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McCain: "Fundamentals Are Strong ... Fundamentals Are Strong ... Fundamentals Are Strong"
The DNC is up with a new Web ad that pulls together nine -- count 'em -- distinct examples of McCain on video vouching for the strength of the fundamentals of our economy...
The McCain campaign has suffered a string of minor gaffes on the economy of late in what should be a really toxic political environment for such mistakes. But Camp McCain also has worked extremely aggressively to hijack the Dems' "change" message.
We're looking forward to the next batch of polling on who's viewed as the most likely change agent, who's seen as the most in touch with the problems of ordinary folks, and who's viewed as most likely to fix the economy...should tell us a lot.
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Screw web ads, unless they get extensive play time on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox.
Otherwise, turn it into an ad for TV.
Yeah, I know the internets are transforming politics, but get this stuff into cable play, not just the Tubez.
September 16, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Second.
September 16, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree, lets face it the majority of people who come to this blog are Obama supporters. This stuff needs to reach the masses of those who don't come to liberal blogs. This video should be played during Wheel of Fortune or Desperate Housewives, or old episodes of I Love Lucy or Golden Girls...When I was little I really loved watching the Golden Girls, so you may be reach a younger demographic as well. Anyways, the point is that there should be a way to get these web videos out to people who aren't that engaged in politics, we have fill their brains with Obama's plans for America before the Push Polls get to them.
Video: McCain says, American’s Don’t Pay Taxes
September 16, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
my question is this, if mccain would have picked mitters, wouldn't obama be in trouble regarding the economic message? This is why you dont go with your gut and pick palin...
September 16, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point. Well, Mittens offered to have the sex change and plastic surgery in exchange for the VP slot (why not, what hasn't Mittens changed), but McCain aids figured Mittens would make for a powerful ugly woman and said no.
September 16, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't like women with shoulders "you can land a 747 on?"
September 16, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mittens would have had the same problem - defending the Republican degrulation policy, and also covering for McCain stepping in it. He was on Hardball doing the same thing.
September 16, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't see why pundits aren't pointing out that the douche bag who called American's whiners is largely responsible for the mess we are now in.
I don't get it. I thought the media loved to point fingers and place blame - is that only when a Democrat is responsible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gramm
September 16, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Because Gramm's not running for president.
September 16, 2008 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Give them time. Let it simmer. It will boil soon enough.
September 16, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just put it on TV.
September 16, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Put it on TV, and blast it to all the talking heads, because McCain's blasting at Obama for going to Hollywood while the economy is hurting.
He'd rather be (McCain, that is) with the hardworking voters of Ohio than Barbra Streisand. Seriously.
September 16, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Streisand thing it's a trap. If he responds to that, then it will be another wasted week.
This week is going great. Why ruin it by falling into the same game of small things that McCain want this election to be? Obama must stay on message and until now, it has been good.
September 16, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have they gotten together and chipped in a for yacht? So he'll feel right at home?
September 16, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Grade: A-
My only quibble is with the printed message. Too many words, too small type. Takes too much effort to read and digest it.
Other than that, very strong.
September 16, 2008 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Keating 5
Now is the time. Start bringing it up - this is what McCain was doing during the last big bank crisis -
Please start talking about the Keating 5!
September 16, 2008 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hope you'll forgive a partial re-post from a few threads ago:
Tempting, though.
September 16, 2008 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Keating 5 should kept for disposal in October, just in case. Don't have to release and innoculate just yet.
Anyway, C'mon this is an ideal time for a TV ad. Any shmuck can make a web ad. This has been a cause for concern all the time:
While McCain is the weaker front-end of a strong GOP back-end machine, Obama has been the strong Democratic front-end of a weaker DNC back-end.
Incompetent or not-in-tune surrogates, scattered and plural messaging- DNC should join the choir- all of them, most anyways.
September 16, 2008 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well it's just an opinion, and I try to refrain from telling the campaign what to do. It just seems to fit so well right now - between McLame's utter lack of veracity being all over the news along with this economic crisis - it just seems to cry out for Keating 5.
But it's not like Obama is listening to me or anything.
;)
September 16, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Never say never.
September 16, 2008 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well there's Good News and Not So Good News...
The Good News is that McCain/Palin have a New Economic Stimulus Package...
The Bad News is it Probably Involves a Land War with Russia...
Now that's the way to End an Economic Crisis!
