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New Obama TV Ad Hits McCain for Trying to Change the Subject
October 07, 2008 7:12 AM
It's called "Subject" and it's all the stronger for that ill-conceived quote an unnamed McCain senior adviser gave the New York Daily News.
The script reads:
ANNOUNCER: He’s out of ideas. Out of touch. And running out of time. But with no plan to lift our economy up, John McCain wants to tear Barack Obama down. With smears that have been proven false.
"Why? McCain’s own campaign admits that if the election is about the economy, he’s going to lose.
(shows New York Daily News quote from yesterday: "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose")
"But as Americans lose their jobs, homes and savings, it’s time for a president who’ll change the economy. Not change the subject."
- jpt
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PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA!!!
Obama was created by the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. He is inexperienced and controlled by others. This is not the party of your parents or grandparents that fought for civil rights, unions etc. This is "the party of death" that promotes socialism.
Posted by: Kathy | Oct 7, 2008 8:09:38 AM
tina, do you know what a senator does and doesn't do?
Posted by: mm | Oct 7, 2008 8:04:57 AM
It's hard to imagine why anyone would think that Obama will help solve economic issues. He didn't help his constituents in South Chicago. He hasn't put forth any plan to help the poor, which are soon to be joined by millions of currently middle class persons. He hasn't presented a plan for how to get the economy rolling. He just voted, like McCain, to have tax payers bail out Wall Street crooks. We'll be on the hook for this for year. His new commercial says he's not going to do anything to change health care, and that's not the only promise he's backed-off from. I keep wondering, who are all these people who will vote for someone they don't know, and don't even seem to wonder about? Just because of the way he looks?
Posted by: tina | Oct 7, 2008 8:02:49 AM
Posted by: sp | Oct 7, 2008 8:01:52 AM
Bring your buckets, free oil!
Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. ... In the days before and after the deadly storm, companies and residents reported at least 448 releases of oil, gasoline and dozens of other substances into the air and water and onto the ground in Louisiana and Texas.
Posted by: drill baby drill! | Oct 7, 2008 7:57:22 AM
Business unimpressed with McCain health care plan
Oh boy, better look out for yet another erratic stunt by McCain. Even his business supporters aren't impressed with the McCain health care plan that will cost even more and do nothing to help the uninsured. Does anyone even care about "tax credits" anymore? That has to be the oldest trick in the book in Washington because it does so little to even impact taxes, unless maybe you're worth hundreds of millions and have the serious tax credits. What good is a stingy $5,000 tax credit when family coverage is over $12,000 per year? Only an aloof millionaire sitting on a dozen houses and teams of attorneys and tax accountants would think this plan is good for regular families.
Over the weekend, Mr. Obama more accurately characterized the McCain plan as a swap but one that would work to the detriment of millions. Middle-class families, he said, would “watch the system they rely on begin to unravel before their eyes.”
The business leaders said that was also their fear. Despite steady declines this decade, employers still provide coverage to 62 percent of Americans younger than 65. Surveys show that they want to continue doing so to attract and maintain a productive workforce.
The business leaders forecast that Mr. McCain’s free-market approach would impose particular burdens on small businesses and old-line manufacturers that are already struggling.
“To some in the business community, this is very discomforting,” said R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president for government affairs at the Chamber of Commerce. “The private marketplace, in my opinion, is ill prepared today with an infrastructure for an individual-based health insurance system.”
Posted by: yay tina fey | Oct 7, 2008 7:54:07 AM
McSame is toast, he has nowhere to go, maybe the Panama Canal or to Alaska. He has lost credibility and honor, he is completly out of touch, very erratic. He is really out of control, mentally dysfunctional and psychologically instable. God save America from McSame. God bless America and God bless Obama/Biden.
Posted by: BKMC | Oct 7, 2008 7:52:14 AM
MEDIA: I am very disturbed by a pattern taking shape in the past few days. How about investigating how using race - the subtle and not so subtle language used to incite raging hatred is being used in this election????
The language, it's like a page straight from the Nazis to a tee. Palin and McCain are inciting hatred at these rallies; it's disgusting. And we wonder when we turn on the television and see in some countries ranting crowds of lunatics - well, this is how it begins!
McCain and Palin are encouraging this and doing nothing to correct it or stop it.
Don't you think you have a responsibiity to report/discuss something this serious? This is what is on television in America. One viewer's account:
"I turned the sound off when McCain began his rant. I looked up at one point to see if he was done and saw his face contorted in such hate and nastiness.
I heard later that a man yelled out terrorist about Obama and during Palin's rally someone yelled Kill him!
