Nice to see the negative ads are working so well for McCain....

Hey McNasty and Company...

That negative campaign strategy is working great!

Keep up the fine work.

Breaking news...McCain backs off the hate speech, somewhat.

He said a few minutes ago on the stump that Obama was "a decent person" and someone you "don't have to be scared off."

Mighty white of him.

Link Null?

"Link Null?"

Not yet, just heard it on MSNBC.

Wow. Is there anything that McCain doesn't flip-flop on?

John McCain flip flopped on His Marriage Vows so it's a given that He does flip flop.

Larry

They showed a video clip of McCain saying that to the crowd, so there's no question he said it. My bet is that both external and internal polling is showing that's he getting killed by all the nastiness.

Of course, tomorrow it may be back to McNasty.

"John McCain sought to walk back some of the hostility that he and his crowds have projected towards Barack Obama in recent days, saying he wanted to run a respectful campaign and urging his supporters to think of Obama as a decent person.

After an attendee at his town hall said he was concerned about bringing up a child under a president who "cohorts with domestic terrorists such as [Bill] Ayers," McCain didn't take the bait. Rather, he sought to calm the questioner's obviously emotional tone.

"[Senator Obama] is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States," he said, before adding: "If I didn't think I would be one heck of a better president I wouldn't be running."

McCain was subsequently booed.

Later in the townhall McCain was pressed again about Obama's "other-ness" and again he refused to take the bait.

"He is a decent family man and citizen that I just have disagreements with on fundamental issues," he said.

Thanks Null. It is also mentioned on msnbc.com

I would say a little too late John, but we appreciate the effort.

This is telling though:

"We want to fight, and I want to fight, but we will be respectful," McCain said to boos at first.

For the party of Bush, that probably is a tough pill to swallow.

john McCain is trying to push the baby back into the Womans womb after it's been out and cord cut. Sorry McCain You lost Boo Woo

Larry

Unfortunately-the Rovians already have this figured out.
The problem we have-is trying to figure out what they're going to try to pull to get the outcome they want.

Even Fox News is seeing the writing on the wall, this morning they carried only a few minutes of Sarah Palins campaign speech in PHILLY. In the past few weeks they covered every speech made by McCain/Palin and carried every boring minute of it. This morning we were spared the whole screeching by this ignorant BITCH, on November 5th this loser will be going back to Alaska, where she may yet be somebody..........

NEWSWEEK has no credibility.

NEWSWEEK has no credibility.

#14 | Posted by takitez at 2008-10-11 11:44 AM

I'm sure they would if they broke the "story" of Obama being a "terrist".

Am I right punkin?

A negative:

"NEWSWEEK has no credibility."

Plus a negative:

Posted by takitez

Equals a positive (-+-=+)

NEWSWEEK has no credibility and that is why I stopped buying it.

This is one of those areas where the american public is just plain fucking stupid.

How many democrats voted for the war?
How many democrats voted us all this debt?
How many democrats voted for the bailout?

Both parties = pigs at the trough.

"NEWSWEEK has no credibility."

Much like yourself.

Millions of Americans will agree with me that NEWSWEEK has no credibility.

A tsunami of contempt is coming the liberal media's way.

It is not the negative ads, it is the economy. Obama will win not because he is the best candidate but simply because he is not republican. With the economy the way it is, the party in the presidency loses. It really is that simple.

If a Dem was president, McCain would be winning and Obama would be losing.

"Millions of Americans will agree with me that NEWSWEEK has no credibility."

Most Americans don't know who the hell you are. That being the case I seriously doubt millions of Americans agree with you.

"A tsunami of contempt is coming the liberal media's way."

Well, that clearly explains the clear lead of the McCain/Palin ticket in all of the national and state-by-state polls.

"A tsunami of contempt is coming the liberal media's way."

Actual picture of Takitez:

Oh, most Americans need not know me to realize the fact that NEWSWEEK has no credibility.

"It is not the negative ads, it is the economy. Obama will win not because he is the best candidate but simply because he is not republican. With the economy the way it is, the party in the presidency loses. It really is that simple."

And this was before the bipartisan committee hammered saint sarah on troopergate.

"Oh, most Americans need not know me to realize the fact that NEWSWEEK has no credibility."

