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- richirwin, on 08/02/2008, -6/+110From electoral-vote.com...
McCain's strategy is to "run a campaign attacking Barack Obama personally as too young, too elite, and too pampered to be President as opposed to attacking Obama's ideas"
"The irony, of course, is Obama was raised by a single mother whereas McCain is the son and grandson of admirals and married a woman worth an estimated $100 million."
McCain is a child of privilege who is calling Obama an "elitist" and a "celebrity."
What idiots would believe this? Oops, they're called republicans. - xilduq, on 08/02/2008, -6/+85
Our economy has never been stronger!
Joblessness is psychological!
Bank bailouts/failures are psychological!
$4/gal fuel is psychological!
Soaring food prices is psychological!
Vote McCain for more of the same!
John McCain -- Less Jobs, More War. - j0se, on 08/02/2008, -4/+64they keep kicking themselves in the ass
- gravityboard, on 08/02/2008, -4/+54FTA: Can someone explain to me again exactly why John McCain has a reputation for being a "maverick" or "straight talker"? This is now getting pathetic.
I think this is a case of his party loosing the trust of the American people through George Bush's failures. We don't want a Republican and this has him on the defensive from the outset of many legitimate issues. McCain is repeatedly being forced to pick campaign strategy over policy, and as a result has ended up on the wrong side of many issues that Americans care about. This is compounded by the fact that Obama has been an exceptionally "straight-talking" candidate, making McCain look all the more dirty for these aggressive strategies. - utexas112, on 08/02/2008, -13/+43F*** John McCain
- Etherwood, on 08/02/2008, -6/+35"Pot calling the Kettle Black?" Without a doubt. John McCain is clearly playing the pot card.
- Depthfunction, on 08/02/2008, -0/+27This whole "celebrity" controversy is one of the stupidest lines of political attack that I've seen this year. Think about it: McCain is attacking Obama because Obama is too popular. I thought that's what elections were: expensive popularity contests. If you call attention to the other candidate's out of control, worldwide popularity, aren't you just calling attention to the fact that you are going to lose? It's like going to the Olympics and complaining that some of the athletes run too fast. It's absurd!
Hillary tried this tactic already. It's funny that the McCain camp is rolling out all of Hillary's old arguments against Obama. Don't they realize that Hillary LOST, and that maybe those arguments aren't very effective after all? - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -0/+22bitterman.. you're as dumb as a rock.
- defwheezer, on 08/02/2008, -1/+22Another "Rovian" attempt to turn the opposing candidates' strength into a weakness. Unfortunately, being popular is a hard, almost oximoronic, strength to try to turn into a weakness. The republicans realize they are unpopular with everyone except the Moneyed Elite ("we will not raise taxes!", Corporations("regulation, smegulation!"), right wing nut jobs ("guns for everyone!") and religious supplicants ("we can do Government morality policing"). November will be a cold month for most Republican candidates, not the least of which will be "Hogan" McSame.
- rald84, on 08/02/2008, -6/+25jon stewart to the rescue!
- damntourists, on 08/02/2008, -2/+20I'd like to re post a truncated version of your reply:
"McCain is a child." - mikesoba, on 08/02/2008, -1/+19The point: McCain's ads call Obama a "celebrity". McCain's own promotions call McCain a celebrity. McCain's handlers had to remove the reference from their own web site to avoid a backfire -- but too late. A query in Google can still find McCain's self-description even though it has been removed from his web site.
I know following this string of events can challenging, but try and keep up. - publiclurker, on 08/02/2008, -0/+16At one point in time, he was at least able to pretend that this was true. Since his last run for president, however, he's become nothing but a whipped dog, doing his masters bidding for another shot.
- mrhuhk, on 08/02/2008, -1/+16John McCain is just pissed that the media found something new and shiny and no longer loves the ***** outta him anymore.
The lesson: make real friends. Reporters suck. - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -1/+15It's hanging out with Republican family values and fiscal responsibility.
- Bith8654, on 08/02/2008, -1/+14If he would just let us play with the pot card he might not be so bad.
- TheSwashbuckler, on 08/02/2008, -2/+14A perfect example of the hypocrisy of the McCain campaign...
- Flytrap, on 08/02/2008, -0/+11... and for people outside of the USA, it is always amazing how such a great nation could have elected an imbecile like Bush jr for president, twice; and can now be considered to be well on its way to electing a washout like McCain to the white house.
Surely, the rest of the world does not always get it right... but the United States appears to get it wrong more often than most. In Europe, the reason is usually simplified to the fact that most Americans don't know any better because their entire point of view is bound within the borders of what is on offer in of the United States - funkyloki, on 08/02/2008, -2/+13There ya go. Please explain how Obama is anything like a vacuous, idiotic, fake celebrity, and provide proof as well, otherwise it is just a libelous statement. Oh, and you provided such a new approach to this: take the tact of attacking the writer, rather than proving how what you said is true, or how what they said isn't. Beautiful. And by beautiful, I mean moronic.
- dagnabbit, on 08/02/2008, -1/+11They're both celebrities, which is why McCain's latest ads are so stupid and hypocritical.