September 16, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like your avatar.
September 16, 2008 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Keating 5: Arcane history, irrelevant to today. Good luck explaining that complex mess and who was responsible. I think Obama was in diapers then wasn't he?
September 16, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL "arcane history", you mean like the whole Ayers nonsense? Where, unlike McCain, Obama wasn't directly involved in anything that went down? Thanks for the chuckle Fogu, you never disappoint.
September 16, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think around that time Obama was involved in the "Poopy Diaper" scandal. Who was cleaning him, his mom, grandma, dad 1 or dad 2? It's hard to keep track of his story.
September 16, 2008 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
More likely McCain is pooping his adults diapers thinking about how the last time we faced a really big banking scandal in this country he was implicated in trying to get regulators to lay off his friend and contributor.
McCain thinks economic policy is saying he will cut government spending. He thinks the problem is greed on wall street rather than a failure of oversight and regulation of increasingly complex and arcane financial transactions that tie the world financial system together.
McCain's responses are ideological and feeble. This "crisis" was years in the making and over McCain's career he has no record of recognizing it or being willing to do something--other than being willing to go to bat for corrupt bankers, that is.
McCain is in trouble on this issue because he doesn't really understand it and Obama does.
September 17, 2008 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
FU2,
I understand why Obama's story would confuse you. You can pick up a copy of My Pet Goat if that's more your speed. Unfortunately, there is no audio version, so find an adult to read it to you.
cheers,
z2v
September 17, 2008 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
This kind of video strikes me as lazy and ineffective. For those who know McCain is out of touch, it reinforces their convictions. But for those who are uninformed or just not paying attention, it doesn't do enough to educate. These gaffes need to be juxtaposed with some obvious facts to show just how badly out of touch the old man is. Make it specific and educational and don't presume that his gaffes are obvious. If that were the case, this election wouldn't be such a close race.
September 16, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. I'd say something like... No matter what the news is about the economy, John McCain has the same old answer. Same old. Same old.
September 16, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently John McCain doesn't even know what the SIPC is.
September 16, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess McCain's too used to calling Hispanic-Americans "spics" in Arizona.
September 16, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Naw, that's what NY'ers call Puerto Ricans.
In AZ, Latinos are called gardener or nanny.
September 16, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch.
September 16, 2008 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have you all noticed that McCain seems to be reinventing himself hourly? He was opposed to regulation until yesterday. Now he is for it. He is really defensive. Time to keep him there.
September 16, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
yep, apparetntly in Florida this morning, he said the fundamentals of the economy are at risk.
September 16, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I view it as a sign of desperation. Shape-shifting, because there's nothing else to run on.
September 16, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's one of the things I love about Obama. Hillary tried out several different messages and voices. McCain has completely reinvented himself. All the while Obama keeps being himself.
September 16, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Getting ugly. Carly Fiorina's remark is really pushing people over the edge. Today, McCain lost Brooks and Buchanan, though for different reasons.
But Charles Krauthammer has the best argument: the only duty of the VEEP specified in the Constitution is that the person take over for the President. And for that one qualification, Sarah Palin is not ready.
And Brother Pat contends by the time she gets there, the brainwashing will be complete, a neo-neo-con emerges, and we point missiles back at Russia to enforce agreements that exist only in her tiny mind.
McLiar has already keeled over dead. No one has bothered to tell him.
September 16, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Taking over for dead or incapacitated Presidents is not the only VeeP duty . . . The VeeP also votes to break ties in the Senate.
September 16, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The veep is not required to vote to break ties. Like any Senate member, the veep is free to abstain.
On t'other hand, if the Prez goes belly-up, the veep must take over, or resign completely. There is no direct mechanism to "stay on" as veep.
September 16, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I swear he looks it.
September 16, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Corpse
September 16, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that why whenever I see him on TV, I smell formaldehyde?
September 16, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought it was sulphur. Maybe they target different voters with different scents.
September 16, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
And they tried to fool us by dressing him up in a "festive ski getaway" outfit at 0:16!
September 16, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Twetty is playing something very close this right now, and even gave it a number - 22 times McCain has said it.
September 16, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
simple way to put this to bed
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ask McCain if he thinks the fundamentals of our economy were strong during the great depression.
