Posted on 10/15/2008 12:39:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – John McCain sought to change the course of a campaign moving decidedly in Barack Obama's direction Wednesday night in the third and final presidential debate.
With less than three weeks until the Nov. 4 election, the 90-minute debate focusing on the economic crisis offered the Republican senator from Arizona what could be one of his last big chances to persuade voters to give the race another look. Polls show Obama, the senator from Illinois, with a clear lead nationally and in several key battleground states.
McCain was keenly aware of the stakes he faced after two debates in which supporters suggested he was insufficiently forceful against Obama.
Over the weekend he promised to "whip" Obama's "you know what," and aides indicated McCain would criticize Obama on tax policy.
For months, McCain and his campaign have tried to convince voters that Obama is an inveterate tax raiser whose spending priorities on health care and other issues would mean higher taxes on people of all incomes. Obama has said he would raise taxes only on people making over $250,000 per year.
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Chart showing opinion poll ratings for US presidential. John McCain, needing a dramatic turnaround to his waning White House hopes, vowed to unmask his rival Barack Obama as a radical sympathizer at their third and final debate in New York Wednesday. (AFP Graphic/Jfs)
McCain seeks to recharge candidacy at final debate
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Phone in sick, Let Sarah take his place.
Recharge? McCain needs a D@$* shock with a defibrillator to get something moving, quick!
Too little, too late.
This article is written as if the debate has already occurred. It’s mostly in the past tense.
he promised to “whip” Obama’s “you know what,”
No, I don’t know what. What’s he going to whip?
The fact that he’s a radical muslim Marxist?
That he hangs with criminals?
His skinny a$$?
Here’s some background music: (But I won’t hold my breath)
Crack that whip!
give the past the slip
step on a crack
break your momma’s back
when a problem comes along
you must whip it
before the cream sits out too long
you must whip it
when something’s going wrong
you must whip it
now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it’s not too late
to whip it
whip it good
The drumbeat all day is pounding that this election is over.
> Phone in sick, Let Sarah take his place.
Best suggestion to date !!
I wouldn’t even mind if he swapped places with Palin and Palin want for POTUS and McCain took the VP position.
Dow crashing again today. -770. Ugh.
you detect a pattern too.. lol
typical leftist ploy .. what they can’t steal thru ACORN, they use an endless barrage of propaganda not supported by facts and manufacture poll results and report them as news..
and we’re just getting warmed up. 3 more weeks .. uugghh.
“Move aside, Dr. McCain — time to move aside and let the new attending (Dr. Palin) take over. Your focus and reflexes are gone.”
That’s it, John, we wouldn’t want to recharge the campaign today. No, let’s wait until the middle of next week.
I don't know why this should surprise me though, he's been a disappointment to me throughout his public life. I've been saying for two plus years that I have the utmost respect for him in so many ways, but he's simply not presidential material.
I will watch tonight and pray for a performance that our current predicament cries out for. But I am not holding my breath!
We need more more of those Lynn Forrester De Rothchild’s.
She is on Cavuto making a brilliant case.
We ought to have a ban on MSM polls until the final week.
Probably keep us centered on the job of ridding the US of an Obama win.
Anyone remember the show “This is Your Life”? McCain needs to turn tonights debate into This is Your Life Obama. He needs to trot out every shady character and organization that Obama has dealt with and explain the associations.
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