These attacks are hurting McCain within his own party. The polls show they are backfiring completely.

The founder of the conservative Blog, RedState, could not even bring himself to vote for McCain and wrote in Gov. Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana.

Mccain your done!

MOSCOW, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Russia test-fired two ballistic missiles and bombed a dummy town at the weekend, but analysts said the show of military preparedness was for domestic consumption and not a Kremlin warning shot to the West.

The exercises -- some overseen by President Dmitry Medvedev and all given extensive coverage on national television -- followed weeks of angry rhetoric between Russia and the United States over the August war in Georgia.

On Saturday, Medvedev watched the successful launch of a Sineva intercontinental missile from a submarine in the Arctic Barents Sea. It hit a virtual target near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, the first flight at this range.

The next day, Medvedev inspected the Plesetsk military cosmodrome in the north-west of Russia where he watched the test-launch of a Topol nuclear-capable missile which hit a target on Russia's Pacific coast.

Over the course of the weekend, 12 Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic bombers took off for an exercise that involved launching multiple cruise missiles to pulverize a dummy town on a testing ground in the Arctic.

Czar Vlad "The Terrible" is rattling his nuclear sabers.

In 1961, Khrushchev walked all over the young, naive, inexperienced JFK during direct negotiations. Kennedy's weakness encouraged Khrushchev to start the Cuban missile crisis, and we narrowly avoided a nuclear war.

In 2009, Putin will walk all over the young, naive, inexperienced President Obama during direct negotiations. What worldwide crisis will Obama's weakness encourage Putin to start??

Good glad it is blowing up in their faces ,P{alin is in on this too.She is a witch and will do anything to get this place in Government which she is not fitted for.....

That's McCain's problem. The McCain camp has no strategy. The week before last there was no strategy. Last week strategy was to attack Obama's association. The week is to plan a "comeback".

The McCain camps problem is they have no message. They're un-organized, They have no ground game...it's horrible.

Lots of republicans were hitting McCain. Backing off was his only option.

But the faithful gop rabble are going to be pissed. lol. They believe this rubbish, McCain knows it's only theater.

I DONT CARE HOW MUCH MCCAIN WANTS TO SHIFT.. HOWEVER, PALIN AND THE REPUBLICANS OUGHT TO CONTINUE CALLING OBAMA OUT FOR WHO HE IS..HIS ASSOCIATES.. ACORN .
MCCAINS SUPPORTERS ARE FRUSTRATED BECAUSE 90% OF THE MEDIA, IT TURNS OUT, ARE NEO-COMMUNIST LIBERALS..
HIS MESSAGE IS NOT GETTING OUT.
FINNALY, HIS SUPPORTERS GET TO VENT THEIR ANGER,AT RALLIES.
IF MCCAIN WANTS TO RUN AGAINST LBJ ANDRONALD REAGAN, THATS HIS CHOICE
THE POLITICS OF THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT A NOBLE ENTERPRISE.
IF HE'S TOO NOBLE TO DO WHAT HILLARY DID TO OVERCOME OBAMA AND THE MEDIA--TIME TO QUIT AND SPARE HIS SUPPORTERS THE AGGRAVATION.
AMERICANS LOVE WINNERS AND DEROGATE LOSERS.
KERRY RAN A GOOD CAMPAIGN , WAS 10 POINTS AHEAD IN THE END BUT ENDED UP LOSING..
KERRY IS BUT A CARICATIURE AND A SUBDUED MENTION IN HISTORY.. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS " ANOBLE LOSER"
MCCAIN, THE WORLD IS NOTHING LIKE YOUR COZY MANSIONS.. NOBODY CARES HOW NOBLE YOU ARE, IF YOU LOSE FOR AMERICANS..
OBAMA IS CORRUPT. TREAT HIM AS SUCH

AND DONT EVER DISRESPECT YOUR SUPPORTERS AGAIN, SIR..

McCain's problem is also comments like this:

"John McCain, who admitted on Sunday that "the economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two"

Lets look at the records!McCain has made change when he could co sponsored a bill to reel in fannie and freddie.Obama empty career never has done anything to change anything.All his promises nada nothing oh wait I am sorry he helped ACORN change we dont need

Obama's Kenya campaign
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/

How will Obama spin this one.

McCain's problem is also comments like this:

"John McCain, who admitted on Sunday that "the economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two"

Posted by: Paige | Oct 13, 2008 12:38:21 PM
It has because they are the incumbent party when the economy sours so does peoples taste on the party

These attacks are hurting McCain within his own party. The polls show they are backfiring completely.

WRITTEN BY PAIGE _______________________________
paige,
YOU ARE MISREADING THE POLLS COMPLETELY
MCCAIN IS NOT BACKFIRING.. THE FIRST SHIFT CAME AFTER OBAMA ASSOCIATIONS WERE ATTACKED.
I AM A MCCAIN SUPPORTER BUT HE IS AN INCONSISTENT MAN IN THIS ELECTION..
REPUBLICANS OUGHT OT KEEP THAT PRESSURE GOING.. QUESTION OBAMA FOR ONE.
ANYTIME MCCCAIN IS ATTACKED BY PUNDITS, HE BACKS OFF.
PUNDITS WANT MCCAIN DISARMED... THEY ARE ALL PRO-OBAMA.

Higher cost to corporations = higher cost to consumers simple rasie taxes on the corporations they get past on to you and me

TJ - I don't have to send you far. See Gary Langer's BLOG, The Numbers, right here on ABC.COM .