They have gone too far and are inciting something scary and ugly in these ignorant supporters of theirs."
Letting things like this get a "pass" is what happens when a country turns around later and wonders how come they are living under a wing nut regime.
Posted by: jt1 | Oct 7, 2008 7:52:07 AM
McCain's right - it's time that we "Turn the Page".
We're turning the page alright - on 8 years of republicans raping america.
Posted by: clifton | Oct 7, 2008 7:49:00 AM
From the Wall Street Journal, no less:
John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts of $1.3 trillion over 10 years to the government programs....
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. McCain's senior policy adviser, said Sunday that the campaign has always planned to fund the tax credits, in part, with savings from Medicare and Medicaid. Those government health-care programs serve seniors, poor families and the disabled.
Posted by: flop sweat express | Oct 7, 2008 7:47:29 AM
Let's hope if John McCain becomes president that Al Qaeda doesn't decide to strike on a weekend. That's his time off. - John Avarosis
More from Politico:
After a rigorous primary election schedule, the Arizona senator was "down" on nearly every Saturday and Sunday between the time he clinched the nomination in February and June, Politico reported this summer. And since accepting his party’s nomination on Sept. 4, McCain has taken off at least one day each weekend. He held no public events last weekend, and will keep the same schedule this weekend.
Obama, on the other hand, has taken only two weekend days off in the last month.
Posted by: yay tina fey | Oct 7, 2008 7:46:17 AM
He’s out of ideas.
Out of touch.
And running out of time.
AND he's erratic.
like a walking temper tantrum.
he married a heiress.
he has so many houses, he's lost count.
and has 13 cars.
and feels he DESERVES the presidency and resents having to even run a campaign!
he's John McCain... Senator "Honor"
Posted by: flop sweat express | Oct 7, 2008 7:41:54 AM
OMG: Sarah did another interview and was speaking gibberish again. The map should be changing just based on McCain pick - Palin is a total disgrace. I have never witness an election like this before she makes Dan Q. look like a genius. Sarah does not need to sit down interviewing until she learn how to give one with meaning! She's a total Joke!
PS: ml stated "I tried to post this comment many times on ABC but they will not publish it. Just testament to what I think is a shameful attempt to win the election for Obama.
Shame on you ABC."
Not true - I have not seen "ABC" not post ad's as of yet. Your comment is posted immediately unless the server's are busy. Could have been "user fault".
Posted by: Mike | Oct 7, 2008 7:41:45 AM
Guilt by association will not work, has not worked this year. What the Wingnuts and the McCain campaign don't understand is that the country has changed and progressed in some aspects. The "I am more American than you" argument is lame, and holds no water after 8 year of GWB. The only reason we get to here about Keating is to break up the news cycle from the opposite side.
Posted by: john compton | Oct 7, 2008 7:40:43 AM
mccain looks worst every day
Posted by: mm | Oct 7, 2008 7:39:48 AM
Great come back by Obama! We will NOT sit idly by this time around!
Obama/Biden 08!
Oh, and... republicans Paulson and Cox should go to jail for their crimes against taxpaying shareholders who lost their retirement money.
Posted by: Common Sense | Oct 7, 2008 7:39:29 AM
There is a reason why McCain Adviser says that if we "talk about the Economy, we will loose!" That is because they have no good ideas on the economy for the Middle Class. Their ideas and solutions only benefit the rich, well-off and well-connected!
Posted by: Angellight | Oct 7, 2008 7:37:45 AM
I say "ZING!!!"
Posted by: KajKaj | Oct 7, 2008 7:33:47 AM
ABC and some others are trying to call this election over. What a shame you people have to do this to the American people. You should be ashamed of yourself.
For those of us who want to know the real truth about Obama, here is a good article, the rest of it is on NRO online, thank you Mr. Levin.
The Obama Fan-Dance Must End [Mark R. Levin]
As someone who has written critically of John McCain on a host of issues, including the Keating Five, none of it compares to the life that Barack Obama has led and his belief system. Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama's associations but add "of course, it doesn't mean Obama shares their views." Oh really? These miscreants include Obama's former pastor, political mentors and allies, and friends. Obama attempts to downplay and distance himself from his own circle of allies now that he is running for president. But he is one of them. Obama is getting a pass that no other candidate in my memory has ever received.
I tried to post this comment many times on ABC but they will not publish it. Just testament to what I think is a shameful attempt to win the election for Obama.
Shame on you ABC.
Posted by: ml | Oct 7, 2008 7:29:51 AM
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