He wants Obama to throw his hands up and say, "OK, your wife's a pill popping thief and a homewrecker to boot," and then have the conservative media (followed quickly by the lapdogs elsewhere) piss themselves over what a jerk Obama is. That's all.

robsul82: He wants Obama to throw his hands up and say, "OK, your wife's a pill popping thief and a homewrecker to boot," and then have the conservative media (followed quickly by the lapdogs elsewhere) piss themselves over what a jerk Obama is. That's all.

Exactly...he's just trying to provoke Obama at this point. The negative campaigning is starting to hurt him - he isn't going to improve his favorables very much but if he can get Obama to lower his then maybe that helps him.

I almost wouldn't care at this point if Obama just said "screw it" and let McCain/Palin have it with every bit of dirt you know they've already dug up about them. You want character? BAM!

robsul82: He wants Obama to throw his hands up and say, "OK, your wife's a pill popping thief and a homewrecker to boot," and then have the conservative media (followed quickly by the lapdogs elsewhere) piss themselves over what a jerk Obama is. That's all.

I hope that once Obama beats McCain down in Nov that he just gets straight ghetto after the inauguration and verbally biatchslaps the entire McCain family.

JuanSchwartz: I hope that once Obama beats McCain down in Nov that he just gets straight ghetto after the inauguration and verbally biatchslaps the entire McCain family.

You know Obama can't win with this right now...this stuff will largely be ignored by the media - but if he hits back at Cindy it will be on Fox News 24/7 for the next 3 weeks. But I agree with you - I would love for Obama to buy a ton of ads for election night - and start running them after it's pretty much too late. Just pound McCain and Palin into a pulp. I know Obama's a better man than me and he won't do it.

Personally, I get my revenge in watching how awesome Obama's poll numbers are :)

Good God, this one is from June. This isn't even 2000 McCain taking a different stance than 2008 McCain.

Desperation. I can smell it a mile away.

jerry2a:

You know Obama can't win with this right now...this stuff will largely be ignored by the media - but if he hits back at Cindy it will be on Fox News 24/7 for the next 3 weeks.

Agreed. Obama's best course is to say: "We aren't going to be distracted by this stuff. We are going to focus on the economy and the war and the issues. The American people deserve better." And if Obama loses because he wanted to talk about the economy and the war and the issues, then America deserves what it gets.

The attack on Michelle came on a McCain conference call with reporters this afternoon featuring John Murtagh, who has been hitting Obama over the Weather Underground's attack on his family's home back in 1970.

John M. Murtagh is a lying piece of shiat.

What the hell is wrong with the media for giving credibility to this asshole's claim that the Weather Underground were responsible for the firebombing of his family's home in 1970?

He made this story up in April of 2008.
There is not one shred of evidence that the Weather Underground had any involvement, because they had no involvement.
Murtagh himself never made this claim until he needed ammunition for the Obama smear campaign.

The Black Panthers is not the Weather Underground. They were separate organizations with completely different goals.

It's really a shame the Black Panthers weren't successful at eliminating this piece of shiat from the earth when they had the chance.

jerry2a: Exactly...he's just trying to provoke Obama at this point. The negative campaigning is starting to hurt him - he isn't going to improve his favorables very much but if he can get Obama to lower his then maybe that helps him.

Nothing buys bygones quicker than electoral votes.

Maybe according to Joe Sixpack.

Girl From The North Country

Good God, this one is from June. This isn't even 2000 McCain taking a different stance than 2008 McCain.

Desperation. I can smell it a mile away.

And it stinks. Badly. Like the damn skunk that woke me out of a dead sleep before dawn this morning.

Does that mean that Palin's secessionist husband is fair game too now?

In fairness, I don't really equate this Murtagh jackass with McCain. If McCain were to say this, or that dipshiat Tucker Bounds guy, that would be different.

jerry2a: I almost wouldn't care at this point if Obama just said "screw it" and let McCain/Palin have it with every bit of dirt you know they've already dug up about them. You want character? BAM POW!

FTFY

Solid State Vittles: In fairness, I don't really equate this Murtagh jackass with McCain.

"Keep in mind that this wasn't any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides"

Today's polls show just how effective McCain's last ditch poo-flinging is....for Obama.

Florida and Ohio are polling solidly Obama at this point, where they were still tossups two or three weeks ago. Today's tossups are North Carolina (hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1976) and Virginia (even longer!).

