Posted on 10/11/2008 7:41:53 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
PHILADELPHIA (AFP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday thanked his Republican rival John McCain for urging supporters to be respectful and stop hurling abuse at Obama at his rallies.
"Now, I want to acknowledge that Senator McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric yesterday in his town hall meeting and I appreciate his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other," Obama said.
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“I am SO close to moving to a reasonable state and consulting, although in these times giving up a stable job with a good salary is madness.”.....
Eventually, liberals and conservatives will not be able to stand each other. No one talks politics at work because everyone gets so upset. Liberal ideas are literally treason to me at this point.
My mother was a member of the “DAR” - Daughters of the American Revolution. I know where my family has stood. And I know where I’ll stand. Dream on if you think trying to overthrow a legal election is the same...
I guess my post wasn't clear. Keylargo said: "McLame just keep apologizing for the base just saying what you are afraid to say."
I replied : "Kill him?" Really, that's what the base wanted to say "kill him"?
My point was, NO WAY was that Republicans talking. I have said since yesterday, that these were Liberal plants. They have been showing up at the rallies yelling racist remarks and wearing offensive T-shirts trying to make us look bad.
“Dream on if you think trying to overthrow a legal election is the same...”
Overthrowing a legal election? I’m talking about fighting fascism when it comes knocking at your door. Hitler and the Nazis came to power in a “legal” election; Hugo Chavez came to power in a “legal” election. If you want to live under tyranny, be my guest. Me, I’ll opt for liberty every time. Like the old philosopher said (paraphrased): “Evil can only triumph when good men do nothing to stop it.” Tell me: At what point would you actually do something (other than wax indignant) to save your country (and your family) from fascism? And if you don’t think Obambi and his minons aren’t fascists, you wouldn’t know fascism if it bit you on the butt. My allegiance is to the US Constitution, and not to whatever administration happens to be in power at any given time. Unlike the Dems, who always put party over country.
“Look, we all know McCain is not a conservative..”
But, he’s a man and he should start acting like one, instead of this insufferable Church Lady routine.
Bring on Cindy and Sarah and let wobbly Mister Rogers McCain go back to Arizona where he can write his thank you notes to Barry.
Excellent point!! Some great hard-hitting ads playing here in Iowa.
Keep the faith, people!
I gave this morning to a 527 and joined the NRA (don’t have a gun, not yet).
Right now she is more than equal and I wish the ticket was reversed. No matter how you look at it, sexist or otherwise, the female is the plucky one. She is a scrapper.
There is a war going on Mr. McCain. If you won't fight it, then we will.
We are going to place your sorry ass in the White House if it kills us.
And then we are going to fight YOU tooth and nail on all your "reaching across the aisle" socialist and globalist treachery until we can replace your sorry ass with a real Republican in 2012.
>HOW LONG CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS??
They ignored a zillion phone calls before flushing $700 billion towards the richest people in the world. Granted, the Carter CRA pushed by Clinton started the whole mess, but anyways ...
Phone calls mean nothing.
Petitions mean nothing.
Losing elections *might* mean something. Until we get serious about voting OUT CongressCritters who flush away money and freedom, we will grow in serfdom to our creditors.
McPalin is not losing ...
1) “Polls” that show Obama ahead tell a different story when internals are studied.
2) Hillary and Bill don’t want Obama to win, since she wants to run again in 2012
3) “Hussein” being Obama’s middle name is still news to most people.
4) A picture of Obama dressed as a Muslim (there are at least three) is still worth 1000 words (3000 in this case). Man your email station! Post bills!
5) The PUMAs who know the hows and whys of Hillary getting cheated, will vote Palin, and will pull others. Check out http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=33711&page=3 and http://democrats-against-obama.org
6) “Bitter ... [Gun Clingers]”, will vote McCain
7) The Palins ARE America and the conservative base. America and the conservative base will vote accordingly.
8) The NRA has “8 figures” of ads to unload in “swing” states
9) At one point, Obama was only 5 points up in New York! New York!
10) The Democrats were talking about Democratic consultants freaking out over Obama mis-managing his campaign before they settled into poll alteration.
11) The Enemedia is already spreading the meme that if Obama loses, it “is racism”. They see the tea leaves ...
12) The Media was calling the election for Kerry ELECTION MORNING in 2004, and Carter and Reagan polled evenly on election day! Also, http://www.InTrade.com had Kerry as an 80/20 favorite on election morning 2004. SOMEONE is trying to buffalo us!
13) McCain has only started to play the Ayers and ACORN cards. McCain has not yet played the Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Odinga, ... more at http://www.barackbook.com
14) Plenty of white Democratic voters are unimpressed with Obama, and will not vote for him. Democrats can’t energize their base!
15) Obama has only 60% of the Jewish vote, compared to the 75% Kerry got.
16) The Christian base that re-elected Bush in 2004, knows Sarah is more than a Sunday Christian, and is praying for her.
17) McCain opened 50 offices in California. It’s in play! It should be the bluest of the blue, and it is not.
18) Google “Bradley Effect”. Obama is getting poll votes he’ll never get on election day.
19) Operation Chaos resulted in an overlarge quantity of Democrat registrations that will never ever vote Democratic.
20) Polls are meant by the liberal media, to SHAPE public opinion, not report it.
The US Secret Service said it was investigating the alleged death threat.
"We want to fight, and I will fight, but we will be respectful. I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him," McCain told a Minnesota rally.
"I want everyone to be respectful and let's make sure we are, because that is the way that politics should be conducted in America," McCain said.
Our rallies are being infiltrated, just like FR. They will cause as much chaos as possible in order to install "Obama, the Muslim King"
We all know who McCain is, why he does what he does, so that's a non-issue at this point. Won't change him. Ever.
