And whatever it was he was ripped off. I know McCain's war chest seems more like a glove compartment compared to Obama's but still, buying your campaign playbook from the loser of the last race doesn't make any sense. It would be like plagiarizing last year's Laker's strategy when it was your team's turn against the Celtics.
It really seems that the only voting bloc McCain is courting these days is that of the Angry Old Man.
Not since the NAACP convention has McCain made a single non-vituperative comment about Obama. Instead, McCain's answer to "Yes, we can," seems to be "HEY YOU KIDS. GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!"
Before this campaign I always had a bit of a soft spot for McCain, the lone Republican to stand up to the Bush disaster. Two years ago I assumed the two nominees would have been McCain and Hillary and although I would have voted for Hillary, I didn't really think there would be that big of a difference.
Well, that well of good will has long-since dried up. Much has been made of McCain's scurrilous contention that Obama is a traitor who would rather lose the war than a political contest, but it was McCain's reptilian smile after delivering the line that sent a chill down my spine. I've seen him charming and light on the Daily Show but it really seems that the main substance flowing through his veins these days is hate. How else to explain the ad his camp is running now saying Obama would rather play basketball than visit wounded troops? If that came from some rich right wing nut I would have just shrugged it off but to hear, "I'm John McCain and I approve this message" at the end was a shock. When George Bush and Karl Rove spread the rumor that McCain had an illegitimate black baby they at least had the good sense to cover their asses with plausible deniability.
(This from the man who obstructed the latest GI Bill, and seems willing to cripple our own armed forces, watch al Qaeda reconstitute and the Taliban retake Afghanistan, all so he can tell himself that we won the war in Iraq.)
Senator McCain, a friendly hint from the opposition: instead of trying to get us to believe that a calm, charming, educated man is actually craven, ignorant and traitorous, try telling Americans how you'd plan on righting this listing ship of state.
Inflating your resume with blatant lies like Bosnian snipe fire
Ads that darken the features of your opponent to increase racial tensions
So basically, scare tactics and fear mongering, making your opponent look weak on security and Defense, that's been the Republican play book for decades. Hillary just happened to copy them.
How do you mean Rodham's campaign picked up? One might say, too little too late, if it did pickup. It was TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE, right after Super Tuesday.
I guess you will also think twice about PRIMARYing out of turn, NEXT TIME.
Ans: 6 drops of Essence of Terror ; 5 cups of Sinister Sauce
Hillary has nothing to do without the MCCain campaign. If you saw any of the Black in American series last week you would understand whether you want to believe it or not this is still the most racist nation in the world. All other countries copied the American system of segregation on how to keep the races apart. Before this is all over you will understand what your MOMMY and DADDY have been telling you for years. It is still here and McCain and the republicans have just started.
That just stinks, assigning these tactics to Clinton. She tried to warn her Party that Obama would be subject to scrutiny that he could not stand up to. And that the GOP would be way worse than anything that she ever dished out. So here we are. DON’T BLAME CLINTON!
The reason he can blame Clinton is that she gave the Repubs half of there talking points by being Rovishly, mean herself
Make no mistake about this though, the article is about Hills giving credence and authority to "Where no one has gone before". Not even Reps would dared touch the kind of issues that Hills put out there. The perception would have been disastrous. Hills gave them the okay.
It's like, an A.A. getting on one of their own, Jacko for instance, it suddenly becomes "fair-game" for all others.
The majority of Dems knew what she was doing then, and know what, why and how it's happening for the Rush-Lim side now.
Most A.A.'s never heard of O and was on her side until bill went spastic after Iowa. Still on her side until, finally enough was enough.
You all know what I'm talking about, throw the Blacks under the bus strategy.
I do not think that you speak for A.A.'s and Obama threw them under the bus back in June so he could get his membership into the DNC Good 'ol Boys Club and get those delegates. Od didn't you notice?
Although with the latest swift boating of Obama about wounded soldiers that's been going on plus the utter failure of anyone in the media, to highlight the following exchange from McCain's interview on ABC last Sunday:
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, that means payroll tax increases are on the table, as well?
MCCAIN: There is nothing that's off the table. I have my positions, and I'll articulate them. But nothing's off the table.
(This Week with George Stephanopoulos. July 27, 2008)
We put our money where his mouth is at. That's how it's supposed to work.
She loaning her campaign 10M out of her hubby's speaking fees while McC borrowed 10M of his wife's beer money. At least Mitt's wife had the good sense to cut him off.
And how dare he spend the money that so many of people have donated to his campaign! He should have led an idiotic campaign and put it millions in debt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ieHwOm4ljA
The worst part of McCain's lie about "playing basketball" instead of visiting the troops, is the total intentional dishonesty of it because they all know...Obama was playing WITH THE TROOPS!!! IN AFGHANISTAN!!!!!
As for McCain being "the lone Republican to stand up to the Bush disaster"-- isn't that a big MEDIA LIE, too???
What about Lincoln Chaffee, Chuck Hagel, and Olympia Snowe, just to name a few of the most outspoken moderate Republicans?
McCain has voted with Bush 95% of the time and has, according to the NYT, an even more conservative agenda.
I think the "maverick, independent" is more fiction than fact, at least at this point.
It always has been and always will be more fiction than fact.
Attack patriotism, check.
Attack support of troops, check.
Attack character, check.
Attack where you're weak yourself, check.
Complain about liberal media, check.
Hillary's idiot advisors had her taking some plays from the Republican playbook, but they backfired because this whole country is sick of this nasty, useless kinda sh*t.
Let McCain continue with it, it will get him nowhere.
McCain is as manufactured as they come. The thing is that he was manufactured to be the third admiral in a row from his family and he failed to achieve that goal.
He decided that after a tour as the Naval liaison to the congress and being set up with Cindy that the life of a politician was for him. Since that choice was made he and his handlers have decided to manufacture a maverick. It would appear as though he might well fail to achieve that goal as well.