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2008-09-13 Home Front: Politix
Obama Hits Bottom, Keeps Digging
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Posted by AzCat 2008-09-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Better question, Nobammy, is which country YOU put first.

'Cuz it sure ain't this one.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-09-13 00:08|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-09-13 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 And people honestly want to put this putz in charge of the USA?

How stupid has the left become? Its approaching mental illness.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-13 00:29||   2008-09-13 00:29|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not a question of stupidity, OS.  It's a question of values and character.   Obama's an unreconstructed Chicago machine pol with hard lefty instincts.  He and his supporters need to be taken down hard in this election before they destroy the country.
Posted by lotp 2008-09-13 05:32||   2008-09-13 05:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Approaching? It landed and left the plane. It IS mentally Ill.
Posted by newc">newc  2008-09-13 05:34||   2008-09-13 05:34|| Front Page Top

#5 This is a sure winning point, Teh One. Keep repeating it.
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-13 06:13||   2008-09-13 06:13|| Front Page Top

#6 "So, when American workers hear John McCain talking about putting 'Country First,'" Obama said, "it's fair to ask --- which country?"

Then the ad fades to the image of the ONE upon the stage with the white bold letters BERLIN GERMANY 2008
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-13 08:53||   2008-09-13 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama is now behind in all the polls and is wetting his pants. THIS is Obama crisis management mode, lurching from one misstep to the next. It is despicable, incompetent and counterproductive. He is not fit to be a dogcatcher.
Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-09-13 09:28||   2008-09-13 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 It's the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers so what country do they care about? Did the rank and file IAMAWs applaud wildly? Do they consider themselves Americans first, or International Workers?
Posted by regular joe 2008-09-13 09:29||   2008-09-13 09:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Good job, Genius. All McCain has to do is bring up his stay at the Hanoi Hilton.

Y'know where that is, right, Obama? It's to the north of Indonesia.....
Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-13 09:32||   2008-09-13 09:32|| Front Page Top

#10 "it's fair to ask --- which country?"

France? Belgium? Switzerland?
Posted by Raj 2008-09-13 09:45||   2008-09-13 09:45|| Front Page Top

#11 America, which is not the Amerikkka you knew in church, Baracky
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-13 10:56||   2008-09-13 10:56|| Front Page Top

#12 There's some interesting politics behind this one IIUC. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers are involved in airplane production and have clashed a lot with Boeing in particular over the last 5 years or so.  McCain is known as a critic  of Boeing from the angle of military procurement, and of course there's the open issue of the USAF tanker buy. So Obama's indirectly critiquing Mac's pressure on BMAC. As an intellectual position it has some (small) merit. Might even strike an emotional chord with some workers in states like Washington. We'll see what happens when McCain starts stressing the economic steps he talked about in his acceptance speech, including retraining and investment in energy-related industries.
Posted by lotp 2008-09-13 11:06||   2008-09-13 11:06|| Front Page Top

#13 I can see the point lotp, but it would have been better put if his opponent was Mitt or someone else. Saying about a former POW that gave up so much for his country is just crass.

Keep up the good work tanking in the polls Bambi.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-13 11:31||   2008-09-13 11:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Crass indeed.
Posted by lotp 2008-09-13 11:33||   2008-09-13 11:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Washington is not likely to be a battleground state, so the subtlety is lost and the crassness nationwide. Wait for the debate. McGovernesque.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-13 12:44||   2008-09-13 12:44|| Front Page Top

#16 
Washington is not likely to be a battleground state
Actually, the latest poll shows McCain down by just two (!) and Rossi up by six.

Of course, if Obama loses WA then he's been blown out anyway, which may be your point.
Posted by JSU 2008-09-13 13:37||   2008-09-13 13:37|| Front Page Top

#17 WA seems in play, but it's a state w/elections in the "Chicago Way." Remember the last governor's race?
Posted by  regular joe 2008-09-13 14:37||   2008-09-13 14:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Unfortunately I do.  ugh.   Contribute to the McCain/Palin/RNC compliance fund, folks - they're gonna need as many briefcases on the ground as we can surge in states like WA.
Posted by lotp 2008-09-13 14:54||   2008-09-13 14:54|| Front Page Top

#19 Obama really, really should have vetted his leftist campaign advisers, like Rarel Koveski:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/RarelKoveski.jpg
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-13 15:00||   2008-09-13 15:00|| Front Page Top

#20 ROFL, 'moose. ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-09-13 19:53|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-09-13 19:53|| Front Page Top

#21 If any of the left coast states are in serious play, The One may be Second.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-13 20:21||   2008-09-13 20:21|| Front Page Top

#22 I am Barack Obama, and I approve of this message:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZkjIQzWcc
Posted by Barack Obama 2008-09-13 20:30||   2008-09-13 20:30|| Front Page Top

#23 Are the Washington poll numbers are product of the Palin addition?
Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-13 21:08||   2008-09-13 21:08|| Front Page Top

#24 I don't think they're completely a product of Palin's addition. IIRC the Democratic governor up there isn't particularly popular so there's likely a local effect going on as well.
Posted by AzCat 2008-09-13 22:00||   2008-09-13 22:00|| Front Page Top

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