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 ...
It would be my pleasure to talk with Barack Obama face to face. Really.
Yes, Barack, that's it. John McCain, a combat veteran who survived hell in the Hanoi Hilton, ... is afraid of you.
LMAO!
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)
Barry’s bowing up huh? Bring it on then, tough guy.
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?
AND if he had? McC would have been damned for that too...
I’LL GET IN OBAMA’S FACE... NO PROBLEM...
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.
“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.
The Girly Boy Man Child is trying to be macho again. How funny.
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
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.
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!
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.
Precisely. If McCain had brought it up, Nobama would have said, THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS DEBATE IS ALL ABOUT. MCCAIN ISNT 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.
I agree with you, al. McCain does need to break format and go for the jugular. It is past time.
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