- LiberalKid, on 08/02/2008, -0/+10I'll go with the Harvard grad.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -1/+11LOL. you stink of panic.
- AmazingSteve, on 08/02/2008, -6/+16Man, it's like the Repuglican'ts keep trying to put a fire out with gasoline. ***** them and the Christian right.
- AJKenny84, on 08/02/2008, -3/+12And yet McCain's poll numbers keep rising. Like it or not these attacks work. If Obama doesn't do something soon he could become another Kerry, losing an election based on personal attacks and not policy differences.
- BobTheTaco, on 08/02/2008, -0/+9- Jobs, + War
Screw grammer - Aethirig, on 08/02/2008, -0/+9celebrity -- n: def: What John McCain wishes he had.
- Dumbledorito, on 08/02/2008, -1/+10Well, it's McCain's fault for releasing that sex tape. It's up to about five hundred thousand downloads at Ogrish.com.
- jackal42, on 08/02/2008, -3/+12You first.....
- 054k4, on 08/02/2008, -4/+12Wow, McCain is really senile or an idiot.
- jwolcott, on 08/02/2008, -2/+10Search Google for "a political celebrity, McCain" (with quotes). Over 300 results. (link won't parse here)
- adam07, on 08/02/2008, -0/+8He wants to CUT TAXES for the middle class! And what do you mean by "national security force"? He was against the the invasion of Iraq from the beginning.
- terminal157, on 08/02/2008, -0/+8McCain is actually a bit of a puzzle to me. I genuinely wonder whether he's lost his mind a bit in his old age. There was a time when I considered him one of the better and more honest senators. This is a Republican who called Falwell an "agent of intolerance", how great is that? But the *****-ups have steadily grown over the years (to the point where they're near daily now) and the integrity has shrunk to nothing. It's a pity.
- chrissku, on 08/02/2008, -3/+11When you see how close the polls are keep in mind that they only poll people who have a land line, Most people under the age of 35 do not have a land line. Barack Obama is probably up much more than the polls show. The reason why I point this out is because John McCain is way too retarded to garner the support of half the country. I just want everyone to make sure they tell everyone they know to get out and vote in November. Do we want 4-8 more years of having a a complete ***** in charge of our future?
- AxmxZ, on 08/02/2008, -7/+14Keep digging that hole, John.
- id000001, on 08/02/2008, -1/+8We are not talking about Associated Press. They simply bring up the issue. We are talking about McCain's own website.
They refers Obama as a Celebrity and try to play that as a negative, but they forgot McCain where originally a Celebrity too. So once they remember, they takes off the evident from their own website.
Whether this is important or not, is another matter. But the evident are all there, what does this have to do with Associated Press again? - damntourists, on 08/02/2008, -1/+7whoosh
- NinjaJoey, on 08/02/2008, -1/+7they're*
- ZenMojo, on 08/02/2008, -0/+6So did FDR, Queen Elizabeth, Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela.
- solistus, on 08/02/2008, -0/+5I assume you've read the extensive documents on his campaign site detailing various policy plans and feel they are insufficient? Oh, wait, no, you've just listened to soundbites from our ADD media and decided Obama doesn't *have* policy positions because they don't get prime time coverage.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
The people who claim Obama is vague on specifics are always the same people who have never bothered to research his views on specifics. - stanleyford, on 08/02/2008, -1/+6How about we call a moratorium on the ridiculous personal attacks on both McCain and Obama, and instead focus on the benefits and disadvantages of their respective policies?
Nah, that would be crazy. - damndj, on 08/02/2008, -0/+5Both
- speel, on 08/02/2008, -2/+7And how is this going to make a difference?
- Frosty12, on 08/03/2008, -0/+5Exactly! I cant see this fixation we have on elitism and arrogance. These guys are running for THE most powerful position in the world. The job requires someone extraordinary (read arrogant and elitist). This fixation on having a down to earth president baffles me -I don't want to have a beer with the president I want him to run the ***** country.
We've had 8 years of down-to-earth-simpleminded-average-joe. Honestly,Bush jr. seems like a decent guy -reminds me of my mentally retarded uncle, John. But we still make sure as hell John never gets the keys to our car... - LiberalKid, on 08/02/2008, -1/+6Its been dieing with all of the Americans in Iraq.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -1/+6I'm not saying this is the same thing here, BUT a lot of us said the same thing about land lines when it came to Ron Paul and his supporters.
And don't underestimate the stupidity of this country, unfortunately McCain will still get a ton of votes simply because he's white. - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -1/+6You know who else was an empty suit Illinois senator with hardly any experience? A guy called Lincoln.
- suwoo244, on 08/02/2008, -1/+6This video pretty much sums up how stupid he really is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8 - stoitofardo, on 08/02/2008, -2/+7this guy is a joke...really.
- ZenMojo, on 08/02/2008, -1/+5More and more I am horrified by the duality of reality in which this country exists, the discrepancy between the packaged "facts" the networks allow and the tiny threads of completely conflicting "truth" that can be teased from the fabric of our political lies. To be a passive political agent is more and more to be a slave to propaganda.
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