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• 1. Joe  |  October 6th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

  Financial meltdown - McCain didn’t know what else to do but a gimmick of suspending his campaign.

  Foreclosures continue to rise - McCain has no plan. Let’s dergulate some more!

  Oil/Gas prices still killing the average American - McCain, let’s drill drill drill and hope that in 10 years the price will drop by one half of one percent. Meanwhile, he votes down alternative energy subsidies.

  Healthcare - millions without healthcare. McCain says let’s privatize it. As if less regulation worked so freaking well for the mortgage market. Let’s tax people’s company sponsored healthcare while I give the wealthy another unneeded tax cut.

  Iraq - Let’s stay there until we “win”. Look… we’ve already “won”, now we need to get out and let Iraq govern themselves for better or for worse. We also need to stop blowing $12 billion a month.

  Iran - bomb bomb bomb…. NO! Talk talk talk.

  Those are issues. It would be nice if this 72 year old clown would actually TALK ABOUT THEM. I understand his VP choice can’t talk about them as she doesn’t quite understand them, but the guy at the top of the ticket should be able to speak intelligently on them.

  McCain/Palin - no ideas. Let’s swiftboat and win by tearing the opposition down.

  That straight talk express is heading over the cliff and the American people see it.

  You folks keep posting this stuff yet you don’t defend any of it. Why?

• 2. Joe  |  October 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

  By the way… have you ever actually READ factcheck.org???
  It says exactly when Obama isn’t telling the truth and exactly when McCain isn’t.

  They can’t help it if McCain just happens to lie more often.

• 3. Joe  |  October 7th, 2008 at 8:56 am

  I HATE gutter-politics. But since McCain/Palin want to accuse Obama of “palling around with terrorists”…

  McCain linked to private group in Iran-Contra case
  WASHINGTON - GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.

  Elected to the House in 1982 and at a time when he was on the board of Singlaub’s council, McCain was among Republicans on Capitol Hill expressing support for the Contras, a CIA-organized guerrilla force in Central America. In 1984, Congress cut off CIA funds for the Contras.

  McCain has said previously he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group’s letterhead.
  “I didn’t know whether (the group’s activity) was legal or illegal, but I didn’t think I wanted to be associated with them,” McCain said in a newspaper interview in 1986.
  Singlaub does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986. Nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group’s day-to-day activities.
  “That’s a surprise to me,” Singlaub said. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard that. There may have been someone in his office communicating with our office.”
  “I don’t ever remember hearing about his resigning, but I really wasn’t worried about that part of our activities, a housekeeping thing,” said Singlaub.

  Can we now get back to issues that affect the average person? Oh… that’s right……. McCain has no ideas on issues that affect the average person.

• 4. Joe  |  October 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

  I know, I know… this is just an “opinion piece”, but it lays things out so perfectly.

  
  Link Here
  The End of Days is approaching for John McCain and Sarah Palin, and at least one member of the ticket is not likely to greet this development with religious rapture. Their numbers are tanking. Their campaign has had to pull out of Michigan, and they are trailing in most of the battleground states they must hold onto. McCain’s hotheaded behavior during the Wall Street crisis and his numerous other erratic tactical swerves have backfired. And his biggest gamble, choosing Sarah Palin as vice president, is increasingly looking like a disaster.

  McCain’s all-too-predictable response: get ugly, as he did on Monday is his disturbing rant against Obama in New Mexico.

  The man who incessantly talks about “honor” has checked his own at the door. Back in April, McCain — himself the victim of a vicious, race-baiting smear campaign orchestrated by Karl Rove in 2000 — disavowed a North Carolina ad attacking Obama for his association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “It’s not the message of the Republican Party,” McCain said. “It’s not the message of my campaign. I’ve pledged to conduct a respectful campaign.”

  But that was before McCain faced imminent defeat. His “pledge” has turned out to be about as credible as his sudden incarnation as a lifelong enemy of Wall Street. On Monday, McCain rolled out a new TV ad, “Dangerous,” that accuses Obama of being “dishonorable.” “Who is Barack Obama?” a narrator ominously asks. “He says our troops in Afghanistan are ‘just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.’ How dishonorable.”

  Of course, this is an outrageous smear. Obama was simply pointing out the well-known fact that in fighting an insurgency, over-reliance on air power is counterproductive. That’s because airstrikes inevitably result in civilian deaths, which turn the population against the side carrying them out. U.S. airstrikes and the ensuing civilian casualties are one of the biggest points of contention between the U.S. and Hamid Karzai’s regime in Afghanistan, and they are a huge issue in Pakistan and Iraq as well.

  But none of those facts matter, because McCain desperately needs to paint Obama as a traitor, an alien, a defeatist, and un-American. The rhetorical question “Who is Barack Obama?” is not accidental: It is intended to raise fundamental doubts about whether he is a real American. It ties into the online smears that accuse him of being a Muslim, a terrorist, of not saluting the flag, hating the troops, attending a madrassa, hating Israel, and so on.

  In a fear-mongering speech on Monday, McCain continued this Mysterious Stranger tactic. “Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there’s always a back story with Sen. Obama,” McCain said. “All people want to know is: What has this man ever actually accomplished in government? What does he plan for America? In short: Who is the real Barack Obama?” Cue a subconscious image of a dark, menacing figure planning to impose sharia law on America.

  Sarah Palin, confidently pronouncing on Obama’s bona fides despite the fact that she has repeatedly revealed herself to a terrified world to be someone who must be kept as far away from the presidency as possible, joined in the smear campaign. Citing Obama’s acquaintance with former Weatherman founder Bill Ayers, Palin said about the Democratic presidential nominee, “This is not a man who sees America as you and I do — as the greatest force for good in the world. This is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

  McCain has sufficiently thrown his own integrity under his “stratight-talk express” bus. If this is about judgement, McCain’s has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he seriously lacks the good kind.

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  I hope the lack of defending the smears and the deafening silence from KM, Geoff and Matt is a sign that they will go thru the motions of posting the smears, but they too have lost complete faith in John McCain and realize how awful a McCain/Palin Administration would be to this country.

• 5. Michael  |  October 9th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

  “If Congress does not act American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole.” Sen. John McCain 2005

• 6. bozo  |  October 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

  So Reagan’s pal Annenberg chums around with terrorists…

  Doesn’t seem likely, but if you say so.

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