Jarring John McCain ad jumps from Bill Ayers to housing crisis
At the least, a John McCain television ad unveiled today will be the likely frontrunner for the year's most-jampacked-30-second-spot award.
The ad starts with zinging Barack Obama over his connection to notorious Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers, then segues (jarringly) to blaming congressional Democrats for the collapsed housing market.
It happens all in less than 50 words (not counting the required McCain approval line for the spot):
The different moods emanating from the two campaigns, meanwhile, were on stark display in morning appearances by the two presidential contenders.
Obama, riding front-runner status in recent national and state polls, focused on the nation's economic turmoil in remarks made in Ohio. "Now is not the time for fear. Now is not the time for panic. Now is the time for resolve and steady leadership," he said, clearly hoping voters would see him as offering those attributes.
McCain, speaking in Wisconsin, began by stressing his new plan for aiding beleaguered homeowners. But he quickly launched a series of direct attacks at Obama, clearly hoping voters will judge his character superior to his rival's.
He reprised a barb from earlier this week, sarcastically telling his crowd that were he ever to need guidance in being truthful to the American people, he would not seek it from a "Chicago politician" (i.e., Obama).
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The McCain gang constructed two 15 second ads that can be combined into one 30 sec ad, nothing wrong with that.
Barack Obama has billionaire Soros backing him and just outspends his opponents by a 3-1 margin. Maybe your story should be about the most spendthirsty candidate in the history of television who can only win because he outspends his opponents 3-1 on TV ads.
http://www.HILLARY-WINS.com
http://www.WALLSTREETCHANGE.com
http://www.HILLARYCLINTONFORUM.net
Posted by: Alessandro Machi | October 10, 2008 at 09:55 AM
McCain will not seek anyones help in being truthful no matter where they live. He has no idea what truth is, and most likely couldn't find it in a dictionary.
Posted by: Ogel | October 10, 2008 at 10:01 AM
When you're desperate you do desperate things. But, along w/ warning Caesar not to go to the Forum on the Ides of March, there are other more recent American political warnings that were not heeded, such as:
"Dick, turn off that incessant tape-recorder!"
"Jerry, if you don't put down that pardon pen, I'm gonna vote you outa office."
"Ronnie, how many times have I had to tell you. That Arms-for-Hostages deal with Iran is gonna blow up in your face!"
"George Herbert! It'll take more than a thousand points of light!"
"Bill, if you don't get that zipper fixed, I'm gonna send it out to the tailor myself!"
"W, stop hangin around with that flake Rummy!"
Posted by: Failin' w/ Palin | October 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Shamelessly, McCain and Palin exhibit their racism and xenophobia when they ask, "Who is Barack Obama?" "What do we really know about him?"
In reality, these aren't questions at all, but masked statements: "Someone who’s black (and therefore ‘dangerous’) can’t be qualified to be president." “Someone with the middle name of Hussein (who therefore must be supportive of terrorism) is un-American and can’t be trusted to be the president.”
Voters must be alert to understand the subliminal message behind McCain and Palin's ugly rhetoric. Let's be vigilant, so that we won't be susceptible to being misled by it.
Posted by: Mike, Philadelphia | October 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Obama's campaign gave $800k to ACORN, and now ACORN is being investigated for voter registration FRAUD in 11 SWING STATES!
OBAMA = ACORN = LIBERAL DEMOCRATS (Obama) = FANNIE MAE = SUB PRIME LOANS = WALL STREET COLLAPSE = VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD
IT ALL SPELLS OBAMA BUYING AND STEALING THIS ELECTION!
Posted by: BJ | October 10, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Not only big money for Obama but much worse....
"This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking "where did the money come from for Obama". I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.
I started looking into Obama's life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California . He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. "Barry" (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan . During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a "round the world" trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India , three weeks in Karachi , Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate's family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family. My question - Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York . It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It's not cheap! to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. He was already living in New York, Why Chicago?
By "chance" he met Antoin "Tony" Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria , and a real estate developer in Chicago . Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named "Entrepreneur of the Decade" by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association". About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School ? Where did he get the money for Law School ? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented "Rezar" which Rezko's firm. Rezko was one of Obama's first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago . In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with "seed money" for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko's wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama's new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama's boss. She is now Obama's chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz , Iran ! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was "sacked" after the press found out he was having regular contacts with "Hamas", which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran . This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama's visit to Iraq , he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will "Take care of things".
