RECENT POSTS
- Oprah, Health Care Lobbyists, Among Recent Visitors to White House
- An Obama Thanksgiving Menu, with an Extra Serving of Pie
- White House Thanksgiving Traditions: Broken and Observed
- Obama, GOP Air Differences Over Jobs, Economy In Thanksgiving Addresses
- White House State Dinner Party Crashers
- Obama to Lay Out Emissions Goals in Copenhagen
- Free Bird
- The "Good" War
- The Presidential Planner
- Under the Stars, Obama Toasts India’s Prime Minister
MONTHLY ARCHIVES
« Previous | Main | Next »
Obama's Attacks Keep Getting Sharper
August 18, 2008 7:13 PM
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., continued his sharper attacks on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., today at Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque, NM.
"My opponent John McCain," he said as the crowd began to boo, "John McCain, you know, he has been talking about how he puts country first, but I have to say it is not an example of putting country first when you say that George Bush’s economic policies have shown great progress. He said that just a few months ago -- that, you know, we made great economic progress under George Bush. Then he started running ads saying 'oh, Obama just going to raise your taxes and he will lead to an economic disaster.'"
"Mr. McCain let me explain to you, the economic disaster is happening right now," Obama continued, "maybe you haven't noticed!
"He has got his major economic advisor calling you whiners," Obama said, referring to former Sen. Phil Gramm. "He said, 'oh, the American people are whining' – one of McCain's top advisors said, 'a nation of whiners.' 'They have a mental depression. They are just imagining things are bad."
"This guy obviously does not pump his own gas. He obviously doesn't do his own shopping. He (is) obviously not paying his own bills," Obama said.
- jpt
August 18, 2008 | Permalink | Share | User Comments (206)
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Looks like Barry has to pull the old
leather bomber jacket out of mothballs,
pop a Lucky in his mouth and lean up
against an old column on the steps
of Harvard Law School. He was a lot
more "authentic" then and would capture
the tweener vote for sure.
Posted by: Trajan | Aug 19, 2008 2:02:29 AM
Certainly, Obama is going to attack. His policies are too incomplete for voters to believe and he has no other rational political rhetric. He is losing his grip. His new Chicago gangland policies don't sell to the rest of the country.
Posted by: Martin | Aug 19, 2008 1:58:58 AM
Obama has to be on the defensive as he feels it slipping away. Watched all the cable news shows tonight and 80% of the comments were favoring McCain, and what a strong presense he was Sat. night at the faith forum. He knows who he is and what he stands for and gets his message out clearly. Mr. Nuance (as they all love to refer to Obama's confusing way of speaking) is just going to have to play defense by attacking McCain more and more now.....but he's the agent of Change and new politics...NOT.
And the scuttlebutt with cone of silence was an insult to Rick Warren and his church staff and the Secret Service that were with McCain the whole time. Obama camp = crybabies.
Posted by: Debra | Aug 19, 2008 1:39:44 AM
The Democrats, after "selecting" not "electing" their candidate, Obama, were in hopes of setting up McCain to look like a referendum. It turns out, however, that Obama is the referendum. Obama is falling behind quickly and can't get his campaign together to fight back. I knew it was only a matter of time before Obama began to implode and that time is now!
Inevitably, John McCain, the next POTUS!
Posted by: david from texas | Aug 19, 2008 12:19:15 AM
Teaching the world the truth - Why do you lie then?
BBpd more lies
Dont you libs know how to tell the truth
Appeasement causes wars ie Chamberlin
Vietnam started by JFK
Deficit is under a Democrat Congress!! ran by marxists
If you libs are complaining ab out oil why dont you let us start drilling here.
Posted by: spock | Aug 18, 2008 11:52:34 PM
Obama is getting real desparate, he is throwing the lib in Congress under the bus, since they have taken over Congress Gas has doubled, food has gone up 30% while Pelosi and Obama line their pockets.
So Obama it is you libs that are destroying the economy!
Posted by: spock | Aug 18, 2008 11:47:00 PM
Obama isn't desperate. He's just starting to point out how horrible mccain is for America, and what a disaster he would be. If he continues to point things out, it won't be close.
Posted by: john93 | Aug 18, 2008 11:41:49 PM
Chris,
First, I don't make neg. comments.
My point is that regardless of what McCain does with his POW experience, it is not for us to use it against him. He alone went through what he did, others went through their own. IMO, such an exp. as that best not be second guessed for pol. leverage by opponents. To me, it would be like using a domestic violence exp., a child abuse exp. against someone. Just some things that are ethically off limits, IMO
Posted by: hype bites | Aug 18, 2008 11:08:08 PM
Hybe bites,
Please, when Sen. McCain uses his POW status in politics, its all fair games. Before you make any negative comments towards me, I am war veteran that just retired with 20+ years.
Posted by: chris | Aug 18, 2008 10:54:37 PM
You Obama supporters are really sounding desperate! I can only imagine how bad things will be should the mainstream media ever cover the story behind Sen. Obama's five-year relationship with the man he called an "influential person," a friend and an adviser during his youth (1975-1979) in Hawaii--Frank Marshall Davis.
