Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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One Way or the Other
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
11:57 AM
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Politico reports that McCain and his advisors are divided over whether to attack Barack for his long-standing ties to Jeremiah Wright. The campaign wants him to; McCain, not so much.
This is part and parcel of McCain's willingness to buy into the MSM's frame of reference on what lines of discussion are "appropriate" in this election. Someday, we may all look back in amazement that saying a candidate's full name was somehow declared off limits (would that have been the case if, for example, Obama's opponent had been named "John Goebbels McCain" or some such?).
But the fact is, that's what the GOP got when it selected John McCain as a candidate. He isn't really comfortable attacking his opponents; that's part of his famed "bipartisanship" that the press now cares nothing about. And he may simply have decided that maintaining his standing among the DC establishment -- where he will return, whether he wins or loses -- is more important than making a final effort to really win the election and warn the American people about what who Barack is and what he's comfortable with.
But whether he makes the case or not, what should be obvious is that there's nothing illegitimate in McCain pointing out that he's not attacking Barack's motives. It's perfectly fair to question the vision and the priorities of someone who could spend so much of his life in the company of so many people with hatefully anti-American outlooks. He can point out that the America that Reverend Wright and Bill Ayres apparently have seen and despised isn't the America he spent years in a rat-hole for defending.
And while he's at it, it would be interesting to know how much of one's income "the rich" need to give up in order to be paying their "fair share" in Barack's estimation.
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I am voting for McCain. To do anything else would be complicit in electing a near Marxist to the presidency of the United States of America. How could we possibly be in this situation? Anyhow, one tiny correction to Carolyn's post. John McCain has had no problem attacking opponents in the past-Romney days before the primary in Florida, for example. We better hope he isn't trying to prove that he only attacks fellow Republicans. |
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He should commend him on the outstanding educational materials he and Ayres have created in support of the Chicago Annenburg Challenge. In fact, he should encourage Obama to put links to ALL the materials they created so that the public would have a better understanding of the outstanding job he did as a community organizer. |
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If everyone is so smart about what McCain should do, how come they aren't where he is??
Somehow he managed to get himself to this point, including picking himself up off the mat when virtually everyone thought he was totally finished last year, and coming back.
Ultimately, he'll be better off doing it "his way." whatever that is, than trying to split the difference between himself, 20 advisers, 1000 pundits, and 1000000 bloggers. |
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If everyone would take a moment to see what the candidates have done and said rather than shudah, woulda, coulda, they would see that Obama is a horrible choice. Look at his record and his solutions. Everything from redistribution of wealth to ACORN should set off loud alarms everywhere.
McCain has attacked people who campaigned for him and people who have been standing up for him. He has lauded Obama and played huggie huggie kissie kissie for too long. One night is not going to turn this around. It's too late.
Kiss our wonderful country goodbye. We have given it to the socialists, marxists and basically the commies. The question is: Did we defeat Russia or vice versa? |
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ACORN, Wright, Rezko, Ayers, not in some list of items but explaining what it all means. People are not going to reject Obama because you mention these names, you need to explain why it matters to the economy.
Obama and Ayers worked together with the Woods and Annenberg grants to radicalize Chicago public schoools, funneling money to Jermemiah Wright and Wright like ministries promoting a more radical anti American message.
Obama worked with ACORN which is now actively involved in voter fraud.
What Obama is planning on the economy is bringing these types of folks in to deal with the economy. Spreading the wealth around (as Obama admitted he wants to do this week in Ohio) and income redistribution, higher taxes, less free trade--the same policies that made the 30s depression GREAT. This is not the type of change people want or need. This is the type of change that will kill our economy now. |
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