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The Note: Race Could Be Slipping From McCain’s Grasp
October 06, 2008 8:41 AM
ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Monday's Note:
Four weeks out, what does it say that . . . Team McCain is hoping that Bill Ayers has one last bomb in him -- just enough to blow up the presidential race?
. . . That it’s the McCain campaign that has to telegraph its intentions to keep the base from sitting the rest of this one out?
. . . That Karl Rove has gone from nudging along McCain strategy to sounding the GOP alarm bells?
. . . That Palin Power needs to be employed to save a single electoral vote in Nebraska (and that she wants both Michigan and Jeremiah Wright in play -- her campaign’s moves notwithstanding)?
. . . That GOP jitters are spreading across the (diminished) map?
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
. . . That Sen. John McCain is turning a page only to find an old story he doesn’t like to hear told?
So we reach the nasty stage -- with Ayres and Rezko (but not Wright -- unless Gov. Sarah Palin gets her way) back among us.
But context is everything, and might these attacks have been more effective a few weeks ago -- back when convention wisdom wasn’t congealing, back when the map wasn’t crumbling, back when the GOP aides wasn’t fretting/sniping/panicking, back when this race still looked wide open?
It’s not (just) the fundamentals of the economy, it’s the fundamentals of the campaign: McCain is looking to rock a race that has already been through as big a storm of perceptions as we’re likely to see.
He’s relying on old connections and shady associations to raise doubts about Sen. Barack Obama -- when it might be too late to make it all stick.
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.
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Information about Obama's close ties to Ayers are now being disclosed. Eventually the Michelle Whitey tape bomb will be dropped.
Posted by: geevill | Oct 6, 2008 9:11:21 AM
edwin
your a liar
Posted by: jim | Oct 6, 2008 9:11:35 AM
John McCain is starting to panic. Now might be a good time for him to loudly remind everybody that he was a POW.
Posted by: euro.guy | Oct 6, 2008 9:12:47 AM
Can someone please fax the memo to McCain and Palin that the subject is THE ECONOMY
That's right my man. it ain't fair to bring up my homie's terrorist friends.
Posted by: Nat Turner | Oct 6, 2008 9:13:05 AM
Isn't it ironic that McCain, who is supposed to be the older, wiser, steadier candidate is the one now seen as the one resorting to unstable, unwise and clearly childish antics in a desperate attempt to win the presidency at any cost.
Obama, by contrast, has been calm, steady, logical and throughout this campaign has made wise suggestions that many, even in the Bush administration, seem to be adopting and with good effect. He's shown the kind of grace, restraint and maturity characteristic of the type of leader we need for our uncertain times, while McCain's actions have shown him to be wreckless, irresponsible and thoughtless when it comes to what is in the long term best interest of the country.
As an undecided Independent, this contrast has helped me to make a decision. I have decided to choose the only candidate acting like an adult in this election. The one who might be younger, but who is clearly smarter and truly cares more about the long-term health of this country. I am voting enthusiastically for Barack Obama!
Posted by: Alice | Oct 6, 2008 9:13:56 AM
5 requirements for a great leader
1) Moral courage
2) Judgment
3) A sense of priority
4) The disposal and concentration of effort
5) Humor
John McCain has shown he is lacking in at least 3, maybe 4 of the above, but most of all, Judgment.
It's for the better, he has served, but now it's time to retire, and send Sarah back to Alaska to watch Russian planes and field dress moose.
Posted by: Willy | Oct 6, 2008 9:14:03 AM
Yes, the issue IS the economy.
Problem is, blame is not getting placed where blame is deserved.
If the media would just do their job and report both sides fairly, the American voters would see the blame to this crisis lies with both parties, not just the Republicans, and that John McCain actually tried to initiate a remedy for this problem two or three years ago.
They would also see the SOLUTION to the problem is not raising taxes and spending MORE tax dollars as Obama plans to do.
Posted by: Lee | Oct 6, 2008 9:16:04 AM
I see the media is trying to win an election for obama.
Has all the media been bought or brainwashed by Mr obama and company?
The headlines, the reporters opinions the influencing the public. The media has been totally irresponsible and have used and abused the American Citizen.
The more the media makes Mr obama out to be a god, the more people get scared and change their vote to McCain.
The basic Facts remain, Mr obama came from no where, with nothing to back him.
He has a horrible work ethics and lack of commitment to his congressional duties. He has a horrible voting record. He refuses to commit to anything, or take a stand on anything.
His only claim to fame is blame bush, blame the government and influence people to hate the President and hate the Government. So he can Change the Government.
Funny all his radical Friends and mentors over 20 years Want exactly that, The Government Changed.
Mr Obama's main goals, to make history, pay reparations to the black people and Change the Government.
Mr obama's repetitive speeches, slogans, catch phrases, his in your faces constantly. Telling people what they thought, what they wanted, what they should do, That is was the only one who could help, that he would change Government.
"This technique was also used in Nazi Germany. During his trial, one of Adolph Hitler’s right hand men, Albert Speer (Minister for Armaments) admitted, “Hitler’s dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man . . . ”
Of course mr obama has used mass media, the internet, TV, Radio, cell phone, blogs, email, posters, signs, billboards, Telephone Every media known to man.
No wonder he was obsessed with Gernmany.
Mr Obama took it one step futher his new economic plan is taken right out the German history books. The Miracle economy.
This man needs investigated Not Honored or made out to be a God.
Posted by: seah | Oct 6, 2008 9:18:43 AM
Mark Twain almost 200 years ago created the perfect motto for Sarah Palin:
"Tis better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
Hopefully, for our own good as well as hers, she will heed this good advice. It was painful to watch her bumble through the Vice Presidential debate with the apparent education and vocabulary of a grade school child with no wonder since in her first interview she couldn't name one newspaper or periodical related to current events that she has read recently. She really is an embarrasment to educated women everywhere.
