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AMERICAblog: Politico: McCain's new speech "like hitting the panic button"

  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Why doesn't McCain just stand in front of a backdrop that says, "PLAN FOR VICTORY" ?

    It did so much for Bush during the first 4 years of Iraq.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Panic button is right....

    The Early Word: McCain to Deliver Underdog Speech

    Meanwhile Senator Barack Obama will deliver a major economic policy address in the critical battleground state of Ohio, according to his campaign.

    http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/t...
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Palin would say: Barack Obama is already dancing in the end zone.
  • michaelt · 1 year ago
    Barak doesn't do end zone dances. He just hands the ball to the ref.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    that ad up top is scaring me!

    ok..the scrappy fighter, the comeback kid, the underdog...got it.
    won't work.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    The new message: I am a victim! Vote for me because I'm getting beat up by an uppity guy who's so arrogant he thinks he's won. In fact, he's boogeyin' in the end zone. Oh, and Pelosi will be REAL the Vice President if you don't.

    Not sure how this is putting the campaign on "reset". It's just rewinding the Betamax tape to July (Obama in Europe).
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    me either.. reset?
    this is toned down typical GOPer rhetoric that you fall back to when everyone gets on your ass for inciting violent racist mob riots...

    tax and spend libruls??? ho-hum
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    This "victim" worked well for him in the primaries. We can pooh-pooh his rhetoric but he did come back from a virtual out of the primary race to win it. If it hadn't been for his showing in the primary I might tend to agree McCain is the potential loser in this race but there will be a number of wavering voters that will pull the McCain lever in November.

    Not trying to be a gloomy gus, just saying I don't count McCain out until he is out.
  • ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith) · 1 year ago
    but, look who he was running against? I daresay that if the rest of the field didn't seem so unpalatable to the GOP base then McCain would have never have won. All of his adversaries during the primary had incredibly high negatives in one area or another that made them a poison pill for the party. IMO, McCain won primarily because he was the only one that the GOP thought they could stomach as a collective.
  • AnonymousDem · 1 year ago
    I'm not really sure how Palin is going to do humor and candor and not being an obnoxious ass on the stump
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    "I was a POW. You can't do this to me."
  • michaelt · 1 year ago
    Hey Barack, go with the gold drapes, very professional looking. But then again, who needs drapes? I'm sure that office needs a whole lot of sunshine to disinfect the presence of the previous tenant.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Oh my God the dusty, mildewy measuring-for-the-drapes joke. The stupidity of that old, corny phrase has knocked the wind out of me.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    OT

    Watching Palin on MSNBC, she seems a little off game. Reading every talking point.
  • freshpaint · 1 year ago
    Take away right to vote by secret ballot in labor unions? Huh?
  • devis1 · 1 year ago
    That was a joke--VA is a right to work state, no unions and the idiots in the crowd ate it up.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Watching MSNBC and McCain is this the NEW McCain "kicking ass"?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    He has to go to Virginia to campaign. Uh oh... he is melting in the polls. He has to go to the old confederacy to campaign? Oops.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Wow, that angry McCain rally in Virginia is like a KKK rally without the sheets!
  • scytherius · 1 year ago
    Whoever hires the McCain campaign advisors after this election deserves what they get.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Mr. McGoo - "I'm going to get out my bullwhip the grand dragon of the KKK gave me here in Virginia and whip his uppity 'you know what!'"
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    C'mon, I'm sure McCain pointing out his poll numbers and the dangers of Obama and Pelosi's perverse coterie of drape picking San Francisco homosexual terrorists is intensely more important to the American people than the economy.

    "Underdog. Ayers. Waaaaah. Drapes" is a surefire electoral winner. Mac is Back!!!

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    McSHAME!
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Well, he says he has plans for just about everything, only problem is he doesn't say what the hell his "plans" are.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Mr. McGoo needs to be asked if he is such an expert on wasteful spending why he spends all those millions on gambling and buying twenty homes for his family.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I think I would ask him if he is against wasteful spending why the hell did he approve for 8 years.
  • Mickey7 · 1 year ago
    Off topic, but very interesting indeed:

    I picked this up from a poster at Andrew Halcro's (the radio personality most responsible for bringing Troopergate to the fore). It is a letter of recommendation from Sarah Palin for Mike Wooten written just a few years before he became a dangerous psychopath intent on killing her family: http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/sit...

