Comments on: Amid Sagging Polls, McCain Campaign Readies New Two-Part Obama Attack

By: DonO

DonO — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:56:56 +0000

AMERICA REALLY NEEDS AND WANTS A NEW AND TRUE HERO. NOT A “MESSIAH”. This race for the top chair is going to the one that can either be honest or deceitful in swaying the voters. So far we have a tie between the two major contenders. Mc Cain refuses to take the gloves off and set the record straight about the cause of the current financial “bull pie” tied to Clinton, previous and current democrats. Obama always has preconditions of topics allowed for any interview including those who interview his wife. Makes me wonder if there was such an agreement for the debate since he originally declined McCain's offer to debate in the first place. This is such a quagmire I sometimes think if McCain is out of “the ring” and no longer willing to fight he should be the “Gentleman” and step aside for someone else to deliver the blow.

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By: JLM

JLM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:40:01 +0000

Well, I don't think John will appoint her, do you? Hahahahahha!

OK, I know only I think that that was funny. Sorry.

By: JLM

JLM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:38:36 +0000

Really? You're not quite sure about Hillary being a back stabber?

Where the hell have you been for the last 20 years? She's worn out a complete set of those door to door knife salesman knives. The really good ones with the bone handles. LOL

Really?

By: JLM

JLM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:36:26 +0000

Well as for me — “You're absolutely right, John!”

Gee, I do think that McCain did “win” the debate but who really cares.

By: JLM

JLM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:35:18 +0000

Well I guess I am glad that McCain will actually win the election.

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By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:10:54 +0000

Any thoughts on Hillary getting a cabinet appointment? I guess that depends on whether or not there is one she is interested in. I agree though, she can do a lot in the Senate… and there is of course 2012. One election at a time though.

By: All American Blogger » A Field Guide to American Politics - September 28, 2008

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:02:52 +0000

[...] Amid Sagging Polls, McCain Campaign Readies New Two-Part Obama Attack [...]

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:34:29 +0000

Ok Silhouette, you are making some interesting points that I must consider. Hillary in 2012? I would be Ok with it if she divorced Bill. BUT, aren't you kind of discounting the real good she could do at the helm of the Senate? I have to say, I am far more impressed with the work she has done there then the work she did running her campaign. This is in no way a slam. Different people have different skill sets and I think it belittles her to say that she can only achieve something real if she becomes President. Especially since the Presidency would never, ever, be hers alone unless she divorced Bill. The Senate seat from New York is hers. (Perhaps she is a better Senator than she was Presidential Candidate because Bill didn't interfere.)
Regardless, the Democrats need someone smart who isn't afraid to give a Democratic President the facts, yet can be depended on not to stab the President in the back. Hillary as Senate Majority Leader could fill that role very well (although I'm not quite sure about her not being a back stabber, I'd feel better if she dumped Bill.)

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:24:55 +0000

Jim and SoCalGuy… I saw that and had the same question. I think there's a typo in that…. I think those particular swing voters “DO NOT want to vote Republican but don't yet trust Obama.”

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:18:32 +0000

GeorgeSorwell: “By suspending his campaign to deal with credit crisis, then not dealing with it, didn't McCain only make his problems worse?”

Yeah… I agree with you.

Furthermore, if McCain really had suspended his campaign until the crisis was over (and we were “winning”, as evidenced by a rebounding economy) then McCain really would have helped things along and we would be better off.

By: SoCalGuy

SoCalGuy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:14:25 +0000

Thank you – I was just going to post the same question.

By: SoCalGuy

SoCalGuy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:08:27 +0000

Thank you – I was just going to post the same question.

By: historychaser

historychaser — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:20:43 +0000

AND ESPECIALLY IF THE CLINTONS ARE ANNOUNCED AS PART OF HIS TEAM

The trouble with this pipe dream is that Obama did not pick Hilliary. Thus demonstrating very poor judgement. Every time I see Bill Clinton on TV he damns Obama with faint praise.

