. McCain does need to break format and go for the jugular. It is past time.


20 posted on 10/09/2008 5:07:35 AM PDT by Jemian
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