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McCain Blows It - Defends Obama's Community Organizer Record (Goes After The Moderate Vote Alert)
Michelle Malkin.com ^ | 9/11/2008 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 09/11/2008 9:31:15 PM PDT by goldstategop

You know, I was going to call it a night. And then I saw the story about John McCain’s appearance at the 9/11 Columbia University forum earlier this evening.

Every time you grit your teeth and defend this guy, he pulls something like this. Hey, Maverick: Way to throw Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, and your strategists who had the sense to seize on Obama’s abysmal, ineffectual record as a Chicago rabble-rouser under the bus!

Criiiiiikey:

Barack Obama and John McCain attempted to set their differences aside Thursday night, if only for a moment, as they encouraged Americans to volunteer in their community and military at a forum on national service.

Few sparks flew at the Columbia University event, hosted by ServiceNation. The candidates — who were interviewed separately — were encouraged to keep campaign politics to a minimum, out of respect for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

In that spirit, McCain at one point softened the language used by his running mate last week at the Republican National Convention, where she mocked Obama’s early days as a community organizer.

“Governor Palin was responding to the criticism of her inexperience, her job as a mayor in a small town,” McCain explained. “Of course I respect community organizers. Of course I respect people who’ve served their communities, and Senator Obama’s record there is outstanding.”

“Outstanding?”

Are you kidding me? Does McCain need talking points on the government-subsidized fraud machine that is ACORN? Here are the ACORN Watch archives: Print and read.

Does McCain even know about the Annenberg Challenge disaster? Someone set up a briefing for him with Stanley Kurtz, stat! Is he even aware of Obama’s own disavowal of his failed community organizer efforts?

McCain has just taken one of his own campaign’s most effective lines of attack against his opponent’s feckless, far Left past and tossed it away — like the rose Obama flung in the water.

What’s next? Will McCain attack those who mock Obama’s “outstanding” community organizer record as racist, too?

Banging. Head. Against. Wall.

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Hey, let’s put some salt in the wound: A cabinet position for Obama to boot!

Maybe he’ll be named Secretary of the Soros Slush Fund.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; communityorganizer; johnmccain; maverick; mccainpalin; mcdumb; michellemalkin; moderates; obama
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A remind McCain can be McDumb. Playing up to his precious moderates and independents. Enough to make conservatives bang their heads against the wall. The Left doesn't play nice! Why does McCain?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

1 posted on 09/11/2008 9:31:17 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
remind=reminder

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 09/11/2008 9:32:31 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Defend your VP not your enemies...


3 posted on 09/11/2008 9:33:55 PM PDT by Blue Turtle (I)
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Yes because on a forum discussing national service McCain should’ve ripped into a screed against Obama...


4 posted on 09/11/2008 9:33:56 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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Oh calm down. Lets win this election and then we can hold his feet to the fire. I think we will have more luck doing that than getting anywhere near Obama’s feet to begin with.


5 posted on 09/11/2008 9:34:06 PM PDT by donnab (some people use change to promote their careers...others use their careers to promote change.)
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I am OK with McCain’s comments.

There is NOTHING wrong with being a community organizer.

There is NOTHING wrong about Obama being a community organizer.

The ISSUE is...... being a community organizer does NOT make you QUALIFIED to be president.

Not a big issue. Lets move on....


6 posted on 09/11/2008 9:34:23 PM PDT by gswilder
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This doesn’t mean that McCain...

1. doesn’t know Barack Obama’s radical, ACORN/Alinskyite/Ayers involvements...

2. won’t tell America what he needs to about Barack Obama in the next eight weeks.

(And of coure, it doesn’t mean he will.)

Meanwhile, it is the responsibility of everyone who knows the truth to tell our fellow Americans.


7 posted on 09/11/2008 9:34:51 PM PDT by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us.")
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Folks, there’s a time for everything. Tonite was not the night to attack. I have no problem with what McCain said. Let him play the ‘good cop’ - and let the ‘attack’ line come from somewhere else on this day.


