McCain's Greatest Hits

Gawker has a video of McCain's "greatest hits." Check it out!

Negativity Still a Central Part of McCain's Campaign

The NYT is reporting that "voters in at least 10 swing states are receiving hundreds of thousands of automated telephone calls — uniformly negative and sometimes misleading — that the Republican Party and the McCain campaign are financing." One of the calls brings up Ayers and another claims Obama puts Hollywood above America. McCain has denounced these types of calls in the past. There has even been bipartisan criticism for the calls. According to The Huffington Post, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, made separate appeals to McCain on Friday."

GOP has their own "ACORN"

The Los Angeles Times has a story on voters who were duped into registering as republicans. YPM (Young Political Majors), a group hired by the GOP, allegedly deceived Californians who thought they were signing a petition they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters. Some said they were told that they had to become Republicans to sign the petition. It's the classic bait-and-switch scheme and YPM has been using this tactic across the country.

McCain Blaming Obama for Joe the Plumber's Media Attention

John McCain is blaming Barack Obama for all the media attention and scrutiny Joe the Plumber has been getting. McCain is saying that Joe the Plumber didn't ask for Obama to go to his home and didn't ask for all the attacks Obama's camp giving him. Seriously?!?!

1. Barack Obama did NOT go to this home. He went to his street in Ohio and Joe the Plumber went up to HIM.
   
2. John McCain is the one who brought up Joe the Plumber at the last presidential debate. He brought him up more than TWENTY times.
   
3. McCain was the one who admitted and apologized to Joe the Plumber on Letterman for bringing him up at the debate.
   
4. If McCain is blaming Obama for all of Joe the Plumber's unwanted media attention, why continue to reference him NUMEROUS times at McCain's rallies. 

It's pretty sad McCain will knowingly lie to his supporters. What's even sadder is that his supporters don't care.

Third Times the Charm for McCain, Too Bad It's Too Late

My girlfriend and I are listening to the analyses of the third and final presidential debate. I actually thought McCain did better than Obama. Not because he was saying persuasive, truthful things, but because he kept Obama on the defense a majority of the time. I felt as though Obama was a little too laid back. He needed to hit back on several things: the negativity of McCain's campaign, Sarah Palin's qualifications, McCain and Palin's own guilt-by-associations, McCain's own hypocrisy, etc. But as my girlfriend and all the pundits are saying, Obama's plan was to stay calm, cool and collected. He wanted McCain to look like the angry one. And according to a few polls that are out, Obama's plan worked. 

A CBS Poll of 638 uncommitted voters: 53% said Obama won.  22% said it went to McCain. 25% saw the debate as a draw.

According to HuffingtonPost.com, CNN's poll of several hundred debate watchers also has 58 % for Obama and 21% for McCain

106 Year Old Nun Casting First Vote Since Eisenhower

This morning on Good Morning America I watched an absolutely moving piece on a 106-year-old nun who will be casting her first presidential vote since Dwight Eisenhower! Check out the video here. The article is below.

Nun to Cast First Ballot After 56 Years

The 106-Year-Old Has Lived Through 18 Presidents

By JIM SCIUTTO and ALLISON HAVEY

Oct. 15, 2008 —

The last time Mother Cecelia Gaudette voted, Dwight Eisenhower won the race for the White House.

Now, 56 years after she cast her last presidential ballot, the 106-year-old nun has decided this election is too monumental to miss.

"I think it's very important," she said. Mother Cecelia, who resides in Rome, may be the oldest voter to cast an absentee ballot this election. She reads the paper daily and watches the evening news to keep up with current events.

She asked fellow nun 78-year-old Mother Mary to help her get an overseas ballot. The problem was that on the U.S. election Web site the birth years for potential voters only goes back to 1905  three years after Mother Cecelia was born.

Eventually Mother Cecelia was able to register.

"And she was happy to know that she could vote," Mother Mary said.

And while the last time she voted Mother Cecelia sided with the Republican candidate, this year she decided to go with the Democrat.

"[Barack] Obama. I think he's the man, really. I think so," she said.

Though Mother Cecelia wants Obama to win, she said no matter who wins, the next president will have a difficult job.

"I pity the poor man who will be president," she said.

Having lived through 18 presidents, she has some advice for the next man to become commander in chief.

"He should be like a father, and love his people. And love his people & and do the best of course," Mother Cecelia said.

And if she has things her way, this won't be her last presidential election. She plans to hit the polls in 2012.

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Obama Supporters Calling McCain a Terrorist and Traitor???

In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Bash brings up McCain supporters screaming "Terrorist," "Traitor," and worse at rallies. McCain claims that he too has been called those words at Obama rallies. Really???

The Worst Hits from McCain/Palin Rallies

The Huffington Post reports:

On Tuesday, Brave New Films and Color of Change (one of the nation's most influential Black American political organizations) put out a veritable greatest (really, worst) hits of the past week in McCain-Palin rallies.

