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2008-10-11 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-10-11 00:58|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Facing the dirtiest campaign in memory, McCain refuses to engage.

Maverick, you;re done -- and so are those in the GOP that put you there and continue the downward spiral of the GOP leadership into invertebrate mediocrity.

McCain, my message to you comes from Dale E, who know a thing about being a fierce competitior - and about winning.

"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass of yours" - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Posted by OldSpook 2008-10-11 01:12|| 2008-10-11 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 1. Obama worked with Ayers for many years on a number of the organizing projects; it boggles the mind that he now says either Ayers is just a person in the neighborhood or he thought Ayers was rehabilitated. Take your pick which story, if either, you believe.

2. Obama had as his pastor and spiritual mentor for 20 years the Reverend Wright who publicly condemns America using the words "God D**n America" and blames the US for 9/11 and the CIA for the AIDs epidemic.

3. Obama received a sweetheart discount for his Chicago home and convicted felon Rezko purchased the lot next door at full price so that Obama wouldn't have a neighbor.

4. Obama, as well as many other Democrats (and yes some Republicans) received large contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some of his advisers are former executives of the organization. Further, he opposed any action to stiffen mortgage requirements such as reviewing/approving borrower credit history, requiring sufficient down payment, and limiting sub-prime mortgages.

5. Obama is not pro-life; believes in abortion at all times and voted in the state senate against giving care to an aborted baby who happens to be born alive, calling it an NVF (non-viable fetus).

6. Obama, if elected, will have the opportunity to appoint two or more judges to the US Supreme Court and scores of replacement judges to the lower federal courts. You can be assured they will not believe in an interpretation of the constitution that the framers intended. It will be a "living document" tailored to whatever relativistic moral values are popular at the time: Gay marriage, abuse of the flag, restrictions on private property and free speech, etc.

7. Obama, in the past, has opposed handgun rights and proposed curbs on sale of other guns and ammunition. Our Second Amendment rights likely will be reexamined by a liberal majority Supreme Court.

8. Obama has been against the war on terror, specifically the war in Iraq where so many of our brave men and women have given the ultimate sacrifice.

9. Obama's foreign policy is not realistic; his diplomacy would consist of sitting down with dictators without preconditions.

10. Obama's system of taxes will overwhelm and shut down economic recovery and prosperity. Taxes on small business, capital gains, death, income, etc. will be levied to support the many new "entitlement" programs.

11. Obama's history shows that he is a socialist who believes that government rather than the individual should have the power. Look for more government, increased regulation and less freedom if he is elected.

NOW Senator McCain, is THAT enough to generate an honest fear of an Obama presidency, unchecked by a Democrat liberal House under Pelosi with her SF Values, and a veto-proof Democrat Senate?

You asked us to FIGHT for you at the convention, and now you leave us hanging you sumbitch.

McCain's intransigence has completely demoralized those of us who are volunteering and working for him.

I guess after all, he is the John McCain we thought he was.

I'm still going to vote McCain, but it is back to a grudging vote against Obama instead of for McCain.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-10-11 01:22|| 2008-10-11 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Respectfully, I disagree with the striked out items but agree on most. I can think of many more for McCain though.

1. Obama worked with Ayers for many years on a number of the organizing projects; it boggles the mind that he now says either Ayers is just a person in the neighborhood or he thought Ayers was rehabilitated. Take your pick which story, if either, you believe. The Annenberg Foundation is not evil. Unless PBS is evil?

2. Obama had as his pastor and spiritual mentor for 20 years the Reverend Wright who publicly condemns America using the words "God D**n America" and blames the US for 9/11 and the CIA for the AIDs epidemic.

3. Obama ~~received a sweetheart discount for his Chicago home~~ and convicted felon Rezko purchased the lot next door at full price ~~so that Obama wouldn't have a neighbor.~~

4. Obama, as well as many other Democrats (and yes some Republicans) received large contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some of his advisers are former executives of the organization. Further, ~~he opposed any action to stiffen mortgage requirements~~ such as reviewing/approving borrower credit history, requiring sufficient down payment, and limiting sub-prime mortgages.

