McCain probably wrote that brief.
This is maybe my second or third time since I joined this board in 2001 to post simply to applaud another post. This is a great piece of … what is it? Sarcasm, satire, parody?
Whatever it is, it is brilliant. And that’s not just the chemicals talking.
I can’t help but think that the McCain campaign is desperate to link Obama to terrorists, to frighten the uneducated masses into believing that if Obama took the White House the terrorists will take over America. It’s disgustingly cynical, but I’m coming to expect that from the McCain campaign over the last few weeks.
Thanks. I’d say it’s sarcasm with a side of satire. But I really do believe that something similar to this went through his head.
NPR news reported McCain saying exactly this on his Fox News version of Meet the Press today. Boo hoo. Obama took him for a chump. Who would you rather have negotiate with Putin, the guy who figured out how to get all the campaign money he needed, or the guy who fell for the trick of getting government funding.
BTW, they also reported that the average Obama donation is $87, which is impressively low for the totals he has gotten.
Let’s not forget that McCain tried to get out of public financing too, and wasn’t allowed to because he’d already used a pledge to accept federal matching funds as collateral for a loan.
His whining about this is the ultimate in hypcritical sour grapes.
I think McCain may be talking about the money that has come to Obama from questionable sources. This is no secret - Obama’s campaign has already returned some of this money.
I’m not offering this with an endorsement. I haven’t been following this very closely at all.
pepperlandgirl, I really do think you’ve summed things up rather nicely. I’ve often thought that this represents a particular mindset, and that it explains many things that leave me scratching my head.
One example is the recent kerfuffle with ACORN and voter registrations. It seems really really difficult to get through to certain right-wingers that there was no vote fraud going on - ACORN was required BY LAW, to turn in all registrations, including those they had flagged as suspicious.
The right wingers can’t grasp that there was no fraud. In their world, there MUST have been funny business going on. “After all,” they think, “that’s the name of the game - voter fraud is how to win. We play fast and loose with the rules, so others must too.”
Well, to be fair, Obama isn’t gaining ground in key states every day. Many days, but not all of them. 
You mean there’s a board out there that’s even more arcane and nit-picky than we are? :eek:
What are we doing wrong? How could we have let this happen? :eek:
I’ll have you know that Cecil, praise His name, is very disappointed in you. We’ll bring His wrath upon ourselves.
Around the house here, we have been calling this blindness Sauron’s disease. I am not trying to imply that John McCain is evil by comparing him with Sauron. Sauron was destroyed because he could not imagine his enemy destroying the one ring. He just could not fathom that it was a possibility. He could only imagine his enemy doing what he would do himself. This failing is not due to being evil, indeed, I see non-evil accused of it, only because they are accused of seeing only good motives, they are accused of being naive. In Freudian terms it is like projection with a side of lack of imagination.
Again and again in this campaign, McCain has made accusations of Obama that seem more applicable to his own actions. One example is this most recent innuendo with the fund raising that we are discussing here. A few weeks ago it was McCain’s accusations about Obama using the bailout for political purposes and making wild partisan attacks just prior to the presentation of the first bailout bill. Obama had been sitting there, with his mouth shut for the most part (amazingly enough, the man likes to talk, and talk, and talk) and McCain swoops in grinning and making political hay of the whole thing. Obama had not been saying anything sitting at the table. He was just sitting there. What McCain had to say about what Obama had been doing was so far disconnected from Obama’s actions that I wondered if McCain had flipped. Then I realized that he had just assumed that Obama was doing just what he would have done had be been in that situation.
I don’t think so. One of the great things that Obama has been doing is pointing out that this all is a referendum on the entire concept of trickle down economics. I think he’ll continue to point out what a failed and ultimately contentless theory that was.
Let’s put a stake through the heart of this undead creature, and continue to shout from the rooftops about the empirical evidence that the economy does better under Democrats than Republicans.
Could the McCain camp tap into the notion that there’s something wrong with being able to just “buy” an election by having enough money to outspend the other guy? Could such high fundraising numbers be made to backfire on Obama to some extent, in some demographics?
-FrL-
Yes, this is it exactly. McCain’s strategy as of the end of the fianl debate has been “We know he’s black. He’s probably a terrorist too.” So anything McCain can do to make white people anxious about Obama, he’ll do. That means he personally goes on TV and talks about Bill Ayers (for some reason not mentioning G. Gordon Liddy, who is just as bad a person, just as unrepentant, and is a much closer friend to McCain than Ayers ever was to Obama) and ACORN (for some reason not mentioning Charles Keating, who was much more corrupt, cost the taxpayers vast sums, and is a much closer friend to McCain than anyone at ACORN ever was to Obama). Or he claims Obama will turn the IRS into a “welfare agency” (read: HE’S BLACK!!!) bcause he supports a middle-class tax cut (like McCain does too, of course.) Then he has his robocalls deliver messages like “Who is the real Barack Obama?” (impliededly – “You can’t trust 'em. They’re shifty.”) or saying the Democrats “aren’t who you think they are” because, apparently, we’re in the pocket of Al Qaeda. (It now appears that the company the McCain campaign hired to make these robocalls is the same agency that spread the smear about him having an illegitimate black daughter during the 2000 primary. That’s integrity for ya’.)
McCain used to have a good reputation because he didn’t like President Bush any more than most of the rest of us did. But in the last few months he’s revealed himself to be a completely worthless human being.
–Cliffy
Considering the nearly rabid “Kill Him” screamers and the blatant lies McCain is willing to spout, I don’t understand how anyone can support McCain. I’m beginning to think that most people are generally nuts in the US.
Every time I hear or read about McCain he’s blabbing about how bad Obama is, not how he himself is going to fix anything. I’m surprised no one has really called him on it. (Letterman kind of did, with the Liddy question.) Are these smear tactics working, or are they just firing up people that already want to vote for McCain?
Is this really what McCain wants at this point, another insult for his followers to yell at rallies? They’re already at near mob levels with ‘Muslim’ and ‘arab’ and a few others, does he really need to add ‘crook’ or worse to this? I thought he was trying to rein in this kind of thing, now he’s throwing more fuel on the fire?
How are they going to trace hundreds of thousands of internet donors who give less than $200.00 and therefore don’t have to be reported? JM is looking for something, anything at all, to give him a little traction.
It does make one wonder why the Pubs’ wealthy patrons are holding back this year. Maybe they think McCain’s candidacy is so hopeless they’d be wasting their money?