Obama had his supporters as keyed up as kids the night before Christmas, then gave them socks (Biden). No matter how fancy you wrap them, socks are still socks.

http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com

By: timr

timr — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:36:34 +0000

McCain won the debate? What you been smokin? MOST of the punditocracy(the majority, vast majority in fact) say that Obama won. All he had to show was that he could stand up to McCains “expertise” on national security and foreign affairs. He did. Not only that but McCains body language has been commented on extensively. He was crouched behind his mic. He never looked at Obama, he clenched his jaw and ground his teeth. He was very contemptuous towards Obama. On his implusive gamble before the debate. He is a risk taker, someone who will go with his gut and risk everything on a wild try to go for the home run. He admitted as much in his(ghost written) books.He said” I make lots of mistakes doing this sort of thing, then I have to really scramble to get out of my mistake”.(Think about this. Do you really want McCain to have his finger on the trigger of nuclear war?, You want someone in charge who STILL wants to continue the disastrous bush tax cuts? We are right now just printing money to cover our debts with nothing of value to back all that extra money,who wants to make Phil(father of deregulation) Gramm his SecTreas? Do you really want a wild gambling risk taker in charge? Really?) He made his big gamble when he said to Obama, this is to important, I am not going to the debate because this is more important. IOW, trying to force Obama and the debate people to go along with him-his secondary reason(some believe) was to try and canx the VP debate by reskd the first debate on the VP nite and then redoing the VP debate sometime(like december maybe)-However Obama trumped his card by saying “I'm going,” it only takes a few hours by plane, and anyway we are not involved in this debate here in DC. After all, it was McCain, not bush who wanted the show meeting where he could play st john to the rescue. Unfortunately for him, most people got the impression that instead of saving the agreement, he was the reason it collapsed. McCain gambled everything on his implusive idea. He lost. Even some repigs went on TV and said that McCain should stay far far away from DC. BTW, doesn't McCain know about cell phones, text messaging and E-mails? He could have kept in touch no matter where he was. Instead he looked like a glory hound who was thinking more about his campaign than he was about the country. Even Faux News was saying the same thing. Obama won the debate according to the snap polls and according to the polls out today.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:22:31 +0000

A bit more about the Clinton/Obama situation. Whatever it takes, I am beggin in the cyber equivalent of being on my knees...the two camps need to reconcile and comp up with a compromise. We know Hillary wanted the Oval Office and is gearing up to come back in four years. We know that her reticence to fully back Obama is from wanting him to look weak enough to challenge in four years.

OK, we get it. (You thought you'd never hear me admonishing the Clintons eh?..lol)

Why not have Obama sign a contract in blood with the Clintons that he will not run again in 2012? That he will turn that race over to Hillary? It's something for Barack Obama himself to mull over. Being president is hell on earth. ESPECIALLY this next four years. He will have made history, fulfilled the seat of President in his vigor and before he is drained and scheduled for disemboweling by the bitter and vindictive GOP (like they did to Bill with the Lewinsky setup), Obama can turn the reins over to a fresh and feisty Hillary who then will also go on to make history with Obama high in her cabinet? Then Hillary can turn the race back over to a fresh and still young Obama who will sweep in with an easy win, fresh from the rest, seasoned and ready to sweep up the last bits of dust from a nearly-ruined America..

A split-shift presidency? The next twelve years to reconstruct? We could do it and it would be the very best medicine this nation could take at this juncture. It's time to put grappling, petty egos and personal agendas aside and talk sanity, logic and compromise. Obama needs the Clintons. We all need the Clintons' economic expertise and resume' to entice the world to trust us again.

Admitting we need them isn't that hard. You may hate an expert carpenter because he rubs you the wrong way; but when it's time to put in the foundation for the new World Trade Center, you'd better hire him and put your egos on the back porch.

Hey?

OK, now I'm tugging your pantlegs....guys?

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:16:46 +0000

During the past few days two people who might be swing voters told me they want to vote Republican but don’t yet trust Obama.

Huh?

By: crosspit

crosspit — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:08:45 +0000

Depressing, but probably correct. I've been uneasy with all the blog posting about Palin is a joke, etc. So far she's performed poorly, but if she even does a mediocre job at the debate the McCain heads will just keep trumpeting black is white until the press repeats their talkingpoints enough to make an impact. McCain has shown he has no problem with outright lying and smears, so another 4 weeks allows him plenty of time to correct the upswing for Obama. And, of course, they could use a Palin daughter wedding to distract the press for a week or longer…. But I'm not a politico so I hope my worries are crap.

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:04:39 +0000

McCain cannot talk about fiscal sanity, budget cuts, or restraint because the idiots in the Bush Administration and advisors like Karl Rove were convinced that the Repulbicans could be the second big government, big spending party.

Now President Bush has five or more trillion dollars to the national debt and has the lowest approval rating possible.