Maybe they just buy it for the pictures:

14 Sports Illustrated 3,204,699
15 Newsweek 3,118,432
16 Playboy 3,001,723

These right wing Assholes haven't even lost yet an they are already making excuses as to why they will LOSE!!!! That my friends is the definition of a real loser!!!! The Republicans are trying to convince the American people that it was anybody but those in charge that is responsible for this mess, NOBODY BUT NOBODY IS BUYING THAT SHIT!!!!!

For nearly 8 years the Bush Administration, an as such the REPUBLICAN PARTY, have been responsible for the well being of the American people, that they have failed is accepted except by the most partisian an of course FOX NEWS!!!!!

For 6 of those 8 years the Congress was totally controlled by the REPUBLICANS, this mess happened on thier watch, but of course being the Party that talks about personal responsibility, they take none!!!!!!

we havent lost anything yet

isnt this total pretty close to what gore had on bush about this time........

OOPS sorry about that.........THAT election was stolen wasnt it.................bullshit

"we havent lost anything yet"

Except, of course, your mind.

Have you checked lost and found?

I guess some NEWSWEEK buyers are there to receive dubious comfort by reading materials that agrees with them, and some others are curious to see what liberal spin is up to.

And for millions of Americans, NEWSWEEK has no credibility --- and they won't touch it with a 9foot pole.

(But once in a while, these liberals strategizes to gain respectability by printing some good things about Christianity. Rare though.)

we havent lost anything yet"

Except, of course, your mind.

Have you checked lost and found?

#30 | Posted by truthsetyoufree

well we werent talking about that

reading how so many people here are so desperate for a european socialist to become president does sort of rattle me a little bit.
I thought we have seen where that has ALWAYS FAILED.......and for proof

look at obama and his plan to redistribute the wealth from the people who have succeeded to those who havent for many reasons...........

gotta go

look for reply later

ZOGBY: Obama 48, McCain 44. (Newsmax.com).

This is fine, just like right now, in 4 years the voters will look at the dems and realize that things are even worse and vote for anyone who is not dem...

Do you really believe that raising taxes and growing gov will help get the economy back on track?

isnt this total pretty close to what gore had on bush about this time........

#29 | Posted by bushlovertwo

Not the way I see it BLT.

I've been watching the polls. What they are showing is the states that Bush had at 3-5% are going for Obama. More telling is some of the states that were solidly for Bush from 15-25% are about 10% less for McCain.

State %McCain Bush 2000 Bush 2004

Georgia 6.8 11.7 16.6
Montana 9.2 25.0 20.5
Texas 12.7 21.3 22.9

And for millions of Americans, NEWSWEEK has no credibility --- and they won't touch it with a 9foot pole.

(But once in a while, these liberals strategizes to gain respectability by printing some good things about Christianity. Rare though.)

#31 | Posted by takitez

For millions of Americans Fox news has no credibility.
For millions of Americans Christianity has no credibility.
For billions around the world George Bush has no credibility.
For hundreds of DR readers TakitEZ has no credibility.

See how that works?

As they swing wildly seeking the unlikely home run to save their faltering presidential campaign, the nation's Republicans run the dirtiest campaign in my memory. And while I cast my first vote for Adlai Stevenson, I was involved at age 10 when Wendell Willkie challenged FDR in 1940.

They scream "radical" at president-to-be Obama, and that isn't flying; he's pure centrist. They purport to make him a "moose-lim;" not that that should disqualify anyone, but he's a Congregational: United Church of Christ. They scream "terrorist,' hoping that something might stick because he's cordial to people who saw the world differently 40 years ago. When that doesn't work, the ancient Arizonan and the Alaska Airhead incite their few remaining followers into vicious hatred, into screaming kill-kill-kill.

The Repubs have nothing left but the race label; their opponent is, after all, half white. But as Kathleen Hall Jamison pointed out to Bill Moyers on PBS last night, never before has a party questioned the integrity, the very patriotism, of its opposition. It's a sad day. herm

Ayers' 1997 book 'A Kind and Just Planet' rationalizes as though criminals are better than American law-abiding citizens. He considers America worse than apartheid South Africa......

Obama praised the book by saying that the book is a SEARING AND TIMELY ACCOUNT.

Obama was not 8 years old in 1997.

In 2006 Ayers travelled to Venezuela to coddle Hugo Chavez, a confirmed America insulter and hater.

In the Obama administration, will Ayers be nominated as Ambassador to Venezuela?