8 posted on 09/11/2008 9:35:16 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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I don’t care if McCain goes after the moderate vote. In fact, he probably needs to if he wants to win. HOWEVER, praising Obama’s service as “community organizer” isn’t going to do it. How is praising the opponent going to persuade someone to vote for him?


9 posted on 09/11/2008 9:35:17 PM PDT by SMCC1
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One more thing why I think what McCain did was OK....

It keeps the community organizer issue in the news, which just makes Obama look less experienced.


10 posted on 09/11/2008 9:35:41 PM PDT by gswilder
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To: goldstategop

McCain did a pretty good job with a pretty shabby line of question. Moving on.


11 posted on 09/11/2008 9:35:47 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Blue Turtle
He's not a Reagan conservative. He wants to reach out to the moderates, independents and disaffected liberals. McCain is who he is. He's not one of us.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

12 posted on 09/11/2008 9:35:52 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Barack Obama for Secretary of the Department of Rainbows and Unicorns, which is where liberal and maverick fantasies go for implementation. Of course, that would put Dennis Kucinich’s career plans on hold for a while.
13 posted on 09/11/2008 9:35:56 PM PDT by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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Exactly...he did not defend his experience..he just said yes it is ok with community organizers.....unlike Obama

who decided to insult every mayor in the Nation!


14 posted on 09/11/2008 9:36:08 PM PDT by Texas4ever (SIT DOWN JUNIOR :))
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McCain rises above it all, has gravitas, acts presidential.

While Obama is calling his running mate a pig, he's saying that he has examined his opponent's record and thinks it seems nice.

McCain is fatherly, Obama is a whiny kid.

15 posted on 09/11/2008 9:36:22 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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I agree, let’s get across the finish line first.


16 posted on 09/11/2008 9:37:01 PM PDT by swatbuznik
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Of course I respect people who’ve served their communities, and Senator Obama’s record there is outstanding.”

Um, Michelle, there's no need to be a dragon ALL the time. McCain and Obama spent the day at Ground Zero. There was absolutely no reason for McCain to criticize Obama tonight over anything. McCain showed class, which is what most of us have come to expect from him.

I REALLY hope Michelle's not becoming the Right's equivalent of those Leftists who pick up on every comment of the opposition as if it's somehow sinister.

Michelle, McCain was being a nice guy. And it sounds like you need a vacation.

17 posted on 09/11/2008 9:37:27 PM PDT by JennysCool (A man who served his country well vs. a walking Che poster. Is it really that tough a choice?)
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I am OK with McCain’s comments.

There is NOTHING wrong with being a community organizer.

There is NOTHING wrong about Obama being a community organizer.

The ISSUE is...... being a community organizer does NOT make you QUALIFIED to be president.

Not a big issue. Lets move on....

+1

18 posted on 09/11/2008 9:38:08 PM PDT by Doofer (Carl Cameron Is A Weasel)
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To: goldstategop
I didn't think so. I thought he put it in context and clarified it better. Often the VP is the one that plays dirty while the presidential candidate plays nice. If he played as nasty as the left he would not win the moderates. He is more a tactician anyway--look at the polls and how he has brought in the independents and moderates. He knows what he is doing. He did give us Sarah by the way and girlfriend will take these yahoos on and they no it--now and in the decades to come.

Do I understand your frustration? Yes! They will get their own come November 4 and that is the true prize that we need to keep our eye on. On that day they will eat crow!

19 posted on 09/11/2008 9:38:11 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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Just watching the replay with Obama. Didn't watch earlier. Just saw Zero's backhanded compliment about small-town mayors (wink wink). He says he has respect for them because they are where the rubber meets the road. After all, he says, the have to make sure the potholes are filled, the trees are trimmed and the garbage is picked up.

No condescion there.

20 posted on 09/11/2008 9:38:15 PM PDT by CaptRon (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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