Posted on 06/19/2008 5:53:22 AM PDT by WesA
The Illinois Senator makes the announcement Thursday morning in a video sent out to his supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepage.time.com ...
Apparently, Obama has figured out that if you are a Democrat, you can completely reverse every thing you said previously, and still get elected.
I saw a fellow wearing a “Yes We Can” (with an image of the messiah on it) t-shirt last night at a restaurant on 3rd Avenue, and I politely asked him what he knew about Obama and his policies, or should I say the lack of them. Of course he said that Obama stands for “change.” I asked him to name a single accomplishment Obama has had in the senate, just one, and guess what, he couldn’t. He was clearly annoyed at my question and immediately said he didn’t want to see another Bush term. I told him that I agree with him, that I am very disappointed in Bush’s excessive spending during his two terms, and that’s why I was voting for a candidate (McCain) who doesn’t believe in earmarks and wasteful spending. He turned around and that was the end of the conversation.
Wonder what your friend thinks of Barry’s plan for the WOT and capturing Bin Laden.
I’m betting McCain stays IN public financing for the general election, gets people instead to donate for the “primary”, pre-buys ads before the nomination, and beats Obama over the head about this broken promise every day during the general election.
McCain can’t possibly take in enough extra private money to compete with Obama, better to let the republicans who support him instead give money to private organizations and to the RNC, which can spend money on party-building.
A lot of independents like Obama because he’s “different”, and this is just the issue to prove Obama isn’t “different”, but is rather a common liar.
Oh gee, let’s see, McCain is down 3 points in today’s Rasmussen daily poll, and 4 points in the latest Washington Post poll, in fact he’s ahead of the messiah in the Washington Post poll’s Most Likely To Vote catergory. Obama should be ahead by 10 - 12 points, especially if the Repub party in such tatters as you describe. The McCain strategy of keeping the messiah on the defensive and challenging him with specifics is sound, effective and is working. Here is a link to some polls you should check out, then again I could care less if you don’t:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
Thank you, I honestly didn’t know that.
I’d love to ask her, but wont at this point. She got pretty ticked with info I sent her last week. We used to be pretty much in agreement when it came to politics, so I was very shocked about her reaction. It’s all very strange.
Actually, I think he used the promise of public funding as collateral for a loan to his campaign at the same time as he was opting our out, or something similar.
She's emotion-based, and Barry strokes the emotions. Logic and reason, therefore, mean nothing to her.
My brother’s been a Republican all his life (though he’s never voted)... He’s come to hate Bush because of the Iraq war... This year, he sees H as the messiah. He’s voting for the first time in his life... I’m disgusted...
My brother’s been a Republican all his life (though he’s never voted)... He’s come to hate Bush because of the Iraq war... This year, he sees H as the messiah. He’s voting for the first time in his life... I’m disgusted...
I don’t get it. McCain doesn’t have any money, and he isn’t likely to GET all that much money. Why would he opt out of public funding?
Obama said Osama (or is Osama said Osama!) deserves Miranda rights? Is there a youtube of this. That’s huge!
The "public money" is the pool of voluntary checkoffs on income tax. It's not from "general fund" or FICA or some other tax/fee source.
Is the DNC going to file charges?
Let's see what the polls look like after the Dem lovefest [aka the Dem Convention]. McCain is going to get trounced. His only hope is if there is some earthmoving revelation about Obama's personal life. This is the Dem's election to lose.
And because McCain has roughly the same positions as Obama on such crosscutting issues like immigration and global warming, the Reps will be losing some important issues on which to attack Obama.
Nominating the party's maverick and the oldest man ever to run for the first time for the Presidency as its standard bearer was a collossal mistake.
Yes. They did, in fact. The court complaint was returned because it was premature (inside the 120 day statutory window of inaction by the FEC), but it'll be filed in Federal District Court again, tomorrow, I think.
What can we do short of a rebellion at the Convention? As far as I can tell, McCain won the nomination fair and square. And it isn't as if "true conservatives" didn't have horses in the race. At one time or another, we had people like Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback and others in the hunt. What happened? They lost. For whatever reasons, "true conservatives" didn't come together behind a standard bearer in sufficient numbers to keep a candidate in the race.
So what do we do now? Well, you can either be a quitter or keep fighting the libs and 'Rats by playing the best game we can with the hand we've been dealt. I for one will not willingly turn the country over to a Marxist-socialist like Obama without a fight, which is what we'll be doing if we stay home and pout or spitefully vote for some hopeless third-party candidate.
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