Posts with the tag 'John McCain'
Earlier today on CNN, Barack Obama essentially called John McCain a loony old man for mentioning that Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama.
Now, of course, Howard Dean and the DNC have said that they won’t make Senator McCain’s age an issue, but we’ve already seen the “ethical bar” that Dean and Obama have, so it isn’t a shock that Senator Obama would try this. It became clear that Barack Obama’s “new politics” are little more than old style Chicago sewer politics.
Anyway, Senator McCain’s Chief of Staff Mark Salter responded with this letter.
To: Interested Parties
From: Mark Salter, Senior Advisor
Date: May 8, 2008
Re: Senator Obama’s Attack Today
First, let us be clear about the nature of Senator Obama’s attack today: He used the words ‘losing his bearings’ intentionally, a not particularly clever way of raising John McCain’s age as an issue. This is typical of the Obama style of campaigning.
We have all become familiar with Senator Obama’s new brand of politics. First, you demand civility from your opponent, then you attack him, distort his record and send out surrogates to question his integrity. It is called hypocrisy, and it is the oldest kind of politics there is.
It is important to focus on what Senator Obama is attempting to do here: He is trying desperately to delegitimize the discussion of issues that raise legitimate questions about his judgment and preparedness to be President of the United States.
Through their actions and words, Senator Obama and his supporters have made clear that ANY criticism on ANY issue — from his desire to raise taxes on millions of small investors to his radical plans to sit down face-to-face with Iranian President Ahmadinejad – constitute negative, personal attacks.
Senator Obama is hopeful that the media will continue to form a protective barrier around him, declaring serious limits to the questions, discussion and debate in this race.
Senator Obama has good reason to think this plan will succeed, as serious journalists have written of the need for ‘de-tox’ to cure ’swooning’ over Senator Obama, and others have admitted to losing their objectivity while with him on the campaign trail.
Today, Senator Obama is complaining about comments John McCain made about a senior Hamas advisor stating that Hamas would welcome Senator Obama’s election as president. Indeed, on April 13th, senior Hamas political advisor Ahmed Yousef said, ‘We don’t mind – actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance.’
The McCain campaign has never suggested that Senator Obama supports Hamas’ agenda, but it is more than fair to raise this quote about Senator Obama because it speaks to the policy implications of his judgment.
Just today, the president of Iran, whom Senator Obama wants to meet with unconditionally, called the state of Israel a ’stinking corpse.’ Iran is the paymaster and state sponsor of Hamas.
In his victory speech this week, Senator Obama stated that ‘wisdom’ is meeting with our enemies, including Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Raul Castro. John McCain couldn’t disagree more. Rather than giving tyrants and dictators the prestige of meeting with an American president, John McCain will instead meet with the champions of human freedom around the world and opposition leaders fighting for liberty .
We understand why Senator Obama doesn’t want to engage in a debate over leadership and judgment with John McCain, but the American people demand that debate take place.
These are serious times that call for a serious debate on the profound issues facing our future. John McCain is ready for that debate and we hope Senator Obama will one day get serious and join it.
Team Hope fired back with their usual line about Hope and Change or something. I see no reason to post it, I’m sure you can all recite it off without having to read it.
Tags: age, Barack Obama, DNC, John McCain, mccain, Obama
May 9th, 2008
This of course, was said by Senator Barack Obama last Friday in an effort to assure voters that he and his wife are not .
One of two things has happened. Either the United States has suddenly become a country of millionaire Ivy League educated lawyers in the last couple of weeks, or Barack Obama has fallen back on his old stand by.
Lying.
My upbringing was much more reflective of what working class black and whites go through than John McCain’s background being raised as the son of an admiral in boarding schools or Hillary Clinton out in the suburbs of Park Ridge.
(John McCain, Jr, did not become a Rear Admiral until 1958, the year Senator McCain graduated from the Naval Academy. So no, Senator McCain did not grow up the son of an Admiral, but that’s neither here nor there.)
I can only assume he is referring to that brutal time when he was raised by a bank vice president (the typical white racist) and attended an elite prep school in Hawaii.
Oh the humanity of it all.
Barack Obama. He’s just like YOU!
Except for all the money and elite education.