Palin Scolds Invisible Protestors at Rally

Sarah Palin mistook some of her own supporters for protestors yesterday at a rally. Apparently, many of her supporters couldn't hear Palin speak and started chanting "Louder! Louder!" Palin, thinking they were protestors, stopped her speech and said:

"I hope those protesters have the courage and honor to give veterans thanks for their right to protest," she said.

Her husband Todd Palin quickly stood up and said to her, "They just can't hear you back there.That's why they're yelling louder."

McCain/Palin Supporters Really Do Believe Obama is a Terrorist

Behind the Scenes at a McCain/Palin Event

I guess the McCain/Palin fear and smear campaign is working. This is a bit scary.

McCain: Do As I Say, Not As I Do

On Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, John McCain called for Barack Obama to retract the "air raiding" comment he made in 2007 saying, “that’s so insulting to the men and women who are serving in the military.”



The McCain camp, of course, has distorted Obama's words. Obama's statement was a criticism of U.S. military strategy, and not of American troops.

Obama in August 2007: "We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."

According to FactCheck.org, The Associated Press concluded: "As of Aug. 1 [2007], the AP count shows that while militants killed 231 civilians in attacks in 2007, Western forces killed 286. Another 20 were killed in crossfire that can't be attributed to one party." Even President Bush admitted that there were too many civilian casualties, saying: "The president [Afghan president Hamid Karzai] rightly expressed his concerns about civilian casualty. And I assured him that we share those concerns."

Here's the kicker. Think Progress notes that McCain made virtually identical remarks about the U.S. military’s conduct in Kosovo during his 2000 presidential bid:

McCain: In the most obscene chapter in recent American history is the conduct of the Kosovo conflict when the president of the United States refused to prepare for ground operations, refused to have air power used effectively because he wanted them flying — he had them flying at 15,000 feet where they killed innocent civilians because they were dropping bombs from such — in high altitude.

The McCain camp, yet again, is preaching "Do as I say, Not as I Do." I think we all remember when McCain's camp cried sexism over the "lipstick on a pig" comment Obama made. People in glass houses should not throw stones, especially when they are caught on tape.

Foo Fighters Not Happy With McCain

NEW YORK (AP) — Yet another band is complaining about John McCain's use of their song to promote his campaign. This time, it's the Foo Fighters.

The rockers sent out a missive telling the Republican presidential candidate to stop using "My Hero." They said they learned it was being use through news reports.

"The saddest thing about this is that `My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential," the band said in a statement. "To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song."

The band noted it's not the first time McCain has been told to stop using a song. John Mellencamp, Heart and Jackson Browne have also complained — Browne even filed a lawsuit.

Soul legend Sam Moore also has asked the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to stop using "Soul Man."

"The McCain-Palin campaign respects copyright. Accordingly, this campaign has obtained and paid for licenses from performing rights organizations, giving us permission to play millions of different songs, including `My Hero,'" said McCain-Palin spokesman Brian Rogers.

Ann Curry IS a Comedienne

I LOVE Ann Curry. I love her even more for attempting stand-up!

McCain:Retiring "My Friends" and now using "My Fellow Prisoners?"

Earlier today, McCain made this strange gaffe at a rally:

"Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent."

This Hatred MUST Stop

NBC reports:

After not attacking Obama in last night's debate as forcefully as his campaign had in previous days, McCain was back on the offensive today at a rally at Lehigh University with his running mate Sarah Palin.As seen at recent McCain events, this afternoon's crowd was vocal in their support for McCain and their anger with Senator Obama. At one point one man could be heard yelling, "Off with his head," when McCain spoke about Obama's tax plan. That enthusiasm was even more present during Palin's remarks, and as other observers have reported in the past, today there was a sizeable number of people making their way towards the exit after McCain's running mate left the podium. 

Just Another Day at a McCain/Palin Event

Today at a McCain/Palin event in Philadelphia, another speaker used Obama's whole name: Barack Hussein Obama.

Remember the Overhead Projector Slam?

From Talking Point Memo:

It turns out that that overhead projector John McCain claimed Barack Obama tried to get a $3 million earmark for was actually money to rebuild Chicago's Adler Planetarium, the oldest planetarium in the United States.

McCain's "overhead projector" is the apparatus that runs the planetarium, which is a bit like calling the Palomar Observatory a new set of glasses. 

Will McCain Regret The Way He Ran His Campaign?

From Talking Points Memo

McCain the Comedian?

John McCain's jokes fell flat during the debate. He came off condescending and even bully-like. His jokes didn't resonate with voters either. MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell charted independent voters and Democrats watching the debate and it showed that they soured on McCain when he said that figuring out Obama's tax policy was like nailing Jell-O to a wall.