    The poster claims this document is real, but who knows? If it is, it certainly raises some serious questions about the allegations the Palin's made and makes them look even more incredibly vindictive and nasty than they already do.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Take'n the gloves off...

    Pff
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    There goes Cindy "Bobble head" McCain. God that woman drives me crazy!
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    She looks like she is about to cry.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I never get that far in looking at her facial expressions. The bobbing up and down of head distracts me. Seriously, watch the next time. Mostly you can only see her head over McCain's right shoulder and it is weird just to see this head going up and down.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Mr. McCain, "While I ensure the government doesn't waste any more money on wasteful services like providing you health care or basic services for you and your family, I promise to buy even more homes for my little family! Its all about making my life more comfortable while keeping you in your place because that is the American way, my friends! Cindy and I have BIG APPETITES, my friends, and we need you to continue to support us so we can continue to use your money FOR the McCain family!"
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    When the newsreaders all report on the DOW Jones and its wild rocket up and then collapse back and forth, why don't they report on how Bu$hco. is propping it up with our federal dollars? Republicans are socializing our banks. Republicans have socialized just about everything!
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Is it just me or does McCain seem, for lack of a better word, cocky? I mean he is truly loving all his own pathetic jokes.
    "hanging drapes???"
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    yea, that hanging drapes crap is a little old. Just like John McCain ... old, old, old...
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Oh,he is taking on a new tack here "I am an American" said more than a few times.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    commercial break... lets see if the cable teevee newsreaders come back with some context on what we just heard? Will we see them explain they are in the heart of dixie and he should be elsewhere rather than trying to win a very red state? Will we hear them cheerlead and pretend this isn't unusual for John McCain to have to spend money in Virginia? I'm not going to hold my breath. They already breathlessly reported they think 18,000 people are there supporting McCain in Virginia Beach. So what? That would only be a story if he had that kind of support in New York State. The big story is Obama is competitive with McCain in Virginia!

    Oh, here we go. Newsreader brings in Republican Brad Blakeman with a, "certainly inspiring speech!"
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Ya think McCain can draw 18,000 on his own? Nope that is why Palin was there.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    aquarius,

    he is speaking in Virginia. He should have TWICE that amount in Virginia with or without Palin.
  • devis1 · 1 year ago
    I went and saw Joe Biden at the same convention center last month and I seriously doubt that 18,000 number. Also the only way to get tickets was to get them at a McCain campaign office. The usual BS.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    The cable teevee newsreaders buy their own kabuki theater!
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    LOL!
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    Now that the economy is all fixed can we get back to talking about REAL issues?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    SNARK!

    I'm getting real tired of this daily watching of the ups and down of the DOW JONES AVERAGE.

    I'm also getting real tired of the cable newsreaders getting all excited about triple digits losses and gains with ZERO context about the total losses and gains by the week or month.
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    I absolutely agree. I just couldn't resist the snark though.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Okay the NEW McCain is just talking louder. Didn't say one new thing and stayed TOTALLY away from anything specific.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    I have to admit, his supporters are screaming louder, and they are more angry!

    Unfortunately, the Republicans are used to getting their way and having their candidate either elected or SELECTED for them no matter how bad their choice!
  • woodroad34 · 1 year ago
    The Republicans over the past 8 years have been screaming, whining babies...even after they had won the selection...they never stopped screaming and whining because they are ill-behaved brats and spoiled children. They are welfare recipients, special interests, and emotionally disturbed.

    And after the recent campaign stops with Palin and McCain supporters either yelling "kill him", or "terrorist", a vote for either one of these two whiners is a vote for the terrorism they claim to be fighting.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Remember the scene in "The Matrix" where Neo sees the black cat walk past, then sees the black cat walk past again? He called it a "deja vu" and of course it was exactly that. The Lords & Masters had reset the projection of reality. It's fun to watch McCain and his enablers reset their projection of reality because they're so bad at the tech involved. They need fewer Rovian acolytes and more geeks! .
  • nsr · 1 year ago
    My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them. Uh, no Senator, you're the red line. On the bottom. Seven points down. (snicker)
  • TimeSpaceParadox · 1 year ago
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exiyBYnJ00

    funny song and animation featuring Sarah Palin.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    I look forward to seeing Sarah Palin in a Black Velvet billboard ad.
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Yay for McCain! He has Obama where he wants him? 10 points ahead? He just endorsed Obama for president. Cool.