The funny thing is, I don’t even know why Barack Obama is lying about this particular topic. I don’t exactly think positioning yourself as the most hard off of three millionaires is exactly going to endear yourself to the people fighting to pay the bills. Nor do I think Barack Obama really wants to get into a battle with John McCain over who has had a harder life. I think John McCain wins that one pretty easily.
Tags: Barack Obama, elitism, John McCain, mccain
May 6th, 2008
A Press Release from Senator McCain’s Campaign
For Immediate Release
May 2, 2008
Contact: Press Office
703-650-5550
Statement By John McCain on Today’s Jobs Report
ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today issued the following statement on the jobs report:
“Today’s job numbers are another clear indication of the economic challenges facing our country. With Americans hurting, we must act to strengthen our economy for families and small businesses. We must help Americans now through gas tax relief, which provides immediate relief from rising energy prices. We must also help those facing home foreclosure by enacting a HOME plan. At the same time, we need to act to lower taxes, streamline regulation, lower health care costs, ensure energy independence and open foreign markets. To help those who have lost jobs, we must focus on promoting effective worker re-training programs.
“The wrong course for our country would be to follow Senators Obama and Clinton and their siren songs of higher taxes, bigger government, greater isolationism and a government-run health care system.”
Tags: Jobs, John McCain
May 3rd, 2008
Red State and Hot Air have the story.
Hugo Chavez of course sponsors terrorism in Columbia, but Senator Obama is keeping their playdate on his Mad Man World Tour because he meets Senator Obama’s bizarre Head of State exemption for terrorism enablers (see: Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud)
This isn’t exactly a huge shock or anything, but it is further confirmation of the type of people around the world that would love to see this country vote against John McCain and for Barack Obama this November.
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, FARC, Hugo Chavez, John McCain, mccain, terrorism
April 30th, 2008
The Los Angeles Times has an editorial on Senator McCain’s Time for Action tour, contrasting it with Clinton and Obama’s campaigns.
It’s not a new message from the Arizona senator, who follows an unpredictable political muse but typically favors smaller government and less regulation. Yet the context was important. Standing outside the Ohio factory Tuesday, in a state where Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton pandered to protectionists, McCain actually stood up for the North American Free Trade Agreement and free trade. The lost factory jobs aren’t coming back, McCain said, and rather than waging a futile fight against globalization, Washington should do a better job training workers for careers in the new economy.
As Ed Morrissey notes, the real story here isn’t necessarily the praise for McCain, but that a paper like the Los Angeles Times is calling out Clinton and The Leader of the New Hope for their blatant pandering. Ed links that with improving poll numbers in California for McCain, but I’m not holding my breath on that one.
Maybe tomorrow the New York Times will write a fair piece.
Well, no, they won’t, but its fun to pretend.
Tags: Clinton, John McCain, LA Times, mccain, Obama
April 26th, 2008
Barack Obama’s total lack of experience or legislative accomplishment has forced him to run a very different kind of Presidential campaign, mainly using abstract concepts like hope and change. When he was finally pressed to campaign on something concrete, Senator Obama decided to campaign on his “judgment” which seems to begin and end with a speech he gave in 2002. But that’s not the point. Senator Obama has the Judgment to Lead! He even puts it on spiffy banners!
Now, you would think that if a candidate wants to run on his judgment, the thinks he says, does, lies about and the company he keeps would all be valid topics of discussion.
You’d be wrong, of course.
According to Team Hope, anything pertaining to Obama’s friends, pastor, lifestyle, wife, or even his own actions and comments have nothing to do with Barack Obama’s judgment. No, they are manufactured distractions, that distract from the real issues, which is apparently Barack Obama’s judgment that one time and not all the other times.
It makes no sense to me, and Theo Caldwell agrees.
The bumper-sticker slogan “dissent is patriotic” has for decades been employed to legitimize any insult to America, no matter how hateful or moronic. But Americans understand that their president’s instinct ought to be to defend the nation against unfair invective, not embrace those who purvey it — or, in the case of Ayers, seek to blow it up altogether.
With his demonstrable view of America, and considering his cohorts, Obama would be wise to make himself very comfortable in the Senate.
