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As Aides Map Aggressive Race, McCain Often Steers Off Course (They Call Him the Wanderer)
Washington Post ^ | 31 July 2008 | Juliet Eilperin and Robert Barnes

Posted on 07/31/2008 8:05:31 AM PDT by TADSLOS

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1 posted on 07/31/2008 8:05:31 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: TADSLOS

McCain is just honest, it does look like we can withdraw fairly soon, it’s the timetable set in stone that is a mistake by Obama.


2 posted on 07/31/2008 8:08:04 AM PDT by Williams
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To: TADSLOS
I've got to say that I think McCain's ads are the wrong way to go.

He keeps putting Obomba's face and name in front of the public instead of his own.

Even if he's putting Obomba down it's getting the public to hear his name and see his face again and again.

3 posted on 07/31/2008 8:08:25 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: TADSLOS
No to worry. His ego will produce a landslide in November.
4 posted on 07/31/2008 8:13:59 AM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: TADSLOS
From the WaPo posted here:
...carefully reading a prepared speech...

Hmmm . . .no bias slipped in here, folks! Nope, not at all. We here at WaPo are trying to give you all the information you need to vote for the right person for President. Now step over here to see our falling-down-glowing report on Obama.

5 posted on 07/31/2008 8:15:37 AM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho!)
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To: Just another Joe
What could he accomplish by aggressively putting his face in front of the public?
6 posted on 07/31/2008 8:15:53 AM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: Just another Joe

I believe you are right. That ad with Paris and Britney wasn’t too good.

I don’t know, I just think McCain isn’t a great campaigner.

Barry does himself most of the damage, mostly by his past associations. He sticks to the script too much and fails at coming off genuine.

McCain gets most of his help from Barry.


7 posted on 07/31/2008 8:18:13 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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Not to worry. His ego will produce a landslide in November.

Yeah, then he'll be called "the wonderer", as in "I wonder why I got creamed by an empty suited false prophet?"

8 posted on 07/31/2008 8:22:15 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Cure CINOism- Write in proven conservatives at all levels on the ballot)
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He keeps putting Obomba’s face and name in front of the public instead of his own.

They are both idiots.
Nothing good could come of his being in the forefront 24/7. His handlers are exactly right to keep Obama in the news while McCain stands back and lets Obama hang himself.


9 posted on 07/31/2008 8:28:04 AM PDT by bill1952 (Obama-the only one who can make me vote McCain McCain-the only one who can make me stay at home)
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People tend to vote for the name they recognize. Fact.

It's the typical, "Don't vote for me, vote against the other guy", strategy.

The only problem with that is the fact that McCain is getting people hearing Obomba's name.

10 posted on 07/31/2008 8:31:19 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: TADSLOS

McCain later refuted what he had said and dismissed himself from the campaign citing the fact that he thought he was running an honorable campaign and wouldn’t allow this sort of behaviour from anyone on his staff...including himself.


11 posted on 07/31/2008 8:35:07 AM PDT by FlashBack (www.proudpatriots.org/www.woundedwarriorproject.org/www.moveamericaforward.org)
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BINGO :)
12 posted on 07/31/2008 8:42:53 AM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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I liked the ad.


13 posted on 07/31/2008 8:46:04 AM PDT by Huck (A Teddy Roosevelt wannabe is better than a Che Guevara wannabe.)
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To: bill1952

“Hang?” That’s racist. The word will be outlawed by the federal government soon, along with lynch and other words deemed offensive.

Heaven help us.


14 posted on 07/31/2008 8:46:27 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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“McCain Often Steers Off Course (They Call Him the Wanderer)”

We used to have a wanderer in this rest home that I worked in....always having to go find the poor old guy and bring him back to the home.


15 posted on 07/31/2008 8:51:06 AM PDT by Grunthor (Libs love soccer because you can play for hours and have no winner, thus no loser)
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To: Just another Joe

“He keeps putting Obomba’s face and name in front of the public instead of his own.”

He is continuing the meme, because he knows it is true, that HE doesn’t inspire a fly to eat s**t. OBAMA on the other hand might just inspire enough people to vote for McCain.


16 posted on 07/31/2008 8:52:36 AM PDT by Grunthor (Libs love soccer because you can play for hours and have no winner, thus no loser)
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“Yeah, then he’ll be called “the wonderer”, as in “I wonder why I got creamed by an empty suited false prophet?”

Do you think that he will figure it out? I’d really like to see him maybe on H & C one night in February next year saying, “Well, I got my ass handed to me because you do NOT spend the previous ten years kicking you base in the crotch and them tell them that they HAVE to vote for you or they are traitors.”

That would pretty much make my year.


17 posted on 07/31/2008 8:56:27 AM PDT by Grunthor (Libs love soccer because you can play for hours and have no winner, thus no loser)
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Hmmm . . .no bias slipped in here, folks!

Exactly. The enemedia never reports that Obama "carefully read a prepared speech." No, the Chosen One dazzles crowds with soaring oratory that touches upon timeless, universal themes...

18 posted on 07/31/2008 9:03:25 AM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Grunthor
I’d really like to see him maybe on H & C one night in February next year saying, “Well, I got my ass handed to me because you do NOT spend the previous ten years kicking you base in the crotch and them tell them that they HAVE to vote for you or they are traitors.”

LOL! Dream on. McCain will be giving NY Times and ABC/NBS/CBS interviews in November throwing platitudes to his liberal colleagues across the aisle and telling America how much he respects and admires Obamessiah as the President-elect. He'll be damned if he has to concede to conservatives in any form or fashion- he saves that for liberals.

19 posted on 07/31/2008 9:06:44 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Cure CINOism- Write in proven conservatives at all levels on the ballot)
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To: Just another Joe

People tend to vote for the name they recognize. Fact.

Fact. McCain has been around the scene for three decades and vitually every voter knows the name.
The MSM has already plastered O’s face and name across every possible platform and will continue to do so.

Ever look at the last 6 issues of TIME magazine?

Dorr, ass, bang. Too late for your idea to have any effect whatsoever.


20 posted on 07/31/2008 9:12:50 AM PDT by bill1952 (Obama-the only one who can make me vote McCain McCain-the only one who can make me stay at home)
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