Posted on 10/08/2008 1:11:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Don't misunderstand me: Obama is wrong on Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, health care, corporate tax rates, investment taxes, education flexibility, abortion regulation, immigration policy, meeting with dictators, social security, energy, trade, and believing that subprime lending was a good idea.
He has opportunistically changed or regularly misstated his positions on public financing, gun control, born alive infant protection, wire tapping, timetable for Iraq, elimination of the Bush tax cuts, the DC gun ban, an undivided Israel, the Cuba embargo, NAFTA, participation in town halls with McCain, oil drilling, and support of nuclear power.
He has no major legislative accomplishments as either a State senator or United States Senator, and has never demonstrated an ability to work with members of the other party, despite his claim that's what he'll do.
That being said. He will win this election, and probably deserves to.
"Fight with me, fight with me," McCain passionately demanded at his Republican Convention, which led to a significant bounce in the polls and a type of excitement and momentum Republicans never thought they could see after 8 years of Bush.
We'd be happy to fight for you, Senator. But you have to fight for yourself first.
Here we are, one month prior to the election, and the only one taking the gloves off is Sarah Palin. She can't do this on her own. She shouldn't have to.
McCain let endless opportunities for a knockout punch fly by last night at the debate without even looking like he knew the opportunity existed.
We all know John McCain isn't much of a communicator (just like many of us know Barack Obama isn't much of a leader), but if you can't at least make an effort to stand up and fight for yourself and your ideas in the midst of a campaign... can you really be President of the United States?
Senator McCain - your health care plan is far superior to Barack Obama's. Learn to articulate it. Barack Obama claims he's giving 95% of Americans a tax cut, when only 70% of Americans pay taxes. Call him on it. Barack Obama deceptively tries to make it look like you're giving a targeted tax cut to oil companies. Clarify. Barack Obama discusses Rwanda and Darfur when expressing circumstances where military action would have been worth it... as if he has no idea what was going on in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Remind him.
Americans are fed up with Republicans, Senator McCain, and they're not giving you the benefit of the doubt. If you can't stand up and articulate your differences from the Bush Administration (which are significant) due to your fear of alienating the conservative base... then you don't deserve to win. Fight, Senator McCain, fight.
The status quo is not on the ballot, as much as Obama would like people to believe. Both men will be different than the last 8 years. And while Obama hasn't proposed anything that we haven't already seen from Clinton, Carter, or some other Democratic leader over the history of our nation - he has the amazing ability of packaging old ideas as "change"... and he deserves credit for that. You could have done the same, Senator McCain, but you have chosen time and time again to play it safe.
To my friends who support Barack Obama; you're not going to convince me to change my vote because there isn't a single major issue I agree with your candidate on. But I must say this... we have seen 8 years of a President who seems to think that there's no value in trying to articulate a vision to the country, and no need to fight back against what is often an unfair barrage of attacks by Republicans, Democrats, and the media. If a President of the United States becomes a punching bag, he or she is no longer effective. President Bush had a 90% approval rating during 9/11 and stayed above 50% for the majority of his first term... but then quickly slipped to numbers almost as low as the Democratic Congress after deciding that he was above the need to communicate to and WITH the people.
You work FOR the people, Mr. President. Act like it.
John McCain is a wise, tested leader. But hardly anyone sees that because he's too busy making bad jokes and talking about the DNA of a bear. Barack Obama is an arrogant, untested Senator with socialist ideas and a hunger for government domination. But no one sees that because he's too busy not talking about his record or his plans.
Who wins in that battle? Barack Obama. It's 2008. We're connected, busy people who make our decisions based on posters, sound bites, SNL, and YouTube videos. You needed to play that game, Senator McCain, and you didn't. You trusted that the American people would examine your records. No time for that.
You were never supposed to get this far, Senator McCain. The atmosphere was too Anti-Republican for you to even stand a chance. You needed that little extra bit of fight to put you over the top, Senator, and at some point along the line... you decided the Americans didn't wanna see anger or passion. Wrong. That's exactly what we wanted to see.
Now, I can't help but notice that the four major polls released today by Rasmussen, Reuters, Hotline, and Battleground have Obama up by 6, 2, 1, and 4 respectively... which are actually all very weak and surprising to me...Obama had far bigger leads in the same polls last week... so I may be premature in calling this thing...
But the fact of the matter is, it's widely reported that the majority of American's politics are more closely aligned to John McCain (center right) than Barack Obama (far left), and an inability to communicate that stark difference and to relate with the people who share your ideals... is a failure that SHOULD cost an election.