Google it folks!
Posted by: James Danley | Aug 18, 2008 10:51:55 PM
Dear Obama,
Whatever happened to not being responsible for what OTHERS say (regarding the whiners comment)?
Guess you have a double standard.
By your logic, you are culpable for what Rev Wright says.
Posted by: JA | Aug 18, 2008 10:47:59 PM
KJ, I am thinking about it with an open mind. I agree that drilling only will do very little. BUT had the Democrats and environmentalists not blocked the building of new nuclear plants, new refineries and not blocked offshore drilling for the past 20-30 years, we could probably be relying on nuclear power for 50% of our electricity today. And instead of relying on 70% foreign oil for our energy today, we probably would be down to 45% or 50%.
Sen. McCain has called for 45 new nuclear plants to be up and running by 2030.
Sen. McCain has proposed a $5,000 tax credit for each and every person who purchases a zero carbon emission car.
His opponents have scoffed at it, but Sen. McCain has also proposed that a $300 million prize be awarded "for the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars. That battery should deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs."
Sen. McCain also supports encouraging wind, hydro and solar power.
We need to do it all. We can keep prices down by increasing our supply of domestic oil AND decreasing our demand for oil.
Posted by: James Danley | Aug 18, 2008 10:46:19 PM
McCain "longtime senior policical consultant":
Richard Quinn, long-time head of the racist Southern Partisan Quarterly Review
When is the press going to look in to these people?
Posted by: Mike | Aug 18, 2008 10:40:00 PM
McCain called for an officer on his fourth day of captivity. He told the officer, “O.K., I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.” -U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain
after 4 days he rolled over...4 days...
yet he stiffled attempts to get information on guys who had been there for 10 years...guess their daddy's weren't admirals...
Posted by: Arthur | Aug 18, 2008 10:33:05 PM
Nearly 75% of the country cannot wait for the Bush administration to leave office.
Since McCain supports Bush's policies anyone who supports McCain is voting for 4 more years of hard times for the U.S. taxpayers. This is reality.
Is that what most Americans want? No! That is why Obama has been receiving more contributions than McCain, every month, and that is why more Republicans than ever before in history are supporting the Democratic candidate.
It's very simple: If you are happy with the present state of the economy, the war in Iraq, the present health care system and the way big-business runs Washington - vote for McCain.
If you are fed up with the way all of the above has been handled in the last 8 years - vote for Obama.
Think clearly: Whatever your party affiliation, our country is in very bad shape and your vote is more important than ever.
Posted by: Lauri | Aug 18, 2008 10:28:37 PM
Because, Rachel, the Obama Followers know money can't buy you LOVE, it can buy you delegates but it can't buy you VOTES.
Posted by: hype bites | Aug 18, 2008 10:26:23 PM
Bruce Becker, first of all it is 68 million acres of land, most of which is on national parks and national monument lands. The main reason that there is no drilling on many of these leases right now is because of lawsuits, red tape and either there is very little oil or the oil that is there is too costly to drill. A federal judge blocked an attempt to drill on one lease just a couple of weeks ago.
Now then you wrote: "...drilling off the Jersey shore 5 years from now will not change the price of oil today."
Look at what has happened to the cost of oil just since President Bush signed the executive order to rescind the previous executive order banning offshore drilling. And that signing is actually meaningless without Congress actually rescinding their ban. BUT the speculators are beginning to realize that the ban on offshore drilling may actually occur since over 70% of the American people want more drilling. It was speculation that drove the prices up and it is a change in speculation that is driving the price down. Just imagine how much it will drop should Congress actually rescind the ban.
Finally, just waiting twenty years for renewable fuels to become an equal source of energy with oil, won't do anything to help us lower our dependency on foreign oil! That is unless we ALSO drill here and drill now. By flooding the world market with American oil will drive the price of oil down. It will bring more money into our economy by creating tens of thousands of new jobs.
Posted by: James Danley | Aug 18, 2008 10:25:03 PM
Roxanne if thats true then why are so many obama supporters outraged that there will be a roll call a perfectly normal process in the democratic national convention? She will release her delegates I know she will, Obama will win, but the Obama supporters are so arrogant so pumas raised 50,000 thats about as much as Obama supporters came up with for her while Hillary and her supporters came up with about 500,000 for him. Now who really wants unity?
Posted by: rachel | Aug 18, 2008 10:24:37 PM
The only person in this race who has profited from ‘affirmative action’ is John McCain: he received special treatment as a son of Admirals and as a husband of a millionaire heiress.
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | Aug 18, 2008 10:23:21 PM
-as a former service meber in the mid 70's I served with several POW's...-
I'm not going to match what I know from books and talking to vets with your personal experience. But, I, personally, will not delve into the experience of a person held captive, no matter who their father, to be used against them in an election. That is something that would be appropriate, IMO, for a respectable biographer.
Posted by: hype bites | Aug 18, 2008 10:22:54 PM
Post a comment


