What kind of man can come out of nowhere, with no past, and have history fall in front of him to build a bridge to absolute power.
Is Barack Obama the AntiChrist?
Posted on 09/24/2008 1:16:19 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Aiming to prove how serious he is about addressing the financial crisis, John McCain has instructed his staff to take all his campaign commercials off the air, a spokesman tells Politico.~ snip ~
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If Obama dares run attack ads during this brief hiatus, it won’t look good at all. Of course, if the independent groups do so, he can distance himself.
I don’t know if this is good political strategy. Like others, I believe McCain is putting that aside. Which is good polticial strategy. Actions over words. In any event, McCain has again seized the initiative, put The One on his heels, like when he named Palin.
“McCain’s fulfillment of his committment to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative has nothing to do with Bill.
Surely you realize that every time his statement that he will speak at the Clinton Global Initiative is played in the media, it reinforces McCain’s maverick brand and his theme of “Country First.”
It’s brilliant.”
Pracitcal too. You know McCain will ask Sen. Clinton to join him in crafting a bi-partisan solution. That locks out Obama, and puts Clinton in the driver’s seat for the 2012 Democrat nomination.
Politics do make strange bedfellows.
Anyone have any thoughts whether something else could be going on?
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McCain is putting his money where his mouth is. It’s a bold step to face a crisis you’d expect from a President. I don’t think it’ll hurt him at all but it might force Obama to either follow or sit on the bench and watch. Either way makes Obama seem incidental as he’ll be hard pressed to push his big expenditure ideas during this financial crisis if he doesn’t follow. The war in Iraq can’t be his issue and now possibly the economy won’t be his issue either unless he follows McCain’s lead.
That's correct, but what does it have to do with McCain? they paid McCain $22,000--and he pushed a bill to reform Fannie and Freddie and expose their fraud. They paid Obama $126,400--and he and Dodd killed McCain's reform bill! So if they paid Rick Davis $250,000-$500,000 they didn't get their money's worth.
Now if he’d just get out of the race for good and let Barracuda have the ball...
Show me in my post where I said that there was no Republican blame on this? I didn't mention anything about the cause of this problem, but discussed whether it was a good strategy for McCain to suspend the campaign. I said it might be, or it could just be his old instincts overcoming the good advice he has been getting lately. I don't know yet which it is.
You then apparently became offended, although my post praised the conduct of McCain's campaign. You decreed that this is an example of McCain's theme of "Country First". In response, I merely pointed out that Country First is a platitude without meaning, unless you explain what policies you would undertake "First", i.e., ahead of your party or personal interests.
Most people in politics believe that what they are doing is for the best interests of their country. Even Dems who hope for our defeat in Iraq do so because they believe that Dem majorities in Congress will make America a better, more socialist and progressive society.
So give me not platitudes but policies and actions. When you say "country first", I say, OK, we agree, McCain THINKS he is serving the country's interests. Now where do we go from here? Is he going to go to Washington to join hands with Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, or is he going in order to get together with the best, sharpest minds in DC to come up with the best solution that conservatives would craft? Because I guarantee you, conservatives and McCain voters will not be happy if he bails out Barney Frank and tells the world how lousy Chris Cox is, without considering other solutions that might cost less.
Sarah Palin wouldn't go along with this bailout. She is loved, and great, and a true reformer, because she would fight these old boys and their Wall Street network.
What kind of man can come out of nowhere, with no past, and have history fall in front of him to build a bridge to absolute power.
Is Barack Obama the AntiChrist?
What am I missing? Did Fox get it wrong? Or did the O-man flip-flop?
Wow, another wrinkle. Good catch!
This is all good. And I don’t mean “politically” (though it is). I mean for the country.
another to remove your ads. Thats just shooting yourself in the foot.
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Focus should be on the crisis, not his ads. That’s the point. Put the interests of the U.S. first. That’s McCain.
P.S. Could you imagine anyone ever asking Obambi to join him in helping to write an important piece of legislation, much less the legislation of the century?
BBBBWWWWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH
YES, and look at the HATRED IN HIS FACE! He's a CULT figure, that is why he has a following!
“I’d rather lose an election than our country lose a war.”
Too soon to know. I’m listening to radio show right now. Fast moving. By tomorrow, we should know better whether, or should I say to what degree, Obama is politicizing this, and exactly what his plan is.
Perhaps, Obama’s vague qualified, stutterting statement can be interpreted differently by observers. He does talk ALOT, and qualified EVERYTHING he says.
The MSM has also been trying to paint McCain as weak on the economy. “He can lead in war time, but can he lead in an economic crisis?”
McCain is now putting those doubts to rest with voters. Showing that he is more than just a foriegn policy expert. He can lead on domestic issues also.
No matter what Obama does with this, McCain will come out being viewed as someone that can handle both doemestic and international problems. He’ll get rid of his biggest Achille’s heel (not strong on economy.)
Let ‘em spin! And I do mean as in “Hang ‘em high!”
At this point, the MSM is almost completely irrelevant except as a foil for the true public debate.
The only people who haven’t gotten the memo that the MSM is known as biased is the MSM. So they’re still bleating as if they own the scoop.
Wrong. At this point in history, the Legacy Media functions as just one more voice in a cacophony of media voices. My point is that the LM no longer speaks unopposed.
So let ‘em spin and get the pushback they so richly deserve, that’s what I say.
He talks alot but says NOTHING! Then the MSM get on there & make up what they think he said. What they want him to have said, but he didn't, cause he can't put a cognitive sentence together!
Oh. I think the distinction is delaying the debate vs. suspending the campaign... I missed your point.
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