Tag: McCain/Palin

Letterman On McPalin

In case you missed his top 10 swipes at the Repub ticket, here they be:
10. “Sarah Palin is right now training for tomorrow’s vice presidential debate in Arizona. And she says it’s really helped her on foreign policy because from Arizona she can see Mexico.”

9. “John McCain watched the debate and he loved Sarah Palin’s performance. As a matter of fact, he applauded so much that all the lights in his house kept going on and off.”

8. “By the way, have you heard this? This just in . . . a backwoods hiker has found the wreckage of John McCain’s campaign.”

7. “You know, I don’t normally do this. I gave up drinking a while ago, but I started again. And I’m watching the debate last night and here’s what I did — I did a shot every time McCain said ‘my friends.’ So I’m blotto.”

6. “Tom Brokaw was the moderator. . . . At one point Tom tells Obama and McCain that they were going to now answer questions that came in over the Internet. And you know what McCain said? He said, ‘Uh, Tom . . . is that the same as the telegraph?’ ”

5. “At one point John McCain referred to Barack Obama as ‘that one.’ ‘That one.’ ‘That one.’ And McCain later . . . he apologized. He said he got confused. He thought he was at the bakery. ‘Uh, a couple of crullers . . . uh, that one . . . and uh, that one.’ ”
4. “Sarah Palin. We like Sarah Palin, right? She’s a lot of fun. Miss Alaska. She is saying that she doesn’t know who Barack Obama really is. Doesn’t know who Barack Obama is. That’s interesting. She also doesn’t know who Sarkozy is, Gordon Brown, Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, Osama bin Laden, the list goes on and on.”

3. “John McCain says he’s going to win. John McCain is going to win the third presidential debate. Of course, he also told Custer the surge was working.”

2. “John McCain is going to take this opportunity to unveil his new campaign persona. His new campaign personality, to really energize the last couple of weeks of the campaign — Fighting Underdog. Fighting Underdog. That’s John McCain and the campaign. And if that doesn’t work, then he’s going to go to Sadistic Yard Bull.”

1. “You heard what happened at a rally yesterday. Sarah Palin mistook some of her supporters for hecklers. And you know, confusion happens in all walks of life. For example, a few weeks ago, John McCain mistook her for a legitimate candidate.”

If One Attack Does Not Work, Try Again

After a week of increasingly nasty rallies in which John McCain and Sarah Palin hammered Democratic rival Barack Obama over his “association” with a 1960s-era radical, the Republican candidates changed tactics Saturday during campaign swings through two presidential battleground states. Palin launched a new front in the culture wars here, attacking Obama on abortion, while in Iowa, McCain concentrated on a critique of Obama’s spending proposals.

On a day when an important civil rights figure condemned the tone of the McCain campaign, Palin seemed to acknowledge the nastiness. After chastising Obama for “unconditional support for unlimited abortions,” she said at a rally in this heavily Catholic, socially conservative Democratic stronghold that “Americans need to see his record for what it is. And please: It is not negative, it is not mean-spirited, to talk to about his record.”
Meanwhile in Iowa, McCain advocated for his tax cuts and his plan to balance the budget by “the end of my term in office.” He offered a scathing critique of the price tag of Obama’s spending proposals and accused him of being vague.

Poll numbers were sliding since the beginning of the hatred thing they tried.  I guess it was to try again from a different direction.

Smell That? It Is Called Desperation!

And it is rolling off the McCain camp.  Geez…tough words.  Yep and with good reason.

First, McCain has hired the same maggots that did the hatchet job on him in 2000.  Second, he is sliding in the polls so the wifey is used to question Obama’s motives on thewvote against the war funds, but hubby voted against it too.  Hubby getrs a D from the Veterans of America on his voting record for vets.  THird, surrogates calling Obama an outright liar, so his hands stay clean.

Since the McCain/Palin team are not talking about issues, instead every question is answered with an attack on Obama, tgells me they have nothing.  They cannot talk about issues that concerns most Americans because they have no answers.  If you listen to all the McCain surrogates on the airwaves, they have nothing but negativity to say.  When asked a question they will give somne vague response and then immediately go into an Obama bashing.  That is desperation and it smells awful.

The more you listen to McCain the more he sounds like a man ate up with hate and that hate is forming a culture around him.  His attempt to disguise that hate as concern is really pathetic.  An American hero, a TRUE hero, would not stoop to this level of hatred and he would most likely not act like a spoiled brat when not getting his way.

