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.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Defend your VP not your enemies...
Yes because on a forum discussing national service McCain should’ve ripped into a screed against Obama...
Oh calm down. Lets win this election and then we can hold his feet to the fire. I think we will have more luck doing that than getting anywhere near Obama’s feet to begin with.
I am OK with McCain’s comments.
There is NOTHING wrong with being a community organizer.
There is NOTHING wrong about Obama being a community organizer.
The ISSUE is...... being a community organizer does NOT make you QUALIFIED to be president.
Not a big issue. Lets move on....
This doesn’t mean that McCain...
1. doesn’t know Barack Obama’s radical, ACORN/Alinskyite/Ayers involvements...
2. won’t tell America what he needs to about Barack Obama in the next eight weeks.
(And of coure, it doesn’t mean he will.)
Meanwhile, it is the responsibility of everyone who knows the truth to tell our fellow Americans.
Folks, there’s a time for everything. Tonite was not the night to attack. I have no problem with what McCain said. Let him play the ‘good cop’ - and let the ‘attack’ line come from somewhere else on this day.
I don’t care if McCain goes after the moderate vote. In fact, he probably needs to if he wants to win. HOWEVER, praising Obama’s service as “community organizer” isn’t going to do it. How is praising the opponent going to persuade someone to vote for him?
One more thing why I think what McCain did was OK....
It keeps the community organizer issue in the news, which just makes Obama look less experienced.
McCain did a pretty good job with a pretty shabby line of question. Moving on.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Exactly...he did not defend his experience..he just said yes it is ok with community organizers.....unlike Obama
who decided to insult every mayor in the Nation!
While Obama is calling his running mate a pig, he's saying that he has examined his opponent's record and thinks it seems nice.
McCain is fatherly, Obama is a whiny kid.
I agree, let’s get across the finish line first.
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.
I REALLY hope Michelle's not becoming the Right's equivalent of those Leftists who pick up on every comment of the opposition as if it's somehow sinister.
Michelle, McCain was being a nice guy. And it sounds like you need a vacation.
There is NOTHING wrong with being a community organizer.
There is NOTHING wrong about Obama being a community organizer.
The ISSUE is...... being a community organizer does NOT make you QUALIFIED to be president.
Not a big issue. Lets move on....
+1
Do I understand your frustration? Yes! They will get their own come November 4 and that is the true prize that we need to keep our eye on. On that day they will eat crow!
No condescion there.
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