September 16, 2008 5:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you were in the top two percent they were . . . Labor was cheap and disposable. That why all the gold-plated plumbing parts in mansions . . . Yep, a bimodal society is the way to go. There were the filthy rich and the peons . . . The serfs . . . the unwashed rabble. It is good to be filthy rich. Yep, those fundamentals were practically perfect for the upper crust.
In short, it is good to be king . . . OR at least the kept wife of a beer heiress. Cindy thinks it cute that her wife keeps his day job . . . helping people . . .
September 16, 2008 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
♪ Sing along... ♪
♪ I believe the fundamentals are strong ♪
♪ I am sure that nothing can go wrong ♪
♪ Why do I believe this, you may want to know ♪
♪ Cuz the bible... er... John 'n Sarah told me so ♪
♪ Fundamentals are strong, fundamentalists too ♪
♪ They're telling me and they're telling you ♪
♪ Join the fundamentalists and you will see ♪
♪ Strong fundamentals will set you free ♪
September 16, 2008 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
♪ Chorus ♪
♪ Set you free - Set you free ♪
♪ Strong fundamentals will set you free ♪
♪ Set you free - Set you free ♪
♪ Fundamentalism will set you free ♪
September 16, 2008 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
September 16, 2008 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
The workers! The workers! The workers!
Is McCain channeling Karl Marx?
September 16, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
What he meant to say was the "fundamentalists of America are strong."
September 16, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
See my little ditty a bit above your post.
September 16, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
One thing Obama needs to put to rest is the claim that he's going to raise taxes on the lower and middle classes.
September 16, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, and here's how he does that: create a web site, flog the heck out of the name, and allow people to see how much less their taxes will be under Obama compared to McCain.
Second, the campaign needs to point out that with McCain's so-called "health" care plans (aka: get sick and you die plan) that people are going to be paying significantly more taxes under that plan.
These are issues that need to get out there.
September 16, 2008 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a great idea. Why wait for the Obama campaign to do it?
It would be more credible if it didn't come out of the campaign anyway.
Ok, somebody get on it!
September 16, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
You got it, hoss!
BTW, your avatar of Charlie Patton rocks!
September 16, 2008 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
...meant for khodges, of course...
September 16, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is ging to be interviewed by Katie Couric next. I love it, Gibson was too hard hitting, so they turn to Hannity and now Couric who no doubt will identify with all the rampant sexism Palin has faced. Couric uses the sexism charge to explain away her failures, not willing to admit she just isn't good enough. Like Palin now, it's not that she's a woman, it's that she was unqualified and in way over her head.
September 16, 2008 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
That and Katie is already proven to bein the tank for McCain, given how See BS edited out McCain's errors when she interviewed him.
September 16, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, don't be so damn sure - who would have thought that The View would roast McLame slowly over a nice bed of his own hot lies?
It gets to be a question with the media of: "o, she asked what? He said what? Maybe I better get in on some of that - "
They're all doing it, so Katie might fool us.
But she's going to have to really really fool us. LOL!
[how plausible do I really think this is - not very. But it's really excellent wishful thinking!]
September 16, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah, she might want to jump on the "its cool to be a 'serious journalist' bandwagon. Hey, everyone's doing it!
September 16, 2008 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well if you recall, Katie got very pissed off at theMcLame Camp for using vid of her without her permission.
Katie honest to got might fool us.
September 16, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL - honest to god
September 16, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gawd I wish Helen Thomas could get a crack at her-except, for that to have happen, Palin would have to be POTUS. Yikes!
September 16, 2008 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget: She's ready! If she's ready for POTUS, she's ready for Helen!
September 16, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin's running mate isn't ready for Helen, He's collapsing with cream puffers tossing feathers at him:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/mccain-gets-testy-on-morn_n_126773.html
September 16, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
She couldn't wink at Helen. ... but I hope you realize that was sarcasm... of course she's not ready... except to return to Alaska.
September 16, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
At this rate it begins to look like they are interviewing a PR person for Sarah. The one who is most deferential get the job!
♪ Set you free - Set you free ♪
♪ Fundamentalism will set you free ♪
September 16, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beau Biden, Senator Biden's son, will be on The Tonight show later today. Tune in.
September 16, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love me some Beau Biden.
September 16, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
There can be 3 assumptions given McCains statement and response:
1) He has no clue what is happening. Fundamentals probably aren't too strong when 3 out of 5 of hte largest investment banks have failed in a period of 6 months. And we aren't even to the bottom.