Jobs For Americans

A slogan of the Palin/McCain ticket.  A promise of more joibs created if they are elected.  Nice slogan, but where will thew jobs come from?  Oh yeah, tax cuts will produce more jobs.  Thinking……we have had tax cuts for about 8 years and the unemployment rate keeps climbing to where it is now, at 6.1%.  When Bush took office it was in the 4% neighborhood.  So now explain how the tax cuts will create Jobs, if you please.

In April he said:

In addition to rapid and targeted help for those families hurt by the mortgage crisis, it is essential to reduce the burdens on businesses and workers by lowering taxes, streamlining regulation, tackling health care costs, opening markets to American goods and helping those workers in need. Today’s news also underlines the need to focus on innovation, which grows the economy and creates an urgent need for effective worker re-training.

Basically, this is his message after every jobs report….tax cuts and incentives will create 2 million jobs in the years to come.

From Obama’s , The Blueprint For Change, there are the usual sub-texts about job creation and poverty.  But as with McCain there is NO direct confrontation for the creation of jobs, only vague crap about this program will create “x” amount of jobs, but nowhere do they give specifics.  Like I said just vague promises that may or may not be successful at creating needed employment.

Palin On Specifics

First of all there are none…not ever…nowhere.

From MSNBC’s First Read

At last night’s town hall meeting in Michigan, NBC/NJ’s Matthew E. Berger reports, Palin offered to be quizzed on foreign policy issues, but did not give her specific qualifications on international affairs. She was asked what “specific skills” she would bring to the White House on international issues. She responded by saying she was prepared and has the confidence to be vice president, but did not enunciate them. “I have that readiness and if you want specifics with specific policy or countries, go ahead, you can ask you can play stump the candidate if you want to,” she said. “But we are ready to serve.”

McCain picked up where she left off, reminding the audience that she is commander of the Alaskan National Guard and had been involved in the construction of the natural gas pipeline in Alaska. He also mentioned that her eldest son is being shipped to Iraq, but mistakenly said he was going as part of the Guard. Track Palin enlisted last year in the Army.

His stay in the army should solve all the economic probs, huh?

Our Economy Is Still Strong!

I want wehatever it is that McCain is smoking.  Apparently it distorts reality to the point of euphoria.
Today, Sep. 15, in Jacksonville, Florida, before a smaller than expected crowd, John McCain repeated his economic slogan. “Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong,” he said.

In the face of a five-year high in unemployment, six straight years of growing poverty, record numbers of home foreclosures, falling home values, 47 million Americans without health insurance, and a crumbling infrastructure, John McCain still thinks everything is OK. And today, two of the largest banks in the country collapsed: a warning siren by any standard of an unsound economy.
John McCain’s apparent confusion about the soundness of the economy and even the message of his own campaign may stem from his admission in early 2008 that he doesn’t understand economics very well.

His campaign also suffered a major setback in July when McCain’s top economic advisor and close friend Phil Gramm described Americans who fear economic recession as being in a “mental recession” and the country as being “nation of whiners.” Though Gramm was fired, his idea that everything is fine seems to have stuck.

McCain’s new top economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin outlined McCain’s tax policy recently, which both reflects George W. Bush’s tax policy and McCain’s inside the box thinking about the soundness of the economy. According to Holtz-Eakin himself, the McCain tax policy will hit working families hardest with some tax increases when McCain’s proposed health care tax is included.

Damn!  McCain sounds a lot like Hoover before the “big crash”.  He will fix the economy by drill off the US coastline, he will fix it by doing the same tradgic things that Bush and the Boyz have been doing.  If that idiotic grasp does not scare you, then we will get the f*cking of a lifetime in November.

Crisis Deepens, But Can It Be Fixed?

Sarah Palin opened up her remarks here focusing on the current Wall Street financial crisis and how a McCain-Palin administration will put an end to the “mismanagement and abuses” on Wall Street.  In her usual folksy language calling the crowd “guys and gals”, she addressed the excited throng of a few thousand saying that the country’s economic problems need some “shaking up and some fixin’.”

Her economic remarks come on the same day the McCain campaign released a new ad touting the duo’s ability to fix the ailing economy. The ad explains how they will do it, “Tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings. No special interest giveaways. Lower taxes to create new jobs. Offshore drilling to reduce gas prices.”

The market fell 500 points yesterday, so the question is, does the Palin/McCain ticket really seem to have an adequate grasp on the situation.  According to them, the fix is to drill for oil domenstically, that will help repair the damage done by the subprime debacle.  So I missed that part of the rconomics class, where the supply of oil controls the price of my house.  I am sure some economic brainiac can make a case for that, but us “normal” peopole ain’t buying it.