Women of America Unite!
Unite against the sexist media and Barack Hussein’s Mugging of Vice President, Sarah Palin!

Women must unite against the liberal media vicious, sexist, cruel, demeaning, contemptuous UN-AMERICAN, unfair, unprofessional, unrelenting and blatantly biased treatment against Vice President Sarah Palin and acting blatantly in favor of Barack Hussein Obama during this unprecedented historic quest for the presidency!

Barack Hussein Obama claims a mightier throne, one forged in liberal ideals of justice and equality and hope, BUT he has benefited mightily from sexism in this campaign, and has remained silent. Obama supporters seem very happy with the sexist way pundits and some news organizations treat any action or statement by Sarah Palin, and many believe that most of the "venom" in the campaign is coming from supporters of Obama.

Women of America Unite in this defining moment in American history. To ensure we can grow up from the male dominated government that has caused many of the problems our country is facing; to a country where men and women are equal partners in governance.

Women of America Unite!
Unite against the sexist media and Barack Hussein’s Mugging of Vice President, Sarah Palin!
VOTE for McCain/Palin

McChicken and his cynical followers.......tsk, tsk. If they only had a brain.

Did you see McCain in a photo with the Acorn leadership on Politico? This is what was said...

Bertha Lewis, Acorn's chief organizer, said in a statement that came with the photo, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans."

”We are sure that the extremists he is trying to get into a froth will be even more excited to learn that John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with ACORN, at an ACORN co-sponsored event, to promote immigration reform," she said.

To be honest, McCain is so far behind B Rock, we're going to need a high powered telescope to find him after he get's SCHLACKED in the GE.

Hypocrits always LOSE. Always.

POTUS OBAMA - IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME

Sorry but Obama IS the issue... his socialist, big government, tax, spend and regulate stance on everything IS the issue... and the fact that he pals around with terrorists and race bating preachers IS the issue... meanwhile Obama runs adds making fun of the fact that McCain can't use a computer... anybody see a problem here???

http://www.UpYoursObama.com/

Obama's 95% Illusion!!

One of Barack Obama's most potent campaign claims is that he'll cut taxes for no less than 95% of "working families." He's even promising to cut taxes enough that the government's tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% -- which is lower than it is today.

APIt's a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he's also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of "tax cut."
For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase "tax credit." Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals:
- A $500 tax credit ($1,000 a couple) to "make work pay" that phases out at income of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple.
- A $4,000 tax credit for college tuition.
- A 10% mortgage interest tax credit (on top of the existing mortgage interest deduction and other housing subsidies).
- A "savings" tax credit of 50% up to $1,000.
- An expansion of the earned-income tax credit that would allow single workers to receive as much as $555 a year, up from $175 now, and give these workers up to $1,110 if they are paying child support.
- A child care credit of 50% up to $6,000 of expenses a year.
- A "clean car" tax credit of up to $7,000 on the purchase of certain vehicles.
Here's the political catch. All but the clean car credit would be "refundable," which is Washington-speak for the fact that you can receive these checks even if you have no income-tax liability. In other words, they are an income transfer -- a federal check -- from taxpayers to nontaxpayers. Once upon a time we called this "welfare," or in George McGovern's 1972 campaign a "Demogrant." Mr. Obama's genius is to call it a tax cut.
The Tax Foundation estimates that under the Obama plan 63 million Americans, or 44% of all tax filers, would have no income tax liability and most of those would get a check from the IRS each year. The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis estimates that by 2011, under the Obama plan, an additional 10 million filers would pay zero taxes while cashing checks from the IRS.
The total annual expenditures on refundable "tax credits" would rise over the next 10 years by $647 billion to $1.054 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center. This means that the tax-credit welfare state would soon cost four times actual cash welfare. By redefining such income payments as "tax credits," the Obama campaign also redefines them away as a tax share of GDP. Presto, the federal tax burden looks much smaller than it really is.
The political left defends "refundability" on grounds that these payments help to offset the payroll tax. And that was at least plausible when the only major refundable credit was the earned-income tax credit. Taken together, however, these tax credit payments would exceed payroll levies for most low-income workers.
It is also true that John McCain proposes a refundable tax credit -- his $5,000 to help individuals buy health insurance. We've written before that we prefer a tax deduction for individual health care, rather than a credit. But the big difference with Mr. Obama is that Mr. McCain's proposal replaces the tax subsidy for employer-sponsored health insurance that individuals don't now receive if they buy on their own. It merely changes the nature of the tax subsidy; it doesn't create a new one.
There's another catch: Because Mr. Obama's tax credits are phased out as incomes rise, they impose a huge "marginal" tax rate increase on low-income workers. The marginal tax rate refers to the rate on the next dollar of income earned. As the nearby chart illustrates, the marginal rate for millions of low- and middle-income workers would spike as they earn more income.
Some families with an income of $40,000 could lose up to 40 cents in vanishing credits for every additional dollar earned from working overtime or taking a new job. As public policy, this is contradictory. The tax credits are sold in the name of "making work pay," but in practice they can be a disincentive to working harder, especially if you're a lower-income couple getting raises of $1,000 or $2,000 a year. One mystery -- among many -- of the McCain campaign is why it has allowed Mr. Obama's 95% illusion to go unanswered

Sign this petition if you think McCain should stop talking about Obama and William Ayers...and start talking about the economy instead:

http://www.McCainPetition.com

Gregg

Attacks aren't working. McCain needs to show he understands the issues, he hasn't done that. Obama has.