2) He has no command of the English language. If he meant workers, he should have said workers and not fundamentals. Fundamentals are characteristics and habits. Workers are people. Not related. Which one was it? If he said fundamentals and meant workers his English blows.
3) If our fundamentals really are strong and workers are strong. Imagine where the bottom will be for this guy. If things are strong now, we are screwed.
Conclusion: Kick this guy to the curb, keep him in Florida and give him a townhouse to take care of. Kick Palin back to Alaska and let the heads roll up there for all the shit people are giving her.
September 16, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Alternative assumption: He knows he's full of shit and is lying through his teeth.
September 16, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
The only thing wrong with this add is that they should have spliced in a few recent instances of George Bush saying that the fundamentals of the economy are strong.
September 16, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, Say something like: No matter what the news is about the economy, John McCain has the same old answer. Same old. Same old. Just like bush.
September 16, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
The fundamentalists of the economy are strong
September 16, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
♪ Set you free - Set you free ♪
♪ Fundamentalism will set you free ♪
September 16, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
you're making think of something - isn't part of the End Times scenario economic collapse?
Palin could welcome this whole thing as part of the Rapture!
September 16, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
My song is "Rapture Ready."
September 16, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 16, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! That was long.
September 16, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
yes
September 16, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain and his campaign are attempting to hijack the Obama campaign message. In the past few days McCain has adopted populist rhetoric, portraying himself as change, and using Obama's "enough is enough" in a campaign ad.
Perhaps the McCain campaign believes that if they hijack everything about the Obama message, then voters wont see much difference between the two candidates and with all things being equal, they will just go with the white guy.
September 16, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Plagiarism!
September 16, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain: A liar and a thief!
September 16, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
yes
September 16, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
The secret to success in four words: Stay .. on ... the ... offensive.
September 16, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree again...
September 16, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's morning in America, as Obama's hero (read his books) once said. It's vacuous but it is recognized for what it is: cheerleading.
Obama is unlikely to get traction by trying to turn McCain's jawboning of the economy into oblviousness. McCain does the American Public the honor believing that they know the true state of affairs and that they know that he does.
Obama, on the other hand, is insulting: he airs an ad saying that 'you've heard a lot about change lately' and then goes on to list what change means to him -- a list of goals presented as plans. The viewer wants yell at him asking just who has been going around talking about change and why is he running against himself!
Not to mention his attack on Palin for talking about change as a way to mask inexperience. ROFLMAO! That's not a meme that Obama can afford to have examined very much.
September 16, 2008 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a really logically persuasive argument. I'm switching to McCain-Palin!
September 16, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?
PD: Richard Wright, you'll be missed...
September 16, 2008 8:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sad day...
September 16, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed.
Nothing left but Echoes.
September 16, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vote for John McCain; he may be wrong but at least he is white.
September 16, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well it was such a bad day for McLame I see the trolls are out in force.
:)
Best damn barometers around for figuring out just how fucked McLame is.
September 16, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen. And hallelujah!
September 16, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, that will show them...
September 16, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now mcsenile is whining about the fundraiser at Streisand's home when just last night his vp pick was at a highly exclusive and secretive fundraiser hosted by Timken (who sent thousands of Ohio jobs to India) at a country club in Canton Ohio. Reportedly, the event raked in a mere $1 million. If they'd waited until tonight, they would have been lucky to get $1,000.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/palin-fundraises-with-ohi_n_126840.html
September 16, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain isn't even *trying* to be sincere anymore...
September 16, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
September 16, 2008 11:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Biden, Delaware, MBNA, credit card companies, huge donations
'nuff said.
September 17, 2008 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
How much you gettin' paid? Whatever it is, its too much.
September 17, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Phil Gramm, UBS bank in Switzerland. 'nuff said.
September 17, 2008 5:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Switzerland? Bwahahaha.
Is Phil Gramm running for office?
Your brain has turned to stone.
September 17, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
your kind of stupid ? or just slow ?
typical Mcbush supporter,
moose kill heaven sent
September 17, 2008 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Carly Fiorina. Oops, straight talk gets you thrown off the straight talk express. Who's the 3rd string economics QB? Palin?
September 17, 2008 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's calling himself a "Teddy Roosevelt" republican. I think he hopes that people confuse Teddy with Franklin.
September 17, 2008 6:41 AM | Reply | Permalink