Posted on 10/29/2008 9:18:19 PM PDT by daniel885
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office.
Obama's assertion that "I've offered spending cuts above and beyond" the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by "eliminating programs that don't work" masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are - beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
A sampling of what voters heard in the ad, and what he didn't tell them:
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
Someone from Yahoo must have been reading this thread./s
Or they think it is in the bag for Obama, and they can now throw out a sop to the aggrieved masses of McCain/Palin supporters.
“Who is this writer??”
I think some obamathugs are asking the very same question you are.
This should be the RNC 30 minute response ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1fYSAChxs
Wouldn’t change a thing. Play it as it.
Yup, you are right!!! I am just toooo focused on a release of that damn tape and hoping for that miracle!!!! I would love to see B.O.’s fans try to talk their way outta their Messiah’s screw up! Just makes my blood boil!!!!
I was kind of hoping to watch a bit more than the opening tonight but we were eating dinner and hubby exploded. “Turn off that s**t!! You want me to puke?” So we put on an old movie and had a nice non-Obambi dinner. [I was feeling queasy myself...]
I wanted to see it for his use of NLP [conversational hypnosis] techniques. The music and the waving wheat fields looked like the mood-setter but the camera kept in fairly tight on the first part of his speech and if he was doing a lot of hand motions at the beginning, I didn’t see all of them and none of the blatant ones. But watching only a few minutes wouldn’t have any affect on a non-obamabot anyhow. But I did want to see if he could try to at least lead me to the koolaide. I so wanted to see the master at work, since I heard all about the neuro-linguistic programming technique that he employs so effectively.
But of course, what I did see looked like the usual cheap-shot bloviating spew that passes for one of his campaign speeches. No build-up except the hypnotic music at the beginning. The bits I saw later on FOX looked like just snippets of other speeches. Like a Greatest Hits album. The audience in the infomercial was enraptured but at home we couldn’t go ga-ga because Obambi’s pacing and leading was poor, his rhythm was off. Egads — is Obummer the Great losing his mind controlling techniques? Could there be a light at the end of the tunnel on Tuesday? Will we be delivered from this cold narcassistic charlatan?
That’s the CHANGE I’m going to continue to HOPE for. Oh, and PRAY for, too. But not to this phony “messiah.” No, I’m sticking with the other Messiah, the REAL one.
This is really an AP story?..............>>>>>>>fainting.
The finance director had to approve them, and I did see that the kids have to be on state business, but why not an investigation then? It's only coming out now to trash Palin. Alaska laws are vague about travel.
All the finance director had to do was challenge them, deduct them from the settlement with a letter saying "denied", or report her to some ethics committee. That's why we have checks and balances for this sort of thing.
He just gave it to us on a silver platter... that will teach um to spend like it’s somebody else’s money.
NOW GET OUT AND VOTE MC/Palin !!!!
So good .
“His vow to save money by “eliminating programs that don’t work” masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are - beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.”
Actually, barack stated early on several places where he will cut spending - all bad for America:
Im the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning, and as president, I will end it.
Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems, and I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the quadrennial defense review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.
Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons, I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.
Looks like they pulled it. This was the link to the video on youtube, but no longer working:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs
It's a working family now?? I thought it was an individual??
Most likely the AP national desk editor was drunk or cruising churches for little altar boys. So a writer who dislikes nobama slipped the story through the Marxist gates. We do have a few allies in the MSM.
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