Posted on 10/08/2008 1:11:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Don't misunderstand me: Obama is wrong on Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, health care, corporate tax rates, investment taxes, education flexibility, abortion regulation, immigration policy, meeting with dictators, social security, energy, trade, and believing that subprime lending was a good idea.
He has opportunistically changed or regularly misstated his positions on public financing, gun control, born alive infant protection, wire tapping, timetable for Iraq, elimination of the Bush tax cuts, the DC gun ban, an undivided Israel, the Cuba embargo, NAFTA, participation in town halls with McCain, oil drilling, and support of nuclear power.
He has no major legislative accomplishments as either a State senator or United States Senator, and has never demonstrated an ability to work with members of the other party, despite his claim that's what he'll do.
That being said. He will win this election, and probably deserves to.
"Fight with me, fight with me," McCain passionately demanded at his Republican Convention, which led to a significant bounce in the polls and a type of excitement and momentum Republicans never thought they could see after 8 years of Bush.
We'd be happy to fight for you, Senator. But you have to fight for yourself first.
Here we are, one month prior to the election, and the only one taking the gloves off is Sarah Palin. She can't do this on her own. She shouldn't have to.
McCain let endless opportunities for a knockout punch fly by last night at the debate without even looking like he knew the opportunity existed.
We all know John McCain isn't much of a communicator (just like many of us know Barack Obama isn't much of a leader), but if you can't at least make an effort to stand up and fight for yourself and your ideas in the midst of a campaign... can you really be President of the United States?
Senator McCain - your health care plan is far superior to Barack Obama's. Learn to articulate it. Barack Obama claims he's giving 95% of Americans a tax cut, when only 70% of Americans pay taxes. Call him on it. Barack Obama deceptively tries to make it look like you're giving a targeted tax cut to oil companies. Clarify. Barack Obama discusses Rwanda and Darfur when expressing circumstances where military action would have been worth it... as if he has no idea what was going on in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Remind him.
Americans are fed up with Republicans, Senator McCain, and they're not giving you the benefit of the doubt. If you can't stand up and articulate your differences from the Bush Administration (which are significant) due to your fear of alienating the conservative base... then you don't deserve to win. Fight, Senator McCain, fight.
The status quo is not on the ballot, as much as Obama would like people to believe. Both men will be different than the last 8 years. And while Obama hasn't proposed anything that we haven't already seen from Clinton, Carter, or some other Democratic leader over the history of our nation - he has the amazing ability of packaging old ideas as "change"... and he deserves credit for that. You could have done the same, Senator McCain, but you have chosen time and time again to play it safe.
To my friends who support Barack Obama; you're not going to convince me to change my vote because there isn't a single major issue I agree with your candidate on. But I must say this... we have seen 8 years of a President who seems to think that there's no value in trying to articulate a vision to the country, and no need to fight back against what is often an unfair barrage of attacks by Republicans, Democrats, and the media. If a President of the United States becomes a punching bag, he or she is no longer effective. President Bush had a 90% approval rating during 9/11 and stayed above 50% for the majority of his first term... but then quickly slipped to numbers almost as low as the Democratic Congress after deciding that he was above the need to communicate to and WITH the people.
You work FOR the people, Mr. President. Act like it.
John McCain is a wise, tested leader. But hardly anyone sees that because he's too busy making bad jokes and talking about the DNA of a bear. Barack Obama is an arrogant, untested Senator with socialist ideas and a hunger for government domination. But no one sees that because he's too busy not talking about his record or his plans.
Who wins in that battle? Barack Obama. It's 2008. We're connected, busy people who make our decisions based on posters, sound bites, SNL, and YouTube videos. You needed to play that game, Senator McCain, and you didn't. You trusted that the American people would examine your records. No time for that.
You were never supposed to get this far, Senator McCain. The atmosphere was too Anti-Republican for you to even stand a chance. You needed that little extra bit of fight to put you over the top, Senator, and at some point along the line... you decided the Americans didn't wanna see anger or passion. Wrong. That's exactly what we wanted to see.
Now, I can't help but notice that the four major polls released today by Rasmussen, Reuters, Hotline, and Battleground have Obama up by 6, 2, 1, and 4 respectively... which are actually all very weak and surprising to me...Obama had far bigger leads in the same polls last week... so I may be premature in calling this thing...
But the fact of the matter is, it's widely reported that the majority of American's politics are more closely aligned to John McCain (center right) than Barack Obama (far left), and an inability to communicate that stark difference and to relate with the people who share your ideals... is a failure that SHOULD cost an election.