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan ? They are in charge of all those "small" Internet campaign contribution for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East ?
And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on "This Week" with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, "My Muslim faith". When questioned, "he make a mistake". Some mistake! We trained them to fly airplanes; so they could carry out their mission. Now we're training them to run our country.
All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven't all of our "intelligent" members of the press been reporting this?
A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - "Beware of the enemy from within"!!"
Please, anybody with any common sense, please pass this on, which is what I am doing. This came from a writer on Craigslist....
Posted by: woodstock1969 | October 10, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Obama's first scandal if he becomes President Obama will be Rezko. Rezko is cooperating with prosecution and he is saying a LOT
Sneed from Chicago Times hears rumbles political fund-raiser/fixer.
Tony Rezko, who is now singing sweetly to the feds from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, has been talking about his "dealings" with a Chicago bank, which has political connections.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/1213373,CST-NWS-sneed10good.article
Posted by: frieda | October 10, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Follow the Money.
Barry has these swollen campaign coffers from illegal foreign contributers- and the likes of George Soros and WORSE!
Spend that money, Barry.
The American people are finally waking up.
And we have been a "sleeping giant,"
Tell us the truth about your connection to Fannie and Freddie, terrorists, criminals, ACORN and the Chicago "thug" political machine- and we wake up and become a VERY angry giant.
The Silent Majority has "grown a pair" and we will roar on November 4th- no matter WHAT the polls are showing and no matter HOW much money you spend.
And for all you "late bloomers" who are just starting to wake up and smell the coffee-
Know that the Democrat Party is what is to blame for this economic crisis. Starting with the failed, traitorous Jimmy Carter, then super-charged by the Clinton administration- and now in the hands of the scurrilous Chritopher Dodd, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. They should be tried and sent to PRISON. They should NOT be censured and allowed to collect their fat cat pensions and health care and perks.
Throw the bums out! But PROSECUTE them !
Make them give back the millions they STOLE from US!
Google "Obama" with any of the following and become enlightened:
Ayres, Rev Wright black theology, Tony Rezko, ACORN, Father Fleuger, Michelle Obama thesis, Annenberg, Saul Alinsky, ACORN Rules for Radicals, Franklin Raines,
McCain-Palin 2008
www.obamawtf.blogspot.com
www.obamacrimes.com
PLEASE don't waste your precious vote "writing in" Hillary, Huckabee, Paul or Romney. Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama's group, ACORN - is too busy stuffing the ballot box. Barry gave these people $800,000 to accomplish this Voter Fraud. The Democrats are delighting in the economic meltdown- and the possibility of putting this Socialist into power.
Imagine the cabinet: Education-Bill Ayres, Finance-Franklin Raines, Religion Rev. GD America Wright, First Lady Michelle "America is a Downright Mean Country" Obama.
STOP THIS INSANITY!
It's the company you keep, Barry.
You are inexperienced, naive and dangerous.
The American people will NOT let this election be hijacked by your paid THUGS!
Posted by: Alec | October 10, 2008 at 10:32 AM
We know more about Obama than we do about Palin or McCain for that matter. McCain has kept his nefarious background out of the news and others have gone along out of respect for a 'POW' which he capitalizes on every chance he gets. When people act this way, sooner or later they slip up. In the meantime, McCain fiddles with sleezy ads while America burns, or as Palin would say: Burn, baby, burn!
Wonder what those Republican idealogues are thinking about their 'small or no government, deregulation, privatization' mantras now.
It warms the cockles of my heart to see the Republicans in Congress and the Senate pulling their hair out and running around in circles knowing they are going down. Are they thinking "We have faced the enemy, and they are us".
Posted by: Sandra S | October 10, 2008 at 10:53 AM
I AM TRULY HORRIFIED AT THE VERY THOUGHT OF OBAMA BEING OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!! I WISH IGNORANT PEOPLE WOULD GET TO KNOW THE FACTS AND REALIZE THAT JOHN MCCAIN ISTHE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB , FOR OUR COUNTRY , FOR OUR FUTURE!!! VOTE MCCAIN
" NOBAMA"
Posted by: sarah taylor | October 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Good Morning America! Oh I love to smell the rantings of neocon thugs in the morning. Obama must be gaining his lead more and more. And the more McCain pushes, the faster Obama pulls away. When it is over, all McCain will have left is a t-shirt saying "I tried to be president and all I have left is this pile of ashes and an empty suit."