5. Obama is not pro-life; believes in abortion~~at all times~~ and voted in the state senate ~~against giving care to an aborted baby who happens to be born alive, calling it an NVF~~
6. Obama, if elected, will have the opportunity to appoint two or more judges to the US Supreme Court and scores of replacement judges to the lower federal courts. You can be~~assured they will not believe in an interpretation of the constitution that the framers intended. It will be a "living document" tailored to whatever relativistic moral values are popular at the time~~: Gay marriage, abuse of the flag, ~~restrictions on private property and free speech~~, etc.

7. Obama, in the past, has opposed handgun rights and proposed curbs on sale of other guns and ammunition. Our Second Amendment rights likely will be reexamined by a liberal majority Supreme Court.

8. Obama ~~has been against the war on terror~~, specifically the war in Iraq where so many of our brave men and women have given the ultimate sacrifice.

9. Obama's foreign policy is not realistic; his diplomacy would consist of ~~sitting down~~ with dictators ~~without preconditions~~.

10. Obama's system of taxes will overwhelm and shut down economic recovery and prosperity. Taxes on ~~small business~~, capital gains, death, income, etc. will be levied to support the many ~~new~~ "entitlement" programs.

11. Obama's history shows that he is a ~~socialist~~ who believes that ~~government rather than the individual should have the power~~. Look for more government, increased regulation and ~~less freedom~~ if he is elected.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Elmererong1948 2008-10-11 02:19|| 2008-10-11 02:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Since I live in ~~the People's Republic of Pugetopolis~~ bluer-than-blue Washington state, my vote for McRollover would be worse than meaningless. I'm very seriously considering writing in Generals David Petraeus for President and James Mattis for VP...at least I could go on record as voting for someone who still has some fighting spirit.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-10-11 02:22|| 2008-10-11 02:22|| Front Page Top

#5 And the time for McCain to have pounded The One on his rogues' gallery of radical/criminal/terrorist mentors and advisers would have been right after putting Sarah on the ticket. For about two weeks afterward, the Obamessiah was punch-drunk and flailing blindly...a perfect point at which to start a steady barrage of ads, speeches, etc. calculated to pin the hammer and sickle to the middle of his forehead. The fact that McCain didn't do something along that line makes me wonder how much he really wanted it by that point.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-10-11 02:32|| 2008-10-11 02:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I see the flying monkeys are up late tonight. Oh, that's right, no skool tomorrow.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-10-11 02:37|| 2008-10-11 02:37|| Front Page Top

#7 I concur with OldSpook..

McCain likes to use the line; "he's out of touch".

LOL *ima crying*, It is so.. so Rich & Sad, both......

his ability to whip a guppy is even gone!

:(

Posted by Red Dawg ">Red Dawg 2008-10-11 03:57|| 2008-10-11 03:57|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd still love to see a Vice-President Palin, but I'm starting to wonder if the disaster of a Hussein Osama presidency might be the kind of shock-therapy this crazy nation needs... and mark my words, if elected, it WILL be a disaster beyond imagination.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-10-11 04:04|| 2008-10-11 04:04|| Front Page Top

#9 With the collapsing economies foremost in everyone's minds, all Obama has to do is not @#$% up for the next month, and most of the talking points that are firing up the rightwing blogosphere strike me as utterly irrelevant giving peoples focus on their jobs and savings.

Posted by Cherelet and Tenille1095 2008-10-11 04:31|| 2008-10-11 04:31|| Front Page Top

#10 if elected, it WILL be a disaster beyond imagination

Iran will get nukes. And Arabs who never had problems with Isreali bomb (knowing Israel would not use it) greatly fear the Iranins pschos and would also go for the bomb (plus the weakness of US). So you would get 10 Midele East countries with teh bomb. And son or mate one of them would get into terrorist hands.

The irony of this is that the nuked cities are likely to be Obama strongholds.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-11 04:47|| 2008-10-11 04:47|| Front Page Top

#11 ...all Obama has to do is not @#$% up for the next month...

