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Jug, this is pretty close to calling him "boy" or dropping the N-bomb, no? "A guy of the street?" And he should admit that he's used cocaine... even though in a best-selling book he already admitted that he used cocaine. Well, looks like McCain has taken the gloves off and the brass knuckles have been put on.
so, now as far as McCain's camp is concerned, democrats are communisitic, terrorist loving drug addicts who will burn in hell if they don't vote for McCain/Palin.
that statement gets funnier and funnier until I realize that there are actually people who are gonna BELIEVE that crap.
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All I know is Hussein accepted money from mysterious men on the Gaza Strip.
And this Hussein guy pals around with terrorists.
Hussein took the flag off his plane, doesn't stand for the anthem, and on tv Hussein even said "my Islamic faith".
Sean Hannity in response to McCain in the Membrane, is starting Hussein in the Membrane, first order of business, Hussein wants them darn terrorists released from Cuba.
All I know is Hussein accepted money from mysterious men on the Gaza Strip.
And this Hussein guy pals around with terrorists.
Hussein took the flag off his plane, doesn't stand for the anthem, and on tv Hussein even said "my Islamic faith".
Sean Hannity in response to McCain in the Membrane, is starting Hussein in the Membrane, first order of business, Hussein wants them darn terrorists released from Cuba.
please tell me the above is a joke. He's not really doing a "Hussein in the Membrane" feature is he? literally calling it that?
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Wow, I really thought they were going to hold that until the day before the election.
The next one is coming - the Washington Times is going to report Friday that Obama secretly tried to persuade Iraq to ignore Bush deal on keeping troops in Iraq.
The next one is coming - the Washington Times is going to report Friday that Obama secretly tried to persuade Iraq to ignore Bush deal on keeping troops in Iraq.
Per the Drudge Report.
Well, the story was a little pop compared to the big bang I was expecting.
Summary - Obama was telling the Iraqi Government that any new bases or troop deals should be approved by the Congress, not just the President, for a long term presence of troops in Iraq. Obama was not opposed to a short term agreement between the President and Iraq.
They talked at the Iraqi's Foreign Minister's request.
Summary - Obama was telling the Iraqi Government that any new bases or troop deals should be approved by the Congress, not just the President, for a long term presence of troops in Iraq. Obama was not opposed to a short term agreement between the President and Iraq.
They talked at the Iraqi's Foreign Minister's request.
When the Republicans try to smear Obama it always turns out that there is no substance.
When the Republicans try to smear Obama it always turns out that there is no substance.
Because they have no shame whatsoever.
This was already debunked like 4 or 5 weeks ago when the NYT reported that people were claiming this same garbage.
So the rightwing media is pushing something that was already debunked and passing it off as "breaking news." The Republican Party has been destroyed from within and they are sickening.
Fox Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds Say Ayers Makes No Difference To Their Vote
By Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - October 10, 2008, 2:44PM
These numbers, buried in the internals of a new Fox News poll out today, are the first time a national poll has tried to gauge the impact of Barack Obama's association with William Ayers. And the numbers are pretty bad for McCain:
There has been some discussion of Barack Obama's relationship with the former radical activist William Ayers. Because Ayers is linked to plots to bomb the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol in the 1970s, and because Ayres recently said he wished he had done more, some people say Obama's association with Ayers calls into question his judgment. Does Obama's connection with Ayers make you less likely to vote for him for president or does it not really make a difference to your vote?
Less Likely 32%
No Difference 61%
Strikingly, the numbers are worse for McCain among independents: Only 29% say the Ayers association makes them less likely to vote for Obama, and more than twice as many -- 64% -- say it makes no difference. The data suggests that the vast majority of the respondents saying it makes them less likely to vote for Obama are Republicans, who probably wouldn't have supported him anyway.
Meanwhile, the poll suggests that McCain's attacks could be blowing back on him: A majority -- 51% -- say he's running a negative campaign, as compared to only 21% who say that about Obama.
Our handy TPM Election Central calculator tells us that the number of voters think McCain is running a negative campaign is nearly double that of the number who care about McCain's primary attack line right now. Go figure.
Could it be that voters have something on their minds other than the question of what a former violent radical who's now respected in Chicago was doing when Obama was walking around in shortpants?
Late Update: A quick additional point on this. Obviously this attack isn't really about Ayers; it's about sowing vague doubts about Obama's patriotism and background. Whether that dimension of the attack is working is harder to measure, and may not be perfectly reflected in the answers to direct pollster questions about Ayers. Still, the above numbers are striking.
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Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run. May the wings of liberty never lose a feather. ....
And just when you thought the McShame campaign couldn't get any slimier.....
McCain Campaign Now Attacks Michelle Obama Over Ayers
By Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - October 10, 2008, 4:58PM
The McCain campaign is now broadening their attack on Obama's past association with William Ayers to include Michelle Obama -- even though McCain has repeatedly said spouses should be off limits during the campaign.
The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.
That's the entire attack. We wish we were joking. But we aren't.
In launching this latest, McCain is ditching yet another formerly-claimed principle as he faces the growing likelihood of defeat. In a statement back in June, the McCain campaign said: "Senator McCain agrees with Senator Obama that spouses should not be an issue in this campaign, and he has stated that position frequently."
The attack on Michelle came on a McCain conference call with reporters this afternoon featuring John Murtagh, who has been hitting Obama over the Weather Underground's attack on his family's home back in 1970. Murtagh noted that Dohrn and Michelle Obama had both worked at the firm starting in the late 1980s.
The firm's Chicago office currently employs more than 500 lawyers.
Murtagh didn't even bother alleging that the two even knew each other, instead suggesting that they might have. If so, he said, the Obamas have known the two longer than suspected.
"If it is true" that the two women knew each other, Murtagh said, "the relationship is almost a decade older than Senator Obama has acknowledged. And that can very easily be resolved by Senator Obama, by Mrs. Obama, by Mr. Ayers and by Ms. Dohrn."
"And incidentally, I would emphasize that we've all been focusing on Senator Obama," said Murtagh. "I think we need to speak to his wife."
Keep in mind that this wasn't any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides. And so another once-cherished McCain principle gets junked in the service of self-parody
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Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run. May the wings of liberty never lose a feather. ....
And in other news - Obama is just like Hitler, because they both gave speeches in Germany.
I just love that line.....
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Here's to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here's to America's colors, the colors that never run. May the wings of liberty never lose a feather. ....
The Mccain campaign is acting like they're trying to stem defections from their core, not like they're trying to woo independants or Obamicans.
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