Posted on 09/11/2008 9:31:15 PM PDT by goldstategop
You know, I was going to call it a night. And then I saw the story about John McCain’s appearance at the 9/11 Columbia University forum earlier this evening.
Every time you grit your teeth and defend this guy, he pulls something like this. Hey, Maverick: Way to throw Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, and your strategists who had the sense to seize on Obama’s abysmal, ineffectual record as a Chicago rabble-rouser under the bus!
Criiiiiikey:
Barack Obama and John McCain attempted to set their differences aside Thursday night, if only for a moment, as they encouraged Americans to volunteer in their community and military at a forum on national service.
Few sparks flew at the Columbia University event, hosted by ServiceNation. The candidates — who were interviewed separately — were encouraged to keep campaign politics to a minimum, out of respect for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
In that spirit, McCain at one point softened the language used by his running mate last week at the Republican National Convention, where she mocked Obama’s early days as a community organizer.
“Governor Palin was responding to the criticism of her inexperience, her job as a mayor in a small town,” McCain explained. “Of course I respect community organizers. Of course I respect people who’ve served their communities, and Senator Obama’s record there is outstanding.”
“Outstanding?”
Are you kidding me? Does McCain need talking points on the government-subsidized fraud machine that is ACORN? Here are the ACORN Watch archives: Print and read.
Does McCain even know about the Annenberg Challenge disaster? Someone set up a briefing for him with Stanley Kurtz, stat! Is he even aware of Obama’s own disavowal of his failed community organizer efforts?
McCain has just taken one of his own campaign’s most effective lines of attack against his opponent’s feckless, far Left past and tossed it away — like the rose Obama flung in the water.
What’s next? Will McCain attack those who mock Obama’s “outstanding” community organizer record as racist, too?
Banging. Head. Against. Wall.
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Hey, let’s put some salt in the wound: A cabinet position for Obama to boot!
Maybe he’ll be named Secretary of the Soros Slush Fund.
But, if we fail to do that job (and the meadia continues to stonewall) and in part because of McCain-Feingold, it will be left to John McCain to sum up the unrefutable facts that Corsi, Freddoso, etc., have brought out and to connect the Obama dots.
The American People, our Constitution, and our national security require it.
Some people on here need a lesson in Politics 101 and how the candidate should react in certain situations. Not smart for Sen McCain to have been an attack dog against Zero tonight at this forum. Better to do what he did and keep the community organizer job out in the open.
Some dislike Sen McCain so much they are clouded in what he needs to do to win. BTW, Republican candidates need moderates to win whether some like it or not. Unfortunately, it is a fact of life. We need Indy’s and Reagan Dems as well.
When your opponent is going over the edge, let him go. Obama did a great job of dissing Mayors tonight!
Of course I respect people who’ve served their communities, and Senator Obama’s record there is outstanding.”
“Um, Michelle, there’s no need to be a dragon ALL the time. McCain and Obama spent the day at Ground Zero. There was absolutely no reason for McCain to criticize Obama tonight over anything. McCain showed class, which is what most of us have come to expect from him.”
You may enjoy hearing this crap, I don’t. Obama blew over a 100 million dollars of foundation $$$ with no result except paying cronies.
I’ll bet when Steve Schmidt heard this, everything within 50 feet of him went molten.
It also helps to remember the following fact. Twelve hours after the last time McCain "made nice" to Obama, he literally turned Obama's world inside-out, the effects of which have still not been fully calculated. Think about it...
the infowarrior
Stupid me . So does this mean Obambi would be considered for a cabinet position or that McCain was just blowing it out his exhaust stack in order to make me sick ?
I don't think McCain made a misstep with this. Note the use of the word "there" when talking about the Obambi's record: McCain was saying Obambi may have been just a dandy community organizer, BUT. . . .
“But, if we fail to do that job”
Who is “we” ?
“We” have people who will do this if it looks like it will help (and it may not - what we partisans think is a slam-dunk may not be to the voters that we are targeting), at the best possible time. This “we” probably won’t include McCain, as it has not included any victorious presidential candidate. Thats not their role.
I do see a pile of material that is likely being packaged for what looks like the latter end of an escalated negative campaign. There is going to be worse and worse mud flung in this thing.
If McCain somehow passes in the election process, would Palin ask Romney to be her VP...?
McQueeg has a nasty tendency to imitate Zelig, to a certain extent: to be whatever he thinks works in front of whichever audience he’s in front of at the time.
You don’t have to enjoy it. Its not about you, or me, or hardly anyone on FR. Its about voters that we need.
McCain pulls this stuff, then his stupid positions have Sarah Palin saying she believes in man-made global warming.
Well, I guess McCain isn’t comfortable warming up to conservatives.
I’ll say this: Man-made Global Warming is the biggest hoax in modern history. It serves so many cause of the anti-capitalist Left I don’t know where to begin or stop.
Why do these people think they can’t win by offering themselves up as common-sense conservationists? I think people would find it refreshing...they’re sick of “green” this and “enviro” that.
Frankly, I’m disappointed in Sarah Palin, but I do understand she has to toe the McCain line.
They’ll still have my vote, but I cannot send McCain any money without throwing up.
McCain is going to ruin a good thing.
He’s a politician. Thats his job.
I don’t think McCain was that destructive in that comment. He had already prefaced the evening by saying something to the effect that this wasn’t the day to show conflicts with Obama. He did defend Palin as mayor and that forced Obama to also defend mayors. McCain would have looked petty and mean and that won’t keep those independents coming his way. Since community organizer has gotten so much press as code for black, he would also have appeared racist! And as was already said he didn’t say exceptional service as a community organizer was executive experience.
Thanks for reminding everyone about the 527’s - Obama has ten elections worth of material to nail him to the wall on, and you can bet they will.
It will make “Swiftboating” look like a cruise on “The Love Boat”
McCain has blown nothing. McCain couldn’t get into the mud himself tonight. No worries. We’re going to keep hitting the Big Zero hard!
I could really care less about all this juvenile political tit for tat between the two beltway parties. However that's exactly the same thing many Republicans were saying regarding the illegal alien/open border issue, during the last Republican Presidential election.
This is hardly about "mudslinging." It is about whether or not America elects an extremist socialist and a radically pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-invalid-murder atrocity-candidate as U.S. President.
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