...and the MSM will carry him across the finish line on their shoulders.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-10-11 04:52|| 2008-10-11 04:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm trying to remain somewhat optimistic here...while I've concluded that J-Mac has a better chance of winning the Boston Marathon than he has of beating Obama, a half-term of a raving radical agenda and Sixties retreads like Ayers running wild in the halls of power should be of immeasurable assistance to Trunk chances in the '10 midterms. If we get at least one, preferably both houses back then, the Messiah can be stopped cold. And by early '12, we should know if Bobby Jindal packs the gear to run on a national stage.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-10-11 04:58|| 2008-10-11 04:58|| Front Page Top

#13 but I'm starting to wonder if the disaster of a Hussein Osama presidency might be the kind of shock-therapy this crazy nation needs... and mark my words, if elected, it WILL be a disaster beyond imagination. Posted by Scooter McGruder

"Coming home to roost"......easy credit, affordable housing for everyone, affirmative action, slavery guilt cult, liberal courts, broken fatherless families, entitlement mindset, midnight basketball, blame cast upon the rich, abortion on demand, you can't fire me I'm ........!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-11 07:06|| 2008-10-11 07:06|| Front Page Top

#14 What distresses me most is not Obama, might as well be Che or Fedel. Seen it before, got the T-shirt. Same mindset, same philosophy. What really concerns me is the support he is apparently getting from the "American people." It's something akin to going to a VFW pancake breakfast and seeing everyone sitting around and smoking pot. It's just unbelievable.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-11 07:17|| 2008-10-11 07:17|| Front Page Top

#15 And rigged elections. And nukles in every Middle East country (cf my preceding post).

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-11 07:17|| 2008-10-11 07:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Sometime when the old guy is on his back, it take a woman and the 'little people' to see it through. Of course that assumes you have the fight still in you and haven't surrendered to 'fate' already.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-11 07:48|| 2008-10-11 07:48|| Front Page Top

#17 but I'm starting to wonder if the disaster of a Hussein Osama presidency might be the kind of shock-therapy this crazy nation needs...

I wonder if there were people in Weimar Republic who thought, mutatis mutandis, the same way? Of course, silly me---it can't happen here.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-11 07:53|| 2008-10-11 07:53|| Front Page Top

#18 Sure it can happen here, for about 12 hours.

Then we kill it. Simple.

Posted by .5MT 2008-10-11 08:29|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-10-11 08:29|| Front Page Top

#19 Meh, that sounds wrong. Not refering to an individual in the above.

Posted by .5MT 2008-10-11 08:31|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-10-11 08:31|| Front Page Top

#20 That is my greatest fear, that Obumble will become a 21st century "Il Duce."

We already see the Obama Youth, the SA of Acorn, the one's call for a civilian defense force as large as the defense dept, out of control prosecutors attempting to silence political speech in Obama truth squads, etc.

It can happen here. It is happening as we watch.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2008-10-11 09:53|| 2008-10-11 09:53|| Front Page Top

#21 This election has the feel of Bob Dole except Dole was a better candidate. McCain ought to be beating BHO like a rented mule. McCain on The View beaten to a pulp, how Presidential was that? Palin will have to carry him across the finish line. After hearing McCain slobber over Obama being a he is a decent guy and would make a fine President it appears McCain is conceding and campaigning for Obama. The GOP party bulls have foisted this man on us when there were so many better candidates. Has McCain even mentioned ACORN? It is theft in plain sight.

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#22 OS, you pegged it. This f**kin' old fool is an even worse POS than we imagined. This silly bastard is making crowds shouting mad. Me too. Can't vote for the Islamo, but McPain is giving me a sick gut. Maybe Bob Barr in protest. If these damn Republicans keep giving us these shitface candidates, I'm permanently done with them.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-10-11 10:51|| 2008-10-11 10:51|| Front Page Top

#23 The Annenberg Foundation is not evil. Unless PBS is evil?

Maybe it is. what precisely were they hoping to teach with that hundreds of millions of dollars?

Most people would freak at the thought of having their kids in an educational program run by (for instance) Eric Rudolph.

Posted by Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-11 10:53|| 2008-10-11 10:53|| Front Page Top

#24 The sad thing is the meme has already been started amung the left and the media how McCain is fighting dirty and he still won't fight. If you're gonna get blamed for it anyway.... You don't even have to fight dirty, just use everything.

Snark and mockitude should be used to puncture the pretentious Obama.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-11 11:09|| 2008-10-11 11:09|| Front Page Top

#25 WTF??? "he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."

Speak for yourself John. Oh wait, I guess you are . . .