See ya in 2012.
They really are out of touch. The ebay stories and all that crap are yesterday’s news. No talk about revolutions in transportation or any vision. Just maintenance garbage. If the engineers don’t come through we are in for 70’s retro.
It was suppose to be 50 but turned out to be 71.
Even in a very liberal poll just out, it showed McCain down 8 points. They must have very encouraging internal polling to spend that kind of money here. You don’t see any Obama signs or car stickers Inland.
McCain is all about McCain. His way or the highway. He really doesn’t put Country First, despite his slogans. I’m not questioning he has patriotism. But first and foremost, he’s about himself. Unfortunate, because our nation needs a conservative with a vision running for president.
I’m in Maine, which hasn’t been carried by the GOP since 1988.....just like California.
I see McCain or McCain / Palin lawn signs everywhere around here, but only a few Obama signs. It always cheers me up when I’m driving around.
Good luck! Never surrender!
McCains only concern is to be careful not to piss off his Dim Buddies.
Obama has been above 50 percent in some polls. That indicates to me that he probably HAS closed the deal, or very nearly so. He and a democratic Congress will have a devastating effect on the country they secretly hate. Wait till we all see what they do to try to turn us into a country they can love.
I don’t know who the drama queen is, either, but there’s sure a lot of them surfacing. They’re clueless. Unless we stop Obama, we won’t even have a country and political parties to complain about.
Just for example, did you hear the word "Constitution" once our of his mouth last night?
Not only did I not, but none of his words even indicated that he holds at all sacred the conservative principles upon which this Republic was founded.
He is the antitheses of a Federalist. He actually believes and has acted time and again on the belief in large, ever intrusive central government. I wish it wasn't so, but unfortunately by his "record" he is!
The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicateFirst, we didn't invent the computer assuming by "government" he meant ours. Restricting it to first electronic computer still gives the Brits a win with Colossus in 1944. Restricting it to the first Turing-complete computer was us, with ENIAC. But I doubt Obama knows what that means.
Second, neither was used to communicate. Colossus was a code breaker and ENIAC calculated artillery firing tables.
If we take it to mean he was talking about the Internet instead of computers, he's still wrong. The man with the initial idea was a defense contractor. He then worked for ARPA for a while and then quit. Those who followed him carried the idea forward and hired his old company to actually build the ARPANET. Researchers at universities also contributed to the project, as the first link was between UCLA and Stanford.
And even then it wasn't about communicating, computers could already do that. It was about joining the networks together so you didn't have to, in the example that kicked off ARPANET, log onto three different terminals to talk to three different people.
Obama's statement was wrong in every possible way.
Indeed it is sad. Even more so it is indicative of what the Grand Old Party has re-morphed into.
He has never been above 50 in a poll that had a true sample of Dems (i.e., any poll having 35-37% Dems, 35-37% Republicans, and the balance independents.) If you look at the samples, the ONLY time he has gotten over 50% is when they have out-sampled Dems by 10%.
But the point was to the other poster that one can tell where the “race” is based on where the campaigns are spending money. Not necessarily. Bush spent tons in NJ, WI, and MI, and lost them both times. On the other hand, I just don’t see the Messiah winning either NC or VA and I don’t think it will be particularly close in either state.
How can you say that? The people you reference get sampled just like the rest of the population in the polls. They show up in the polls, and their preferences show up just like everybody else's. They ARE being counted. Why would you say they are not?
Did you see the SNL skit where Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi abused him and he just nodded and smiled? I hate to say this, but they completely nailed him.
How do you know what balance should be? How do I know? Pollsters make it their business to know. Sure, there are push-polling organizations that are less than honest, but the well-known pollsters use standard, well-developed statistical techniques to calibrate their polls. I doubt they are very far off.
I watched last night's debate and thought they both stunk. Actually, Obama worse that McCain. At least McCain set the table for himself. Obama just stepped in it.
My Mom was on food stamps and I got to go to a private school. Ha Ha Ha.
I got polled by the AP earlier this year (The night before Palin’s convention speech, IIRC), and they didn’t ask me who I liked, they asked me who I would vote for if the election were held that day. Someone who votes for McCain solely to stop Obama would answer “John McCain.”
That said, I think LS is probably right. If he wasn’t, the media wouldn’t be feeding us polls that have a sample of Democrats ten percent larger than these polls usually have.
As far as I can see Obama, Mclaim AND George Bush are eye rolling leftist Socialists..
BIG government socialist government union worker democrats and republicans..
A Union for government workers should be illegal..
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