Wait, what has the left been saying about Bush and Cheney for the past several years? Saying that they did it for the oil or for Hailburton does not question their patriotism?

To say that the Repubs are unique in this is dishonest at best.

Eleven points may be enough to overcome even the Bradley effect and a few stolen key states. But it means nothing if TakeIt has discontinued his Newsweek subscription. herm

Hey Takitez: hasn't God told you yet that McAngry and apPallin' will sweep the entire electoral college?

CNN streams both Obama & McCain rallys, I have been trying to see both as much as I can. The past few weeks, the McCain rallys have been really hateful. A neighbor said "what's the difference between a McCain/Palin rally and a KKK rally. one doesn't wear the sheets". "yes we can" sounds better than "traitor"

at some point, that kind of hate is tiring, really tiring! I stopped watching the McCain/Palin rallys, don't need the hate! The last McCain/Palin rally I saw, McCain said "my fellow prisoners", that was very sad!(Wed 10-08)

"In the Obama administration, will Ayers be nominated as Ambassador to Venezuela?"

keep up will you, using Ayers in a talking point is old and useless, didn't go anywhere! only right wingers love it, watch the polls continually discrediting this line of attack!

The polls are going down because of the economy. Not because of the negatives or because people believe Obama has any answers. The only reason Obama is pulling ahead is because is is not a republican.

If the shoe were on the other foot and there were a Dem president, McCain would be in the lead.

NEWSWEEK has no credibility and that is why I stopped buying it.

#17 | Posted by takitez at 2008-10-11 11:49 AM | Reply | Flag:

Sara Plain couldn't think of a single paper that she reads (unless you count 'all of them" as a real answer) and then goes and says that she reads the NYT for her info on Ayers.

reading how so many people here are so desperate for a european socialist to become president does sort of rattle me a little bit.

#32 | Posted by bushlovertwo at 2008-10-11 12:35 PM | Reply | Flag

Tell us, in your own words exactly what a 'European Socialist' really is. Come on, tell us what it really means to you.

Also, with you clowns whining about 'Unconditional Talks with Terrorist States', can you give me 2 'conditions' for talks with Iran? Hell, give me ONE condition that you need to see before talking with Iran.

A tsunami of contempt is coming the liberal media's way.
~TAKITEZ

Obama Opens 11-Point Lead

Clearly

Do you really believe that raising taxes and growing gov will help get the economy back on track?

#34 | Posted by sawdust at 2008-10-11 12:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

Raising Taxes? On who? Obama simply wants to cut Bush's handout to the wealthy and return the tax rates for those making 250,000 or more to the Clinton era levels.

As for thinking that will help the economy, I only have to look to the economy under Clinton and I can say 'Hell Yes, I want that economy back'.

THE POLL: Fox News/Opinion Dynamics, national presidential race among registered voters

THE NUMBERS: Barack Obama 46 percent, John McCain 39 percent

Just a few minutes ago I saw a spokesman from the McCain campaign on MSNBC, he said that Obama does in fact pal around with terrorists. Was McCain asking the rabid right to please not murder Obama another case of the candidate not speaking for his own campaign?

You can blame the Democrats including Carter for this housing mess, they are the ones who passed the Community Reinvestment Act.

Lets make sure everyone gets a home loan even if they can't afford it, what a great idea that was.

Obama also sued Citibank for not loaning to poor African American neighborhoods.

Why isn't congress talking about it.

Weren't Bush's Tax Cuts across the board? Sure a 3% reduction for someone making $50k is less money than the same reduction of 3% for a person making $1M... So I guess in that respect the tax cuts were for the rich.

However, Obama is not being honest when he says he will only raise taxes on people making over $250K. He "forgets" to mention that he will *also* allow the Bush Tax cuts expire which will raise everyone's taxes.

"Sara... couldn't think of a single paper she reads (unless you count 'all of them.'"

All of them? Hmmm. All the ever diminishing dailies? Or weeklies too? herm

"You can blame the Democrats including Carter for this housing mess..."

WRONG! You can blame the greed of loan corporations who saw a chance for a little usurious interest and didn't figure in that the folks needing rat-free homes most were about to have their jobs shipped out of the country by other greedy CEOs. Let's give "credit" where credit is needed. herm

Millions of Americans will agree with me that NEWSWEEK has no credibility.

Since they hired rove?