Posted by ex-lib 2008-10-11 11:25|| 2008-10-11 11:25|| Front Page Top

#26 An "interesting" FYI. John is in the psycho-social developmental stage of "integrity vs. despair" (Erikson). Obama is in "productivity vs. stagnation." EVERYTHING John is doing is about shoring up his sense of personal integrity, that what he has done has mattered and is moral according to his generational cohort (in other words, he is reflecting on what what acceptable/non-acceptable from his earlier years as a young man). Obama, on the other hand, feels he MUST produce his vision for the world, or he will stagnate and feel meaningless. He is driven, and his campaign reflects his upbringing as a young boy during the 60s (radical, rebe, "yes we can"). John was already a grown man by then, and reflects other values.

Romney would have been a better match from a developmental profile point of view. Both he and Obama would be on the same "developmental page."

Reagan was no different, but his "take" on his stage of life was that to maintain integrity and avoid despair, he would have to fight and maintain a clear and unwavering position. That is what made him so powerful.

Unless John quickly redefines what integrity means for him and for our country and quickly redefines what he must do to promote that state of being, he will give way to the younger "buck" who is more ready for a knock-down-drag-out fight.

Obama and his ilk have been very effective in creating a large enough underclass to support them in the socialist/communist takeover.

And John is just sitting it out.

If people believe in prayer, now's the time. John needs a wakeup call.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-10-11 11:35|| 2008-10-11 11:35|| Front Page Top

#27 Tyranysaurus "strike out post" is full of it. OldSpook's post is accurate. Nice try, Tyran Obot.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-10-11 11:38|| 2008-10-11 11:38|| Front Page Top

#28 This tyranosaur sounds like a trollosaur.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-10-11 13:01|| 2008-10-11 13:01|| Front Page Top

#29 shit, I'm still scratching my head as to how mcpain got the GOP nod in the first place...too many rinos and independents voting in the primaries. I still liked Romney or Fred. Minus his foreign policy views Ron Paul is closer to my position on domestic policy and the constitutional rule of law.

Posted by Flitch the Imposter aka Broadhead6 2008-10-11 15:58|| 2008-10-11 15:58|| Front Page Top

#30 Romney lost when Huckabee, with the tacit approval of McCain, refused to withdraw from the race and played the Mormon card with southern evangelicals. So instead of a guy with sterling economic, business and executive experience -- plus a huge on-the-ground organization or the potential to create one -- we got Johnny.

Posted by lotp 2008-10-11 16:18|| 2008-10-11 16:18|| Front Page Top

#31 There were two rallies in my area yesterday. Sarah Palin drew 10-12,000 supporters, Barack Obama drew 5,000. John Kerry was polled to win at this point in the election cycle, yet Obama can only get a statistical draw, even with heavily skewed samples. The FBI is examining ACORN across the country, as are prosecutors in a number of key states (see the DrudgeReport and Instapundit for links), and newspapers and television stations are reporting on the false mass registrations, while federal prosecutors continue interviewing Chicago gangster Rezco, who keeps talking, apparently not just about the Illinois governor.

The presidential candidate is supposed to act presidential. It's the vice presidential candidate who is supposed to be the attack dog, which Sarah Palin has been doing nicely,

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-11 16:21|| 2008-10-11 16:21|| Front Page Top

#32 The FBI is examining ACORN across the country, as are prosecutors in a number of key states

Super! Now how about POTUS nudging the Attorney General to put a sease and desist order on these bastards while the Bureau sorts it out?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-11 16:26|| 2008-10-11 16:26|| Front Page Top

#33 McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If he goes too negative, he opens himself to incessant criticism from the Obama One and the sycophant media. And if he stays too positive, his base will crucify him. Sort of the beating your wife dilemma.

The daily polls seemed to have stopped moving over the last two weeks. The fence sitters are starting to pay attention, but are simply watching. How McCain responds may be more important to them despite the base frustration.

Either McCain is showing his age or the internal polls show something the media is willfully ignoring.

Probably age.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2008-10-11 22:49|| 2008-10-11 22:49|| Front Page Top

#34 I think it's closer to "bi-partisanship and my friend the Honorable Senator from Illinois" syndrome. Get along to get screwed anyway with principles the other side couldn't care less about.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-10-11 23:21|| 2008-10-11 23:21|| Front Page Top

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