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Stop Obama Tour' rolls into Elko
By JOHN SENTS - Staff Writer
Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:40 PM PDT
ELKO - A bus tour to attack Sen. Barack Obama and promote Sen. John McCain for president stopped in Elko this morning.
The tour is organized and funded by Sacramento-based Our County Deserves Better, a political action committee led by former California state Republican Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian.
According to its Web site, the Our Country Deserves Better committee is “determined to tell the truth that is not being told by many in the media and among our national leaders: Barack Obama is an inexperienced, far-left, naive, 'Blame America First' arrogant liberal, and that our country deserves better for our next president and commander-in-chief.”
Our Country Deserves Better coordinator Joe Wierzbicki said the PAC has independently raised more than $750,000 in donations.
The rally in Elko Main City Park featured Sacramento-based radio talk show host and TV pundit Mark Williams, Sacramento military mom and executive director of military relations for Move America Forward Deborah Johns, and singer and black conservative activist Lloyd Marcus.
Marcus opened and closed the rally singing songs and interjecting his own political lyrics, in one case changing the lyrics of the Hall and Oates song “Sarah Smile” to be a song in support of Sarah Palin and John McCain.
Marcus said he feels Obama is a “hardcore liberal” and “pits Americans against one another.”
Pundit Williams said Obama's tax plan would “steal” from people who make more than $250,000 and it is not fair to take away the money people earn. He raised issue with Obama's middle name, Hussein, and said there are some who act like they aren't allowed to say it. He said Obama and Democrats think Americans don't pay enough taxes or have enough regulations.
Johns said “McCain is a visionary that has the ability to lead this country in a positive direction for the change we need.”
“Barack Obama is not even worthy to shine the shoes of John McCain,” Johns said.
She said the country's recent economic struggles are Democrats' fault and said Obama is like a “Monday morning armchair quarterback” that waits to see how the public reacts before making a statement.
“Listen to his rhetoric,” Johns said. “Listen to it carefully, ladies and gentlemen, because it is a very telling story.”
One person, Elko resident Herb Stoll, sat outside the rally in the park with a pro-Obama sign. He said the rally seems like more mudslinging to him.
The national bus tour will conduct 35 anti-Obama, pro-McCain rallies in key swing states where the presidential election will be determined including Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Roughly 30 residents attended the event.
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It's interesting how they note it as a "perilous moment". It denotes something that is coming down the pipe? The economy has not hit rock bottom yet, but it will. And when it does, that will be a perilous time! If Obama wins, he will facing the onslaught of criticism, almost as if he is to blame for the gross ineptitude of the bush crime family. If he fails one inch, he will be called a failure. Of course the traitorous media will be happy to rake him over the coals on any issues he flubs, contrary to what they have done in the last 8 years. This is only conjecture, but it seems that's what he is being set up for.
He is the right man for the moment. He has far more to prove than a John McCain.
Tiger Woods doesn't play against the field, or even himself. He plays against "history". Obama knows what will be at stake if he fails.
p.s I would trust this man with my wallet. So to speak....
Obama rises above the bias and bigotry in a way that Martin Luther King did. I think King knew he would die a horrible death but it didn't frighten him and made him more determined to make a difference. Obama seems to have the courage to admit he can't do it all himself and will surround himself with the best advisors and take recommendations from one and all. McCain has the same worn out lobbyists and Republican officials who just want the status quo to continue. It is nice to have hope for the future, something Bush deprived us of for the past 8 years.
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Oh crap, and I love that "Sarah Smile" song.... Are there any copyright laws being broken here???
My son bought this doublewide 12 yrs ago with a $565/mo payment which he has always paid on time. Is it going to be his fault if he loses his job in commercial construction (construction of every type down considerably), without medical coverage, and subsequently puts us on the street? They are still building small strip malls around here, a few of which can't even get tenants.
Cheeeezuschrist.
Either way, it shows this is not over until November 4.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Obama will have to go into double digits everywhere, and we will have to work harder, to get his lead way up. But don't forget--these polls are to land-lines, not cell phones.
But - No Complacency!
F*ck the Post. A picture's worth a thousand words. Iron Obama vs. Tin McCain.
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If only.
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As far as the racial thing is concerned, its going to rear it's ugly head, so yes, Obama must increase his lead in order to overcome this bigotry. I'm sure he's capable of doing just that...