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McCain "Calms the Crowd" at Minnesota Town Meeting
The Page / Time Magazine ^ | 10/10/2008 | Mark Halperin

Posted on 10/10/2008 3:41:37 PM PDT by Sibre Fan

After days of watching in silence, McCain calms the crowd at his Minnesota town meeting.

“I want everyone to be respectful. And let’s make sure we are, because that’s the way politics is done in America.”

Tells one supporter who says he’s scared of an Obama presidency: “I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States.”

After a woman calls Obama “an Arab,” McCain interrupts to say: “No, ma’am. He is a decent family man, citizen

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
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To: roses of sharon

Gov Palin should get out of the Republican Party ASAP after the election. The RNC have not defended her in any way, let her be humiliated...and she is out on her own now to do their dirty work....so they can get good press, and she will be further destroyed.”

. . . . . . AMEN.
Cowards, all of them. How bad does she look now? She's out spouting off about Ayers etc, and McCain says this?

It was a moment that just changed this election. He doesn't stand a chance in hell now..again he effectively neutered ANY talk of Obama’s questionable past or his questionable character. McCain is really the spokesperson for the party right now, and he cut us off at the feet.

421 posted on 10/10/2008 5:37:10 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: PhiKapMom

I love Sarah ! no. I DO NOT want Romney...

But I feel like something is not right. Sarah didnt do anything wrong. She should be admired by 70% of the country right now. Why. But I fear the attacks have made her marginal. What the hell do we do ?

Why cant we do the same to Obama ?

where is the justice ?


422 posted on 10/10/2008 5:37:36 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (GO Sarah Palin !)
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To: VanDeKoik

What part of that sentence said I was staying home???

Hmmmmmmmm????


423 posted on 10/10/2008 5:37:36 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Sibre Fan

John, it ain’t about you.


424 posted on 10/10/2008 5:37:59 PM PDT by Keyes2000mt (Conservative Podcast: The Truth and Hope (http://www.truthandhope.2truth.com))
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To: PhiKapMom
Even if he said this — what precipitated it — we don’t have the whole story and from what I read on Time magazine this is all they have. You have to be very careful in a Town Hall what a “supporter” says since there are plants from the Obama campaign at every event trying to get McCain.

Gosh, don't you know you're supposed to pile on our candidate everytime a newbie troll posts a provocative half-story?

Your knee doesn't jerk and I thank you for it.

425 posted on 10/10/2008 5:38:02 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Que Sarah, Sarah)
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To: snarkytart; roses of sharon

After seeing Governor Palin up close and personal, I would say she would strongly disagree with you.


426 posted on 10/10/2008 5:38:08 PM PDT by antceecee (McCain ~ Palin '08!!!!! May God have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: antceecee

“You need to realize that the media are taking the word “danger” and turning it into a racist remark.”

Allowing the media to take words like “dangerous” in the context of the next Supreme Court Justices that will be appointed, and turn them into racist remarks is a game of defense that cannot be won. That is falling right into their trap. He needs to define himself, not allow others to define him and manipulate him. That is a game that cannot be won and he as well as his campaign team should be smart enough to know that and have the leadership qualities about them to know that and be stronger than that.


427 posted on 10/10/2008 5:39:16 PM PDT by LaurenD
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To: Miss Didi
Dear Miss Didi,

I will be voting for John McCain especially for that reason!
I am sorry.

Feeling fustrated!
Feelings are for Libtards!

428 posted on 10/10/2008 5:40:51 PM PDT by right way right (Do not mistake religion for God.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Hi La Dita!

Nice evening here on FR for beating up on fellow Republicans ‘eh????
Too bad some of this anger isn’t being put to better use canvassing for votes to get McCain Palin elected.


429 posted on 10/10/2008 5:40:56 PM PDT by antceecee (McCain ~ Palin '08!!!!! May God have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: PhiKapMom; se_ohio_young_conservative

This one has been handwringing for weeks, Ma.


430 posted on 10/10/2008 5:41:08 PM PDT by impeachedrapist (Bill Clinton, as Arkansas Attorney General did you make Juanita Broaddrick pay for her rape kit?)
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To: LaurenD

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102750/posts

It looks like the Dem run investigation of Palin pretty much shot the other candidate for us... Sarah.

Now..I WILL give money to her to fight if she needs it.


431 posted on 10/10/2008 5:42:17 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: antceecee

Correct. I will be at local HQ tomorrow. Things look suprisingly much better in the real world than on FR. Nice to see YOU:-).


432 posted on 10/10/2008 5:42:25 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Que Sarah, Sarah)
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To: LaurenD

No - you are falling into their trap if you let your supporters become a ‘MOB’. People are angry, and angry people can be whipped into a mob quite easily. That would lose this election in a heartbeat.


433 posted on 10/10/2008 5:42:36 PM PDT by antceecee (McCain ~ Palin '08!!!!! May God have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: LaurenD

Your posts on this thread have been calm and poignant.


434 posted on 10/10/2008 5:42:38 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but you're a complete idiot and a wuss.

McCain/Palin are going to win VA, NC, FL and OH. They're going to win on Nov. 4th - with or without you and many other drama queens on this forum. It only remains to be seen how many of the following states they also win: CO, NH, WI, PA, MN, IA, MI.

435 posted on 10/10/2008 5:43:00 PM PDT by impeachedrapist (Bill Clinton, as Arkansas Attorney General did you make Juanita Broaddrick pay for her rape kit?)
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To: LaurenD

Blablabla, troll.


436 posted on 10/10/2008 5:43:11 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Que Sarah, Sarah)
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To: snarkytart
Yes, and this is different than throwing us under a bus for a certain policy or issue, that I understand, no one agrees about everything.

But to out and out tell the MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia war room that WE ARE EVERYTHING THEY THINK WE ARE??

He just gave them more power over us.

After we had just celebrated that guy in the audience who spoke for us, we got national play, and gave us some power over Hussein and his media. They knew it, and HIT BACK.

Now he has made it harder for those who come behind him.

Hussein and his newsrooms are laughing their arses off right now, and shopping for their Inaugural gowns.

And President and Mrs. Bush will have to smile and hand over the keys of our White House to an anti-American Marxist.

437 posted on 10/10/2008 5:43:14 PM PDT by roses of sharon (When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will put him to flight (Isaiah 59:19)
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To: Miss Didi

No. I love her !. She inspires me.

But she is not being treated fairly. The attacks have taken their tool. She did nothing to deserve a 47% favorible. She has 80% approval in her own state !

my point is. If they can attack Sarah, Why cant we fire back at Obama ?


438 posted on 10/10/2008 5:43:38 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (GO Sarah Palin !)
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To: LaurenD

“if there is any hope for it at all, enough people will be so disillusioned with the democratic party after an Obama Presidency that they won’t be in power for decades to come. “

That’s what people said in 2006 about a Dem congress.

Thanks for that


439 posted on 10/10/2008 5:44:04 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: La Enchiladita

Good for you! We definitely need it here in Cali... if nothing else, perhaps we can affect the down ticket.


440 posted on 10/10/2008 5:44:08 PM PDT by antceecee (McCain ~ Palin '08!!!!! May God have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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