Posted by: Anna | Oct 6, 2008 9:19:14 AM
-- Articles like this one are part of the MSM's attempts to help Obama win this election --
Nope, you can try to point fingers all you want, but simple math is all that's needed. For a more accurate, non-partisan electoral map based aggregating multiple statewide polls, please see:
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 6, 2008 9:20:08 AM
William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says "We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn't suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?"
Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop. The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Center's monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public.
Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent seven years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher at the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher at the Detention Center.
The juvenile justice system was founded by Chicago reformer Jane Addams, who advocated the establishment of a separate court system for children which would act like a "kind and just parent" for children in crisis.
One hundred years later, the system is "overcrowded, under-funded, over-centralized and racist," Ayers said.
Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.
Posted by: geevill | Oct 6, 2008 9:20:30 AM
McCain is desperate. This will backfire big time. People are sick and tired of this distractions type of politics.
"It's the economy stupid"
Posted by: J | Oct 6, 2008 9:22:30 AM
I wonder how many people who have used to have friends that made decisions that was opiset of there own I know I used to have friends that have made decsions that I dont agree with, and I wouldnt want people to think I was tied to there hip ,just because I knew them or worked with them, I have friends that got adicted to drugs Im not,why should I be linked to them because I still call them friends, I pray for them not hang out with them, what palin said after the debait about obamas ties was just another way to try to win, its sick!!
Posted by: ADG | Oct 6, 2008 9:22:59 AM
Zogby has Obama +4 and says "Obama wins 88% support from Democrats"
As a Deomcrat voting for Mccain there is no way Obama gets 88%. PUMAs are being undercounted.
Posted by: geevill | Oct 6, 2008 9:25:27 AM
HP Boston, you will make nice pallbearer at Mr. McCain's funeral, ha ha. His career is over, he is finished. Nice thing is that corpse animation technology is now so advanced that a cold cadaver can look alive, so Mr. McCain's corpse can run again in 2012, ha ha.
Posted by: euro.guy | Oct 6, 2008 9:25:29 AM
Sarah knows that if she pulls the 'reverand' card, the Obama camp will pull the 'witch' card, and the GOP doesn't want that as otherwise they will lose what little they have left keeping them alive, the evangelicals.
It's apparent they know they have little hope when they resort to misleading the public in attacks against their opponent. Those who mislead are not leaders.
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 6, 2008 9:26:03 AM
Articles like this one are part of the MSM's attempts to help Obama win this election.
Posted by: JB in St. Louis | Oct 6, 2008 8:50:15 AM
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Yes! How dare they report on the reality of the situation! What bias!
Posted by: Deep Release | Oct 6, 2008 9:26:29 AM
As the country tanks, and I look to who can lead us, the option the republicans give us are an angry, bumbling, erratic man who has sold his soul to win at all costs, who does not present anythig positive, no solutions and has a whole slough of skeletons in his closet that could blow up in his face. His running mate, well, where do I begin: she's like a cartoon character, one of those bitter mean girls from junior high school, it's obvious she has zero depth on the issues or history of this country and she is sarcastic (like a teenager) and disrespectful on the national stage. Her husband's membership for seven years in an anti-American party whose president has repeatedly made violent comments about this country is disturbing; and she runs on anti-corruption mantra and yet, she herself, is investigated for corruption. McCain has sent rich Texan lawyers to Alaska to block the release of the report and people in Alaska have reported bullying thugs who have intimidated them (check for yourself). She wants MORE power than Cheney! It's just negative, negative, negative. We've had ENOUGH of this for eight long years. EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND people have lost their jobs in NINE months and this is obviously NOT a priority for this extremist ticket of mccain/palin. They make no mention of solutions and frankly, I don't think the country can take any more of this radical, nastry and divisive leadership. Just the thought of Sarah Palin being in charge in a scenario of it being Sept. 11th, depending on her as commander in chief to direct our army, navy around the world, protect people and interests domestically and abroad, get our allies on board, talk to world leaders in the face of crisis, of some horrible catastrophe is just too hard to imagine. It is a worse reflection on mccain to have made such an irresponsible choice. I want to put my kids to bed at night knowing that the leadership in place actually will keep a calm head, know what to do and have the ability to get our allies to our side swiftly because of good relationships. Bottom line: I just cannot trust this vaudeville act with my country. Time to throw the bums out and clear out the stinking rot from the republican party and let them rebuild into something perhaps that has learned a lesson from this whole old boys network of Bush/McCain.
Posted by: b48 | Oct 6, 2008 9:27:18 AM
On CBS recently, Katic Couric asked both McCain and Obama what the favorite movie was. McCain named some movie (can’t remember the name) about a man who gave up his life for his country. Obama said all the Godfather movies. He said he was “fascinated” by these gangsters, who were so smooth and elegant on the outside, but outright thugs underneath. He was grinning as he said those words, and I realized – this man is laughing at the stupidity of his own followers!!!!! He was telling McCain supporters, “Yeah, you and I know I’m a thug, but my supporters are too stupid to get it, don’t ya see? Heh. Heh. Heh.” Yeah, Barack, I get it. Your supporters ARE stupid.
Posted by: Carrie | Oct 6, 2008 9:29:04 AM
Sarah knows that if she pulls the 'reverand' card, the Obama camp will pull the 'witch' card
Bring it on then. Let Obama go after Palin. He already brought up Keating like anyone cares. What drugs was Obama doing back in the 80's?
Posted by: geevill | Oct 6, 2008 9:29:42 AM
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