Obama ratchets up counterattacks on McCain

Saturday 13th September, 06:48 AM JST

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goodDonkey at 07:09 AM JST - 14th September

Barbara Walters rang his bell again:

"The fact is she was a reform governor, she took on an incumbent governor of her own party and defeated him. She sold the airplane and fired the chef," McCain said, referring to Palin's efforts to put her predecessor's state jet up for auction on eBay and her dismissal of the governor's personal chef.

"She sold the airplane at a loss," Walters interrupted.

(The jet failed to draw sufficient bids on eBay and later was sold at a loss through an ordinary aircraft brokerage.)
Taka313 at 09:20 AM JST - 14th September

Good Donkey, I saw the clips from The View also.

The thing is, candidate mccain simply denied that they were lies. He offered no explanation as to why that was the case. We are all just supposed to take his word as gospel.

Co-host Barbara Walters asked about Palin's reformist credentials, noting McCain has served in Washington for more than two decades and asking repeatedly, "Who's she going to reform, you?"

Perhaps candidate mccain should also stick only doing interviews on fox.

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TaskForce121 at 09:29 AM JST - 14th September

Taka313; McCain does not btell lies. I have followed his career, and i have yet to find any reason to doubt his honesty.

Obama can attack with all his allies, but McCain will not flinch, as he has no weaknesses for Obama to attack.

mcCain is leading by approx 6% at present.
Nessie at 10:32 AM JST - 14th September

The jet failed to draw sufficient bids on eBay and later was sold at a loss through an ordinary aircraft brokerage

The bottom line is that she doesn't fly on a private jet. That's a good think.
DS at 10:33 AM JST - 14th September

Watching "The View" for anything but entertainment is like watching The OReilly Factor for hard news.

Check Gibson interviewing Obama in June vs. Palin in September. Totally different questions and attitude.
Alinsky4prez at 03:34 PM JST - 14th September

I'm so PROUD of Barack's allies in the media. They edited the Gibson interview to make palin appear more hawkish and less well-informed than she might really be. And best of all the most-talked about portions of the interview were the most heavily edited.

The repubs are going wild. Haahahahahahaha. Too funny!
yabits at 06:34 PM JST - 14th September

Betzee,

McCain's "sex education" ad shows him to have become dishonorable. He could not defeat the dishonorable people who slimed him in 2000, and so he has now joined them.

Palin's foreign relations credentials are lighter than a cream puff. With Russia reasserting itself in the region, the chances for conflict (and disaster) escalate if the next administration is not both extremely intelligent and tuned in to the complexities inherent in the many flashpoints around the world. McCain-Palin only serve to raise confidence in blind believers.
yabits at 06:45 PM JST - 14th September

From Tom Friedman's column in the New York Times:

"I respected McCain’s willingness to support the troop surge in Iraq, even if it was going to cost him the Republican nomination. Now the same guy, who would not sell his soul to win his party’s nomination, is ready to sell every piece of his soul to win the presidency.

"In order to disguise the fact that the core of his campaign is to continue the same Bush policies that have led 80 percent of the country to conclude we’re on the wrong track, McCain has decided to play the culture-war card. Obama may be a bit professorial, but at least he is trying to unite the country to face the real issues rather than divide us over cultural differences.

"A Washington Post editorial on Thursday put it well: “On a day when the Congressional Budget Office warned of looming deficits and a grim economic outlook, when the stock market faltered even in the wake of the government’s rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when President Bush discussed the road ahead in Iraq and Afghanistan, on what did the campaign of Senator John McCain spend its energy? A conference call to denounce Senator Barack Obama for using the phrase ‘lipstick on a pig’ and a new television ad accusing the Democrat of wanting to teach kindergartners about sex before they learn to read.” ....

"I don’t know how much steel is in Obama’s belly, but I do know that the issues he is focusing on in this campaign — improving education and health care, dealing with the deficit and forging a real energy policy based on building a whole new energy infrastructure — are the only way we can put steel back into America’s spine. McCain, alas, has abandoned those issues for the culture-war strategy.

"Who cares how much steel John McCain has in his gut when the steel that today holds up our bridges, railroads, nuclear reactors and other infrastructure is rusting? McCain talks about how he would build dozens of nuclear power plants. Oh, really? They go for $10 billion a pop. Where is the money going to come from? From lowering taxes? From banning abortions? From borrowing more from China? From having Sarah Palin “reform” Washington — as if she has any more clue how to do that than the first 100 names in the D.C. phonebook?"
yabits at 07:04 PM JST - 14th September

Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island recently referred to Sarah Palin as a "cocky wacko." Chafee is one of many moderate Republicans supporting Obama.

Which causes me to wonder what Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman would say if grilled about his thoughts on Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience. After all, foreign affairs, especially in the Middle East, is one of Senator Lieberman's biggest concerns. Would he answer such questions honestly or would he try to tap dance around them?
goodDonkey at 07:39 PM JST - 14th September

yabits

What does Tom Friedman know about anything anyway? He has only won the Pulitzer Prize in both 1983 and 1988 and again in 2000.

Joe Liberman is a Republican now and he will follow the party line and do as he is told.
Alinsky4prez at 07:53 PM JST - 14th September

Joe Liberman is a Republican now and he will follow the party line and do as he is told.

Hard to believe he was our Veep choice 8 years ago isnt it.
yabits at 09:08 PM JST - 14th September

goodDonkey,

Although I disagree with Joe Lieberman's views on the war/surge in Iraq, I still respect him as a guy who works on the correct side of a lot of issues. I recall how the Republican right-wingers castigated former Vermont senator, Jim Jeffords, when he left the Republicans, and I really don't like seeing Democrats acting the same way towards Lieberman. He represents an important link to a segment of the party that has included folks like Sam Nunn and Henry Jackson.

I read that Joe is now helping to coach Palin on foreign affairs, which means he is getting a very good look at what this woman's leadership capabilities truly are. I bet that he's starting to have serious reservations about her. C'mon, Joe, how's about a comparison with Golda Meir? Is Palin what Lincoln Chafee says she is?
yabits at 11:08 PM JST - 14th September

Obama better hurray up and do something...

This is a long distance race, and leads will change from time to time. If and when the necessary numbers of American people decide that the traits intelligence, wisdom and vision are more important than platitudes or party doctrine, then the appropriate winner will emerge. The key is getting people to act from their aspirations for this country, rather than their fears.

Otherwise, we get more of the same that we've had for the past 8 years.
goodDonkey at 04:15 AM JST - 15th September

yabits

I liked Sam Nunn, I remember him as one of the Blue Dog Democrats. I just haven't liked anything I have heard out of Joe's mouth lately. I think he caught some contagious conservative virus when Bush kissed him.
Bento at 02:59 AM JST - 17th October

well its october the 16th now Colamerica and i`m afraid your prediction was a little off target..you read it here last.