Posted on 09/13/2008 2:25:30 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Belittling John McCain as a relic of the disco age, Democrat Barack Obama pushed his campaign Friday to a new level of counter-punching "on the issues that matter" and directed his running mate to be tougher on their Republican opponents.
The changes come as national polls find McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pulling ahead of Obama and Joe Biden, prompting some jittery Democrats to implore them to fight back harder, and Obama's camp to pledge "speed and ferocity" in that effort.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Rocky - Maybe we don't like them either.
No, they were far from pure as the driven snow, far from it..
This is from August Prophet:
“..n February 1970, McCain took part in what is now known as the church riot after their captors denied him and his fellow POWs permission to hold a church service. His actions later led to his informal appointment as prisoner chaplain. One “lesson,” a term he preferred over sermon, concerned the prisoners’ fate, McCain recalls: “We were doing Caesar’s work when we got into prison, so we should ask for God’s help to do the right thing....”
http://www.newser.com/story/34992/mccain-recalls-pow-prayers-tests-of-faith.html
Interesting, a insight into the man:
The prisoners had developed a tap code system for communicating through the walls. Through that tapping, “we decided we needed to be all on the same sheet of music at least one time during the week,” Swindle said.
The prisoners decided that every Sunday, after they had eaten their rice, the highest-ranking officer would cough loudly and say the letter ‘c’ for church. The prisoners would then say the Pledge of Allegiance, the Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm. The psalm was said in plural: “Yea, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we will fear no evil.”
Prisoners used diarrhea pills mixed with cigarette ash—or charcoal or dirt—to write lines of Scripture and surreptitiously share them
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/08/the-pow-church-riot.html
Rick Dees.....
Who is that ? never heard of them.
after reading that, there is no doubt that John McCain’s faith in God got him through.
Rick Dees...Disco Duck.....
I agree.
ok... I should have checked it out more to see who made that song... I was thinking of what to come up to say with Baquack Obama Disco Duck
Funny, I thought going after people based on race, age or gender was supposed to be a bad thing. I don’t imagine this would open up any bell curve stereotyping—too bad.
The overhead of his campaign and the number of people he has hired would make for a good campaign ad by itself.
300 foreign policy people?
At some point I am reminded of one of my favorite “demotivational posters”.
***Meetings - because none of us is as dumb as all of us***
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