Comments on: Campaign Trail: The Wrong Attacks at the Wrong Time

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:56:05 +0000

The Congress has a low approval rating for the same reason President Bush has a low approval rating: consistently terrible job performance over a period of many, many years.

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:14:27 +0000

BBQ,
Depending on which poll you look at (pollingreport.com) Dems and Republicans in Congress get similar approval ratings ~25%. Some polls show the Dems in Congress as having a better rating than the Republicans and vice-versa.

More importantly, generic Democrats beat Republicans in polls in congress and for the presidency.

By: BBQ

BBQ — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:01:45 +0000

Chris is that the poll that has Congress at 9%? Who is in charge of that again?

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:46:09 +0000

AR,
You must have been looking for a “centrist” site. You won't find a false sense of equality between the stupidity of the two parties here. The Republicans take the cake, and the American people agree. Read the polls.

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:30:51 +0000

Oops, sorry. I was looking for a Moderate site. Can't imagine how I ended up at DU.

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:29:17 +0000

katiec: "I really think the republicans realize their convention is going to be a
total flop so they are using any excuse they can to postpone it."

My sentiments exactly. The only way the Republicans can win this election is by hiding everything, whether it's their policies or leaders. Palin represents the sam eold thinking of the current Republican leaders.... she supports teaching creationism in schools, does not believe that global warming is caused by humans, etc... And of course she's under investigation in Alaska for abusing her power.

The list goes on but I'll end there.

By: Jazz

Jazz — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:24:01 +0000

Glad you guys caught the Fowler thing for me. I began looking to see where the heck Obama said that, and of course it turns out that he didn't, nor did any of his campaign reps. Fowler's got himself a case of foot in mouth disease, though.

“Coming up next on Dumb Politicos Who Say Dumb Things….”

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:20:17 +0000

The McCain campaign has no shame. McCain has systematically squandered his reserves of honor and respect.

By: Gichin13

Gichin13 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:30:02 +0000

Definitely a misleading quote there casualobserver — that was not Obama or Biden talking, hell it wasn't even Dean or Pelosi. It was Dan Fowler who was surreptitiously recorded during a conversation on a plane flight by someone sitting behind him. Crappy statement, but definitely not anyone making a campaign point.

By: katiec

katiec — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:27:35 +0000

I really think the republicans realize their convention is going to be a
total flop so they are using any excuse they can to postpone it.
Bush and Cheny not attending is an asset and they have been
trying to figure out how to gracefully have the president not appear.
People are tired of the swiftboating, lies, distortions, pandering
of Mccain and company.
People expect the politician running for office to really care
about our country and well being.
The republicans have not done this for eight years, and a
few speaches are not going to change the facts.

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:13:18 +0000

Here's a link to a news report on the Focus on the Family guy's request for prayers for rain of "biblical proportions" on Obama.

By: elrod

elrod — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:48:48 +0000

The guy who made those idiotic comments apologized. He also has no authority in the Democratic Party anymore.

By: Peter_Allen

Peter_Allen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:46:16 +0000

In closing, I would note that it probably seems like I’ve been doing an awful lot of slamming of Team McCain over the last 96 hours, but rest assured that I have not joined the masses of the Obama faithful.

And here I was, starting to get concerned about your health. Good to see that my fears were unfounded .

By: onleyone

onleyone — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:43:52 +0000

CO:

of course, it's shameful, no matter who said it. but it *was* the pro-GOP Dobson cabal that started down the Godly Weather Summoning slippery-slope, heheh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJY0NuBC7vo

By: SteveK

SteveK — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:43:47 +0000

“So he attacks us while there’s a hurricane going on and John McCain suspends his convention basically. What bigger contrast can you have about putting your country first?”

What bigger contrast... boy howdy. A vote for McCain is a vote for four more years of the "afraid of your own shadow" party.

Gustav on the horizon... Republicans panic and shut down everything.

Gustav peters out and the Republicans twittle their thumbs and look for someone to blame for ruining the first day of their convention. The perfect example of the GOP mindset... the perfect example of Republican actions of the last eight years, Panic and Overreact.

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:33:09 +0000

As a practical measure, of course McCain should be keeping his entourage out of the way of the emergency.

I can't believe he's not being criticized for doing this.

Thanks for paying attention.

By: casualobserver

casualobserver — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:18:16 +0000

Speaking of the wrong attacks at the wrong time………

“The hurricane’s going to hit New Orleans about the time they start. The timing is — at least it appears now that it’ll be there Monday. That just demonstrates that God’s on our side. [Laughter] Everything’s cool.”

So, Jazz, just what qualifies as “foot in mouth” disease to you as far as the Obama campaign goes?