Keep flinging poo, McCain. Obama supporters appreciate it.

I'd cut Cindy some slack. It's hard enough being a trollop and a coont without people trashing her in public.

Right?

JuanSchwartz: I hope that once Obama beats McCain down in Nov that he just gets straight ghetto after the inauguration and verbally biatchslaps the entire McCain family.

Make sure you vote.. you're just the kind of person we need deciding our future.

"straight ghetto" ..

The attack? Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers' wife and fellow former Weatherman, went to work in 1984 for the major Chicago-based national law firm of Sidley & Austin, and three years later, Michelle joined the mega-firm as well.

Sidley & Austin is one of the largest, most highly rated, best-known law firms in the world. Its big-name lawyers are highly influential, and it has a stable of clients that is the envy of virtually any firm, and that includes damn near all of the top financial players in the world. It's definitely one of the main go-to firms in the world of highly sophisticated business and financial transactions. So, McCain's camp is now saying that anybody who currently or formerly worked at Sidley pals around with terrorists? That includes a pretty enormous pool of heavy-hitters--almost certainly including far more Republicans than Democrats.

This is way beyond absurd.

I heard she also had a black baby.

So my brother's friend was staying at a hotel where McCain and wife were staying also. And Apparently McCain is even more of a disgusting chauvenist that we thought. He was rating all the woman that walked by, (TO HIS WIFE!). Talking about how much he liked asian girls, and just generally acting like an asshole. In my mind its a lot worse than just calling her a coont.

Psychotropic: "Keep in mind that this wasn't any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides"

Well, that ain't good. Missed that part.

Also, considering how evil Palin'n co are trying to make the first dude look to absolve widdle miss Pawin of trooper gate, do they REALLY wanna start focusing on significant others, between the pill thieving whore and the traitorous perjuring power abuser, the best they have is that the black man's wife is black and worked in the building of the wife of someone?
It's like the Oakland raiders showing up at a peewee football game and complaining that a kid was playing dirty because he fell in the mud and was dirty.

It's not just that this is a filthy, disgusting set of attacks, it's that they won't work.

But there will be people who parrot these talking points for the next 8 years.

what_now: It's not just that this is a filthy, disgusting set of attacks, it's that they won't work.

But there will be people who parrot these talking points for the next 8 years.

Fox news: Innagural day
Barrack Hussein and Michelle being Terrorists. Could it be a good thing?


(scrolling ticker at bottom... where to buy cheap high-power rifles)

Oh SNAP

Obama (!) strikes back.

anyone else just lurking till the palin report comes out?

/whose up for some oregon trail while we wair

erithid: anyone else just lurking till the palin report comes out?

/whose up for some oregon trail while we wair

I'm working and waiting...

rppp01a: Oh SNAP

Obama (!) strikes back.

MArk my words, McCain will use this as proof that Obama is running a negative campaign but will refuse to address the reasosn Obama ran this ad.

McCain's campaign is getting to the point of sickening, pitiful desperation.

This is utterly awful, and stupid.

John McCain is an unprincipled douchebag.

Uchiha_Cycliste: So my brother's friend was staying at a hotel where McCain and wife were staying also. And Apparently McCain is even more of a disgusting chauvenist that we thought. He was rating all the woman that walked by, (TO HIS WIFE!). Talking about how much he liked asian girls, and just generally acting like an asshole. In my mind its a lot worse than just calling her a coont.

I thought he hated the g***s?
Pardon me while my head asplodes.

erithid: anyone else just lurking till the palin report comes out?

/whose up for some oregon trail while we wair

It's probably out already and hidden in some obscure part of 'The net' where you have to go to teh mozarts ghost website adn type alt+ctrl+shift+F2+goob+tab

Alaskan state legislators are preparing to vote on the release of the Troopergate report as we speak. Link (pops)

rppp01a: Oh SNAP

Obama (!) strikes back.

BURN!

Elmo Jones: Uchiha_Cycliste: So my brother's friend was staying at a hotel where McCain and wife were staying also. And Apparently McCain is even more of a disgusting chauvenist that we thought. He was rating all the woman that walked by, (TO HIS WIFE!). Talking about how much he liked asian girls, and just generally acting like an asshole. In my mind its a lot worse than just calling her a coont.

I thought he hated the g***s?
Pardon me while my head asplodes.

