Tag: John McCain

Obama "roasts" McCain – for charity UPDATED

Thanks to an email and comment from Editilla at the Ladder here’s Barack Obama roasting John McCain tonight in New York at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner. big h/t to Editilla!

John McCain and Barack Obama touched on some of the most contentious issues, from Bill Ayers to racial undertones, in the campaign tonight in their scripted jokes at the traditional Al Smith dinner in New York City, according to the update provided by the Huffington Post that follows the video.

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…Obama made light of McCain’s consistent attempts to tie him to former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers and to spread unease about Obama’s real character. Continue reading “Obama "roasts" McCain – for charity UPDATED”

Obama “roasts” McCain – for charity UPDATED

Thanks to an email and comment from Editilla at the Ladder here’s Barack Obama roasting John McCain tonight in New York at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner. big h/t to Editilla!

John McCain and Barack Obama touched on some of the most contentious issues, from Bill Ayers to racial undertones, in the campaign tonight in their scripted jokes at the traditional Al Smith dinner in New York City, according to the update provided by the Huffington Post that follows the video.

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…Obama made light of McCain’s consistent attempts to tie him to former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers and to spread unease about Obama’s real character. Continue reading “Obama “roasts” McCain – for charity UPDATED”

Breaking – Commission on Presidential Debates releases statement

Oxford, Miss., September 24, 2008 – “The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is moving forward with its plan for the first presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. this Friday, September 26. The plans for this forum have been underway for more than a year and a half. The CPD’s mission is to provide a forum in which the American public has an opportunity to hear the leading candidates for the president of the United States debate the critical issues facing the nation. We believe the public will be well served by having all of the debates go forward as scheduled.”

Wa-Po on McCan't-make-it's debate decision as campaign strategy

McCan’t if-I’m-not-winning-I’m-not-spending economic policy is as impressive as his running mate’s you-hoo-I-see-you approach to foreign policy – the Washington Post has the story on his strategy.

Sen. John McCain’s surprise announcement that he would temporarily suspend his campaign to return to Washington to help broker a deal to save the financial industry is the latest in a series of political gambits surrounding the financial crisis on Wall Street, and is sure to reshape political calculations and voter attitudes around the volatile issue.

The move is an obvious attempt by McCain and his campaign to paint the Arizona senator as above politics, willing to put aside his campaign for the good of the country.

It comes as two new national polls — including one conducted by the Washington Post — show McCain slipping in the head-to-head matchup against Barack Obama due in large part to voters’ inclination to trust the Illinois senator to solve the financial problems of the country.

The McCain campaign believes that their candidate is at his best when he is seen as a deal-maker, willing to reach across party lines to get things done for the good of the country. This economic crisis, they believe, provides McCain a chance to show the sort of leadership that voters value in the Arizona senator. (emphasis added) Continue reading “Wa-Po on McCan't-make-it's debate decision as campaign strategy”

Wa-Po on McCan’t-make-it’s debate decision as campaign strategy

McCan’t if-I’m-not-winning-I’m-not-spending economic policy is as impressive as his running mate’s you-hoo-I-see-you approach to foreign policy – the Washington Post has the story on his strategy.

Sen. John McCain’s surprise announcement that he would temporarily suspend his campaign to return to Washington to help broker a deal to save the financial industry is the latest in a series of political gambits surrounding the financial crisis on Wall Street, and is sure to reshape political calculations and voter attitudes around the volatile issue.

The move is an obvious attempt by McCain and his campaign to paint the Arizona senator as above politics, willing to put aside his campaign for the good of the country.

It comes as two new national polls — including one conducted by the Washington Post — show McCain slipping in the head-to-head matchup against Barack Obama due in large part to voters’ inclination to trust the Illinois senator to solve the financial problems of the country.

The McCain campaign believes that their candidate is at his best when he is seen as a deal-maker, willing to reach across party lines to get things done for the good of the country. This economic crisis, they believe, provides McCain a chance to show the sort of leadership that voters value in the Arizona senator. (emphasis added) Continue reading “Wa-Po on McCan’t-make-it’s debate decision as campaign strategy”

Sound bites or sound reasoning – the first Presidential Debate

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

I ran across that quote in my files and thought about the 3000 or so reporters gathering in Oxford to cover the First Presidential Debate – the site itself a message of change.

We’re certain to see a lot of background on the violent integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962 – more than usual, of course, because of Barack Obama.  A recent editorial in the New York Times suggests race is very much in the race for President even when express references to race are not evident.

In the Old South, black men and women who were competent, confident speakers on matters of importance were termed “disrespectful,” the implication being that all good Negroes bowed, scraped, grinned and deferred to their white betters.

In what is probably a harbinger of things to come, the McCain campaign has already run a commercial that carries a similar intimation, accusing Mr. Obama of being “disrespectful” to Sarah Palin. The argument is muted, but its racial antecedents are very clear.

Clearly, the media will be listening closely to what the candidate have to say.  Everyone will.  Continue reading “Sound bites or sound reasoning – the first Presidential Debate”

McCain Comes Out Against a Federal Multi Peril Solution: Slabbers Everywhere Unite for Obama!

I had a feeling the presidential candidates would narrow down the field from two to one for us slabbers on their own and John McCain has done the narrowing. The big business loving wing of the party may just cause me to leave the Senate race ballot blank too. I simply will not vote against my economic interests in 2008. Arthur Postal has the story for the National Underwriter:

Republican presumptive presidential candidate John McCain voiced opposition to a bill proposing a national risk pool for natural catastrophes, and a Florida Democratic congressman rebuked him for his comments.

The issue arose yesterday, when the Arizona senator, while traveling on his campaign bus in Florida, said while he sympathizes with homeowners battered by soaring insurance costs, he was not prepared to endorse a national risk pool as a way to bring those prices down. Continue reading “McCain Comes Out Against a Federal Multi Peril Solution: Slabbers Everywhere Unite for Obama!”