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.
I thought McCain did exactly as he said but was very firm when defending Sara Cuda.
Obama, is like most liberals, they are just to impatient to take a round house swing and yell inane insults like a drunken sot in a bar fight.
He didn't "pull" anything. He is floating above it all while Barry wallows in the mud and moves further and further away from his dream.
we’re not going to fail because it is our job. McCain has his job, to tell the people what he stands for, and Sarah has her job. She’ll bite back but even she won’t bring up the really shady stuff.
Obama is in a pretty weak position because Biden isn’t working very well as his attack dog and now Obama has to do everything himself.
Because she doesn't publicly disagree with the Presidential candidate's policies? You must have some odd ideas about how presidential campaigns are run.
Ditto! Obama looked like a bumbling fool. McCain showed a lot class tonight.
“...the garbage is picked up.”
That is a big Chicago line. People who despised Richard Daley (the first) put up with him, his machine, and corruption because ‘the garbage got picked up.” That is how they judge their mayor in Chicago ... that and snow removal.
Work parties in “National Service” is not my idea of where I would like this country to go. I have worked considerably in this area over the past six years. Volunteerism is a community building element. The best money invested in strengthening a community is in leadership training (group dynamics, running a meeting, asset mapping, strategic and action planning, fundraising, project development) ; non-profit Board development; and collaboration and public/private partnerships. What you want to end up with is a community that is self-determinant, has a shared vision, has multiple leaders, a culture of collaboration among organizations, youth involvement in leadership and a high degree of volunteerism among residents. You want to leverage public funds with private business and foundation grants to assist in developing strong communities that select their own directions. You do not want a National bureaucracy that musters volunteers to come in and do what the government thinks is best. This creates dependence, a culture of victimization and everything the Republican Party is against.
John McCain is so right on this. He is talking about a return to the De Tocqueville America of our forefathers. He knows the private sector does it best. It sounds like Obama wants a National work corps as an alternative to military service with all the post service benefits. This will not help build and strengthen communities from the inside out. You will end up with a nation of communities like old New Orleans with victims awaiting outside help to take care of them.
“I think we will have more luck doing that than getting anywhere near Obama’s feet to begin with”
You are already at Obaam’s feet he is the MESSIAH, or so he thinks
Community Organizer = Appretice Kommissar.
Class exercise for extra credit: Find one example of an ACORN Organizer who is not a Communist. Good Luck.
Excellent commentary. McCain was gracious on a day that was supposed to be a “no bickering” day.
McCain should look very closely at just what “kind” of Community “organizer” Obama is.
A Marxist Class Warfare Activist is a “community Organizer” only in a Communist sense of the word. He literally worked his butt off to create class division and destroy his community as an effort to convert Americas democracy to his Marxist ideal. Obama’s record should have him in Gitmo as a traitor, not a hero up for election.
This is why McCain is a weak candidate. Every time he has a chance to put distance between himself and the other guy, he moves the other direction and closes the gap. Makes you want to puke.
“So he thinks”
Thats the operative words. HE thinks we are. Hopefully this nation will show him that we are NOT.
That is exactly right.
The more McCain can create the perception that he
“respects” Obama, the more Obama looks bad when
he seems to find nothing much to respect about McCain.
The more Obama will flounder and look insincere, because
respect is not in his make-up. He only looks happy and in his element when he’s whipping up his crowds with his vacuous mockery and arrogance.
The complete sentence:
“Frankly, I’m disappointed in Sarah Palin, but I do understand she has to toe the McCain line.”
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Perhaps you’re an editor for ABC?
Besides, she disagreed with McCain on ANWR in the same interview.
Conceding ground on the hoax of man-made global warming is a bad move. Gibson pushed her to take a stand on the issue so the Media can play “gotcha” later.
Many common-sense conservatives support McCain because she could influence McCain on some very important issues. Perhaps the McCain camp pressured her to make the statement.
If Sarah Palin believes man-made global warming is a fact, I am disappointed. I’m not the only one.
A community organizer is someone, who, if you really do it right, and serve the right local political masters in your
rabble-rousing and manage to get an infusion of guilt money into your district to assuage you and your appetites,and the minimum daily requirements of political gamesmanship,
you someday may become someone like the King of all Community Organizers, Jesse Jackson.
(pause)
Or President of the United States.
(pause)
If that’s what you really want.
“Michelle the linebacker runs that house”
——what you described about BHO’s curriculum vitae, goes double for Michelle. Her position at the U. of Chicago Hospitals? If that isn’t an AA post, gloweringly lording it over “diversity issues”, I don’t know what is, and I went to U of C 30 plus years ago, and know the whole Southside dynamic.....And WHY of WHY did her salary mysteriously triple when her husband became Senator?
“Michelle the linebacker runs that house”
——what you described about BHO’s curriculum vitae, goes double for Michelle. Her position at the U. of Chicago Hospitals? If that isn’t an AA post, gloweringly lording it over “diversity issues”, I don’t know what is, and I went to U of C 30 plus years ago, and know the whole Southside dynamic.....And WHY of WHY did her salary mysteriously triple when her husband became Senator?
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