You'd think so huh?

idn, asian and conservative kinda works.

/wonder if he reads tigh/boomer fanfics
//*shiver

I'm seriously starting to wonder if Obama is going to break 400 electoral votes.

Elmo Jones, Uchiha_Cycliste

He was probably thinking in terms of advanced military technology.

You know... firing his... well, you know.

Wow, if McCain is really this pathetic and desperate now, where will we be in a couple of weeks? Attacking Obama's daughters as terrorists no doubt. He's losing his mind! Everything he's doing is even p*ssing off his political supporters. By the election, he will only have the slobbering christian fundies left.

Obama can't attack Todd or Cindy, because then McCain gets all indignant and the liberal media backs him up and attacks Obama for running such a low and negative campaign.

//Cue it's a trap.

Keep it up, McCain!!! I'm behind you 100%! LOL.

"Barack Obama is presently at his all-time highs in four of the six national tracking polls (Research 2000, Battleground, Hotline and Zogby) and is just one point off his high in Gallup. He has emerged with clear leads in both Florida and Ohio."

Solid State Vittles: Psychotropic: "Keep in mind that this wasn't any surrogate speaking off the cuff. He was on a call organized by the McCain campaign, and he was apparently reading from a prepared statement, which would of course have been vetted by McCain aides"

Well, that ain't good. Missed that part.

there's also this...

Late Update: To clarify, we don't know that the McCain campaign vetted Murtagh's statement attacking. But it was made on a campaign conference call, and it constitutes the McCain campaign's official position until the McCain campaign says otherwise.

which appears to give the official mccain campaign a chance to 'correct' it. let's see if that happens

You know, Barack has run a respectful and 99% positive campaign thus far. But you don't fark with a man's wife. I'm not saying that he should go full metal jacket on McCain, but I don't expect him to just let this sit without comment. It's one thing to direct all your ire and anger and deluded lies at the candidate, but then you go after his wife and the mother of his children? WTF? I think Old Man McCain has finally popped his clogs. Either that or Trig Palin is coming up with his campaign strategies because this shiat is retarded.

You're going to lose, Johnny Maverick. Okay? You aren't going to win unless there's another terrorist attack or someone kills your opponent. It must suck that death is the only way you'll find yourself in the White House, but blame your butt buddy Bush on why that is.

Bill_Wick's_Friend:
Florida and Ohio are polling solidly Obama at this point, where they were still tossups two or three weeks ago. Today's tossups are North Carolina (hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1976) and Virginia (even longer!).


Unfortunately for McCain, Virginia is pretty solidly blue at this point. We're getting to the point where states like Georgia, Montana, and South Dakota are in play.

Exactly...he's just trying to provoke Obama at this point. The negative campaigning is starting to hurt him - he isn't going to improve his favorables very much but if he can get Obama to lower his then maybe that helps him.

It helps to remember the Republicans are playing to lose. The economy and war on terror are in such a state, the next president is almost guaranteed to fail.

Who ever wins in 2008 is expected to fail so horribly, who ever the other party throws up on 2012 is a lock to win.

Take, for example, the selection of Palin. McCain is a one term pres due to age and health. Even if he wins a run for reelection is unlikely to succeed. Palin, as VP, would be the presumptive nominee, in 2016 if not 2012. Does anyone on either side think she is 4 years away from being the Republican nominee for president?

McCain himself acknowledged this early in the primaries. He said he expected all his plans would take less than 4 years to implement.

So now the plan is, if not to win the election, then to stir up so much FUD, muddy the waters, to make the political climate so bad for Obama, nothing will get done.

Sure, the Dems will have the White House and Congress, but not the supermajority needed to get actually get bills to the point where the voting happens.

guilt by association: Alaskan state legislators are preparing to vote on the release of the Troopergate report as we speak. Link (pops)

Thanks for the update! I really hope they do. fark the 3 people who didnt show up for the vote.
oh and who is feeding reporters? didnt they see the signs?

Uchiha_Cycliste: rppp01a: Oh SNAP

Obama (!) strikes back.

MArk my words, McCain will use this as proof that Obama is running a negative campaign but will refuse to address the reasosn Obama ran this ad.

I don't know why That One felt that talking about his terrorist friends was somehow an attack. I talk about my friends all the time. But I suppose when you're brought up in a Mosque all you know is how to attack. Is someone embaressed about their friends really ready to lead?