"You can blame the Democrats including Carter for this housing mess, they are the ones who passed the Community Reinvestment Act."

You're a fool. No one single legislative act was responsible for the current capitalist crisis. Nor one single administration, or one single political party. This is the result of free market fundamentalism, practiced by both parties, but especially the Republicans, which exacerbates the inherent instability of capitalism.

This election is over! Blowout!! I say...Mission Accomplished!!!

From the article:

Obama now leads McCain on the economy and jobs (54 percent to 35 percent); on the Iraq war (47 percent to 46 percent); on energy policy and gas prices (53 percent to 36 percent); on health care (56 percent to 30 percent); on taxes and government spending (50 percent to 39 percent); on the financial problems of Wall Street and the mortgage crisis (50 percent to 34 percent); and on issues like abortion, guns and same-sex marriage (46 percent to 39 percent).

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I guess this was what Tom Delay meant when he said they made the Democratic party irrelevant.

Ohio Ohio Ohio ---- Again!

The nation will focus on Ohio again for the final result of this election.

In 2008 Kerry was ahead 8 points in the day and lost to bush in the evening.

8 points.

In 2008 Kerry was ahead 8 points in the day and lost to bush in the evening.

8 points.

Posted by takitez at 2008-10-12 11:43 AM | Reply

Where is the LOST FLAG again???

Larry

ooops... 2004

"In 2008(sic) Kerry was ahead"

ROTFLMAO!!

Larry, please condition your emotion for a possible McCain win... so you won't be terribly devastated if that happens.

Meanwhile, you can nurture hopes for an Obama win.

Ohio! Watch this State.

It does look good this morning. Our mainstream-to-liberal daily notes even Republicans abandoning Reoublicanism. Its "neutral" poll roundup puts even Montana and North Carolina into the good guys' camp. I do hope that Barack's bodyguards are on heightened alert, and maybe more numerous in number... herm

Takitez, the onus is on McCain to win Ohio, it was red in '04. Obama could easily lose Oh and win overall because it appears he will be winning all the states Kerry won and picking up red states along the way (polling 50%+ in NV, Fl, Va and Ia, ouch).

Rasmussen

Obama 51%
McCain 45%

Nice try Newsweek!

"Nice try Newsweek!"

Yep...in the only poll that counts, it's:

Obama 63.7%

McCain 34.2%

RCP average of that last few polls including this Newsweek poll has Obama up by Obama +7.3

Gallup Tracking Obama +7
Rasmussen Tracking 10/09 Obama +6
Reuters/CSpan/Zogby Tracking Obama +6
Hotline/FD Tracking Obama +8
Newsweek Obama +11
FOX News 10/08 Obama +7
GW/Battleground Tracking Obama +8
Time Obama +6
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl Obama +6

Due to the everwhelming numbers of new voters showing up to vote Dem this time out and the cell phone disconnect thang Spud suspects the real numbers are actually even more in Obama's favor than any of these polls suggest.

Nice try though, Scoobysnackaddict

Be Well.

/Okay, NOW Spud is gone.

Ohio Ohio Ohio ---- Again!

The nation will focus on Ohio again for the final result of this election.

In 2008 Kerry was ahead 8 points in the day and lost to bush in the evening.

8 points.

#60 | Posted by takitez at 2008-10-12 11:43 AM

Tak- Life was different back in 2004. There were no housing bubble and a cascade of foreclosures yet in the state of Ohio. Since 2004, Ohio has been KILLED by foreclosures. If Ohioans(sp?) are up to speed and see that McCain's proposal on a new housing bill and it's cost to taxpayers (Trillions)they'll turn that 8 pt Obama lead into 16.

Ohio spelled backwards is Oiho
~TAKEITSEZ

Dear Takitez:
better cancel your TIME subscription too. But take heart, the Wall Street Journal is still for sale.

Ohio Ohio Ohio --- the nation will focus on this State again for the final outcome.

(Months ago I got a driving ticket in Cincinnati)

Latest poll by local news: McCain 48, Obama 44.

(Newsmax.com).

OOps again.... McCain 48, Obama 46.

THE POLL: The Ohio Newspaper Poll, presidential race among likely Ohio voters (20 electoral votes).

THE NUMBERS: John McCain 48 percent, Barack Obama 46 percent.

Oops, McCain has a 1 in 19 chance. Give it up gramps.

TAKITEZ

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