Barack Obama can continue to dismiss any criticism as a distraction. I certainly hope he does. When January comes around, he can stew over all these distractions with Michelle, Bill and Jeremiah while John McCain takes the Oath of Office.
Tags: Barack Obama, change, experience, hope, John McCain, mccain, president, Senator Obama
April 22nd, 2008
Wall Street Journal has an editorial on President Jimmy Carter’s trip, including this quote he gave over the weekend.
In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels,” he said over the weekend, responding to a question from an Israeli journalist who noted that Mr. Carter had been snubbed by most of Israel’s top leadership and reprimanded by its president, Shimon Peres. “When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people
Oh good.
At least we finally know why Senator Obama is so gosh darn eager to have tea with Raul Castro. He’s the voice of the people, at least in the eyes of the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party in America, of which Carter and Obama are both card carrying members.
If I was an undecided voter, this issue alone would cause me to vote for John McCain. McCain lives in the real world. Carter, Obama, and the Democratic elite live in the world where its okay to chit chat with every mad man on earth because they represent the will of the people.
Tags: Barack Obama, dictators, foreign policy, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, mccain
April 15th, 2008
Titled Ignite.
The AP has some analysis on the video
ANALYSIS: McCain, who has said economics is not his strong suit, is coupling the release of this ad with a speech in Pittsburgh in which he focuses on the gas tax, Medicare premiums and the tax deduction for dependent children. His first ad in perennial battleground states Ohio and Pennsylvania is an appeal to swing voters who will be key if he wants to win November’s head-to-head contest with the Democratic nominee. The ad is scant on details but appeals to Republicans with talk of taxes and to independents with his pledge to make health care cheaper and home mortgages less problematic.
As Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton continue to chase their party’s nomination, McCain is laying the groundwork in states that will be key in November. He runs about even with both Democrats in hypothetical polling matchups months before November.
McCain’s fast-moving ad shows a vigorous campaigner and tries to quiet concerns that, at 71, he is too old for the White House.
With Barack Obama doing everything he can to lose Pennsylvania, McCain is very wise to run an ad that focuses on the common Pennsylvania resident that Obama so despises.
Tags: ads, General Election, John McCain, mccain, Ohio, Pennsylvania
April 15th, 2008
In the days since Senator Barack Obama’s remarks at a San Francisco fund raiser have become widely known, Senator Obama and his surrogates have been fiercely trying to spin the Leader of the New Hope’s latest example of what he considers the “politics of hope.”
Unsurprisingly, Team Hope has focussed largely on the word ‘bitter’ and tried their very best to make everyone forget about the troubling snobbishness and elitism of the full statement, one I’m sure Senator Obama never thought the general public would ever hear.
Jake Tapper at the Political Punch writes about this and the Obama Campaign’s attempt to convince us that he said something other than what he actually said.
A robo-call on behalf of the Obama campaign from Mayor John Brenner of York, Pa., says that, “Barack Obama understands us. He’s got it right, we are frustrated — frustrated with polices that enable businesses to leave our community, pensions to be stripped, health care benefits to be taken away and homes foreclosed. Unlike his opponents, who have been part of the Washington establishment that are out of touch with us, Barack Obama will change Washington. It is policies that hurt us. He will take on the special interests and fight for us.”
On Obama’s Web site, a public letter from 21 Pennsylvania “elected officials and community leaders from small towns and rural areas throughout Pennsylvania” defend him, saying, “What Sen. Obama said is that over the last 25-30 years, working class people in places like Pennsylvania have been falling behind, and that politicians in Washington haven’t been looking out for them. He also said that, as a result, many people have become frustrated, angry and even bitter about all the broken promises. He was right.”
No mention of the “cling”-ing to guns or religion.
If Barack Obama, his campaign, and his surrogates really think that they can gloss over and whitewash his comments, and expect he American public to just forget that these condescending comments, where he accuses religious voters of “clinging” to religion, he has another thing coming.
Frankly, if Obama and his campaign and The Audacity of Hope is just too good to accept these voters, I’m sure John McCain will gladly take them, warts, bitter religiousness and all.
Tags: Barack Obama, bitter, Campaign Issues, elitism, hope, John McCain, mccain, politics, spin
April 14th, 2008
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