McCain's New Stump Speech: "Lusty Attacks" On Obama, "Very Few Specifics" On Economy

New York Times:

Senator John McCain devoted most of two campaign appearances on Wednesday to lusty attacks on Senator Barack Obama and gave less attention, and offered very few specifics, to the growing economic woes of American voters.

In both appearances, in this suburb of Cleveland and at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., Mr. McCain's stump speech followed the same pattern: In broad, quick strokes, he reiterated the economic proposal he raised at his debate with Mr. Obama on Tuesday night -- a "homeownership resurgence plan," in which the government would buy mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage services and replace them with what he called "manageable" mortgages.

After that, he raced through promises of jobs, tax cuts, lower prices, better health care, a spending freeze and a balanced federal budget by the end of his first term. With that done, Mr. McCain then dived into the core of his speech, a lengthy, full-throated and crowd-pleasing criticism of Mr. Obama's record, character and judgment.

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Comments

[XME]

Folks, as many of you as possible need to contact McCain, in every manner possible, to let them know that voters are disgusted by INCITING HATEMONGERING. If even an attempt his made to harm Obama, John McCain and everyone involved with his campaign will bear some responsibility, and they need to know that Americans are disgusted and ashamed of such behavior in an attempt to win an election!

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[PT6]

McCain Matches Wall Street Corruption and Fake Justification for War in Iraq

McCAIN MATCHED “WALL STREET CORRUPTION IN HIS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN” BY PULLING A “TRICK” WHICH WALL STREET OF LAST YEAR WOULD BE PROUD!
HIS MOVE ALSO ECHOS BACK TO THE "FALSE JUSTIFICATION FOR ENTERING IRAQ!"

When McCain heard that the Alaska Sureme Court denied the Delay he wanted and knowing that the Alaska Congress is releasing an “Authorized Misuse of Power Investigation Report by a Respected Investigator,” McCain pulls a “TRICK” out of the “Wall Street Hat of Tricks.” No it was not "naked shorts" or "excessive leveraging" or combining "risky loans into "AAA" paper!

McCain had a Bogus Unauthorized Report manufactured which echos back to the Manufactured Justification for Going into Iraq by Bush/Cheney.

So this smacks of both the Current Corruption on Wall Street and the Corruption in the Bush Administration related to “Faking the Need for a War in Iraq stating Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

This brings McCain/Palin into the middle of the Corruption that McCain says he is trying to FIGHT and ELIMINATE!

This will further convince the AMERICAN PEOPLE he is UNFIT to Lead!

McCain could have been free of a VP candidate who is clearly pulling his campaign down and put in FRESH BLOOD!

But instead he decides to jump in the middle of this "Misuse of Power Findings" with both feet and make himself part of the dishonesty!

[Lupin77]

I watched one of his recent campaign stops and he reminded me of a Jack in the Box who suddenly pops out and is all nervously all over the place. Noticed his voice is very shaky when he addresses audiences. Is he taking some sort of medication?

[mamacat]

While I am saddened as I watch the depths to which the Republican Party will sink as it makes meaningless attacks on Obama, I also think that their message of hatred and fear will not work this time. It is my opinion that the Republican message is irrelevant, and falling on deaf ears.

[khiva]

"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle." Solzhenitsyn

[GraceNeeded]

Desperate people do desperate things! Don't get worked up over this folks. Voters are learning who has their best interests at heart. The polls show they see Senator McCain and Gov. Palin for who they are. For some it takes longer than others. Some of us don't have the time or interest to research and study issues, but the economic crisis is making it all the more apparent. It is too bad that Senator McCain has chosen to take this path, but he is only showing the limits of his ability to really solve problems. He can't and hasn't and won't be able to solve the problems we have. Whatever he had to offer he already has and there just ain't no more to give!

[LAB11]

McSame's "turning the page on America's economic crisis" can only be done if he is successful in forcing OBAMA to turn the page to non-issues. America demands that he who would be president proclaim, "Thanks, but no thanks to that BRIDGE TO NOWHERE!" After all, it is the economy, stupid.

[LemonMeringue]

The Army infantry moved a brigade from Iraq to the U.S. soil, for domestic "crowd control."

The Posse Comitatus Act is no more.

Be afraid.

video 2 parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl6RXRHMXwE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYyvw0x4h88&feature=related

[MikeyG]

Obama - "I have as much experience in the Congress as Abraham Lincoln did when he sought the presidency."

McCain - "Senator, I served with Abraham Lincoln. I knew Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Abraham Lincoln!"

[wmafoune]

LOL,....Good one. i can see him saying that. too

[piper1233]

Who is John Sidney McCain the Third? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAyK-enrF1g

[kkuate]

More than once, John McCain has assured the nation he knows how to get Osama Bin Laden, and he will get him when he is president.... Has he shared this information with General Petraeus and President Bush? To my knowledge he hasn’t shared this information with anybody yet. Is he lying? Is he delusional? Or is he unpatriotic by not acting now to capture America’s number one enemy?

Senator McCain, would you mind explainig yourself on this issue? And please, no more lies about you not wanting to telegram your secret to Bin Laden... We are grown ups and have learned to discern when you are lying.

[Terriac]

He may be pleasing these crowds and thinking he's changing minds. He's not. These morons at these rallies would have voted for McCain no matter what. He's simply preaching to his own choir. Nobody else in buying this nonsense.

[GeezerusMaximus]

The homeownership resurgence plan only makes sense to people who think houses are green and hotels are red. It is an ill conceived publicity stunt. It was only meant to deflect legitimate criticism of McCain's economic shortcomings.

[Icantbelieveher]

“Is he the candidate who promises change, or is he the politician who has bought into everything that is wrong with Washington?”

Didn't McVain say that he hasn't been in Washington long enough to have the experience? McVain has been in Washington for 26 years, but what has he changed? He keeps saying he will reform Washington, but where? Why hasn't he done anything?

No one believes him any more!

[MHF]

God, November 4th cannot come soon enough. The awful campaign tactics of McCain and Palin are so hateful and totally the same tactics that our girl Hill used on Barack in the primary. It didn't work for her and it will not work for them. Real people don't want to hear from one about the other we want to hear what in the heck you are going to do about the state of our nation. Clearly the Republicans think everything is fine just the way it is. They have no plans for change, they only want to win by any means to keep the right wing neo con powers that be intact, how frightening for the rest of us. A no win unnecessary war, an economy that should be on the Titanic, no jobs unless we all relocate to China, insurance companies holding our lives in their hands, oil barons willing to drill away the health of our planet and all the while the rich get richer. Only Barack and Biden speak on these issues so for me the choice is clear. I feel for decent Republicans, unless they take a stand, by showing their distaste at the polls for what their party has become, they are doomed.