Posted by: Sandra S | October 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM
connect the dots, President Clintnton dropped the banking regulations , and when congress asked they be restored Barney Frank's congessional committees' inaction to restore those banking regulations caused the melt down of the DOW. Fanny & Freddy are
BIG contibuters to Obama, one good reason.
Posted by: Peter Hommel | October 10, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Woodstock1969, your comment comes from an email of lies. If you're interested in the truth, you can find it on snopes.com. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
Before you cry "liberal media!", you should know Snopes is not a political or activist site. If, of course, you're really interested in the truth.
Posted by: Diane | October 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM
I wish Z had given you the news hole for the deep investigative pieces that are needed, no? thought you'd appreciate this:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/obama-i-assumed.html
"Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated.
"So, you know, the central point this is not somebody who advises my campaign, it's not somebody who is part of my, you know, inner circle in any way. This is somebody I've worked on some projects with, the latest is school reform. And I've strongly condemned his actions.
He fools no one LAT.
No one. Especially Dems.
Posted by: vbonnaire | October 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Racism is alive and well. McCain refuses to call Obama by his name. Instead he calls him, "that one" or "Chicago Politician" and anything else he can come up with beside calling him the "N" word in public. Unfortunately people are judging him by his color and not his virtues. What type of moral do you think his white mother and grandparents taught him? If you're going to be racist, be a proud racist. Don't hide behide your lame excuses. If you do that, you might as well get under a sheet like the others.
Posted by: Tell it like it is | October 10, 2008 at 11:12 AM
2+2=5
Posted by: jerry | October 10, 2008 at 11:12 AM
i can't believe the racism and hatred and very inaccurate information on the comment section! i can't even begin to comment on the racism and bigotry. i come from a very modest lower middle class family, and i went to an ivy league law school through hard work and LOTS of loans. it's completely crazy that we live in a society where you are supposed to work hard and achieve all you can, but if you do have any kind of success, you're suddenly an elitist. on the other hand if you were born rich and go to top schools due to family connections, everyone's a-okay with it. and the democratic party having a rich funder as awful? why don't we look at amount of billionaires, millionaires, and corporations funding the republicans! argh!!
Posted by: JC | October 10, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Rhetoric doesn't work when you've lost your job and your house. If anyone should be convicted of a crime, its Bush and Channey for lying to the American public to go to Iraq. Throw Bush and the republicans out!
Posted by: George | October 10, 2008 at 11:27 AM
with obama shortly releasing a half hour ad that is to be run nationally i would suggest that mccain, pailin and the republican party take a ten second ad and apologize for their outrageous attacks on obama.
for a presidential and vice presidential candidate to not repudiate audience members who call out kill him along with other slurs and threats is disgusting to say the least.
i hope the secret service which protects candidates starts to make arrests of people who engage in such behavior.
goodbye mccain and palin. you have lost more than you can ever imagine. roger
Posted by: roger lehnert | October 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Woodstock1969/frieda/Alec/whoever you claim to be now... Aren't conspiracy theories fun?
Posted by: Mike | October 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM
This financial crisis is due to Republican-pushed deregulation. Before these conditions came to a head, the Republicans controlled the Congress for 14 years and the White House for eight. Now, they want ANOTHER chance.
It's time to get out of the way, because it is becoming obvious the Republicans don't know what they are doing. It is also obvious they will insist they should be in control no matter how much they screw up. Time for a little reality.
From the polls, it looks like the Republicans are going to get a does of that reality. From the posts on this page, it looks like they will continue to do everything they can to avoid reality. You don't want people like this running a country.
Posted by: leonardo | October 10, 2008 at 11:42 AM
All these racism comments....please, give me a break. Obama uses being "black" only for his own gain. Folks, he is not black; he is half white and half black. But you never hear him nor anyone else correct those who say he is black. Why? Because they are using race to bait others into feeling guilty if they do not vote for Obama. Keep your eye on this guy while all of his associations with persons of questionable character are discussed. Never denies, just attacks the messenger. It all started with his association with Rev. Wright, whereby he spun that relationship into a discourse on the existence of racism. Yeah, right....