What else you are suggesting? Let Obama win? Not long ago, I might have agreed with you that the country deserves some pain for electing him and his cronies. But after all Obama has done this year, all that has been revealed about him and his associations, do you seriously think we the people should allow him to be elected? It is still our vote, not the media or the elites. You really think we need 4 years of a Marxist?? No thanks. We the people an stop it. McCain is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming through the finish line, despite his weakness as a candidate. McCain we can handle when the time comes; Obama is a worse threat to our freedom, and maybe untouchable in high office.
That is what the media said about Ronald Reagan in 1976. 1980/84 were landslide victories for RR.
It is interesting to note that Reagan was far behind in the polls in 1980 until just a few days before the election; and then it broke his way because there were serious doubts about Carter, and people became more comfortable with Reagan.
There is that chance it will break McCain in the final days, since no one still knows Obama and McCain is a known quantity. And what we do know about Obama, he is sounding more radical every day. People are listening, and not just to the media spin.
Don't be sucked into the media template that the election is over or that a slow economy automatically means Dems win. They want you to be down and depressed.
Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1977; 4th Annual CPAC Convention): The New Republican Party
When a conservative states that the free market is the best mechanism ever devised by the mind of man to meet material needs, he is merely stating what a careful examination of the real world has told him is the truth.
When a conservative says that totalitarian Communism is an absolute enemy of human freedom he is not theorizing -- he is reporting the ugly reality captured so unforgettably in the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
When a conservative says it is bad for the government to spend more than it takes in, he is simply showing the same common sense that tells him to come in out of the rain.
When a conservative says that busing does not work, he is not appealing to some theory of education -- he is merely reporting what he has seen down at the local school.
When a conservative quotes Jefferson that government that is closest to the people is best, it is because he knows that Jefferson risked his life, his fortune and his sacred honor to make certain that what he and his fellow patriots learned from experience was not crushed by an ideology of empire.
Conservatism is the antithesis of the kind of ideological fanaticism that has brought so much horror and destruction to the world. The common sense and common decency of ordinary men and women, working out their own lives in their own way -- this is the heart of American conservatism today. Conservative wisdom and principles are derived from willingness to learn, not just from what is going on now, but from what has happened before.
The principles of conservatism are sound because they are based on what men and women have discovered through experience in not just one generation or a dozen, but in all the combined experience of mankind. When we conservatives say that we know something about political affairs, and that we know can be stated as principles, we are saying that the principles we hold dear are those that have been found, through experience, to be ultimately beneficial for individuals, for families, for communities and for nations -- found through the often bitter testing of pain, or sacrifice and sorrow.
One thing that must be made clear in post-Watergate is this: The American new conservative majority we represent is not based on abstract theorizing of the kind that turns off the American people, but on common sense, intelligence, reason, hard work, faith in God, and the guts to say: "Yes, there are things we do strongly believe in, that we are willing to live for, and yes, if necessary, to die for." That is not "ideological purity." It is simply what built this country and kept it great.
Let us lay to rest, once and for all, the myth of a small group of ideological purists trying to capture a majority. Replace it with the reality of a majority trying to assert its rights against the tyranny of powerful academics, fashionable left-revolutionaries, some economic illiterates who happen to hold elective office and the social engineers who dominate the dialogue and set the format in political and social affairs. If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right -- those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives.
Our first job is to get this message across to those who share most of our principles. If we allow ourselves to be portrayed as ideological shock troops without correcting this error we are doing ourselves and our cause a disservice. Wherever and whenever we can, we should gently but firmly correct our political and media friends who have been perpetuating the myth of conservatism as a narrow ideology. Whatever the word may have meant in the past, today conservatism means principles evolving from experience and a belief in change when necessary, but not just for the sake of change.
Once we have established this, the next question is: What will be the political vehicle by which the majority can assert its rights?
I have to say I cannot agree with some of my friends -- perhaps including some of you here tonight -- who have answered that question by saying this nation needs a new political party.
I respect that view and I know that those who have reached it have done so after long hours of study. But I believe that political success of the principles we believe in can best be achieved in the Republican Party. I believe the Republican Party can hold and should provide the political mechanism through which the goals of the majority of Americans can be achieved. For one thing, the biggest single grouping of conservatives is to be found in that party. It makes more sense to build on that grouping than to break it up and start over. Rather than a third party, we can have a new first party made up of people who share our principles. I have said before that if a formal change in name proves desirable, then so be it. But tonight, for purpose of discussion, I’m going to refer to it simply as the New Republican Party.
And let me say so there can be no mistakes as to what I mean: The New Republican Party I envision will not be, and cannot, be one limited to the country club-big business image that, for reasons both fair and unfair, it is burdened with today. The New Republican Party I am speaking about is going to have room for the man and the woman in the factories, for the farmer, for the cop on the beat and the millions of Americans who may never have thought of joining our party before, but whose interests coincide with those represented by principled Republicanism. If we are to attract more working men and women of this country, we will do so not by simply "making room" for them, but by making certain they have a say in what goes on in the party. The Democratic Party turned its back on the majority of social conservatives during the 1960s. The New Republican Party of the late ’70s and ’80s must welcome them, seek them out, enlist them, not only as rank-and-file members but as leaders and as candidates.
” What else you are suggesting? Let Obama win? “
No..Oh, Hell, No.
Our country is on the brink of disaster and McCain still thinks it’s a winning strategy to treat Obama with the honor that he doesn’t and never will, deserve.
I’ve never seen people ( grounded, non conspiracy types ) so frightened like this.
Even on 9/11.
The prospect of what Obama and his cronies will do to all of us is horrifying.
Cindy McCain sees it-her husband hasn’t yet.
Bet it made McCain's day though.
Why can't McCain "respectfully" say that?
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