Posted on 09/30/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
McCain comes on FOX News cable this morning, about 30 minutes ago, and throws the election away. All he had to do was say that he is with the American people, that the American people had concerns with this bill and he is with the American people and understands why.
All he had to do was say he is working for the American people and not politicians who create the problems and then want to be the same politicians who want to be in charge with fixing the problem.
That this bill didnt have the real reform we needed, that he will now do everything he can to work for the American people to come up with a plan that has real reform.
No one is saying there should be no plan at all. And he should have said as much. That what we need now is a plan with real reform.
Yet, despite mistakes that he already has made, and said, he actually was handed the opportunity to side with the American people and to win the election, to let Palin have the opportunity to go with the message on Thursday that the McCain-Palin ticket is for reform, and that reform means that the failed plan wasnt good enough and that this ticket will be on the side of the American people for a better way, a better plan, for real reform, and this ticket will work with the American people.
Instead he came out, he stated he supported the plan that failed and that he still supports the plan that failed.
He made no mention of the need for a better plan. And worse, he made no mention of the feelings of the American people. He forgot to even mention the word. The FOX anchor had to remind him.
And when asked directly about the fact that the American people were not supporting the current plan, he went into the line about how he went to Washington to get everyone to pass the plan.
And then, when was asked directly the obvious follow up to the question - the fact that, yes, he went to Washington to get everyone to pass the plan that the American people did not want, and it failed (and thus he failed) - he responded that he did not get enough Republicans and Democrats to support this plan that failed.
And so he in as much told everyone he is a failure and that he is just another Bush.
McCain is now Bush.
Obama is now going to become the leader on this issue in the eyes of the American people. Obama is for the American people, and McCain is Bush.
Congratulations President Obama.
I can't help but think the same thing about him wearing down... the abundantly optimistic side of me wants to believe that he is laying low, knowing that there are big things about to unfold, such as investigations connecting Nobama to scandal associated with Freddie/Fannie, or something else... that's about all the optimism I can muster based on his recent behavior. If there is no smoking gun or perfect end game strategy that we're going to see burst open, we may just be seeing a slow painful death of a campaign and candidate unfolding before our eyes. Criticize the polling sampling data all you want... IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! and McCain is getting his clock cleaned in the arena of public perception.
My wife, who hates Obama and Biden, keeps saying they are going to win. Regardless of polls, Sarah, information getting to the people, ASSama is going to carry the day. And she is not a gloom and doomer, she just recognizes that most people are in love with what ASSama keeps saying and don’t care if it is lies. They want it and will put him in to get it.
I am beginning to think she is right.
You are hardly a credible source for breaking news.
McCain is trying to be Presidential and knows that if the Dow drops to 8,000 his chances of getting elected are slim. He has not lost a damn thing yet.
Is this the bipartisianship strategy Bush held to in his early days? Didn’t take long to realize that Pelosi, Kennedy and their minions have absolutely no desire to “come together”.
We need the tide to turn...........I pray for that every day.
I cannot fathom living under an O presidency.
Someone mentioned yesterday moving to Alaska. :)
I haven’t given up. I am on other boards trying to make these undecided voters learn about the hidden O.
Not all people who’ve recently “signed up” are what you call “trolls”...Speaking for myself, I’m a 60 year old Vietnam vet and have voted conservative in every election I’ve been eligible to vote in...I only recently found this site when I looked at “The Right Links” on the internet...
Please don’t lump us all together...Just call me “Happy to be here...”
>> McCain is owned by the banks.
IMO his actions on this bailout have been wrong-headed and tone-deaf, pretty much from the beginning up through now. He started off OK, suspending his campaign and getting his butt to Washington to do his job... but it all went downhill from there.
But I haven’t seen a shred of evidence that he’s beholden to “big finance”. I think he’s just committing a big blunder.
(BTW I *support* McCain and am planning on voting for him, if anyone wonders.)
I think every Senator is, including Bernie Sanders (D-Socialist). The banks control political donations, always have.
Luckily Obama is another ineffective Senator, and not a outsider Governor.
I've been here almost 11 years, and I've been called plenty of things. I could care less.
Send in the Viking Kitties?
Well said.
It’s a good thing most of us are hunters. It’s going to be rough-living while the GOP is in the wilderness.
He is not a troll. A little excitable and nervous maybe...who the hell isn't? But definately not a troll.
I think you’ve about summed it up, Thane_Banquo.
I dare you to tell that to a Moderator.
The last time I saw someone backtalk a Moderator using the same line of reasoning you now use, that Freeper got zotted.
Gee. ScottinVA, DougTX. Both come on board in September?
Nope people, nothing to see here, moveon....moveon.
Three words:
Palin.
Palin.
Palin.
McCain is blowing this, by hiding Sarah. She’s the reason he got that convention bounce.
Not platitudes to “my friends”.
It’s Sarah. And that dynamite aggresive acceptance speech of hers.
Where did that go???
Good Gosh, now that you have called the election I guess I can stay home. Do you have any insight on what I can expect after Senator Obama is elected and what can be done to stop it. I stand by to serve.
I hope you are right about the politics of the matter with McCain’s potential electability.
But you must confess that he has seemed half-asleep since the debate. His performance in Des Moines yesterday was HORRIBLE.
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