Posted by: MC | October 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Someone please - PLEASE - find a photograph of McCain and the current Mayor of Chicago together...or better yet, one of him and the current mayor's father.
Posted by: mkevinf | October 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM
The provincial nativist boors ranting on this thread never have seemed to have heard of SCHOLARSHIPS. Like it or not they are often awarded to people of limited means, with good grades, and from racial minorities. I have no idea how Obama funded his education but the facts don't obviously point to terrorist and/or Middle Eastern sourced financing.
For fuck's sake I've been to Turkey, Syria, and Iran. Does that automatically make me a terrorist?
And for all this ignorant ranting about Obama does anyone here really think Sarah Palin should be next in line for the Presidency? With 43% of the country in a recent poll claiming she's ready to be President, it's no wonder this country is a on downward spiral economically, diplomatically and militarily. Idiots electing idiots to the highest offices in the land; it reminds one of late Imperial Rome when the likes of Nero and Caligula called the shots.
And don't forget the vast majority of Wall Street execs are Republicans and they're laughing themselves to the bank as a Republican adminstration socializes the banking system while seeing the Republican idiots of the heartland blame the Democrats for the mess. How stupid can you be? Heartland Republicans have been taken for fools by the eastern establishment Republicans and yet they still cast their votes for the very people who have profited from the whole mess at the expense of the taxpayer.
Posted by: James McMath | October 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM
I think the ignorant posts by the hysterical right -wingers here are just confirmation of the psyche of the Republican base - closed minded, intolerant, anti-rational, lacking in compassion for their fellow man and those less fortunate, and empty on new or progressive ideas. These Neanderthals cannot even lose with class.
Posted by: Richard | October 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM
You gotta love how neocons try to rewrite history in a pathetic attempt to convince themselves their naked emperor is wearing fabulous clothes. The CRA was a good thing until Phil Gramm (McCain's economic advisor) got the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act passed in 1999 which helped make the banking meltdown possible. Most neocons are so hypnotized on their own Koolaid they will insist manmade global warming is a myth though even the Bush Admin admits it's real. Denial is not a river in Egypt, and Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Posted by: Christine B | October 10, 2008 at 11:57 AM
As readily as the McCain campaign is highlight even the most insigificant association of Obama with undesirables, don't you conspiracy theorists think that this stuff would be all over McCain campaign ads if it had the slightest hint of validity? And I grew up in the projects and went to the same Harvard Law School that Obama did without the help of any shady characters. That's what loans and scholarships are for. What nutcases.
Posted by: carlton | October 10, 2008 at 11:59 AM
People better be careful with this election! McCain is increasingly erratic, and it seems that touches of alzheimers are showing up. Palin is just a nut case religious fanatic who keeps her lack of contact with reality under slightly better wraps than, say, Jimmy Swaggart or Oral Roberts. She believes that teaching abstinence and only teaching abstinence is intelligent social policy, even though her unwed 17 year-old is now about to make her a grandma!! These two nutcases are the perfect follow-ups to Bush, to offer the final coup de grace to this once-great nation.
Posted by: Michael | October 10, 2008 at 11:59 AM
What is "Republican Logic"? It must be an oxy-moron
Posted by: Larry linn | October 10, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Listen everyone,
The reason that people are trying to liken Obama to being Muslim is that he has a different name and he does not look like all of the other past US presidents. As an African-American, even I understand the trepidation that many whites feel, because even I have caught myself buying into the notion that only old white men should be president. It's not our fault, it's the fault of the media and a society that only portrays "white as right."
That's why many African-Americans supported Hilary initially because they knew nothing about Obama. They figured, this guy with the funny name has no chance. Now, here he is close to getting into office, and all of a sudden the American media and right-wingers start throwing their default fear tactic of "terrorism" into the mix.
We would have to be idiots to buy into this charade once again. EVERY Republican presidential race is run on fear and loathing of the underclass. Reagan targeted crack cocaine in the inner-city. The first Bush used Willie Horton as a symbol of fear. The second Bush used terrorism to get TWO terms. Now McCain--who admitted that "if we talk about the economy we lose!"
Everyone has unsavory associations. . .let's not get into the Bush, McCain (Keating 5 anyone, also cheated on his wife after a terrible accident--talking about cold and heartless), and Reagan (Iran-Contra anyone?) dealings.
