Agreed. Maybe he should’ve just done it the way Stephen Colbert did it in a fake dialogue with an audience member:
“I hear these weird stories about his Reverend…?”
“Right.”
“The guy was his Reverend?”
“Right, his Reverend.”
“Right?”
It went on like this but was both more effective and more mature than what Goldfarb did.
Ok it’s Friday. We’re almost there… just a few more days. Every morning I wake up and fear that McCain will come to his senses, apologize for the campaign thus far, and reach out to independent and undecided voters with a sensible plan to get this country back on track.
Instead, fortunately, he’s trying the Same Old Stuff. He really seems to have no idea how it works, does he?
John, if you decided to try out these internets and you’re reading this, I have one piece of advice for you. Stop trying to win the idiot vote. You’ve got them firmly on your side already. They’ve been there for months, actually. Most of them would never vote for Obama anyway because they think he’s a Muslim. Now that you’ve convinced them he’s also a terrorst commie, they’re really not going to vote for him. Oh, and of course you put one of their own on the ticket as VP, so you really locked the idiot vote up tight. It’s time to move on to some other demographics. A few pointers to reach out to the rest of us:
We don’t watch Sean Hannity, so interviews with him are a waste of your valuable time.
We don’t think Arab sounding names are scary in and of themselves.
We hate Sarah Palin. The only people she is reaching are the aforementioned idiots. Reign her in.
We don’t want Roe v. Wade overturned, and we know you don’t either. C’mon Mister “Maverick,” admit it!
That reminds me, we hate “finger quotes.”
The sad thing about this election will be that we will always have to wonder how it could have been. This was our best shot of having an elevated debate between two candidates in a long time, and it ended up in the dirt like always. I know Barack went there too to some extent, but let’s face it - McCain took it to a whole new level. Nice work, John.
For practical purposes, we’re there. People start tuning out the news Fridays and don’t pay much attention over the weekend. (The jobs data I mentioned is due soon, though.) There’s still Monday, but that’s it. Nobody’s going to change the world with a campaign stop or new ad on Tuesday.
Anti-war wouldn’t have immediately occurred to me, but I can definitely see anti-government, and perhaps from there anti-war.
ETA: also don’t find it utterly flabbergasting that some white supremacists might have some respect for Obama. The scary racists aren’t the ones that yell n****r all the time while blasting shotguns in the air while goin’ YEEE-HAW. The scary ones are the ones that put forth an ostensibly rational argument for “separatism” in the interest of both races, and for some reason at least a few of them seem to think Obama might actually make common cause with them somehow (like a latter-day Marcus Garvey).
You are now my Favorite Doper Of The Day™. I think you’re right. Now I just have to ignore everyone who says the Republicans will steal the election no matter how far Obama is ahead. :mad: I think this weekend I shall descend into a hazy whirlwind of video games and Halloween candy and not pay attention to the news at all.
To be fair, I did see an article recently (can’t find it now, sorry) with the headline “McCain: Polls are wrong”. The article itself said that McCain was telling people to “ignore the polls.” He gave no justification as to why they’re wrong, though. They just are. Vote McCain.
What the hell do you mean “a few crazies”? The entire GOP is already setting it up. What the hell do you think all the fuss over ACORN is all about? And all the lawsuits challenging voter registration rolls. These bastards are setting up their case to try to pitch the election to the SCOTUS and we all know how that turned out last time…
Sorry Slacker but the closer we get the more nervous I get. I am waiting for the other shoe to drop…
Prefacing everything you say with “My Friends” is limiting your audience to those who are already predisposed to your message. You need to speak to those who are not your friends, and convince them to change their minds, not exclude them by addressing only “your friends”, and it is annoying as hell to the rest. Bad strategy.
Not at all surprising - they tend to be isolationist. I think David Duke was against the Iraq war from the beginning (I remember that being a pro-war talking point for a while) and I know for a fact that Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, both of whom have fans in the white supremacist movement, were among the early conservative critics of the war.
He already tried “my friends” and “my fellow prisoners.” Maybe he’s working his way around to more specialized groups eventually.
You win already
That’s it! That’s the other guy Goldfarb was talking about! How Obama associated with Garvey, who died in 1940, is best left up to Goldfarb to explain, or at least allude to.
Georgia is so going blue! Lines stretching 8 to 10 hours wait all across the state for the last day of early voting there! I wonder if we’ll even get the election results on Tuesday night. By election day, lines could be as long as 15-20 hours long, if you consider that only 12% have voted early, and that’s over the course of several days, all of which had hours-long wait times. How the heck are the polling places going to accommodate all the remaining voters in a single day??
Shayna…c’mon. Georgia? Kentucky??? I know you’re giddy with anticipation, but I expect somebody will be by shortly to throw a net over you.
The latest poll shows McCain up by just 5 in Georgia so an upset is quite possible. Texas and Kentucky are probably out of reach. Of course recent polls have shown that Arizona is tightening and Obama is putting some money for ads there; that would be the ultimate “exclamation point” especially if it helps Obama break the 400 barrier. I don’t get the sense though that Obama is going to be winning that big unless there is a major meltdown in the McCain campaign.
Whoop, another Republican endorsement!
Nice quote from the original article:
In another interview, Duberstein said:
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Yeah, lately McCain has had quite a slim lead in Georgia, often within the margin of error. I believe there’s at list one poll that had Obama up by 1.
Kentucky, yes. Texas, there’s a slim possibility, if there’s a last minute swing for Obama and the LV model is inaccurate (counting nonwhites too little).
Have you not been watching the last two months? 
Well, you know, when the campaign IS the meltdown it’s tough to keep them separated…
Actually, I’m not giddy with anticipation, what I am is stunned and overwhelmed by what I’m seeing happen on the ground, and trying to extrapolate what it will mean come Tuesday.
Seriously, if people have been waiting for hours and hours a day, every day for (what’s it been now, a week, two weeks?) this long, and yet only a relatively small percentage have actually voted early, I cannot begin to fathom what Tuesday is going to look like. It’s going to be bedlam!
As for Kentucky, don’t forget that Louisville is almost a suburb of Cincinnati. Cincinnati’s airport is actually in Kentucky! I know that’s not the extent of the state, but Obama seems to be getting a lot of support in Kentucky, nonetheless.
With the overwhelming turnout we’re seeing, and allusions to these “silent voters” and increasing support for Obama, I do think there’s a chance. It may not be as good a chance as in, say, Montana or North Dakota, but I still think it’s conceivable there could be a shocker there.
And he’s got the support of Labor in Kentucky (Video link), which could have a substantial impact, as well.