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McCain taking ads down
The Politico (excerpt) ^ | September 24, 2008 | Jonathan Martin

Posted on 09/24/2008 1:16:19 PM PDT by HAL9000

Excerpt -

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.

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(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008; ads; advertising; countryfirst; electionads; electionpresident; financialcrisis; mccain; mccainpalin
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To: HAL9000

Putting Country First.

He ‘walks the walk, and talks the talk’.

Leadership on display.

What else can I say?

Obama, on the other hand, said he was not going back to Washington for the vote earlier, before McCain’s announcement. Will Obama flip-flop?


81 posted on 09/24/2008 1:44:59 PM PDT by Ben Reyes
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To: stentorian conservative
Boy, is Freerepublic slow for me today. I clicked to open this window, and had to wait 10 minutes for it to respond, so now probably dozens of other posts have got in first.

Anyway, it seems excessively theatric for the McCain campaign to pull *all* its ads. In fact, a poor idea, IMO. They should leave one or two positive placeholder ads at least until John McCain gets back into campaign mode.

82 posted on 09/24/2008 1:45:11 PM PDT by Post Toasties (It's not a smear if it's true.)
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To: Crimson Elephant

“This isn’t just a crying wolf moment in time. We were THIS CLOSE to a meltdown not seen since 1929..and it isn’t over yet.”

Maybe. Maybe not. When people want you to give them 700 billion dollars based on their assurance that the sky is falling, I want some pretty definitive proof.


83 posted on 09/24/2008 1:45:18 PM PDT by MittFan08
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To: fightinJAG
Further, think about it: John McCain knows he has at least a 50% chance of becoming President in a few months-—and a bunch of yahoos are up in Washington about to lay an egg for his administration.

This is a very good point. The more Congress screws around trying to fix the economy, the more the markets tank and the more blame that is (wrongly) placed at the feet of only Republicans.

84 posted on 09/24/2008 1:46:01 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: MrLee

See my tagline.


85 posted on 09/24/2008 1:46:13 PM PDT by freebird5850 (If Sarah Palin shoots someone in the face - she meant to!)
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To: dashing doofus

Obama is now stuttering, and taking some, uh, uh, uh, credit and that he called McCain to initiate this.

Wow.


86 posted on 09/24/2008 1:46:13 PM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: PhiKapMom

bttt


87 posted on 09/24/2008 1:46:28 PM PDT by scratcher
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To: AUJenn
We possible stand at financial crisis as large as the Cuban missile crisis. McCain is showing leadership by putting the country first.

I seriously doubt the left will get the message or step up to the plate.

He drew a line in the sand something are more important than party.

88 posted on 09/24/2008 1:46:39 PM PDT by Bailee
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To: KoRn

Why not Obam told him to stuff it on the town hall style meeting, maybe its a good time for a little payback. Let the empty suit stand up there all by himself. Or even better offer to have Sarah stand in for him. She has as much foreign policy experience than Nobama.


89 posted on 09/24/2008 1:47:42 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: Ben Reyes
Putting Country First.

He ‘walks the walk, and talks the talk’.

Leadership on display.

What else can I say?

Obama, on the other hand, said he was not going back to Washington for the vote earlier, before McCain’s announcement. Will Obama flip-flop?

Yes, this is Obama's 3 a.m. phone call--and it's going to his VOICE MAIL.

90 posted on 09/24/2008 1:47:48 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: HAL9000

The financial mess cannont be solved by more of the same legislation - which Obama supports doing. Numerous editorials have been written which demonstrate that policies and plans authored and supported by DEMOCRATS have caused the problems our country is now facing.


91 posted on 09/24/2008 1:48:20 PM PDT by Arcy
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To: HAL9000

McCain is now suspending his campaign so that Paulson’s Wall Street handout plan goes through? Every single time he gets on the verge of staying consistent on conservative themes, his ego gets in the way, and he decides to break ranks to support profoundly stupid and un-conservative things (illegal alien amnesty, Paulson’s handout plan) just so that he can show everyone that he’s different; a maverick.


92 posted on 09/24/2008 1:48:38 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: stentorian conservative

Listening to the O-dummy insisting he can do more than one thing at a time.


93 posted on 09/24/2008 1:48:51 PM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: Tallguy

He’s made a few of those now. One is drawing 60k crowds in states he needs.


94 posted on 09/24/2008 1:49:08 PM PDT by rattrap
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To: HAL9000

OBAMA is campaigning right now in his news confer. He makes me sick!


95 posted on 09/24/2008 1:49:25 PM PDT by JFC (The libs fear us Republicans.. wait until JUDGEMENT DAY!!)
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To: svcw

Palin should go to Washington with McCain and be with him every moment of the process. An opportunity to sit ringside at this moment in history is, in fact, priceless.

McCain knows Obambi is in a lose-lose here. Time after time (9/11, for example), McCain has set the leadership agenda. Obambi is also a Senator and should be in Washington doing his job. If he’s not, that’s up to him and voters can evaluate which leadership style suits the nation. If he does, he did so because he followed John McCain. ‘Nuff said.

As for throwing in the towel, get a grip. First, John McCain has never cared more about getting elected than about doing what he thinks is right for the country (even though, like all humans, he is sometimes wrong on what is “right”). Secondly, the election is about leadership and experience and McCain is LIVING that; campaigning on it is a far second.

The debates are fairly worthless except as media fodder and McCain has been practically begging Obambi to debate him and appear in townhall meetings over and over again, all summer. For Obambi now to be so set on debating while this crisis is ongoing, well, voters need to evaluate his judgment in that.

As I posted upthread, McCain knows he is likely to be President in a few months and he’s not going to let a bunch of yahoos back in Washington take the country down the drain, lay an egg for his administration and set a trap for him to boot, while he’s out on the stump. No way.


96 posted on 09/24/2008 1:49:38 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Fly the flag!)
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To: MittFan08
When people want you to give them 700 billion dollars based on their assurance that the sky is falling, I want some pretty definitive proof.

Perhaps the demand for $700 Billion, is, in and of itself, the proof you crave.

97 posted on 09/24/2008 1:51:11 PM PDT by null and void (Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.-F. de La Rochefoucauld)
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To: HAL9000
Folks the MSM will say McCain is ducking the debate and is doing this as a stunt. Unless Obama goes along this it will not look good. I hate to say it but I smell desperation on the Republicans part. No need to suspend advertising.
98 posted on 09/24/2008 1:51:22 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: TexasGreg
I expect the MSM to protect Obama. They're in the tank for him and everything they write is designed to puff him up. But I believe in the old adage, actions speak louder than words. Who is a leader and who is a follower. Who talks and who acts. McCain doesn't need the MSM to get his message across; Obama does and that's why Obama can never do what McCain just did today!

"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

99 posted on 09/24/2008 1:51:44 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SlowBoat407
Now that is good. Send it to the McCain/Palin campaign.
100 posted on 09/24/2008 1:51:49 PM PDT by scratcher
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