Let's face it, a black upstanding family man with eloquence and wit is not something we're used to. Had he been arrested on COPS or America's Most Wanted, perhaps the above posters could pigeonhole him.
For the above know-it alls, student loans are how most medical doctors and lawyers afford school--these loans and soar into the mid six figures easy. I'm at Fuller Seminary after going to UCLA and SDSU and my loans are already at 100,000! And yes, my wife and I took a trip to New York...and Iranians did not have to finance it.
American people, c'mon and wake up. Your savings and retirement are in the toilet. Will you be stupid enough to let fear grant you four to eight more years of the same crap? Someone who wants to further deregulate when deregulation got us into this mess? We HAVE to be smarter than this. Then again, it is Obama who has the Harvard education and appeals to the educated ones while it is McCain and Palin whose targeted audience is "Joe Six-Pack" and "Hockey Moms." Sorry, I don't drink or play hockey. But I do expect my government officials to be insightful, calm in the midst of the storms, and beyond attacks based on racism and fear.
Posted by: Aaron Howard | October 10, 2008 at 12:02 PM
What is "Republican Logic"? It must be an oxy-moron
Posted by: Larry linn | October 10, 2008 at 12:03 PM
McCain/Palin . . . fiddling while Rome burns and the politics of desperation. Keating Five and Palin is tied to Iran through the Alaskan Independent movement. The real terrorists in our midst are McCain/Palin.
Posted by: Scy | October 10, 2008 at 12:06 PM
*posted by woodstock
Please, anybody with any common sense, please pass this on, which is what I am doing. This came from a writer on Craigslist....
Posted by: woodstock1969 | October 10, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Hmmmm....did you have the common sense to research this info on Obama from the writer on Craigslist before just passing it on? Where are the sources for his infomation? Can they be fact checked?
Posted by: rc | October 10, 2008 at 12:08 PM
The few remaining in the right wing mob remind me of the changed humans in "I am Legend". They run around screaming, beating their heads on the wall, the ground, etc. Wanna see a Republican? Check out the virus infected humans in" I Am Legend".
Posted by: Scy | October 10, 2008 at 12:09 PM
The latest McCain ads brand Obama "too risky". There's only one guy who's too risky for America right now and it's the old guy flailing around in the midst of an economic crisis, making up silly policies as he goes along and turning a blind eye as his campaign crowds get ever more extreme. Some of the bile coming out at McCain/Palin rallies is a disgrace to this great nation of Lincoln, Adams and Franklin.
Posted by: Craig | October 10, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Question:
If you were hiring somebody to run your company and you had two resumes in front of you (the resumes did not have names). One resume had 7 years experience while the other one had 26 years of experience. Who would you pick?
Posted by: lc | October 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Sarah Taylor, you're comments really frighten me.
Posted by: Michael | October 10, 2008 at 12:32 PM
The election has created a problem that could be as dangerous as the current economic crisis. I'm over 60 and I've NEVER seen such rabid, hateful remarks coming out of a campaign or the people at its rallies. Untold damage is being done to the psyche of this country by the McCarthy-like campaign being waged by the McCain/Palin ticket. These two parties are going to have to work together in the next 12 months to pull us back from the abyss of another depression, but John McCain's speeches suggest that when he reaches across the aisle, it will be with a closed fist. He and his running mate need to put an immediate stop to the violent threats being screamed out at their rallies and make it clear that we are all in this together. So far, to their discredit, they've allowed this behavior to continue and even appeared to encourage it with remarks. At a time when we should be coming together, we're being told that the front-runner in this election is a "terrorist" who can't be trusted. Shameful.
Posted by: John Johnson | October 10, 2008 at 12:36 PM
You racist people sicken me and make question wether or not to continue living in this otherwise great country.
Posted by: BasicShape | October 10, 2008 at 12:39 PM
NeoCons scream about guilt by association. Okay, fine. Here you go, then; a few of McPain's known associates.
The Keating Five
The Iran Contra Gang
Economic sub-genius Phil Gramm
Various (and varied) girlfriends since marriage to the beer heiress
A charity crashed and destroyed due to misdeeds of the beer heiress while actively addicted to pain meds
Alaskan separatists
Oil companies
TrooperGate participants
White supremacists
In a funny way, I have to agree that experience counts. In this case, it counts against McCain and Palin.