See ya in 2012.
If he needs conservatives to win, why does he keep kissing the butt of “moderates”?
He already has the base. He’s targeting Independents and mainstream Democrats.
What elections have this writer won?
For the first time that I can remember, a civil war doesn’t seem so outside the realm of possibility. I’ve never been so anxious about an election that I made sure I have arms and ammo. Not that I plan on doing anything, but I don’t trust the riots if Obama wins or loses.
Horse sh**. McCain/Palin will win. Stop posting this defeatist crap. We don’t need it.
Also, MSM has proved this year that it is still very powerful. The irony of Obama's possible win will be that those journalists who have broken all the rules of the honest reporting will be among first victims of the new totalitarian regime. And there will be no one to report this “buyer's remorse”...
Yes, you are right. McCain seems intent on being the most ineffectual candidate for President in history. Maybe he doesn’t yet understand that the media that loved him when he said anything against President Bush now hates him because he stands in Obama’s way. If McCain is the patriot that many say he is, why is it that he is not standing forcefully for his country, against Stalinists and the America-hating left, against left wing democrats who have already done plenty to wreck this country? Surely, he must know what will happen to our country if Obama wins this election!
hate to crash your little vanity, but McCain and Sarah Palin are winning...and it might even be considered a landslide.....
go home, little boys....
Gallup has him up 11 which polls are you looking at?
Chicken s&*t makes a crappy chicken salad. McCain is trying to be everybody's man that has kept him in the senate for decades. The populist centrist. The socialist moderate. Those clowns get run down every time by the liberal far left. McCain wraps his arms around these guys in the senate,props up liberalism, shows disdain for conservatives and smiles about it. He fails to distinguish between the country club atmosphere of the senate and the "country first" attitude of conservatives that always have demonstrated, not just when it's politically convenient or necessary for him to coin the phrase.
He's been handed every opportunity to body slam the marxist Hussein and he fails without exception. McCain's ONLY success is Palin, and why? She displays aspects of conservatism and she fights. Imagine that. She has more balls than McCain. Hell, his wife has more balls than he does. Put her on the ticket. McClame is a LOSER. Go back to the senate and vote in some more bailout money, loser.
and look what is happening?...a total meltdown of the world economy, a fascist who supported a muslim sharia loving terrorist in Kenya, and who never thought twice about taking bribes to keep quiet on fannie and freddie....
Polls tightening: Hotline within 1! Battleground within 4!
Zogby Tracking: McCain Just 2 Points Down
Can I get some of the stuff you are smoking it must be good sh*t
that’s a great post
Really? 71 campaign offices in California!!!! I hadn’t heard that.
If I see one of the network libs declare on election night, “McCain Wins California!” I’m gonna have to have a changing of clothing nearby because I will definitely pee my pants!
Warner calls the NRA, prolifers, people of faith and home schoolers
a Threat to America
Gilmore for Senate
Posted on 10/06/2008 1:29:28 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098938/posts
Barack Obama Supporter Mark Warner: Pro-Lifers “Threaten” American Values
http://www.lifenews.com | October 8, 2008 | by Steven Ertelt
Posted on 10/08/2008 12:58:12 PM PDT by Maelstorm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100743/posts
Granholm to U.S Supreme Court?
WWJ | 10-7-2008 | WWJ
Posted on 10/07/2008 10:32:33 PM PDT by Westlander
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100223/posts
Barack Obama Makes the Same 3 Foreign Policy Gaffes AGAIN ( 2nd debate)
Flopping Aces ^ | Oct 7, 2008 | Scott
Posted on 10/07/2008 9:00:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100162/posts
Pit Bull McCaskill spits on Romney’s ear piece
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | October 8, 2008 | Salena Zito
Posted on 10/08/2008 7:36:23 AM PDT by Salena Zito
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100442/posts
Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist ‘New Party’ In 1996
PDOP | 10/08/2008 | Jarid Brown
Posted on 10/08/2008 6:32:23 AM PDT by Jabrown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100378/posts
Big: Scrubbed Web Pages Resurface Naming Obama
As Member of Expressly-Leftist “New Party”
Ace of Spades | 10/8/08 | Ace
Posted on 10/08/2008 12:20:38 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100718/posts
Democratic Socialists of America Founded the “New Party”
(Barack Obama was a card carrying member)
Jawa Report | October 08, 2008 | news.google.com
Posted on 10/08/2008 8:54:24 AM PDT by Maelstorm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100517/posts
Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?
NewsBusters | October 8, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 10/08/2008 1:23:21 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100758/posts
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