Posted by: gurnemanz | October 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM
No politician in a large urban area lives in a bubble and is completely insulated from any one with a questionable past. No one! And popular rising stars in politics are fly paper to the people who want to peddle influence or gain favors. It is the nature of the political world. If you wanted to disqualify every politician who ever sat in the same room with anyone who had a criminal past, we would lose 90% of our House and Senate. And the remaining 10% would be people who were ineffectual. Did any of you ever watch "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"? Watch it. Bill Ayers, who was Chicago's Citizen of the Year in 1997, is an advocate for education in poor areas of his city and it only makes sense that he and Obama would have shared that and ONLY that common objective. To paint Obama as a domestic terrorist sympathizer is right out of Joe McCarthy's playbook, and the McCain/Palin ticket should be ashamed of itself for this and many other transgressions in this despicable campaign.
Posted by: John Johnson | October 10, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Okay people ! Use your brain !!! Hopefully the American public are not so gullible that they would take ANYONE at their word today without having some PROOF to back up their claims. Don't you think the McCain/Palin, and those in agreement with them, have gone far enough? Where's your PROOF !!!! And for you racists - do you really care so much about color that you could put your family and their future - for generations - in jeopardy? Please people - stop shaming our nation.
Posted by: Ruth | October 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM
You wanna' understand the subprime mess reads this interesting Newsweek article:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/162789
Posted by: Rick | October 10, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Dems platform is a perverted platform. They only want to have the right to kill their babies before they are born and then make to grow up to be gays!
Posted by: Vic ferarri | October 10, 2008 at 01:01 PM
lc:
hiring someone for a company is different from electing someone as president. mccain's experience has not helped him help the country move forward in the 26 years he's been in government; why would i trust his experience would change anything now? the country needs new direction, new strategies, a more methodical, objective and scientific approach to leadership that mccain's traditional style of politics does not possess or believe in. obama may not be perfect but at least he has a plan that has specific actions for getting the country out of this mess.
Posted by: K | October 10, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Hillary Clinton retained 50% popularity even as Barack Obama outspent her in 3-1 on media buys. Hillary Clinton retained 50% popularity against Barack Obama even as Barack bought off so many parts of the democratic national party, the D.N.C. has become a joke.
I don't want someone like George Soros influencing our democratic process. Once each main party has elected their choice, I understand the billionaires will get involved, it's Soros early involvement in the selection of the democratic candidate that I find so sleazy.
http://www.HILLARY-WINS.com
http://www.WALLSTREETCHANGE.com
http://www.HILLARYCLINTONFORUM.net
Posted by: Alessandro Machi | October 10, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Retired Pheonix Police Officer John McLamb, has the distinction of being the most highly decorated police officer in the history of Phoenix, Arizona.
McLamb explained that as a Vietnam veteran, he knows and is in contact with veterans, and a few P.O.W.s.
"All the P.O.W.s that I've talked to over the years say that John McCain is a lying skunk...."
"...You know, he never was tortured. When he came in with his two broken arms because he failed to pull his arms in when he bailed out of his plane, and had a leg injury, he immediately started spilling his guts about everything because he didn't want to get tortured..."
McLamb goes on to say that John McCain made 32 videos for the communists, speaking out against America's Vietnam Policies. This information is now sealed and classified.
Posted by: Brave Hero or Traitorous Coward? | October 10, 2008 at 01:09 PM
Since Palin's bag says, "Real women hunt moose..." I think Mc Cain should carry something similar that says, "Real men don't choose VP's that hunt moose!" Where is PETA when you need them?
As a side note, I wonder what would happen back in the day when George Washington was president? Think he would hire Palin as his Vp? Hmmmm... didn't think so.
Posted by: Jared | October 10, 2008 at 01:18 PM
The stock market fell when Democrats controlled congress, the Dems like Barney Frank pushed risky loans so poor could all buy homes. Bank deregulation was signed by Clinton in 1999. With the Dems controlling congress, the bad economy is not all Bushes fault.
Posted by: cbk16 | October 10, 2008 at 02:02 PM
McCain is gonna give himself a stroke or heart attack he's so angry. He's doing damage & needs to shut up.
Posted by: JimHarrison | October 10, 2008 at 02:14 PM